Brave New World vocabulary

• Brave New World : a warning that advanced technology could ruin the humanity
• puritanism : pleasure is wrong, need self control
• hedonism: the pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence
• totemism : the belief that a person's spirit is tied to an animal or other object
• booby-trap : repeated propaganda messages
• genetical basis : genes are responsible for behaviour
• death control : killing people to maitain stability
• forsee : be prepared
• « it’s quite on the cards » : it’s quite likely
• classical conditioning : before birth, human embryos are artificially created for specific roles in society
• Bovanovsky‘s process : allows the Hatchery to produce a lot of identical individuals from 1 fertilised egg, it stands for stability, efficiency and to maintain the caste system
• freemartins : a woman who has been made sterile
• hypnopaedia : the process of instilling moral and social vaules to children while they sleep
• phosphorus : people are creamated to grow plants
• the Solidarity Service : a religious ritual based on common happiness, soma, a hymn, the sign T, orgy
• Odd : strange
• appaled : in shock / disapprouval
• atonement : something that is done to show you are sorry
• Big Henry : the Fordian version of the Big Ben
• Cajolery : flattery for persuasion
• disquieting : causing worry
• derisive : ridicule
• boast : speak proudly about something you have done
• entitled : having the right to do something because of who you are
• soma holiday : drug-induced state of mind
• hive : where bees live and store honey
• infant : young child between1 & 2 1/2
• be corrupted : to lead from the correct way
• jaunty : cheerful, confident
• heretical : not following the corrrect dogma
• conspirator : somebody who makes secret plans to do something wrong
• flagellating : whip
• premonition : the feeling that something unpleasannt is about to happen
• exasperated : annoyed
• defiant: proudly refusing to obey authority
• interminable : going too long and therefore boring
• irresolute : not able to take decisions
• crash and crash or wink and snigger : wayto referringto mother annd father
• to inculate : teaching something persitentlyand repeatedly
• Pneumatic : it means well-rounded, balloon-like, or bouncy, in reference to her flesh, and in particular her bosom.