The Veldt (1950)

By: Ray Bradbury

Vocabulary: Please write the definitions for the following words, then choose three words to put into a sentence.

• nursery – a nursery school or day nursery
• dimensional – magnitude; size:
• veldt – the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
• absurdly – utterly or obviously senseless, illogical,
• vulture – any of several large, primarily carrion-eating Old World birds of prey
• tantrum – get angry: scream and yell
• illusion – something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• neurotic – a person who tends to be emotionally unstable or unusually anxious
• binoculars – a special device to see very far away
• intersperse – to scatter here and there or place at intervals among other things:
• appalled – to fill or overcome with horror,

Sentence #1: I saw the vulture circling in the sky.

Sentence #2: The children played games in the nursery.

Sentence #3:The little boy had  a tantrum in the toy store.