Ten Words

                                                               

Decant: To pour off (wine, for example) without disturbing the sediment. 2. To pour (a liquid) from one container into another.

We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future.

Chemist use decanters to decant and separate liquids.

Posthumous: 1. Occurring or continuing after one's death: a posthumous award. 2. Published after the writer's death: a posthumous book. 3. Born after the death of the father: a posthumous child.

Thousands of petals, ripe-blown and silkily smooth, like the cheeks of innumerable little cherubs, but of cherubs, in that bright light, not exclusively pink and Aryan, but also luminously Chinese, also Mexican, also apoplectic with too much blowing of celestial trumpets, also pale as death, pale with the posthumous whiteness of marble.

My friend didn´t his father because he is a posthumous child.

Indefatigable: Incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless.

But whereas the physically defective Bernard had suffered all his life from the consciousness of being separate, it was only quite recently that, grown aware of his mental excess, Helmholtz Watson had also become aware of his difference from the people who surrounded him. This

Escalator-Squash champion, this indefatigable lover (it was said that he had had six hundred and forty different girls in less than four years), this admirable committee man and best mixer had realized quite suddenly that sport, women, communal activities were only, so far as he was concerned, second bests.

I am going to work out all this summer so the next year I become indefatigable in the annual races.

Maudlin: Effusively or tearfully sentimental: "displayed an almost maudlin concern for the welfare of animals" Aldous Huxley.

“I always think,” the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing.

She asked me in a maudlin tone if I could fix that for her.

Surreptitious: 1. Obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means. 2. Acting with or marked by stealth.

“Barring a little surreptitious auto-erotism and homosexuality-absolutely nothing.”

I killed those surreptitious guy.

Derision:  1. a. Contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule. b. A state of being derided: The proposal was held in derision by members of the board. 2. An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.

“It’s all right, Director,” he said in a tone of faint derision, “I won’t corrupt them.”

He talked to us in a derision tone.

Ectogenesis: The growth process of embryonic tissue placed in an artificial environment, as a test tube.

“Take Ectogenesis. Pfitzner and Kawaguchi had got the whole technique workedout. But would the Governments look at it? No. There was something called Christianity. Women were forced to go on being viviparous.”

Ectogenesis is the science of the future.

Furtive: Characterized by stealth; surreptitious. 2. Expressive of hidden motives or purposes; shifty.

With a wave of his hand he indicated the gardens, the huge building of the Conditioning Centre, the naked children furtive in the undergrowth or running across the lawns.

He infiltrated the base furtively.

Abject: Brought low in condition or status. 2. Being of the most contemptible kind: abject cowardice. 3. Being of the most miserable kind; wretched: abject poverty.

The Director glanced at him sourly. But the stamp of the World Controller’s Office was at the head of the paper and the signature of Mustapha Mond, bold and black, across the bottom. Everything was perfectly in order. The director had no choice. He pencilled his initials-two small pale letters abject at the feet of Mustapha Mond-and was about to return the paper without a word of comment or genial Ford-speed, when his eye was caught by something written in the body of the permit.

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