Brave New World

Vocabulary #’s 1-15

Pallid

• What does pallid sound like to you?

• • Definition: Pale; lacking color; lacking liveliness

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luscious

What does luscious mean to you?

• • Definition: Having a delicious taste or smell

abject

• What does abject mean to you?

• • Definition: Sunk to a low state

genial

• What does genial mean to you?

• • Definition: Favorable to growth or comfort

proliferate

• What does proliferate mean to you?

• • Definition: Reproducing freely; multiply

paradoxically

• What does paradoxically mean to you?

• • Definition: Not being the normal/usual kind; contradictory

burgeoned

• What does burgeoned mean to you?

• • Definition: Send forth new growth; flourish

prodigious

• What does prodigious mean to you?

• • Definition: Extraordinary bulk or quantity

viviparous

• What does this mean to you?

• • Definition: Producing live young instead of eggs.

tremulous

• What does tremulous mean to you?

• • Definition: Having tremors

ruddy

• What do you think ruddy means?

• • Definition: Having a healthy reddish color

vivacious

• What do you think vivacious means?

• • Definition: Lively in temper, conduct or spirit

pituitary

• Where do you think the pituitary gland is?

• • Definition: An endocrine gland that secretes hormones

peritoneum

• What do you think the peritoneum is?

• • Definition: to stretch thin; smooth transparent membrane over pelvic viscera

Sultry

• What do you think sultry means?

• • Definition: very hot and humid; hot with passion or anger

Image Citations

Pallid: news.cnet.com

Luscious: teacakebakeshop.com

Abject: insidesocial.com

Genial: farm4.static.flickr.com

Proliferate: photocabulary.com

Paradoxically: jumpthecurve.com

Burgeoned: huffingtonpost.com

Prodigious: ogband.org

Image Citations:

Viviparous: christianclassicalliberalist.files.wordpress.com

Tremulous: wendyusuallywanders.files.wordpress.com

Ruddy: i.ehow.com

Vivacious: www.gauteng.net

Pituitary: www.rickrichards.com

Peritoneum: pit.edu

Sultry: 2.bp.blogspot.com; www.dominicanrepublicrealestate.ca/