Friday, October 24, 2014

F451 vocabulay pages 80-100

strewn-to spread about; scatter

divert-to turn aside from a course or direction

veiled-covered or shaded

profusion-the state of being profuse, abundance

skepticism-a doubting or questioning attitude

insidious-working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner

contemptible-deserving of contempt despicable

mobilize-to make capable of movement

din-a jumble of loud discordant sounds

disperse-to drive off or scatter in different directions

Friday, October 17, 2014

F451 Vocab

Tatters-irregularly torn pieces of cloth, paper, or other material
   
  Example-It tears very easily so that you awake with a few sad tatters around your feet

Merely-just; only

  Example-Ed merely looked at them and then back at Carmen

Vast-of very great extent or quantity; immense
 
 Example-Jackson excised the vast majority himself.
 
 Parlor-a shop or business providing specified goods or services

 
  Example-It flew across the parlor, and the plate exploded

 Abrupt(ly)-quickly and without warning
    
  Example- montage laughed abruptly
 
 Refracted-change direction when it enters at an angle.


  Example-Refract at different angles causing blurred images
 
 Immense-extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree

 
  Example-He did not look so immense on this mighty stage

 Imperceptibly-impossible to perceive

 Example-The tundra passes by imperceptible gradations into the moor, bog and heath of warmer climates.
 
 Ventilator-an appliance for artificial respiration; a respirator
 
Example-The woman was hooked to a ventilator and IVs, her battered face clean and pale.
 
 Olfactory-of or relating to the sense of smell