brave new world vocab

delirium

a state of excitement and dizziness

geniality

friendliness, cheerfulness

heinous

hateful, offensive

heretical

speaking out against established authority, esp the church

impunity

exemption from punishment

innocuous

harmless, innocent

mollify

to calm or soothe

moribund

in a dying state, near death

obsidian

dark glossy black

prodigious

extraordinary in size or amount

ruminate

to meditate over or think deeply about

scatological

dirty or distasteful (references that which is taboo)

surreptitious

sneaky and stealthy, as if up to something

tremulous

shaking, as with fear

venerable

respectable, as someone to look up to