Amirah Peoples, Brave New World Chapter 8

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  1. decant
    pour out
    Sang “Streptocock-Gee to Banbury-T” and “Bye Baby Banting,
    soon you’ll need decanting.”
  2. falter
    move hesitatingly, as if about to give way
    His voice faltered.
  3. hiccough
    (usually plural) the state of having reflex spasms of the diaphragm accompanied by a rapid closure of the glottis producing an audible sound; sometimes a symptom of indigestion
    She took a last sip, set the cup down on
    the floor beside the bed, turned over on her side, hiccoughed once or twice and
    went to sleep.
  4. incestuous
    relating to or involving incest
    When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage
    Or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.
  5. lecherous
    given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity
    Remorseless,
    treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain.
  6. mescal
    a small spineless globe-shaped cactus
    He said the stuff in the gourd was called mescal;
    but Linda said it ought to be called soma; only it made you feel ill afterwards.
  7. plait
    a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
    One day, when he came in from playing, the door of the inner room was open,
    and he saw them lying together on the bed, asleep-white Linda and Popé almost
    black beside her, with one arm under her shoulders and the other dark hand on
    her breast, and one of the plaits of his long hair lying across her throat, like a
    black snake trying to strangle her.
  8. pueblo
    a Native American village in the southwestern United States
    He indicated the pueblo.
  9. sty
    a pen for swine
    Nay, but to live
    In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,
    Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love
    Over the nasty sty.
  10. viscose
    a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda
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    pened; he was thinking of Lenina, of an angel in bottle-green viscose, lustrous
    with youth and skin food, plump, benevolently smiling.
Created on Thu Sep 08 18:30:26 EDT 2011 (updated Thu Sep 08 18:33:37 EDT 2011)

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