Brave New World Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 surreptitious | secret or unauthorized |
| discarnate | without a physical body |
| evocation | calling forth |
| compulsory | required;mandatory |
| axiomatic | self-evident;obvious |
| truculent | fierce;cruel;savagely brutal; aggressively hostile; belligerent |
| sententious | given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous |
| pneumatic | pertaining to air, gases, or wind |
| crucible | container in which metals are heated until they melt |
| incandescence | emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature; luminescence |
| plangent | resounding loudly (ex. bell) |
| midriff | middle part of the body |
| liturgy | a form of public worship; ritual |
| cajolery | persuasion by flattery or promises; wheedling; coaxing |
| solecism | a breach of good manners or etiquette; impolite |
| indecorous | violating generally accepted standards of good taste or propriety |
| diadem | a cloth headband, sometimes w/ jewels, worn by Oriental Kings |
| aseptic | free from the living germs of disease, fermentation, or decay |
| vestal | virgin; chaste; pure |
| scatological | obscenity; excrement |
| prognathous | protusive jaws |
| ignoble | low character, aims; inferior |
| plaintive | expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful |
| magnanimity | generosity |
| mollified | to soften in feeling or temper; pacify; appease |
| adage | short statement saying general truth |
| carapace | proverb |
| abstemious | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet |
| apothecary | a druggist; pharmicist |
| moribund | near death |
| incurious | not curious, observant or attentive |
| flaccid | soft and limp; not firm |
| platitude | a flat, dull, or trite remark, esp one uttered as if it were fresh or profound |
| paroxysm | any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion |
| abjection | the act of humiliating |
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