1984, Beowulf, Brave New World vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Archaic | Very old or of old fashion |
| Furtively | stealth |
| Speakwrite | voice recognition machines used to write down what ones saying |
| doublethink | to hold to contradicting beliefs and accept both of them |
| spanner | wrench |
| unorthodox | different from what usual or traditional |
| Formidable | inspiring fear or respect awe or aspiration |
| urbane | courteous, has manners |
| verify | prove truth with evidence |
| heresies | unorthadox opinion |
| Diaphragm | muscle seperating abdominable and thoraxic cavity |
| specious | plausible but actually wrong |
| lucid | easy to understand |
| lunatic | mentally ill, insane |
| odious | extremely unpleasant, repulsive |
| chastity | quaility of being pure |
| voluptuously | pleasing the senses |
| gamboling | run or jump about playfully |
| demeanor | behavior towards others |
| partisan | dedicated to party |
| anonymous | unknown name |
| quailed | show or feel fear |
| subterranean | beneath earths surface |
| etymology | study of the origin of the words and how they have changed throughout history. |
| dicatorship, democracy, socialism, communism, totalitarianism | dicatorship: government run by a single individual democracy: every individual governed has thier say Socialism: production, distribution, and exchanges, ------ regulated by the community Communism: all property is publicly owned+ppl paid fairly Totalitarianism: all aspects of the state controlled by ----- government. |
| motif | a reacurring theme |
| Connotation vs Denotation | how a word makes you feel or think(ideas)............... what feelings & thoughts the word suggests |
| dilapidation | ruins |
| anthology | a collection of writings |
| hypochondriac | abnormally anxious about health |
| hysteria | behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrolled emotion |
| pneumatic | driven by air |
| Jargon | specific to dicipline what they're saying sounds like gibberish |
| Collated | to collect and compare in order / arrange |
| gesticulating | making gestures |
| irony | discrepancy of what seems to be but actually is |
| pedantic | person that shows off thier learning |
| canteen | store in which food/ drinks/small supplies are sold |
| queue | a line up |
| philologist | the study of literature and of relevant fields |
| saccharine | of relating to or resembling that of sugar |
| animated | full of movement and activity |
| vapid | lacking liveliness |
| fulminating | to spray forth |
| edified | to build or lift up |
| tinny | tin like sound |
| oxymoron | combination of controdicting terms |
| eroticism | anything that arouses sexual feelings |
| enema | fluid injected into rectum |
| promiscuity | misillaneous sex |
| Epic | a long poem glorifiying a figure to be hero like |
| mneumonic device | a memory devices (to help remember the long tale) |
| meter | double constants |
| alliteration | repeatition of consonat sound at begining of word |
| kenning | two or more words descripted phrase EX: (Battle flasher MEANS sword) |
| epithet | the act of placing something on something (NICKNAME) |
| scop | old english poet |
| Iberians | first men after cavemen |
| Anglo Saxons | germanic tribes from conventional Europe filled power vaccum left by Romans |
| Norman | William the Duke of normandy coquered all of England 1066 |
| Battle of Hastings | 1066 started the unification by France of all of Britain |
| Stonehenge | ancient structure to set equinox |
| Animism | all things in the world have spirits celtic religion |
| druids | priests of animism |
| Arthur | legendary celtic warrior romanized britain resisted Anglo- Saxon |
| Wales / Welsh | Northwest coast islands where celtics were pushed into |
| Danes / Vikings | northeast 750-800 |
| Sutton Hoo | 1939 archeological dig of a ship |
| Warlord society | after fall of Rome (violence based on war code) |
| Thane | warrior |
| mead hall | Bar, Pub |
| Lay | the common man |
| pallid | pale sickly |
| soliloquizing | speech on stage where character thinks no one hears them |
| callow | inexperience/immature |
| adjectly | without spirit / hope |
| Incubators | machine that keeps temp at a point that embryos develop |
