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Vocabulary for “ There Will Come Soft Rains ” by Ray BRadbury

Vocabulary for “ There Will Come Soft Rains ” by Ray BRadbury. Ray Bradbury.

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Vocabulary for “ There Will Come Soft Rains ” by Ray BRadbury

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  1. Vocabulary for“There Will Come Soft Rains”by Ray BRadbury

  2. 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. http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html

  3. 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.http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html

  4. 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 2004.http://www.raybradbury.com/about.html • http://www.raybradbury.com/images/video/down_here_basement.html

  5. Ray Bradbury • Ray Bradbury’s love of reading: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuDOEuwwso

  6. 1. myriad (25) adj. —a great number

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

  8. 3. implication(25)noun —to show indirectly

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

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

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

  12. 7. ejected (26) verb— to throw out

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

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

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

  16. 11. charred(27) verb— burned; scorched

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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