Brave New World- Chapter 4-9 Flashcards
Pallid
(of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health.
Annihilation
Total destruction
Plaintively
Plaintive is an adjective for describing someone or something with a pleading, sorrowful, desperate tone.
Atoned
to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime, or for an offender (
Ruminating
Think deeply about something
Solecisms
a breach of good manners; a piece of incorrect behavior.
synonyms:
Innocuous
not harmful or offensive.
“it was an innocuous qu
DHC
Director of hatcheries and conditioning
Bokanovskys process
Splitting one embryo into 96 humans
Free martins
Grow beards and hormone injections
Hypnopaedia
Sleep teaching
Alphas
Wear grey
World state motto
Community identity stability
Betas
Wear blues reds and purple
Epsilon a
Semi moron
Neopavlovian conditioning
Loud noises shocks
Soma
Euphoric, narcotic pleasantly hallucinating
Henry foster
Helped doc with the tour
Lenina crowne
Has been dated Henry for four months
Mustapha mond
History is bunk
Bernard Marx
Short alpha plus psychologist
Fanny crowne
Was advised to have a pregnancy substitute
Lecherous
having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.