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Fahrenheit 451 : Vocabulary List #2 odious ravenous
pratfall dictum censorship noncombustible tactile cadenced retaliation receptacle arousing strong dislike or displeasure extremely hungry; greedy for gratification humiliating failure; a fall on the buttocks authoritative pronouncement the act or practice of repressing ideas, impulses, and feelings does not burn easily relating to the sense of touch with a rhythmic flow returning like for like a container that holds matter
Directions: Write a sentence using each vocabulary word.
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odious
Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in their plump fireproof slickers.
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ravenous
He felt one hand and then the other work his coat free and let it slump to the floor...His hands were ravenous. And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything.
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pratfall
"Life becomes one big pratfall, Montag; everything bang, boff, and wow!"
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dictum
There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!
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censorship
There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no!
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noncombustible
Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information.
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ELA Content Standards 1.0 (Word Analysis and Vocabulary Development), 1.1 and 1.2

English 10 Chu
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tactile
I'll think I'm responding to the play, when it's only a tactile reaction to vibration.
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cadenced
He talked in a cadenced voice . . . and when an hour had passed he said something to Montag and Montag sensed it was a rhymeless poem.
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retaliation
The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great tonload of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium and brass.
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receptacle
Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget.
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ELA Content Standards 1.0 (Word Analysis and Vocabulary Development), 1.1 and 1.2