VOCABULARY FOR “THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS” BY RAY BRADBURY.

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VOCABULARY FOR “THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS” BY RAY BRADBURY

Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury is one of those rare individuals whose writing has changed the way people think. His more than five hundred published works -- short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse -- exemplify the American imagination at its most creative.

Ray Bradbury  Once read, his words are never forgotten. His best- known and most beloved books, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, FAHRENHEIT 451 and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, are masterworks that readers carry with them over a lifetime. His timeless, constant appeal to audiences young and old has proven him to be one of the truly classic authors of the 20th Century -- and the 21st.

Ray Bradbury  In recognition of his stature in the world of literature and the impact he has had on so many for so many years, Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, an the National Medal of Arts in 

Ray Bradbury  Ray Bradbury’s love of reading: 

1. myriad (25) adj. —a great number

2. ingenuity(25) noun —skill or cleverness in creating or devising something

3. implication(25)noun —to show indirectly

4. resolution(25) noun— the act of finding an answer to a problem

5. alternative(25) noun— choice between two things

6. inhabitants(26) noun— one that occupies a particular place regularly; in this case the people who lived in the house

7. ejected (26) verb— to throw out

8. phonograph (26) noun— an instrument for reproducing sound

9. warrens(27)noun— a burrow where small animals live

10. acrawl(27)verb— covered with crawling creatures

11. charred(27) verb— burned; scorched

12. silhouette (27) noun— the outline of a body

13. titanic(27) adj.— having great magnitude, force, or power; colossal

14. incinerator (28) noun— a furnace or a container for incinerating or burning waste materials

15. Baal (28) proper noun— a Canaanite and Phoenician god

16. regiments (28) noun— a military unit; a battalion

17. pips (28) noun— spots; specks; also a relation to the markings on dice and dominoes

18. tremulous (29) adj. —trembling, shaking

19. whims (29) noun— a sudden idea or turn of the mind

20. bough (29) noun— a branch of a tree

21. solvent (29) noun— a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances

22. cringing (30) verb— to shrink away in fear

23. sheathings (30) noun— coverings; outer layer

24. psychopathic (30) adj.— mentally disordered; crazy