• Take out your homework from last night (the 22 vocabulary terms and their definitions).
• Place it on top of your desk.
• Take out your notes from Fahrenheit 451 and a new sheet of paper.
• Head it appropriately and title it “F451 Notes, cont.”
We will spend the majority of the class period reading Part
I “The Hearth and the Salamander.”

Vocabulary Words List

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1. hearth: a brick, stone, or concrete area in front of a fireplace the floor of a fireplace
2. salamander: a small animal that looks like a lizard with smooth skin and that lives both on land and in water
3. kerosene: a flammable hydrocarbon oil usually obtained by distillation of petroleum and used as a fuel, solvent, and thinner
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4. luxuriously: very comfortable and expensive : richly appealing feeling or showing a desire for expensive things
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5. prior: existing or coming before in time, order, or importance

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6. compress: to press or squeeze (something) so that it is smaller or fills less space to make (something) shorter or smaller
7. hypnotize: to put (a person) into a state of hypnosis to hold the attention of (someone) : to attract (someone) in a powerful or mysterious way
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8. marionette: a puppet that is moved by pulling strings or wires that are attached to its body
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9. thimble: a small metal or plastic cap used in sewing to protect the finger that pushes the needle
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10. distill: to make (a liquid) pure by heating it until it becomes a gas and then cooling it until it is a liquid again to purify (a liquid) by distillation to make (a strong alcoholic drink) by using this process to take the most important parts of something and put them in a different and usually improved form

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11. gush: to flow out very quickly and in large amounts to produce a large amount of (a quickly flowing liquid) to speak in an extremely enthusiastic way
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12. exotic: very different, strange, or unusual
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13. phoenix: a magical bird in ancient stories that lives for 500 years before it burns itself to death and then is born again from its ashes
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14. capillary: resembling a hair especially in slender elongated form<capillary leaves> having a very small bore <a capillary tube> involving, held by, or resulting from surface tension<capillary water in the soil>
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15. proclivity: an inclination or predisposition toward something; especially: a strong inherent inclination toward something

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16. cellophane: a thin transparent material that is used for wrapping things
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17. asylum: protection given by a government to someone who has left another country in order to escape being harmed a hospital where people who are mentally ill are cared
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18. odious: causing hatred or strong dislike
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19. flourish: to grow well : to be healthy to be very successful : to do very well
20. cacophony: unpleasant loud sounds
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21. pantomime: a way of expressing information or telling a story without words by using body movements and facial expressions a performance in which a story is told without words by using body movements and facial expressions
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22. centrifuge: a machine that uses centrifugal force to separate substances or parts of substances