The Beauty Industry- Aldous Huxley Flashcards

(34 cards)

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Dehumanizing

A

Removing from a person the special human qualities of independent thought feeling for other people etc

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Slump

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A period when there is very little business activity and not many jobs

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3
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Expended

A

Spend

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4
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Prodigious

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Large

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5
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Bootlegging

A

Illegel trafficking of liquor

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6
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Racketeering

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A conspiracy to extort money

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7
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Ravishing

A

Beautiful

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Peachily

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Excellent or very pleasant

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9
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Diffusion

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To spred
Over alarge area or people

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Retrenching

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To reduce

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11
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Symptomatic

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Based on symptoms

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12
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Austere

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Somber

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13
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Perennially

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Something that lasts for a longtime

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14
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Predecessor

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A person who was in ajob or position before

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15
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Concede

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Acknowledge something as right

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16
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Vendors

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Companies that sell goods or services

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Patentees

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People who have invented something and have had patent issued in their name

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Lament

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Something that is deserving of regret

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Crone

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Crone

21
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Intrinsically

A

Something that is related to the essence of something

22
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Mimicking

A

Copying the way someone talks and behaves

23
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Mimicking

A

Copying the way someone talks and behaves

24
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Connoisseur

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An informed person

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Lascivious
Driven by sexual desires
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Sullenn
Sulky
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Aesthetically
Something that shows good taste
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Listlessness
Lethargic
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Repulsive
Disgusting
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Chronic
An illness that continues for a long time
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Monomaniacal
Obsession about one idea
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Ineffectual
Actions that do not achieve much
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Simulation
To do or make something which behaves or looks like something real but wh9ch is not real
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Simulation
To do or make something which behaves or looks like something real but wh9ch is not real