The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury Vocabulary ______veldt: Any of the open grazing areas of southern Africa

odorophonics: an idea made up by Bradbury; a system capable of reproducing selected scents that fool the human nervous system. sonics: relating to sound nursemaid: a female servant in a rich household, generally one who cares for young children televised: instead of calling home on a phone, the children “televise” home, sending a message over the television telepathic emanations: thoughts illusion: a misleading image presented to the vision (something that seems to be there, but is really not) joviality: good humor, jolliness Rima: fictional heroine of W. H. Hudson's 1904 novel Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest

flue: chimney neurotic: having a nerve disease neuroses: functional disorders in which feelings of anxiety, obsessive thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality. insufferable: too extreme to bear intersperse: scatter between other things