Briana Miller - A Brave New World (Chapter 9)

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  1. octoroon
    an offspring of a quadroon and a white parent
    Punctually, on the following morning, at ten o’clock, the green-uniformed octoroon
    stepped out of his helicopter.
  2. cygnet
    a young swan
    “Her eyes,” he murmured,
    “Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice;
    Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand,
    In whose comparison all whites are ink
    Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure
    The cygnet’s down is harsh .”
  3. vestal
    a chaste woman
    “Flies,” he remembered,
    “On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand, may seize
    And steal immortal blessing from her lips,
    Who, even in pure and vestal modesty,
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    Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.”
  4. deferential
    showing courteous regard for people's feelings
    His boom was deferential.
  5. resonant
    characterized by a loud deep sound
    At ten thirty-four they
    landed on the roof of the Santa Fé Post Offiee; at ten thirty-seven Bernard had
    got through to the World Controller’s Office in Whitehall; at ten thirty-seven
    he was speaking to his fordship’s fourth personal secretary; at ten forty-four he
    was repeating his story to the first secretary, and at ten forty-seven and a half
    it was the deep, resonant voice of Mustapha Mond himself that sounded in his
    ears.
  6. pensive
    deeply or seriously thoughtful
    Bernard meanwhile lay pensive and wide-eyed in the dark.
  7. profane
    grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
    Dare to profane with his unworthiest hand that.
  8. gait
    an animal's manner of moving
    “Her eyes,” he murmured,
    “Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice;
    Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand,
    In whose comparison all whites are ink
    Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure
    The cygnet’s down is harsh .”
  9. verge
    the limit beyond which something happens or changes
    It hung there
    trembling, within an inch of those limp fingers, on the verge of contact.
  10. reproach
    express criticism towards
    “Her eyes,” he murmured,
    “Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait, her voice;
    Handlest in thy discourse O! that her hand,
    In whose comparison all whites are ink
    Writing their own reproach; to whose soft seizure
    The cygnet’s down is harsh .”
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