| squanders | fails to take advantage of |
| seance | a meeting, usually to speak to the dead |
| sloth | a slow moving mammal; laziness |
| ricocheted | the motion of an object bouncing off something |
| scythe | a tool for moving and reaping |
| processions | groups moving along or forward |
| pyre | a pile of burning materials |
| prattled | talked in a foolish way |
| procaine | an anesthetic |
| phantom | a ghost; unreal |
| plume | a feather; rising column of smoke, dust, or water |
| pedants | people concerned with rules |
| penance | self-punishment for committing a sin |
| luminous | emitting light |
| moat | a wide waterway or ditch |
| juggernaut | a crushing, relentless force |
| liquefaction | process of turning into a liquid state |
| incriminate | present proof of a crime |
| insomnia | sleeplessness |
| incomprehensible | impossible to understand |
| grotesque | misshapen |
| incessantly | ceaselessly |
| gingerly | with great care or caution |
| gout | a disease of the joints |
| erected | built |
| desolation | deprivation of companionship |
| fragmentary | broken |
| doused | extinguished |
| convolutions | curves or twists |
| bombardments | assaults; attacks |
Fahrenheit 451 Part 3 Vocabulary
February 7, 2020