Fahrenheit 451

Flourish: "it plunged the book back under his arm...rushed out empty, with a magician's flourish!"

Invigorate: "I must admit that your blind raging invigorated me."

Pedant: "we mustn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world."

Insidious: "It's an insidious plan, if I do say so myself."

A sieve might be found in both a kitchen and a rock quarry.

Proclivity: "Were all firemen picked then for their looks as well as their proclivities?"

aggravate means to annoy or irritate

Vantage: "They leaped into the air and clutched the brass pole as if it were the last vantage point above a tidal wave."

Snoot, Snout, and Trunk could all be called proboscises

Writhe "he was a shrieking blaze...no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn"

Beatific: "And you got in and we drove back to the firehouse in beatific silence, all dwindled away to peace."

When you do something with a flourish, the action might include

Stagnant: "electronic-eyed snake winding down into the layer upon layer of night and stone and stagnant spring water"

Pry: "If you need help when Beatty pries at you, I'll be sitting right here in your eardrum making notes!"

Cite: "And ‘The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.’"

 Verbiage: "The folly of mistaking a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths..."

All of the following are synonyms for proclivity except

Aggravate: "You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive."

Accord: "The public itself stopped reading of its own accord."

Torrent: "Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world."

Filigree: "It was good listening to the beetle hum...and delicate filigree murmur of the old man's voice"

Dignity: "Captain Beatty, keeping his dignity, backed slowly through the front door, his pink face burnt and shiny"

you will find filigree in the heavy columns of classical architecture

Pyre: "There was a silly damn bird called a Phoenix ... every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up"

Proboscis: "a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of..."

Heresy: "Latimer said that to a man named Nicholas Ridley, as they were being burnt alive at Oxford, for heresy..."

Prattle: "the family prattled and chatted and said her name and smiled and said nothing..."

synonyms for stolid include unemotional and impassive

Rend: "And as before, it was good to burn, he felt himself gush out in the fire, snatch, rend, rip in half with flame...

Alight: "A book alighted, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering."

Capillary: "Light flickered on bits of ruby glass and on sensitive capillary hairs in the nylon-brushed nostrils..."