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Brave New World Vocabulary

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Term	Meaning	In Context: Provide quote from book where the word is used. MLA In-Text Citation.	Image/Visual
Decanting	Gradually pour (liquid, typically wine or a solution) from one container into another, especially without disturbing the sediment.	“Mr. Foster was left in the Decanting Room.” (Huxley 19)
Surrogate	relating to the birth of a child or children by means of surrogacy.	“The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well-being. (The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute.“ (Huxley 13)
Lift	a device incorporating a moving cable for carrying people	“The D.H.C. and his students stepped into the nearest lift and were carried up to the fifth floor.” (Huxley 19)
Soliloquize	Talking to oneself; muttering	“The absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration”(Huxley 4)
Callow	A person that is inexperienced or immature.	“A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director’s heels” (Huxley 2).
Enumerate	mentioning a number of things, one by one	Hinted at the gravity of the so-called “trauma of decanting,” and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suit- able training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock” (Huxley 12)
Predestined	(of an outcome or course of events) determined in advance by divine will or fate.	“They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miner and acetate silk spinners and steel workers. Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies." (Huxley 16)
Ingenious	Clever, Original, Inventive	“The Russian technique for infecting water supplies was particularly ingenious” (Huxley 51)
Posthumous	After the death of the Original	Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble” (Huxley 19-20).
Caustic	Able to burn or corrode organic tissue using a chemical reaction	On Rack 10 rows of next generation’s chemical workers were being trained in the toleration of lead, caustic soda, tar, chlorine” (Huxley 17).
Inculcate	Instile by persistent instruction	“…cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behaviour” (Huxley 30).
Suppression	An evening meal, typically one that is light and informal	“Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the clos- ing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years’ War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 15O” (Huxley 53).
Caste	each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.	“What a hideous colour khaki is,” remarked Lenina, voic- ing the hypnopædic prejudices of her caste” (Huxley 64).
Unorthodox	contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted; not orthodox.	“Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.” (Huxley 162)
Indignation	anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.	“In the end Bernard had to slink back, diminished, to his rooms and inform the impatient assembly that the Savage would not be appearing that evening. The news was received with indignation.” (Huxley 190”
Impropriety	a failure to observe standards or show due honesty or modesty; improper language, behavior, or character.	“The word (for "father" was not so much obscene as–with its connotation of something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of child-bearing–merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety);” (Huxley 166)
Incoherent	(of spoken or written language) expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.	“Pale, distraught, abject and agitated, he moved among his guests, stammering incoherent apologies, assuring them that next time the Savage would certainly be there, begging them to sit down and take a carotene sandwich, a slice of vitamin A pâté, a glass of champagne-surrogate.” (Huxley 192)
Subversive	seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution	“The author’s mathematical treatmentof the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious,but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive” (Huxley 194)
Vermin	wild animals that are believed to be harmful to crops, farm animals, or game, or that carry disease, e.g., rodents.	“After a time the vermin evidently became bored and flew away; for hours at a stretch the sky abovehis head was empty and, but for the larks, silent.” (Huxley 281)
Convergent	coming closer together, especially in characteristics or ideas.	With a whoop of delighted excitement the line broke; therewas a convergent stampede towards that magnetic centre of attraction.” (Huxley 288)
Superfluous	unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.	“But there aren’t any losses for us tocompensate; religious sentiment is superfluous. (Huxley 260)
Pallor	an unhealthy pale appearance.	“Henry detected the weariness in those purple eyes, thepallor beneath that glaze of lupus, the sadness at the cornersof the unsmiling crimson mouth.” (Huxley 205)
Propaganda	information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.	“Why was that old fellow such a marvellous propaganda technician?” (Huxley 204)
Sacrilege	violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred.	“For a moment the khaki mob was silent, petrified, at thespectacle of this wanton sacrilege, with amazement and horror.” (Huxley 236)
Innocuous	not harmful or offensive.	“But a little later it was reminding her a good deal less ofthat innocuous function.” (Huxley 121)

Define at least 10 additional words not from this list – can be Brave New World specific (ex: Alpha).