English Brave New World Vocab.

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Deficient in color, pale

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Pallid

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Quality of having a friendly + cheerful manner

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Geniality

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Existing in a low state or condition

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Abjectly

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Of, relating to, causing stroke (very angrily, excited fit)

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Apoplectic

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Tearing into two pieces

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Asunder

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An opening or open space/narrow opening

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Aperture

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Emotionally silly/overly/excessively sentimental

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Maudlin

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Done in a secret way

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Surreptitious

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To destroy(something or someone) completely

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Annihilation- transitive verb

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To do something good as a way to show that you are sorry about doing something bad

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Atoned-verb

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Relating to or producing a direct current of electricity (energizing groups of people, causing people to feel or react strongly)

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Galvanic (adjective)

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Expressing suffering or sadness; having a sad sound

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Plaintively-adjective

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To drink deeply-large amount, deeply with enjoyment

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Quaffing-Intransitive verb

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To think carefully and deeply about something

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Ruminating-verb

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Of or relating to monkeys or apes

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Simian-adjective

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A mistake in speech or writing

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Solecism-noun

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Sincere affection, kindness, cordial regard

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Cordiality

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Crown, a royal headband, something that adorns like a crown

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Diadem

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Not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped/unstoppable, cannot be changed

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Inexarable

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Producing no injury, harmless

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Innocuous

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Given to or suggestive of lechery/creepily interested in sex, "lude"

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Lecherous

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Closely irritated for comic affect or ridicule

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Parody

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To give and take, return in kind or degree

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Reciprocated

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Vibration of large amplitude

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Resonances

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Public shame or disgrace

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Ignominy-noun

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Of or relating to the essential nature of a thing instinctively, inate

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Intrinsically-adjective

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The intention or desire to do evil

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Malice-noun

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Extremely unpleasant-repulsive

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Odious-adjective

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The serious membrane lining the cavity of the abdomenal organs

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Peritoneum-noun

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Action or speech that makes someone deliberately angry or annoyed

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Provocation-noun

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Accorded a great deal of respect because of age, wisdom, character, etc

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Venerable-adjective

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Coaxed, forced, persuaded into something

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Wheedled

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Resembling or suggesting an animal or beast; very cruel, violent, etc

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Bestial-adjective

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A hard shell on the back of some animals (such as turtles or crabs)

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Carapace-noun

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Not firm:not hard or solid

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Flaccid-adjective

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Not certain about what to do: not resolute

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Irresolute

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No longer active or effective; close to failure; very sick and/or close to death

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Moribund-adjective

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Money that a group or country that loses a war pays because of the damage, injury, deaths, etc.

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Reparation-noun

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Having or expressing strong opinions about what people should and should not do-arrogance

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Sententiously-adjective

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To cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form-noble

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Sublime-verb

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Anxiety arising from awareness of guilt

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Compunction - noun

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Fiery hot-conspicously offensive

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Flagrantly adjective

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To make gestures especially when speaking

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Gesticulating-intransitive verb

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Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss

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Impunity - noun

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Incapable of being eradicated-unable to get rid of

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Ineradicably-adjective

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Emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing

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Luminous-adjective

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To assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary

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Postulates- transitive verb

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A kitchen helper

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Scullion-noum