ElixirDefinition: "an alchemic preparation formerly

believed to be capable of belonging life."

"Fire-water, the Elixir Vitae, by God" (Bradbury 19).

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Voluptuous • Definition: "directed toward or concerned with

sensuous enjoyment or sensual pleasure."

• "Within the huge winter gem was there not a special vacuum? a voluptuous hollow, a prolonged emptiness which undulated from the tip to toe of the ice" (Bradbury 26).

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Calliope • Definition: "a musical instrument consisting of

a set of harsh-sounding steam whistles that are activated by a keyboard."

• "A calliope began to play oh so softly, grieving to itself, a million miles away," (Bradbury 32).

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Gesticulations• Definition: "an animated or excited gesture."

• "There, on the world's rim, the lovely snail-gleam of the railway tracks ran, flinging wild gesticulations of lemon or cherry-colored semaphore to the stars," (Bradbury 45-46).

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Clamorous• Definition: "vigorous in demand or complaints."

• Will fell after and they both stood, clamorous with alarms, shaken by concussions of silent pantomime, blast by events all the more numbing because they ran off into the night unknown," (Bradbury 80).

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Agglomerative• Definition: "to collect or gather into a cluster or mass."

• "From all the creaked platforms, from the muffled sawdust, Will felt the freaks wheel and fix their eyes, enchanted, as were internes and police, by this illustrated throng of humanity that in one agglomerative move dominated and filled the immediate air and tent sky with silent shootings for attention," (Bradbury 110).

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Phlegm• Definition: "the thick mucus secreted in the respiratory passages

and discharged through the mouth, especially that occurring in the lungs and throat passages, as during a cold."

• "As did the phlegm that was the old man’s gaze, while his chill lips peeled wide to shape, reshape an echoed gasp, a flutter. From deep below the old man bounced his voice ricocheting off the dank stone walls of his body until it fell out his mouth," (Bradbury 115).

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Scurry• Definition: "to go or move quickly or in haste."

• "In gusts they beetle-scurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters," (Bradbury 187).

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Delirium• Definition: "a state of excitement and metal confusion,

often accompanied by hallucination, caused by high fever, poising, brain injury, etc."

• "The balloon smile, the balloon rip was all-encompassing now as it wandered in deliriums to die in the meadows from which it had come, sinking down now beyond all the sleeping, ignorant and unknowing houses," (Bradbury 152).

“Delirium is most often caused by physical or mental illness and is usually temporary and reversible. Many disorders cause delirium, including conditions that deprive the brain of oxygen or other substances.”

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Cupola• Definition: "a roof or ceiling in form of a dome."

• "Rain fell softly on town cupolas, chuckled from rainspouts, and spoke in strange subterranean tongues beneath the windows where Jim and Will knew fitful dreams, slipping out of one, trying another for size, but finding all cut from the same dark, mouldered cloth," (Bradbury 155).

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Mausoleum• Definition: "a stately and magnificent tomb."

• "A three-o”-clock-in-the-morning arrival, a grotesque-looking glass maze, a Sunday parade, a tall man with a swarm of electric-blue pictures itching on his sweaty hide, a few drops of blood falling down through a pavement grille, two frightened boys staring up out of the earth, and himself, alone in mausoleum quiet, nudging the puzzle together," (Bradbury 186).

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Cloister • Definition: "a covered walk, especially in a religious

institution, having an open arcade or colonnade usually opening onto a courtyard."

• "The library, then, at seven-fifteen, seven-thirty, seven-forty-five of a Sunday night, cloistered with great drifts of silence and transfixed avalanche of books poised like the cuneiform stones of eternity on shelves, so high the unseen snows of time fell all year there," (Bradbury 188).

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Revivify • Definition: " to give new life or spirit."

• "...there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer," (Bradbury 192).

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Rivulet • Definition: "a small stream."

• "Her swamp breath flooded him while, with immense curiosity, he watched the poisonous drizzle from her lips, counted the folds in her stitch-wrinkled eyes, the Gila monster neck, the mummy-linen ears, the dry-rivulet riversand brow," (Bradbury 228).

