Brave New World Vocab

Question 1

abstemious

Answer 1

sparing (usually in eating or drinking); temperate

Question 2

cherubic

Answer 2

innocent, wholesome, angelic

Question 3

coquette

Answer 3

a woman who flirts with men without sincere affection

Question 4

demur

Answer 4

to hesitate, to delay, to object

Question 5

emaciated

Answer 5

very thin (usually as a result of starvation), wasting away

Question 6

evocative

Answer 6

calling forth, calling to mind

Question 7

germinal

Answer 7

being in the earliest state of development

Question 8

heretical

Answer 8

contrary to to church doctrine or accepted beliefs or standards

Question 9

ignoble

Answer 9

of lowly origin, without honor

Question 10

incongruity

Answer 10

nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility

Question 11

indefatigable

Answer 11

tireless, incapable of being tired

Question 12

ingratiate

Answer 12

to make an effort to gain good favor with someone

Question 13

mosaic

Answer 13

a picture made by using various small pieces of multicolored material

Question 14

oblique

Answer 14

slanting, indirect, evasive, devious, misleading

Question 15

odious

Answer 15

deserving hate or contempt

Question 16

perpetuate

Answer 16

to prolong the existence of something

Question 17

pneumatic

Answer 17

pertaining to air or gas

Question 18

prodigious

Answer 18

extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree, great in size, enormous

Question 19

profundity

Answer 19

profundity knowledge, intellectual depth

Question 20

sententious

Answer 20

given to excessive moralizing