Vocab Grabber Word List: Brave New World. Nick Sexton

And at its foot, here and there, a mosaic of white bones, a still unrotted carcase dark on the tawny ground marked the place where deer or steer,
puma or porcupine or coyote, or the greedy turkey buzzards drawn down by
the whiff of carrion and fulminated as though by a poetic justice, had come too
close to the destroying wires.

A man so conventional, so scrupulously
correct as the Director-and to commit so gross a solecism! lt made him want
to hide his face, to run out of the room.

For Bernard left
the room with a swagger, exulting, as he banged the door behind him, in the
thought that he stood alone, embattled against the order of things; elated by the
intoxicating consciousness of his individual significance and importance.

Bernard pushed away the proffered glass impatiently.

But Bernard remained unabashed.

When the Warden
started booming, she had inconspicuously swallowed half a gramme of soma,
with the result that she could now sit, serenely not listening, thinking of nothing
at all, but with her large blue eyes fixed on the Warden’s face in an expression
of rapt attention.

“Dream of being woken up by that peal of thunder and finding her gone; dream of
searching and searching for her under the trees.”