Sunday, June 18, 2006

vocabulary test 2

new words that i'm learning from aldous huxley's 'brave new world':

viviparous, largesse, demijohns, asunder, sibilant, asafoetida, aperture, maudlin, derision, squalid, axiomatic, truculent, sententious, flivver, pneumatic, hoity-toity, stigmata, simian, cockchafer, indefatigable, pullulate, ambergris, sandalwood, deturgescence, perennial, plangent, quaff, imminence, galvanic, plexus, liturgical, supine, obstinate, proffer, beseech, voluptuous, cajole, genial, solecism, avert, indecorous, infantile, abject, deplorable, inexorably, stoically, pueblo, carrion, fulminated, precipices, mesa, daubing, ochre, diadems, gaudily, obsidian, ophthalmia, goitre, innocuous, mottled, multitudinous, incarnadine, squaw, bandolier, aseptic, incestuous, kiva, beauteous, profane, vestal, agave, portentously, subverter, ignominy, coquettishly, titter, scatological, quaint, demurred, patchouli, carping, mirth, brachycephalic, aquiline, prognathous, retching, laurels, vitrify, languor, ignoble, wheedled, unwonted, viscose, collation, sepulchral, admissible, odious, defunctive, mollified, pallor, trypanosomiasis, rakishly, sanctimonious, drivelling, abstemious, strumpet, moribund, verbena, ordure, dolychocephalic, vestibule, squalor, mewling, carapace, gyroscope, gesticulating, chary, platitude, scullion, illicit, paroxysm, sedulously, approbation, superfluous, providence, neurasthenia, vantage, copse, compunction, coccyx, importunately, propitiation, fitchew, turpitude

huxley likes to write in incomplete sentences, much like point-form. he also likes to switch scenes every few sentences. i don't understand the ending. did the savage die?

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