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Jeetanjali Sawh, Brave New World, Chapter 1

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  1. decant
    pour out
    Over twelve thousand
    seven hundred children already, either decanted or in embryo.
  2. soliloquize
    talk to oneself
    Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director
    of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing
    silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed
    concentration.
  3. floridly
    in a florid manner
    He had a
    long chin and big rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was not talking,
    by his full, floridly curved lips.
  4. surrogate
    someone or something that takes the place of another
    Made them taste
    the rich blood surrogate on which it fed.
  5. viviparous
    producing living young and not eggs
    Identical twins-but not in piddling twos and threes as
    in the old viviparous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide;
    actually by dozens, by scores at a time.
  6. peritoneal
    of or relating to or affecting the peritoneum
    The procession advanced; one by
    one the eggs were transferred from their test-tubes to the larger containers; deftly
    the peritoneal lining was slit, the morula dropped into place, the saline solution
    poured in. and already the bottle had passed, and it was the turn of the
    labellers.
  7. inoculate
    inject or treat with the germ of a disease to render immune
    “Tropical workers start being inoculated at Metre 150,” Mr. Foster explained to
    the students.
  8. abjectly
    in a hopeless resigned manner
    A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow,
    followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director’s heels.
  9. callow
    young and inexperienced
    A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow,
    followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director’s heels.
  10. vivacious
    vigorous and animated
    He spoke very quickly, had a vivacious blue eye, and took an evident
    pleasure in quoting figures.
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