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Revitrifying: "Near them a black and khaki army of labourers was busy revitrifying the surface of the Great West Road."
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Aquiline: "The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-six aquiline and ginger Gammas."
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Brave New World
Vocabulary, number 2
| Term & Sentence | Definition |
|---|---|
| Revitrifying: "Near them a black and khaki army of labourers was busy revitrifying the surface of the Great West Road." | to change or make into a glassy surface |
| Aquiline: "The fifty-six four-spindle chucking and turning machines were being manipulated by fifty-six aquiline and ginger Gammas." | hooked |
| Brachcyephalic: "The warden was a blond and brachycephalic Alpha-Minus, short, red, moon-faced, and broad-shouldered..." | small or flat head |
| Pneumatic: "But she really was too pneumatic." | filled with air (an airhead) |
| Derision: "They had mocked him through his misery and remorse, mocked him with how hideous a note of cynical derision!" | contemptuous ridicule or mockery |
| Plangently: "...that plangently repeated and repeated the brief and unescapably haunting melody of the first Solidarity Hymn." | beating with a loud or deep sound |
| Aseptic: "I remember how it used to upset me, all that dirt, and nothing being aseptic." | free from disease causing organisms |
| Inexorably: "But inexorably, every thirty seconds, the minute hand of the electric clock above his bed jumped forward with an almost imperceptible click." | not capable of being altered |
| Zenith: "Behind them, in the west, the crimson and orange were almost faded; a dark bank of cloud had crept into the zenith." | an imaginary point directly above a certain location |
| Stethoscopic: "...-and the buzzing was interrupted by a stethoscopic wheeze and cackle, by hiccoughs and sudden squeaks." | as coming from within the internal cavities of the body |
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