Genesis Leon, Brave New World, Ch 14

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  1. maggoty
    spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
    In a moment, it seemed, the ward was
    maggoty with them.
  2. senility
    the state of being infirm with age
    At the lift gates the presiding
    porter gave him the information he required, and he dropped down to Ward 81
    (a Galloping Senility ward, the porter explained) on the seventeenth floor.
  3. truculently
    in a defiantly truculent manner
    And I
    tell you,” she warned him truculently, “if I have any more of your interference
    with their conditioning, I’ll send for the porters and have you thrown out.”
  4. mescal
    a small spineless globe-shaped cactus
    Popé with the blood trickling down from his cut
    shoulder; and Linda hideously asleep, and the flies buzzing round the spilt
    mescal on the floor beside the bed; and the boys calling those names as she
    passed..
  5. antic
    ludicrously odd
    Then with a little start
    she would wake up again-wake up to the aquarium antics of the Tennis Champions, to the Super-Vox-Wurlitzeriana rendering of “Hug me till you drug me,
    honey,” to the warm draught of verbena that came blowing through the ventilator above her head-would wake to these things, or rather to a dream of which
    these things, transformed and embellished by the soma in her blood, were the
    marvellous constituents, and smile once more her broken and discoloured smile
    of inf...
  6. whirring
    sound of something in rapid motion
    As the Savage stepped out of his taxicopter a convoy of gaily- coloured
    aerial hearses rose whirring from the roof and darted away across the Park,
    westwards, bound for the Slough Crematorium.
  7. hearse
    a vehicle for carrying a coffin to a church or a cemetery
    As the Savage stepped out of his taxicopter a convoy of gaily- coloured
    aerial hearses rose whirring from the roof and darted away across the Park,
    westwards, bound for the Slough Crematorium.
  8. taut
    pulled or drawn tight
    They had never seen a face like hers before-had never seen a face that was not
    youthful and taut-skinned, a body that had ceased to be slim and upright.
  9. trot
    ride at a gait faster than a walk
    “Is she dead?” repeated the inquisitive twin trotting at his side.
  10. interminable
    tiresomely long; seemingly without end
    What seemed an interminable stream
    of identical eight-year-old male twins was pouring into the room.
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