Brave New World Chapter 3

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  1. chloropicrin
    a heavy colorless insoluble liquid compound that causes tears and vomiting; used as a pesticide and as tear gas
    “Phosgene, chloropicrin, ethyl iodoacetate, diphenylcyanarsine, trichlormethyl, chloroformate, dichlorethyl sulphide.
  2. erotism
    the arousal of feelings of sexual desire
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    “Barring a little surreptitious auto-erotism and homosexuality-absolutely
    nothing.”
  3. Cnossos
    an ancient town on Crete where Bronze Age culture flourished from about 2000 BC to 1400 BC
    He waved his hand; and it was as though, with an invisible feather wisk, he
    had brushed away a little dust, and the dust was Harappa, was Ur of the Chaldees; some spider-webs, and they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and
    Mycenae.
  4. gonadal
    of or relating to the gonads
    “Gonadal hormones, transfusion of young blood, magnesium salts .”
  5. viscose
    a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda
    Her jacket was made of bottle green acetate
    cloth with green viscose fur; at the cuffs and collar.
  6. piddle
    waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently
    There were twenty piddling little fountains.
  7. soliloquize
    talk to oneself
    The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the
    boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees.
  8. maniacally
    in a maniacal manner or to a maniacal degree
    Maniacally, the mother
    brooded over her children (her children). brooded over them like a cat over its
    kittens; but a cat that could talk, a cat that could say, “My baby, my baby,” over
    and over again.
  9. copulate
    engage in sexual intercourse
    “Now-such is progress-the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men
    have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and thinkor if ever by some unlucky chance such a crevice of time shoud yawn in the
    solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma, half a
    gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to
    the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon; returning whence they
    find themselves on the ot...
  10. minder
    a person who looks after babies (usually in the person's own home) while the babys' parents are working
    Frightened almost-as though she were a World ControUer
    and he a Gamma-Minus machine minder.
Created on Wed Aug 17 09:40:17 EDT 2011

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