Mariam Hanna ; Brave New World: Chapter 7

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  1. soma
    alternate name for the body of a human being
    She felt in her pocket for her soma-only to discover that, by some unprecedented
    oversight, she had left the bottle down at the rest- house.
  2. mottle
    mark with spots or blotches of different color
    More and
    more, black snakes and brown and mottled- he flung them out.
  3. emaciate
    grow weak and thin or waste away physically
    His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost fleshless.
  4. viscose
    a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda
    “And those adorable
    viscose velveteen shorts!
  5. incarnadine
    redden or make pinkish
    The multitudinous seas incarnadine.”
  6. impend
    be imminent or about to happen
    “I wish we could have brought the plane,” said Lenina, looking up resentfully
    at the blank impending rock-face.
  7. bandolier
    a broad cartridge belt worn over the shoulder by soldiers
    Not that it did me much
    good, that bandolier.”
  8. aseptic
    free of pathological microorganisms
    I remember how it used
    to upset me, all that dirt, and nothing being aseptic.
  9. 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.
  10. daubing
    the application of plaster
    Naked from throat to navel, their dark brown
    bodies painted with white lines (“like asphalt tennis courts,” Lenina was later
    to explain), their faces inhuman with daubings of scarlet, black and ochre, two
    Indians came running along the path.
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