Brave New World, Ch. 18

Elise R.
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  1. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  2. tremulous
    quivering as from weakness or fear
  3. silo
    a cylindrical tower used for storing grain
  4. gorse
    very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
  5. aridity
    a deficiency of moisture
  6. copse
    a dense growth of trees, shrubs, or bushes
  7. paring
    a thin fragment or slice that has been shaved from something
  8. weal
    a raised mark on the skin
  9. nock
    make small marks into the surface of
  10. compunction
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
  11. disconcerting
    causing an emotional disturbance
  12. benighted
    overtaken by darkness
  13. hoary
    having gray or white hair as with age
  14. strumpet
    a woman adulterer
  15. flog
    beat with a whip, rod, or cane
  16. bole
    the main stem of a tree
  17. carrion
    the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food
  18. deity
    a supernatural being worshipped as controlling the world
  19. babel
    a confusion of voices and other sounds
  20. plaintive
    expressing sorrow
  21. propitiate
    make peace with
  22. unanimity
    everyone being of one mind
  23. monotone
    an unchanging intonation
  24. recoil
    spring back; spring away from an impact
  25. implore
    beg or request earnestly and urgently
  26. reiterate
    say, state, or perform again
  27. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  28. ineradicable
    not able to be destroyed or rooted out
  29. turpitude
    a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice
Created on Wed Aug 08 12:58:43 EDT 2012

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