The Beauty Industry- Aldous Huxley Flashcards
(34 cards)
Dehumanizing
Removing from a person the special human qualities of independent thought feeling for other people etc
Slump
A period when there is very little business activity and not many jobs
Expended
Spend
Prodigious
Large
Bootlegging
Illegel trafficking of liquor
Racketeering
A conspiracy to extort money
Ravishing
Beautiful
Peachily
Excellent or very pleasant
Diffusion
To spred
Over alarge area or people
Retrenching
To reduce
Symptomatic
Based on symptoms
Austere
Somber
Perennially
Something that lasts for a longtime
Predecessor
A person who was in ajob or position before
Concede
Acknowledge something as right
Vendors
Companies that sell goods or services
Patentees
People who have invented something and have had patent issued in their name
Lament
Something that is deserving of regret
Crone
An old woman
Crone
An old woman
Intrinsically
Something that is related to the essence of something
Mimicking
Copying the way someone talks and behaves
Mimicking
Copying the way someone talks and behaves
Connoisseur
An informed person