Vocabulary

BRAVE NEW WORLD

1.    Bleakly

·         Cold and not welcoming.

·         “But finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shinning porcelain of a laboratory”

a.     For some people, trying to learn math is very bleakly.

2.    Receptacle

·         A container for holding things or that you can put things on it.

·         “How the eggs which it contained were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle”

a.     In most of laboratories, there are several receptacles to maintain organization.

3.     Conveyor

·         To express feelings, thoughts or information to other people.

·         “Though you couldn´t see it, was a conveyor traveling at the rate of thirty- three and a third centimeters an hour”

a.     In factories there are several conveyors that help to transport the objects to one place to another.

4.     Slacken

·         To become slower or less busy.

·         “We slacken off the circulation when they´re right way up”

a.     The brake of cars, not only stop the car but slacken velocity.

5.     Surrogate

·         Someone or something that replaces or is used instead of someone or something else; a substitute.

·         “Double the flow of surrogate when they´re upside down”

a.     The social studies surrogate was the worst teacher ever.

6.    Posthumous

·         Happening after person´s death

·         “Pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble ”

a.     There are several posthumous states when a person is already dead.

7.     Suffuse

·         To overspread with or as with a liquid, color etc.

·         “A new and profound significance seemed to suffuse the shinning pages of the books ”

a.     My little system mixed several paintings and suffuses them through the floor.

8.    Sounder

·         A person or thing that males a sound or noise, or sounds something.

·         “The problem was to find an economically sounder reason for consuming transport than a mere affection  for primroses and landscapes ”

a.     Next to my house, there is a sounder construction.

9.    Tiptoeing

·         To walk or move quietly on one´s toes.

·         “Fifty yards of tiptoeing brought them to a door which the Director cautiously opened ”

a.     We find found a thief tiptoeing in our house, and we called police.

10.  Reluctant

·         Not wanting to do something and there for slow to do it.

·         “It´s just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play”

a.     She was reluctant to change her work place.

11)   Writhing

a.     Slowly, he boy began to walk round the writhing heap of snakes. 115

·         To make large twisting movements with the body.

·         To experience a very difficult or unpleasant situation or emotion, such as extreme embarrassment.

o   My dog was writhing in agony because of its lethal disease.

12)   Incarnadine

a.     The multitudinous seas incarnadine. 117

·         To tinge or stain with red.

·         A pinkish or reddish color similar to that of flesh or blood.

o   One day I was walking and I found an incarnadine cloth.

13)   Filthy

a.     And that neck – that neck and the blanket she wore over her head – ragged and filthy 119

·         Extremely or unpleasantly

o   Trucks poured out clouds of filthy, black smoke.

14)   Slobbering

a.     Ford! To kiss, slobbering, and smelt too horrible, obviously never had a bath, and simply reeked of that beastly stuff (…) 119

·         To allow saliva or food to run out of the mouth

o   No one likes to have a dog that is slobbering all time.

15)   Forthwith

a.     I propose forthwith to apply for his transference to a sub- centre of the lowest order  (…) 149

·         Immediately

o   When there is blue code, doctors forthwith call the nurses for help

16)   Constrains

a.     A painful duty that constrains me. 149

·         Something that limit the range of person´s actions or freedom

o   Sometimes school rules constrain me to do what I want.  

17)   Scatological

a.     (…) merely gross, scatological rather than a pornographic improperly (…) 15

·         Showing an extreme and unpleasant interest in solid waste and sex

o   The priest has scatological thoughts because of his believing.

18)   Loathsomeness

a.     (…) with its connotations of something at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of childbearing (…)151

·         Extremely unpleasant

o   I have loathsomeness to the insects, specially of the spiders.

19)   Camphor

a.     (…) and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and new- mown hay (…) 167

·         A white or colorless substance with a song smell, which is sometime used in medicine

o   I use camphor to maintain away insects from my clothes.

20)Utterance

a.     (…)Lucrecia Ajugari, alone of all the singers in history, once piercingly gave utterance (…) 167

·         Something that someone says

·         To express your ideas or feelings in spoken words.

o   We hope their utterances will be matched by their actions.

21)Pretences

a.     I feel as though i were getting something on false pretences 167

·         A way of behaving that is intended to deceive people

o   Anne makes no pretences of looking for work.

22)Emboldened

a.     (…) even total darkness would hardly have emboldened him to make. 163

·         To make someone brave

o   Sometimes, gossips emboldened people and when they are exposed they are cowards.

23)Dialing

a.     She reached for the dialing knob on the dashboard and turned it at random 90

·         To operate a telephone o make a telephone call to someone by pressing a particular series of buttons with numbers or moving a disc with numbers on the telephone.

o   Turn the dialing of the radio and get some music.

24)Guffawing

a.     (…)Helmhotlz broke out in an explosion of uncontrollable guffawing 184

·         To laugh loudly, especially at something stupid that someone has said or done. 

o   When people are asleep, they have guffawing moments.

25)Smutty

a.     In its smutty absurdity the situation was irresistibly comical. 185

·         Pictures, writing, or performances that deal with sex or show naked people in a way that is offensive to you.

o    When a pretty girl goes near by a construction, they make smutty jokes at her.

26)Quenchless

a.     He laughed and laughed while till the tears streamed down his face –quenchless laughed while, pale with a sense of courage.

·         Impossible to put out or extinguish

·         Impossible to suppress, to put and end to, to destroy.

o   Last Saturday, my house was burn and the fire was quenchless.

27)Winced

a.     The Savage winced; but Helmhotlz, who was staring pensively at the floor, saw nothing 185

·         To show pain suddenly and for a short time in the face, often moving the head back at the same time

o   She had cut her finger but she didn´t winced.

28)Shrugging

a.     “but how many?” asked Fanny, shrugging her shoulders her shoulders contemptuously 187

·         To raise your shoulders and then lower them in order to say you do not know or are not interested

o   People can´t just shrug off their responsibilities.

29)Gingerly

a.     Gingerly she rubbed the wounded spot 195

·         In a way that is careful or cautious

o   When I´m walking over a wet surface I move gingerly so I don´t fall down

30)Scalding

a.     There`s hell, there`s darkness, there is the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, compsumption.195

·         To burn the skin with boiling liquid or steam

·         To put something in boiling water or steam in order to make it completely clean

·         To heat a liquid until it almost boils

o   Women can wash was off the wax by scalding water.