Angelica M. McKenzie, Brave New World, Chapter: 10

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  1. unorthodoxy
    the quality of being different from what is considered correct
    Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster,
    and you will see that no offence is so henious as unorthodoxy of behaviour.
  2. spermatozoon
    the male reproductive cell; the male gamete
    Under the microscopes,
    their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into
    eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified,
    budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos
  3. scatological
    dealing pruriently with excrement and excretory functions
    The word (for “father” was not so much obscene as-with its connotation of something
    at one remove from the loathsomeness and moral obliquity of childbearing-
    merely gross, a scatological rather than a pornographic impropriety);
    the comically smutty
  4. peritoneum
    a transparent membrane that lines the abdominal cavity in mammals and covers most of the viscera
    From
    the Social Predestination Room the escalators went rumbling down into the basement,
    and there, in the crimson darkness, stewingly warm on their cushion of
    peritoneum and gorged with blood- surrogate and hormones, the foetuses grew
    and grew or,
  5. portentously
    in a portentous manner
    “Yes, Mr. Marx,” said the Director portentously.
  6. coquettishly
    in a flirtatious manner
    Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies,
    those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle- agedness,
    Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured
    smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous
    undulation, her enormous haunches.
  7. dynamo
    a coil that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet
    The dynamos purred in the sub-basement, the lifts rushed up and down.
  8. jaunty
    having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
    A veneer of jaunty self-confidence thinly concealed his
    nervousness.
  9. ignominy
    a state of dishonor
    For this reason I propose
    to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in this
    Centre; I propose forthwith to apply for his transference to a Subcentre of the
    lowest order and, that his punishment may serve the best interest of Society, as
    far as possible removed from any important Centre of population.
  10. blithe
    carefree and happy and lighthearted
    Blithe was the singing of
    the young girls over their test-tubes, the Predestinators whistled as they worked,
    and in the Decanting Room what glorious jokes were cracked above the
    empty bottles!
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