AP Lit. Brave New World Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abjectly | miserably; allowing no hope of improvement |
| annihilation | complete destruction |
| aperture | An opening, especially one that admits light |
| apoplectic | overcome with anger |
| asunder | into parts; apart; V. sunder |
| geniality | (, cheerfulness; kindliness; sympathy; ADJ. genial: cheerful and good-tempered |
| maudlin | weakly sentimental and tearful |
| pallid | lacking color or liveliness |
| surreptitious | secret, clandestine, stealthy |
| atoned | Make amends or reparations |
| galvanic | pertaining to a direct current of electricity; also, having the effect of an electric shock. |
| plaintively | expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful |
| quaffing | drinking heavily or with enjoyment |
| ruminating | reflecting on over and over again; turning a matter over in the mind |
| simian | related to or resembling an ape or monkey |
| solecism | misusage, blunder, faux pas |
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