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The Beauty Industry- Aldous Huxley Flashcards

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Dehumanizing

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Removing from a person the special human qualities of independent thought feeling for other people etc

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Slump

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A period when there is very little business activity and not many jobs

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Expended

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Spend

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Prodigious

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Large

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Bootlegging

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Illegel trafficking of liquor

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Racketeering

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A conspiracy to extort money

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Ravishing

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Beautiful

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Peachily

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Excellent or very pleasant

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Diffusion

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To spred
Over alarge area or people

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Retrenching

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To reduce

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Symptomatic

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Based on symptoms

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Austere

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Somber

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Perennially

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Something that lasts for a longtime

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Predecessor

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A person who was in ajob or position before

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Concede

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Acknowledge something as right

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Vendors

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Companies that sell goods or services

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Patentees

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People who have invented something and have had patent issued in their name

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Lament

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Something that is deserving of regret

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Crone

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An old woman

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Crone

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An old woman

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Intrinsically

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Something that is related to the essence of something

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Mimicking

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Copying the way someone talks and behaves

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Mimicking

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Copying the way someone talks and behaves

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Connoisseur

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An informed person

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Lascivious

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Driven by sexual desires

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Sullenn

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Sulky

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Aesthetically

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Something that shows good taste

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Listlessness

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Lethargic

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Repulsive

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Disgusting

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Chronic

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An illness that continues for a long time

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Monomaniacal

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Obsession about one idea

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Ineffectual

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Actions that do not achieve much

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Simulation

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To do or make something which behaves or looks like something real but wh9ch is not real

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Simulation

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To do or make something which behaves or looks like something real but wh9ch is not real

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