Theresa Medina/Brave New World/Chapter 2

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  1. viviparous
    producing living young and not eggs
    “Well, they used to be viviparous.”
  2. viscose
    a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda
    Half a dozen
    nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform,
    their hair aseptically hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out
    bowls of roses in a long row across the floor.
  3. crawler
    a person who crawls or creeps along the ground
    The swiftest crawlers were already at their goal.
  4. categorical imperative
    the moral principle that behavior should be determined by duty
    All the air of the
    fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.
  5. suffuse
    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
    The roses
    flamed up as though with a sudden passion from within; a new and profound
    sigruficance seemed to suffuse the shining pages of the books.
  6. aseptic
    free of pathological microorganisms
    Half a dozen
    nurses, trousered and jacketed in the regulation white viscose-linen uniform,
    their hair aseptically hidden under white caps, were engaged in setting out
    bowls of roses in a long row across the floor.
  7. smut
    a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
    They had not yet
    learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut
    and pure science.
  8. indefatigably
    with indefatigable energy
    “Silence, silence,” whispered a loud speaker as they stepped out at the fourte-
    enth floor, and “Silence, silence,” the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated
    at intervals down every corridor.
  9. sibilant
    of speech sounds forcing air through a constricted passage
    All the air of the
    fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.
  10. apoplectic
    marked by extreme anger
    Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of
    innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively
    pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic
    with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the
    posthumous whiteness of marble.
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