Adrienne Santamaria, Brave New World, Ch. 14

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  1. patchouli
    small East Indian shrubby mint
    The Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana had risen to a sobbing crescendo; and suddenly the verbena gave place, in the scent-circulating system, to an intense patchouli.
  2. pion
    a meson involved in holding the nucleus together
    Then with a little start she would wake up again-wake up to the aquarium antics of the Tennis Cham- pions, to the Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana rendering of “Hug me till you drug me, honey,” to the warm draught of verbena that came blowing through the venti- lator above her head-would wake to these things, or rather to a dream of which these things, transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood, were the marvellous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of...
  3. sexagenarian
    someone whose age is in the sixties
    All these moribund sexagenarians had the appearance of childish girls.
  4. verbena
    any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers
    Then with a little start she would wake up again-wake up to the aquarium antics of the Tennis Cham- pions, to the Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana rendering of “Hug me till you drug me, honey,” to the warm draught of verbena that came blowing through the venti- lator above her head-would wake to these things, or rather to a dream of which these things, transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood, were the marvellous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile of...
  5. ordure
    solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
    “Popé!” she whispered again, and it was as though he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.
  6. moribund
    being on the point of death
    At the foot of every bed, confronting its moribund occupant, was a television box.
  7. truculently
    in a defiantly truculent manner
    And I tell you,” she warned him truculently, “if I have any more of your interference with their conditioning, I’ll send for the porters and have you thrown out.”
  8. incurious
    showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity
    Their progress was followed by the blank, incurious eyes of second infancy.
  9. ignoble
    dishonorable in character or purpose
    He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories-back into the present, back into reality: the appalling present, the awful reality-but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the immience of that which made them so fearful.
  10. interminable
    tiresomely long; seemingly without end
    What seemed an interminable stream of identical eight-year-old male twins was pouring into the room.
Created on Wed Aug 31 21:36:01 EDT 2011

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