Patricia Palanca - Brave New World, Chapter 7

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  1. becalm
    make still, steady, or tranquil
    THE MESA was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust.
  2. mottle
    mark with spots or blotches of different color
    More and more, black snakes and brown and mottled- he flung them out.
  3. bandolier
    a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers
    But such a lovely white bandolier- though I must say your green morocco is even lovelier.
  4. emaciate
    grow weak and thin or waste away physically
    His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost fleshless.
  5. viscose
    a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda
    “And those adorable viscose velveteen shorts!
  6. incarnadine
    redden or make pinkish
    The multitudinous seas incarnadine.”
  7. decant
    pour out
    And of course they don’t know anything about Malthusian Drill, or bottles, or decanting, or anything of that sort.
  8. undulate
    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
    Round and round they went with their snakes, snakily, with a soft undulating movement at the knees and hips.
  9. gaudily
    in a tastelessly garish manner
    Cloaks of turkey feathers fluttered from their shoulders; huge feather diadems exploded gaudily round their heads.
  10. outcrop
    the part of a rock formation that appears above the surface
    On the prow of that stone ship in the centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of Malpais.
  11. gunwale
    a plank or ridge at the top of the side of a boat
    The sides of the great mesa ship towered over them, three hundred feet to the gunwale.
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