Brave New World Vocabulary Chapters 1-10

Vocabulary flashcards for Brave New World, Chapters 1-10 Practice quiz: https://onlinecampus.fcps.edu/media2/english/FCPS_Current_Courses/English_12/English_12_Summer_Macbeth/0200/0201/0201_0401d.htm Practice quiz 2: https://onlinecampus.fcps.edu/media2/english/FCPS_Current_Courses/English_12/English_12_Summer_Macbeth/0200/0201/0201_0401c.htm

Pallid

Pale and lacking color, often suggesting illness or a lack of vitality.

Callow

Inexperienced; immature, like someone newly hatched

Excise

To remove by cutting out

Decant

To pour off or transfer liquid from one container to antoher. In BNW it’s pouring babies out of the bottles ie birthing them.

Prodigious

Extraordinary in size, amount, or degree

Sententiously

Given to excessive moralizing

Apoplectic

Overcome with anger; on the verge of a fit

Viviparous

Bringing forth living young from the womb, rather than laying eggs. In BNW it’s like natural birth rather than the test tubes and decanting.

Indefatigably

Untiringly, without fatigue

Inculcate

To impress on the mind by frequent repetition; to teach persistently

Maudlin

Tearfully sentimental, overly emotional

Axiomatic

Self-evident; obvious, requiring no proof

Furtive

Secretive; sly, as if trying to avoid being noticed

Anthrax

A disease of sheep and cattle that can also affect humans

Asceticism

Severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Incessant

Continuing without interruption, never stopping

Surrogate

A substitute or replacement

Fortnight

A period of two weeks

Quaffed

Drank heartily and deeply

Supine

Lying face upward. This position can symbolize vulnerability or submission.

Eccentricity

Odd or unusual behavior, deviates from the norm

Haggard

Looking exhausted and unwell, often due to fatigue or worry

Cajolery

Persuasion by flattery or gentle urging

Solecism

A grammatical mistake in speech or writing

Malignant

Evil in nature or effect, tending to do great harm

Stoically

Enduring pain or hardship without complaint, showing indiffernce to suffering

Precipitous

Extremely steep, like a cliff

Peritoneum

The membrane lining the abdominal cavity

Goiter

A swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland

Squalor

The state of being extremely dirty and unpleasant

Aseptic

Free from contamination caused by harmful bacteria, viruses, or other microorganisms.

Patronizingly

Displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner

Dynamos

An electric generator

Blithe

Showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper

Heinous

(of a person or their actions, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked, extremly evil

Portentously

Done in a pompously or overly solemn(formal) manner so as to impress.

Heretical

Holding beliefs at odds with what is generally accepted

Ignominy

Public shame or disgrace

Coquettishly

In a flirtatious manner

Haunches

The hindquarters of an animal

Ectogenesis

Growth of an embryo outside the body

Plangently

(of a sound) loud, reverberating, and often melancholy.

Obstinately

Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action

Postulated

Suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief.

Freemartins

Sterile female calf or in BNW is a woman who is deliberalty born sterile

Unorthodox

Contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted; not orthodox.