| gametes | sperm or ova sex cells |
| excised | cut out |
| salinity | salt content |
| viscosity | resistnace to flow of a liquid |
| bouillon | a thin broth like soup |
| Bokanovsky's Process | using one cell to creat many |
| proliferate | spread quickly |
| bergeoned | rapid budding, blooming |
| prodigious | huge gigantic |
| viviparous | having natural birth |
| largesse | generosity usually to underclass |
| demijohns | long necked flask |
| surrogate | substitute |
| centrifugal | force from the center |
| decanting | the parting of a liquid |
| freemartins | lower estrogen |
| senteniously | to speak with high mardistic tone |
| gelatinous | jello like |
| pavlovian | conditioned reflex |
| apoplectic | like a stroke |
| quarto | 1/4 sheet |
| khaki | dust (hindu) |
| suffuse | spread like liquid |
| indissolubly | permanent cant be broken |
| gratuitous | given or granded without something in return |
| dystopia | in a state where everything is unpleasant |
| eugenics | science of controlling human population by controlled breeding |
| conditioned reflex | aquired response that is usually under control of a stimulus |
| sibilant | s sound |
| categorical imperative | an order |
| asafetida | a drug ant |
| insinuating | hinting at or suggesting in an interect and unpleasant way |
| indefatigable | tireless |
| boscage | foilage shrubery bushes |
| aperture | an opening that lets in light |
| consumtion | injest take in , buy, use, throw away |
| heather | tall grass in wasteland |
| rudimentary | first phases of development |
| maudlin | sentimental |
| surreptitously | done with stealth covertly |
| auto-eroticism | masterbation |
| resonant | sound associated with an enhancement by echo |
| effusive | quality to pour |
| discarnate | inhuman not of the flesh |
| tactual | touch |
| Mustapha Mond | D.H.C. one of the controller of Western Europe |
| smutty | having to do with upseen (monogamy birth in BNW) |
| teeming | full of life |
| chypre | make up powdered |
| evocation | calling out a response |
| midden | collection of trash in a group of things |
| compulsory | required, manditory |
| sadism | it is a sexual perversion where you get plessure from inflicting pain |
| chasity | sexual abstanance and pure |
| Freud | Father of modern physicology |
| incongrous | something not in place |
| Simian | monkey like |
| imperiously | acting like high authority |
| ruminating | think through thoroughly |
| aphides | small insects |
| furtively | surreptitiously |
| pullulation | breeding abundantly |
| caste system | ordering of soceity through fixed strata |
| phosphorous | of life |
| ambergris | waxy substance floats on shore from sperm whale put in perfume |
| deturgescence | clensing quality |
| Malthusian drill | A drill to prevent having children |
| plagently | ring vibratingly sound |
| orgy porgy | solidarity meeting |
| satiety | appitite satisfied and thensome |
| unabashed | unappoligetic |
| genial | friendly, likeable |
| solecism | breaking of social etiquet |
| intrinsically | to be born with something inate in nature |
| reminiscence | living in the past |
| anecdote | short illustration story used to alliterate something |
| antidote | cure or counters poison |
| Goiter | thyroid on the neck |
| innocuous | harmless |
| undulating | of a wave like motion |
| inexorably | unstoppable |
| consolations | to show compassion and sympathy |
| novelty | rare or exotique |
| benevolent | showing good will |
| mescal | extract from cactus anti spasmadic |
| peyotl | intoxicant hallucenageon |
| kiva | pit for rituals |
| agave | a plant thick arms succulant has spines on it |
| vestal | having to do with chasity |
| recapitulated | to state agian a musical theme |
| blithe | of light heartedness |
| heinous | shockingly evil |
| ignominy | disgraceful event |
| scatological | study of animal poop |
| peel and peal | strip of outer layer.................. and a loud ringing of a bell(s) |
| demurred | hesitant |
| rejuvenated | renew life to revive |
| patchouli | east indian shrub that is used for the smell |
| consonance | repetition of consonant sound anywhere but begining of word |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sound |
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