Vocabulary

Stolid- calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation

" With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange with the thiught of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black." pg. 1

Imperceptibly- impossible to percieve

" And if the muscles of his jaws streched impereptibly, she would yawn long before he would." pg.9

Pulverized- reduce to fine particles

"He felt that the starts had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the moring the earth would be covered with their dust like strange snow." pg.11

Melancholy- a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

"And the men with the ciragettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door." pg. 13

Capillary- any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules

"Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hair in the nylonbrushed nostrils of the creatures that quivered gently, gently, its eight legs spirered under it on rubber-padded paws." pg.22

Multifaceted- having many faces

"Below, the Hound had a sunk back down upon its eight incrtedible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multifaceted." pg.23

Ballistics- the science of projectiles and firearms

"It's like a lesson in ballistics." pg.24

Erected- contruct

"The tick of the playing cards on the greasy table top, all the sounds came to Montag, behind his closed eyes, behind the barrier he had momentarily erected." pg.30

Proclivities- a tendency to choose or do something regulary

"Were all fireman picked then for their looks as well as their proclivities?" pg. 30

Dictum- a fromal pronoucment from an authorative source

" There was no dictum, no dedaration, no censorship, to start with, no! pg. 55