English 10 Chu
Name: ______
Period: ______
Date: ______
Fahrenheit 451: Vocabulary List #4
ELA Content Standards 1.0 (Word Analysis and Vocabulary Development), 1.1 and 1.2
English 10 Chu
flurried sudden commotion, excitement, or confusion; nervous hurry
indecisive not able to make a decision
wavering swaying to and fro; fluttering
grotesque bizarre; distorted
dramatized to express or represent vividly, emotionally, or strikingly
limned described
juggernaut any large, overpowering, destructive force or object
cardamon Italian herb
pedants those who flaunt their knowledge
pyre a pile of combustible materials for burning a corpse
ELA Content Standards 1.0 (Word Analysis and Vocabulary Development), 1.1 and 1.2
English 10 Chu
Directions: Write a sentence using each vocabulary word.
1. flurried
Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off.
______
2. indecisive
Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off.
______
3. wavering
Two dozen of them flurried, wavering, indecisive, three miles off.
______
4. grotesque
And there on the small screen was the burnt house, and the crowd and something with a sheet
over it and out of the sky, fluttering, came the helicopter like a grotesque flower.
______
5. dramatized
Montag might...see himself dramatized, described, made over, standing there, limned in
the bright small television screen from outside . . .
______
6. limned
Montag might...see himself dramatized, described, made over, standing there, limned in
the bright small television screen from outside . . .
______
7. juggernaut
He saw a great juggernaut of stars form in the sky and threaten to roll over and crush him.
______
8. cardamon
He smelled the heavy musk like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of
the animal's breath, all cardamon and moss and ragweed odor in this huge night where the
trees ran at him.
______
9. pedants
The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important,
we mustn't be pedants we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world.
______
10. pyre
There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he
built a pyre and burned himself up.
______
ELA Content Standards 1.0 (Word Analysis and Vocabulary Development), 1.1 and 1.2