1. Fahrenheit 451
Vocabulary

2. Part I
Part III
Part II

3. Phoenix
Noun
A mythological bird of great beauty fabled to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years.

4. Salamander A mythical creature believed to live in or withstand fire
Noun
A mythical creature believed to live in or withstand fire

5. Marionette
Noun
A puppet that is worked by strings

6. Pulverized
Verb
Broken into fine pieces

7. Stratum
Noun
The outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off

8. Contrasedative
Noun
A drug that has an exciting, stimulating, anxiety, or stressful effect on a person

9. Pratfall
Noun
A comic or humiliating fall onto the rear end

10. Proboscis
Noun
The long snout of an animal; a nose, especially prominent one; a tubular organ

11. Morphine
Noun
A narcotic, the primary active chemical in opium

12. Procaine
Noun
A white crystalline powder administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine

13. Vocabulary Part 2

14. sieve
Object used for straining

15. arsonists
firesetters

16. treason
Betrayal of country

17. subaudible
Barely heard

18. phosphorescent
Radiant with light

19. bewildered
confused

20. discourse
Lengthy verbal or written expression

21. skepticism
Doubtful nature; questioning

22. folly
A foolish action

23. tyranny
Leadership with total power

24. Vocabulary Part 3

25. gobbledegook
Wordy, meaningless talk

26. rigidity
Stiffness, firmly fixed

27. yielded
Produced by cultivation

28. pyre
Bonfire used to cremate bodies

29. incessantly
continuously

30. sanity
Legal term for mental fitness

31. aesthetic
Describing a sense of beauty

32. penance
An act of remorse; suffering for sins; attrition

33. obscure
Mysterious; nameless

34. kneading
Massaging; pressing