Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Pg 108-119

WORDS:
illume - make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
lighten up, lighten - become lighter; "The room lightened up"
floodlight - illuminate with floodlights
spotlight - illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater

sheaths (shz, shths)
1.
a. A case for a blade, as of a sword.
b. Any of various similar coverings.
2. Biology An enveloping tubular structure, such as the base of a grass leaf that surrounds the stem or the tissue that encloses a muscle or nerve fiber.
3. A close-fitting dress.
4. A condom.

perfunctorily - in a set manner without serious attention; "they answered my letter pro forma"; "he kissed her cheek perfunctorily"

gaseous - existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state"
liquid - existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow; "water and milk and blood are liquid substances"
solid - of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous; "ice is water in the solid state"

valise - a small overnight bag for short trips
overnight bag, overnight case, overnighter - a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight


rigidly - in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright"

PLOT:
Today the firehouse reponded to a call. They went and it was Montags house, as they arrived Montags wife was going into a beetle(care/Taxi) and driving away. She was the one who called the firemen to the house. The captain told montag that because it was his house he would have to burn it all. But he would have to burn it by hand with a torch and not kerosene and a match.


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