Brave New World Vocab

  1. Callow 

    1. Inexperienced, immature 

  2. Proliferate 

    1. Multiply 

  3. Burgeoned 

    1. Begin to grow, increase rapidly, flourish 

  4. Prodigious 

    1. Great in size, extent, degree

  5. Demijohn 

    1. Narrow neck bottle

  6. Surrogate 

    1. A substitute 

  7. Sententiously 

    1. given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner

  8. Deferential 

    1. Respectful

  9. Quartos 

    1. 1/4th of a book page

  10.  Sibilant 

    1. Hissing sound 

  11. Imperative 

    1. Vital importance, Crucial

  12. Apertures 

    1. Opening, hole, gap

  13. Maudlin 

    1. Self-pity, tearfully sentimental → through drunkenness 

  14. Surreptitious 

    1. Kept secret due to unapproved 

  15. Effusive 

    1. Gratitude, pleasure, approval 

  16. Discarnate 

    1. Not having a physical body

  17. Evocation 

    1. Act of recalling a memory, feeling, image

  18. Pneumatic 

    1. Containing or operated by air under pressure 

  19. Simian 

    1. Related/resembling apes/monkeys 

  20. Ruminating 

    1. Think deeply about something 

  21.  Incandescence 

    1. Act of producing a bright light from a heated part 

  22.  Asceticism 

    1. Self-discipline/avoidance of forms of indulgence, usually for religious reasons 

  23. Atonement 

    1. Reparation for a wrong/injury

  24.  Satiety 

    1. Feeling of fullness 

  25. Derisively 

    1. Ridicule manner 

  26. Blasphemy 

    1. Saying something offensive 

  27. Solecism 

    1. Disrespectful 

  28.  Innocuous 

    1. Not harmful or offensive 

  29. Emphatically 

    1. In a forceful manner

  30. Ignominy

    1. Public shame or disgrace 

  31. Scatological 

    1. Cursing 

  32. Carping 

    1. Continuous complaining 

  33. Queue 

    1. In line 

  34. Scathing 

    1. Severely critical

  35. Magnanimous 

    1. Generous/forgiving usually toward a rival or less powerful person

  36. Mollified 

    1. Reduce the severity of the situation

    2. Appease a person’s anxiety or anger

  37. Ingratiating 

    1. Intended to gain approval or favor 

  38.  Impudent 

    1. Not showing due respect 

  39. Moribund 

    1. A person at the point of death 

  40. Interminable 

    1. Endless 

  41. Peremptorily 

    1. Denying 

  42. Propitiate 

    1. Win/regain the favor of (person) by doing something that pleases them

  43. Carapace 

    1. The hard upper shell of a crustacean 

  44.  Deprecating 

    1. Expressing disapproval 

  45. Galvanized 

    1. Iron/steel coated in a protective layer of zinc 

  46. Paroxysm 

    1. Sudden attack 

  47. Avowed 

    1. Openly acknowledge or declared 

  48. Vindictively 

    1. Intended to cause revenge 

  49. Carrion 

    1. Decaying flesh of dead animals 

  50. Turpitude 

    1. Wickedness