Malcolm Clarke: Brave New World, Ch. 7

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  1. mottle
    mark with spots or blotches of different color
    More and
    more, black snakes and brown and mottled- he flung them out.
  2. emaciate
    grow weak and thin or waste away physically
    His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost fleshless.
  3. viscose
    a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda
    “And those adorable
    viscose velveteen shorts!
  4. incarnadine
    redden or make pinkish
    The multitudinous seas incarnadine.”
  5. Malthusian
    of or relating to Thomas Malthus or to Malthusianism
    “Though it wasn’t my fault, I swear; because I still don’t know how it happened, seeing that I did all the Malthusian Drill-you know, by numbers,
    One, two, three, four, always, I swear it; but all the same it happened, and
    of course there wasn’t anything like an Abortion Centre here.
  6. acetate
    a fabric made from fibers of cellulose acetate
    Because
    I thought I should never see a piece of real acetate silk again.”
  7. aseptic
    free of pathological microorganisms
    I remember how it used
    to upset me, all that dirt, and nothing being aseptic.
  8. undulate
    move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion
    Round and round they went with
    their snakes, snakily, with a soft undulating movement at the knees and hips.
  9. ophthalmia
    severe conjunctivitis
    The passage of an old woman with ophthalmia and
    a disease of the skin distracted her from her indignation.
  10. daub
    an unskillful painting
    Naked from throat to navel, their dark brown
    bodies painted with white lines (“like asphalt tennis courts,” Lenina was later
    to explain), their faces inhuman with daubings of scarlet, black and ochre, two
    Indians came running along the path.
  11. ecstatically
    in an ecstatic manner
    Poor Linda lifted her face and with closed eyes ecstatically contemplated the
    bright remembered image.
  12. ochre
    any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment
    Naked from throat to navel, their dark brown
    bodies painted with white lines (“like asphalt tennis courts,” Lenina was later
    to explain), their faces inhuman with daubings of scarlet, black and ochre, two
    Indians came running along the path.
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