Words from the book:

 

1.            kerosene- a colorless flammable oil distilled from petroleum

-         With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.

 
2.            luxuriously- very comfortable, with high-quality expensive furnishings or fabrics

-          he showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked across the upper floor of the fire station and fell down the hole

 

3.            compress-  make something smaller by applying pressure.

- Or was the atmosphere compressed merely by someone standing very quietly there, waiting?

 

4.            Hypnotize- to fascinate or charm somebody utterly.

- But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello, and then when she seemed hypnotized by the salamander on his arm and the phoenix-disc on his chest, he spoke again.

 

5.            Miraculous- unexpected, extraordinary, and marvelous.

-          He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact

 

6.            Illumination- the provision of light to make something visible or bright, or the fact of being lit up.

- One time, when he was a child, in a power-failure, his mother had found and lit a last candle and there had been a brief hour of rediscovery, of such illumination that space lost its vast dimensions and drew comfortably around them, and they, mother and son, alone, transformed, hoping that the power might not come on again too soon ....

 

7.            Marionette- a puppet operated by means of strings attached to its hands, legs, head, and body.

- she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began. How long had they walked together?

 

8.            Thimble- a small protective cap for a finger, used to push a needle through fabric.

- And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.

 

9.            Distill- to produce alcoholic spirits using the process of boiling liquid and condensing its vapor.

- Montag moved back to his own house, left the window wide, checked Mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheek-bones and on the frowning ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract there.

 

 

10.        Gush- to express yourself, or say something, in an excessively enthusiastic, affectionate, or sentimental way.

- A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls.

 

11.        Disposable- designed to be thrown away after use.

- Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue.

 

12.        Dissolve- to become absorbed in a liquid solution.

-"I don't know anything any more," he said, and let a sleep-lozenge dissolve on his tongue.

 

 

13.        Drench- to make somebody or something completely wet.

- Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter.

 

 

14.        Apprenticeship- a person who works for another in order to learn a trade.

- She was an expert at lip-reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles.

 

 

15.        Salamander- an amphibian that resembles a lizard but has porous moist skin instead of scales.

 

-          He stood in the hall of his house, putting on his badge with the orange salamander burning across it.

 

16.        Exotic- strikingly unusual and often very colorful and exciting or suggesting distant countries and unfamiliar cultures.

- If we had a fourth wall, why it'd be just like this room wasn't ours at all, but all kinds of exotic people's rooms. We could do without a few things.

 

17.        Capillary- an extremely narrow thin-walled blood vessel that connects small arteries arterioles with small veins venules to form a network throughout the body.

- Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils of the creature that quivered gently, gently, gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.

 

18.        Jolt- to shake or jerk suddenly and violently.

- Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.

 

19.        phoenix- in ancient mythology, a bird resembling an eagle that lived for 500 years and then burned itself to death on a pyre from whose ashes another phoenix arose.

- Only the man with the Captain's hat and the sign of the Phoenix on his hat, at last, curious, his playing cards in his thin hand, talked across the long room.

 

20.        mourn- feel and show sadness because somebody has died.

- The voice-clock mourned out the cold hour of a cold morning of a still colder year.

 

21.        glitter- to sparkle or shimmer brightly.

- The police went first and adhesive-taped the victim's mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house

22.       
Cellophane- a thin transparent waterproof material.

- Beatty opening a fresh tobacco packet, crumpling the cellophane into a sound of fire.

 

 

23.        ignite- to set fire to something, or catch fire

- He pulled out his igniter, felt the salamander etched on its silver disc, gave it a flick.

24.        asylum- an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill, orphans, or other persons requiring specialized assistance.

-"They took him screaming off to the asylum"

25.        odious- inspiring hatred, contempt, or disgust

- Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in the plump fireproof slickers. Montag followed.

26.        flourish- to be strong and healthy or grow well, especially because conditions are right.

- Now, it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit, rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish!

27.       
tamp- to pack or push something down,

- There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her Seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her in the ceiling.

28.        cacophony- an unpleasant combination of loud, often jarring, sounds

- You drowned in music and pure cacophony.

29.        centrifuge- a device that rotates rapidly and uses centrifugal force to separate substances of different densities.

-          Whirl man's mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters, that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!"

