Titania Chin, Brave New World - Chapter 10

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  1. unorthodoxy
    the quality of being different from what is considered correct
    Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster,
    and you will see that no offence is so henious as unorthodoxy of behaviour.
  2. subverter
    a radical supporter of political or social revolution
    By his heretical
    views on sport and soma, by the scandalous unorthodoxy of his sex-life,
    by his refusal to obey the teachings of Our Ford and behave out of office hours, ’even as a little infant,”’ (here the Director made the sign of the T), “he has proved
    himself an enemy of Society, a subverter, ladies and gentlemen, of all Order
    and Stability, a conspirator against Civilization itself.
  3. petrify
    change into stone
    She stood looking
    at him, her head on one side, still smiling, but with a smile that became
    progressively, in face of the Director’s expression of petrified disgust, less and
    less self-confident, that wavered and finally went out.
  4. loathsomeness
    the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
    The word (for “father” was not so much obscene as-with its connotation of something
    at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of childbearing-
    merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety);
    the comically smutty word relieved what had become a quite intolerable tension.
  5. coquettishly
    in a flirtatious manner
    Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies,
    those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle- agedness,
    Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured
    smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous
    undulation, her enormous haunches.
  6. undulation
    wavelike motion
    Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies,
    those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle- agedness,
    Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured
    smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous
    undulation, her enormous haunches.
  7. obliquity
    the quality of being deliberately vague or deceptive
    The word (for “father” was not so much obscene as-with its connotation of something
    at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of childbearing-
    merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety);
    the comically smutty word relieved what had become a quite intolerable tension.
  8. titter
    laugh nervously
    Some one began to titter.
  9. languish
    become feeble
    From
    the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement,
    and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of
    peritoneum and gorged with blood- surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew
    and grew or, poisoned, languished into a stunted Epsilonhood.
  10. jaunty
    having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
    A veneer of jaunty self-confidence thinly concealed his
    nervousness.
  11. ignominy
    a state of dishonor
    For this reason I propose
    to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in this
    Centre; I propose forthwith to apply for his transference to a Subcentre of the
    lowest order and, that his punishment may serve the best interest of Society, as
    far as possible removed from any important Centre of population.
  12. blithe
    carefree and happy and lighthearted
    Blithe was the singing of
    the young girls over their test-tubes, the Predestinators whistled as they worked,
    and in the Decanting Room what glorious jokes were cracked above the
    empty bottles!
Created on Wed Aug 03 17:14:14 EDT 2011

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