1. posthumous (adj) -arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death
Download 6.93 Kb.
|
| BRAVE NEW WORLD VOCAB 2
1. posthumous (adj) -arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 2. twitter (v)- to talk lightly and rapidly, especially of trivial matters; chatter. The young girls twittered as they stood in the lunch line. 3. gratuitous (adj)- being without apparent reason, cause, or justification So many movies have scenes of gratuitous violence and nudity. 4. suffuse (v)- to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc. She was suffused in fluorescent light as she stood in the hall. 5. insinuate (v)- to instill or infuse subtly or artfully, as into the mind. The commercials were intended to insinuate the products into the minds of young children. 6. laden (adj)- burdened; loaded down. The children, their eyes laden with sleep, begged to stay up just 30 more minutes. 7. indefatigable (adj)- incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring. The journalist was indefatigable in her pursuit of the truth. 8. hypnopaedia (n)- the learning of lessons heard during sleep If only we could perfect hypnopaedia, students would be able to learn much more in school. 9. inculcate (v)- to implant by repeated statement or admonition By inculcating the vocab words he was able to earn a perfect score on the test. 10. indissoluble (adj)- incapable of being dissolved, decomposed, undone, or destroyed We had formed an indissoluble bond and would be together for the rest of our lives. Download 6.93 Kb. Share with your friends:
|