 

 

 

30.        pantomime-does acting without talking

- He could only pantomime, hoping she would turn his way and see him.

31.        cymbal-a circular brass percussion instrument played with a stick or in pairs by striking them together.

- Behind her the walls of the room were flooded with green and yellow and orange fireworks sizzling and bursting to some music composed almost completely of trap?drums, tom?toms, and cymbals.

32.        incinerator-a. furnace for destroying things by burning them, especially one used to burn waste

- Better yet, into the incinerator.

33.        ventilator-a device that circulates fresh air in an enclosed space.

-. He was shivering and he wanted above all to shove the books up through the ventilator again, but he knew he could not face Beatty again.

34.        Sieve-a strainer.

-"Fill this sieve and you'll get a dime!"

35.        Suffuse- to make do

- In the hall Mildred's face was suffused with excitement.

36.  Dentifrice-a laundry detergent

-"Denham's Dentifrice."

37.        garment- a piece of clothing

- The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

38.        arsonist-person who starts a fire using arson

-          Now if you suggest that we print extra books and arrange to have them hidden in firemen's houses all over the country, so that seeds of suspicion would be sown among these arsonists, bravo, I'd say!"

 

39.        devour- to destroy something rapidly and completely

- The salamander devours his tail! Ho, God! "

40.        gimmick- a piece of trickery or manipulation intended to achieve a result dishonestly.

- Can you dance faster than the White Clown, shout louder than `Mr. Gimmick' and the parlour `families'?

41.        praetor

- They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, `Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.'

42.        insidious- slowly and subtly harmful or destructive

-"It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself."

43.        linguist- a speaker or adept learner of several languages

-"Aren't there professors like yourself, former writers, historians, linguists . . .?"

44.        contemptible

- how safe I play it, how contemptible I am?

45.        trifle- something that has little or no importance, significance, or value.

- The moon rose in the sky as Montag walked, his lips moving just a trifle.

46.        simmer-just starting to boil.

- He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine.

47.        reel-

-          Beatty struck him a blow on the head that sent him reeling back.

 

 

48.         instinctive- relating to, prompted by, or based on a strong natural impulse.

- And then he realized that he was indeed, running toward Faber's house, instinctively.

49.        plummet- to drop steeply and suddenly downward

- Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off, like butterflies puzzled by autumn, and then they were plummeting down to land, one by one, here, there, softly kneading the streets where, turned back to beetles, they shrieked along the boulevards or, as suddenly, leapt back into the sir, continuing their search.

 

50.        flail- to thrash or swing something around violently or uncontrollably, or move in this way.

- He dropped a book, broke pace, almost turned, changed his mind, plunged on, yelling in concrete emptiness, the beetle scuttling after its running food, two hundred, one hundred feet away, ninety, eighty, seventy, Montag gasping, flailing his hands, legs up down out, up down out, closer, closer, hooting, calling, his eyes burnt white now as his head jerked about to confront the flashing glare, now the beetle was swallowed in its own light, now it was nothing but a torch hurtling upon him; all sound, all blare. Now-almost on top of him !

 

51.        phantom- something that can be seen or heard or whose presence can be felt, but that is not physically present.

-He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odours of a running man.

52.        exhalation- the act of breathing out.

- the gummed exhalation of the animal's breath, all cardamon and moss and ragweed odour in this huge night where the trees ran at him, pulled away, ran, pulled away, to the pulse of the heart behind his eyes.

53.        contaminate- to make something impure, unclean, or polluted.

- He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odours of a running man.

54.        hover- to float or flutter in the air without moving very far from the same spot.

- The Hound was on its way, followed by hovering helicopter cameras, silently, silently, sniffing the great night wind.

55.         meteor- a mass of rock from space that burns up after entering the Earth's atmosphere.

- The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.

56.        musk-a smell or scent

- smelled the heavy musk-like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of the animal's breath, all cardamon and moss and ragweed odour in this huge night where the trees ran at him, pulled away, ran, pulled away, to the pulse of the heart behind his eyes.

57.        simultaneous- done, happening, or existing at the same time

- both reached him simultaneously.

58.        convolution-

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59.        desolation- bare, uninhabited, and deserted.

 

60.        Ecclesiastes- a book of the Bible that discusses the futility of life and how to be a God-fearing person

 "I have a little of Ecclesiastes." Montag said.