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VOCABULARY-Brave New World
Chapters 1 - 3 Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and then match the word to its definition.
1. But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide.
2. By which time the original egg was ina fair wayto becoming anything from eight to ninety- six embryos--a prodigious improvement . . . .
3. "Silence, silence," the trumpet mouths indefatigablyrepeated at intervals downevery corridor.
4. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.
G 1. proliferate A. as if doing one a favor
H 2. prodigious B. practice of being married to only one person at a time
F 3.indefatigably C. impossible to overcome
I 4.axiomatic D. most favorable point
E. gave approval of or support to
F. tirelessly
G. multiply rapidly
H. impressively great
I. self-evident; not needing proof
Brave New WorldVocabularyChapters 4 - 6
5. He put away thesoma bottle, and taking out a packet of sex-hormone chewing-gum, stuffed a plug into his cheek and walked slowly away towards the hangars, ruminating.
6. Dared he face the risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal?
7. He passed his hand across his eyes, he sighed, his voice became plaintive.
8. But Bernard remained unabashed.
G 5.ruminating A. mournful
I 6.contemptuous B. harmlessly; in a beneficial way
A 7.plaintive C. not disconcerted or embarrassed; calm
C 8.unabashed D. continual; recurring
E. social class
F. urging with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing or flattery
G. meditating; thinking
H. completely overwhelming or incapacitating
I. disdainful; disgraceful; scornful
Brave New WorldVocabularyChapters 7-9
9.Herfeelingwasevidentlyreciprocated.
10. Their path led them to the foot of the precipice.
11. She felt in her pocket for her soma--only to discover that, by someunprecedented oversight, she had left the bottle down at the rest-house.
12. "Oh, stop them, stop them!" she implored. But the whip fell and fell inexorably.
E 9. reciprocated A. unbelievable
F 10.precipice B. indulging in excessive sexual activity
H 11.unprecedented C. in a condescending manner
D 12.inexorably D. relentlessly
E. returned; mutually shared
F. cliff
G. thing of value
H. having never happened before
Brave New World Vocabulary-Chapters 10 -13
13. I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominyfrom the post he has held in this
Centre.
14. Five busloads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrifiedhighway.
15. The author's mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious,buthereticaland...dangerousandpotentiallysubversive.
16. "John!" ventured a small ingratiatingvoice from the bathroom.
G 13.ignominy A. made to look like glass
A 14.vitrified B. arousing a strong dislike or disgust
H 15.subversive C. unable to be detected by the senses
D 16.ingratiating D. making oneself favorable to another
E. shocking
F. inherently; as a part of the nature of a thing itself
G. disgrace
H. undermining; damaging to the authorities
I. anxiously
Brave New World Vocabulary-Chapters 14 - 15
17. At the foot of every bed, confronting its moribundoccupant, was a television box.
18. At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster offlaccidand distorted senility.
19. . . . it was as if he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.
20. The insults bounced off their carapace of the thick stupidity. . . .
D 17.moribund A. become unconditioned; revert to old ways
G 18.flaccid B. compensation; something to make amends
E 19.ordure C. undecided
H 20.carapace D. about to die
E. bodily waste; excrement
F. noble; majestic; impressive
G. flabby; listless
H. hard outer covering
I. like a beast; lacking reason and intellect
Brave New World Vocabulary-Chapters 16 - 18
21. "But as I make the laws here, I can also break them. With impunity, Mr Marx," he added.
22. But you've got to stick to one set of postulates.
23. It was as though, stumbling upon himself from the outside, he had suddenly caught himself out, taken himself flagrantlyat fault.
24. Noiseless on his pneumaticshoes, the man came up behind him.
C 21.impunity A. emitting light; enlightened
H 22.postulates B. filled with air
F 23.flagrantly C. exemption from punishment
B 24. pneumatic D. regret; remorse
E. bodily movement particularly for emphasis
F. in a big way; obviously; conspicuously
G. as if in parenthesis; aside
H. things take for granted without proof necessary