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English 12
Brave New World Vocabulary Unit 2016
Students must complete each vocabulary worksheet. Look at each underlined word in the sentence given (directly from Huxley’s
Brave New World) and determine the part of speech (NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, PRONOUN, INTERJECTION,
CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION).
#1. Write the part of speech in all capital letters on the line below each sentence.
#2. In part 2, use context clues to match the part of speech to its definition. You may use a dictionary if necessary.
Study the definitions AND the parts of speech. Both will be tested on the six quizzes.
You will be given the same sentence to determine the part of speech.
-------------------------------------------------------------------Vocabulary Week #1-------------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 1 – 3
9 words total:
optimum, proliferate, prodigious, endorse, indulgently, indefatigably, monogamy, axiomatic, insurmountable
Vocabulary Worksheets Due On
A Day = Monday, February 1
Vocabulary Quiz On
A Day = Friday, February 5
-------------------------------------------------------------------Vocabulary Week #2--------------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 4 - 6
9 words total:
annihilating, ruminating, contemptuous, caste, chronic, plaintive, benevolently, cajolery, unabashed
Vocabulary Worksheets Due On
A Day = Tuesday, February 9
Vocabulary Quiz On
A Day = Thursday, February 11
-------------------------------------------------------------------Vocabulary Week #3--------------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 7 - 9
8 words total:
reciprocated, precipice, unprecedented, inexorably, inconceivable, lecherous, patronizingly, asset
Vocabulary Worksheets Due On
A Day = Tuesday, February 16
Vocabulary Quiz On
A Day = Thursday, February 18
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--------------------------------------------------------------------Vocabulary Week #4-------------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 10 - 13
9 words total:
imperceptibly, ignominy, appalling, intrinsically, vitrified, subversive, odious, apprehensively, ingratiating
Vocabulary Worksheets Due On
A Day = Monday, February 22
Vocabulary Quiz On
A Day = Wednesday, February 24
---------------------------------------------------------Vocabulary Week #5-----------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 14 - 15
9 words total:
moribund, flaccid, sublime, ordure, decondition, irresolute, reparation, bestial, carapace
Vocabulary Worksheets Due On
A Day = Friday, February 26
Vocabulary Quiz On
A Day = Tuesday, March 1
---------------------------------------------------------Vocabulary Week #6-----------------------------------------------------------------Chapters 16 - 18
8 words total:
impunity, parenthetically, gesticulating, postulates, luminous, flagrantly, pneumatic, compunction
Vocabulary Worksheets Due On
A Day = Thursday, March 3
Vocabulary Quiz On
A Day = Monday, March 7
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Brave New World – Vocabulary Worksheet #1
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Students must complete each vocabulary
worksheet. Look at each underlined word in the sentence given (directly from Huxley’s Brave New World) and determine the part of
speech (NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, PRONOUN, INTERJECTION, CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION).
#1. Write the part of speech in all capital letters on the line below each sentence.
#2. In part 2, use context clues to match the part of speech to its definition. You may use a dictionary if necessary.
Chapters 1 – 3: Part I
1. “…spoke first, of course, of its surgical introduction…passed on to a consideration of optimum
temperature…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
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2. “But a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
3. “By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos—a
prodigious improvement…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
4. “Later on their minds would be made to endorse the judgment of their bodies.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
5. “Very well then.” The Director smiled indulgently. “Just one glance.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
6. “Silence, silence,” the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
7. “Family, monogamy, romance. Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrowing channeling of impulse and energy.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
8. “The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand
repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly
indisputable.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
9. “Has any of you ever encountered an insurmountable obstacle?”
__________________ = Part of Speech
Chapters 1 – 3: Part II – Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their definitions.
___________ 1. optimum
___________ 2. proliferate
___________ 3. prodigious
___________ 4. endorse
___________ 5. indulgently
___________ 6. indefatigably
___________ 7. monogamy
___________ 8. axiomatic
___________ 9. insurmountable
A. as if doing one a favor
B. the practice of being married to only one person at a time
C. impossible to overcome
D. most favorable point
E. to give approval of or support to
F. tirelessly
G. to multiply rapidly
H. impressively great
I. self evident; not needing proof
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Brave New World – Vocabulary Worksheet #2
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Students must complete each vocabulary
worksheet. Look at each underlined word in the sentence given (directly from Huxley’s Brave New World) and determine the part of
speech (NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, PRONOUN, INTERJECTION, CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION).
