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Brave New World Voca
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Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning | Huxley's term for the dystopian form of infant training. That comes from the classical conditioning system named for the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1931). |
Alpha | The highest caste in society |
Beta | The second highest caste group. They are allowed to interact with Alphas but not the lower classes. |
Deltas | A mid-level caste of society. They are mostly factory workers and laborers. |
Gammas | A low caste in society. They are mostly laborers and menial workers. |
Epsilons | The lowest caste of the Utopian society. They are malformed and quite stupid. |
Soma | The "drug" used to make people "happy" it a way for the people to escape from regular world. |
Hypnopaedia | Sleep teaching. |
Precipice | A rock face. |
Peritoneum | Is the membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity. |