“Montanye's Rivulet apparently still exists and still feeds the Harlem Lake at least.”

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Physiognomies • Definition: "the face or countenance,

especially when considered as an index to the character."

• "He touched Physiognomonie," (Bradbury 186).

“Physiognomy was regarded by those who cultivated it as a twofold science.”

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Conversely • Definition: "opposite or contrary in direction, action, sequence,

etc."

• "Conversely...Charles Halloway turned a page...did the scurrying freaks, the Illustrated Marvel, bear the foreheads of the Irascible, the Cruel, the Covetous, the mouths of the Lewd and Untruthful? the teeth of the Crafty, the Unstable, the Audacious, the Vainglorious, and your Murderous Beast?" (Bradbury 187).

“I personally like using the phrase "Conversely..." but now that I read the definition on various Internet sites, I see that "conversely" really might only best apply when there is a change in relationship between one another thing.”

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Tableau• Definition: "a picture, as of a scene."

• "All froze in a tableau," (Bradbury 108).

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Introspective • Definition: "the act or process of looking into

oneself."

• "Charles Halloway, citizen, father, introspective husband, night-wanderer, and janitor of the town library," (Bradbury 242).

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Benumbed • Definition: "to make numb; deprive of sensation."

• "As it was they watched, benumbed, as their portrait pictures, the vital stuffs of their mortal greed, rancor, and poisonous guilt, the emerald abstracts of their self-blinded eyes, self-wounded mouths, self-trapped bodies melted one by one from this insignificant mound of snow," (Bradbury 278).

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Incongruous• Definition: "out of keeping or place; inappropriate;

unbecoming."

• "The song was incongruous for October, but immensely moving, overwhelming, no matter what day or what month it was sung:" (Bradbury 33).

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Cudgels• Definition: "a short, thick stick used as a weapon."

• "Thought: I’ll chart hurricanes, map storms, then run ahead shaking my iron cudgels, my miraculous defenders, in my fists!" (Bradbury 9).

“The Cudgel was a rather peculiar weapon. It is for the most part a club and there were many variations of clubs and cudgels.”

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Pandemonium• Definition: "a place or scene of riotous uproar or

utter chaos."

• "...they just put out hands as if he had fallen from their swung pandemonium commotion and needed a boost back into the swarm," (Bradbury 286).

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Annihilation • Definition: "the state of being annihilated;

extinction; destruction."

• "...the gauntlet of horror he knew waited for him to swim through, stride through to fight the desiccation, the annihilation of one’s self that waited there," (Bradbury 254).

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Jovial• Definition: "endowed with or characterized by a hearty,

joyous humor or a spirit of goo-fellowship."

• "The Witch, from the concussion of his fiercely erupted and overly jovial words, dropped one wounded hand to her side, wiped sweat from it, as one wipes an antenna for better reception, and drifted it up again, her nostrils flared with wind," (Bradbury 179).

“Jovial company launches a number of products of gifts, watches, and clocks that meet all tastes in all specifications.”

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Disencumber• Definition: "a free from of burden or other encumbrance."

• "But somewhere, twenty seconds, ten seconds ago, the last glue crumbled, the last bolt of life fell free, and the mummy-doll, the Erector-set grotesque disencumbered itself in smoke puffs and November leaflets, a broadcast of mortality along the wind" (Bradbury 267).

"Whatever it was supposed to mean Louise Day Hicks's victorious burble sums up her mandate from the voters of Boston. Disencumbered of Arthur Garland's opposition and with four newly elected colleagues still huddling in her shadow, Boston's political Leviathan will be making or breaking school policies all by herself for the next two years.”

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Work Cited

• Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. New York: HaperCollins, 1962. Print.

• Dictionary.com. Lexico Publishing. 8 Mar. 2013. Web.

• Elixir. Elixir: Contemporary American Cuisine. 8 Mar. 2013. Web.