#1. Write the part of speech in all capital letters on the line below each sentence.
#2. In part 2, use context clues to match the part of speech to its definition. You may use a dictionary if necessary.
Chapters 4 - 6: Part I
1. “He was as though suddenly and joyfully awakened from a dark annihilating stupor.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
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2. “He put away the soma bottle, and taking out a packet of sex-hormone chewing-gum, stuffed a plug into his
cheek and walked slowly away towards the hangars, ruminating.
__________________ = Part of Speech
3. “Dared he face the risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal?”
__________________ = Part of Speech
4. “Would the creature treat him with the respect due to his caste?”
__________________ = Part of Speech
5. “A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
6. He passed his hand across his eyes, he sighed, his voice became plaintive.
__________________ = Part of Speech
7. “…in the red twilight it was as though some enormous negro dove were hovering benevolently over the now
prone or supine dancers.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
8. “…So jolly,” she repeated and smiled, for all the puzzled anxiety in her eyes, with what was meant to be an
inviting and voluptuous cajolery.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
9. “But Bernard remained unabashed.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
Chapters 4 - 6: Part II – Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their definitions.
___________ 1.
___________ 2.
___________ 3.
___________ 4.
___________ 5.
___________ 6.
___________ 7.
___________ 8.
___________ 9.
annihilating
ruminating
contemptuous
caste
chronic
plaintive
benevolently
cajolery
unabashed
A. mournful
B. harmlessly; in a beneficial way
C. not disconcerted or embarrassed; calm
D. continual; reoccurring
E. social class
F. an urging with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing or flattery
G. meditating; thinking
H. completely overwhelming or incapacitating
I. disdainful; disgraceful; scornful
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Brave New World – Vocabulary Worksheet #3
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Look at each underlined word in the
sentence given (directly from Huxley’s Brave New World) and determine the part of speech (NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE,
ADVERB, PRONOUN, INTERJECTION, CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION).
#1. Write the part of speech in all capital letters on the line below each sentence.
#2. In part 2, use context clues to match the part of speech to its definition. You may use a dictionary if necessary.
Chapters 7 - 9: Part I
1. “Her feeling was evidently reciprocated.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
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2. “Their path led them to the foot of the precipice.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
3. “She felt in her pocket for her soma—only to discover that, by some unprecedented oversight, she had left
the bottle down at the rest-house.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
4. “Oh, stop them, stop them!” she implored. But the whip fell and fell inexorably.
__________________ = Part of Speech
5. “It’s almost inconceivable. I shall never understand, unless you explain.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
6. “A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindles villain.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
7. “Patronizingly, Bernard smiled.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
8. “It suddenly occurred to Bernard that her very revoltingness might prove an enormous asset.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
Chapters 7 - 9: Part II – Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their definitions.
___________ 1.
___________ 2.
___________ 3.
___________ 4.
___________ 5.
___________ 6.
___________ 7.
___________ 8.
reciprocated
precipice
unprecedented
inexorably
inconceivable
lecherous
patronizingly
asset
A. unbelievable
B. indulging in excessive sexual activity
C. in a condescending manner
D. relentlessly
E. returned; mutually shared
F. cliff
G. thing of value
H. having never happened before
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Brave New World – Vocabulary Worksheet #4
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Look at each underlined word in the
sentence given (directly from Huxley’s Brave New World) and determine the part of speech (NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE,
ADVERB, PRONOUN, INTERJECTION, CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION).
#1. Write the part of speech in all capital letters on the line below each sentence.
#2. In part 2, use context clues to match the part of speech to its definition. You may use a dictionary if necessary.
Chapters 10 - 13: Part I:
1. “With a faint hum and rattle the moving racks crawled imperceptibly through the weeks…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
2. “I propose to dismiss him, to dismiss him with ignominy from the post he has held in this Centre.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
3. “There was a sudden and appalling hush.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
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4. “…if the morning after was disagreeable, it was so, not intrinsically, but only by comparison with the joys of
the holiday.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
5. “Five bus loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified
highway.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
6. “The author’s mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but
heretical and…dangerous and potentially subversive.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
7. “The odious sentiment kept on returning.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
8. “Lenina!” he repeated apprehensively.
__________________ = Part of Speech
9. “John!” ventured a small ingratiating voice from the bathroom.
__________________ = Part of Speech
Chapters 10 - 13: Part II – Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their definitions.
___________ 1. imperceptibly
___________ 2. ignominy
___________ 3. appalling
___________ 4. intrinsically
___________ 5. vitrified
___________ 6. subversive
___________ 7. odious
___________ 8. apprehensively
___________ 9. ingratiating
A. made to look like glass
B. arousing a strong dislike or disgust
C. unable to be detected by the senses
D. making oneself favorable to another
E. shocking
F. inherently; as a part of the nature of a thing itself
G. disgrace
H. undermining; damaging to the authorities
I. anxiously
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Brave New World – Vocabulary Worksheet #5
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Look at each underlined word in the
sentence given (directly from Huxley’s Brave New World) and determine the part of speech (NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE,
ADVERB, PRONOUN, INTERJECTION, CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION).
#1. Write the part of speech in all capital letters on the line below each sentence.
#2. In part 2, use context clues to match the part of speech to its definition. You may use a dictionary if necessary.
Chapters 14 - 15: Part I:
1. “At the foot of every bed, confronting its moribund occupant, was a television box.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
2. “At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
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3. “…--but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which
made them so fearful.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
4. “…it was as if he had had a pailful of ordure thrown in his face.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
5. “You might decondition.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
6. “The nurse stood irresolute, looking now at the kneeling figure by the bed…and now…at the twins who had
stopped their hunting of the zipper…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
7. “Linda had been a slave, Linda had died; others should live in freedom, and the world be made beautiful. A
reparation, a duty. And suddenly it was luminously clear to the Savage what he must do…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
8. “Mewling and puking, he added, exasperated by their bestial stupidity…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
9. “The insults bounced off their carapace of the thick stupidity…”
__________________ = Part of Speech
Chapters 14 - 15: Part II – Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their definitions.
___________ 1. moribund
___________ 2. flaccid
___________ 3. sublime
___________ 4. ordure
___________ 5. decondition
___________ 6. irresolute
___________ 7. reparation
___________ 8. bestial
___________ 9. carapace
A. to become unconditioned; to revert to old ways
B. compensation; something to make amends
C. undecided
D. about to die
E. bodily waste; excrement
F. noble; majestic; impressive
G. flabby; listless
H. a hard outer covering
I. like a beast; lacking reason and intellect
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Brave New World – Vocabulary Worksheet #6
Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Students must complete each vocabulary
worksheet. Look at each underlined word in the sentence given (directly from Huxley’s Brave New World) and determine the part of
speech (NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB, PRONOUN, INTERJECTION, CONJUNCTION, PREPOSITION).
#1. Write the part of speech in all capital letters on the line below each sentence.
#2. In part 2, use context clues to match the part of speech to its definition. You may use a dictionary if necessary.
Chapters 16 - 18: Part I
1. “But as I make the laws here, I can also break them. With impunity, Mr. Marx,” he added.
__________________ = Part of Speech
2. “Nice tame animals, anyhow,” the Controller murmured parenthetically.
__________________ = Part of Speech
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3. “The deep voice thrillingly vibrated: the gesticulating hand implied all space and the onrush of the
irresistible maching.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
4. “But you’ve got to stick to one set of postulates.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
5. “…pointed their luminous fingers…solemnly towards the plumbless mysteries of heaven.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
6. “It was as though, stumbling upon himself from the outside, he had suddenly caught himself out, taken
himself flagrantly at fault.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
7. “Noiseless on his pneumatic shoes, the man came up behind him.”
__________________ = Part of Speech
8. “I beg your pardon,” said the reporter, with genuine compunction.
__________________ = Part of Speech
Chapters 16 - 18: Part II – Determining the Meaning: Match the vocabulary words to their definitions.
___________ 1.
___________ 2.
___________ 3.
___________ 4.
___________ 5.
___________ 6.
___________ 7.
___________ 8.
impunity
parenthetically
gesticulating
postulates
luminous
flagrantly
pneumatic
compunction
A. emitting light; enlightened
B. filled with air
C. an exemption from punishment
D. regret; remorse
E. bodily movement particularly for emphasis
F. in a big way; obviously; conspicuously
G. as if in parenthesis; aside
H. a thing taken for granted without proof being necessary
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