REFRAIN: To keep oneself from doing, feeling, or indulging in something and especially from following a passing impulse.
That is if we refrain from blowing ourselves to smithereens in the intervals.
BURGEONED: To send forth new growth.
…; consequently burgeoned again and having budded. (pg:7)
PERITONEUMHAD: the smooth transparent serous membrane that lines the cavity of the abdomen of a mammal and is folded inward over the abdominal and pelvic viscera.
…! Another flat of peritoneumhad shot up from the depts ready to be slipped… (pg:9)
CREPT: To move along with the body prone and close to the ground.
…;majestically and forever the conveyors crept forward with their load of future men and women (pg:34)
LURKS: To lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose.
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation. (pg:44)
STUPOR: A condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility.
The twilight of his own habitual stupor. (pg:59)
SPROUTING: To grow, spring up, or come forth as or as if a sprout.
In few seconds that a end of dramatic mushroom sprouting from the green of the park and garden (pg:61)
MAGGOTY: A soft-bodied legless grub that is the larva of a dipterous insect.
The green was maggoty with fore-shortened with life (pg:62)
KHAKI: Colored cloth made usually of cotton or wool and used especially for military uniforms
Near them a black and khaki army of laborers was busy revitrifying the surface of the great west road (pg:62)
HICCOUGH: A spasmodic inhalation with closure of the glottis accompanied by a peculiar sound.
Then a hiccough and silence. (pg:90)
SWAGGERS: To conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous; especially: to walk with an air of overbearing self-confidence.
For Bernard left the room with a swagger, exulting as he banged the door behind him… (pg: 98)
BRACHYCEPHALIC: Short-headed or broad-headed with a cephalic index of over 80
The warden was a blond and brachycephalic alpha-minus, short, red, moon-faced…(pg: 101)
SLOBBERINGLY: To let saliva dribble from the mouth.
Ford! to kiss, slobberingly, and smell to horrible…(pg: 119)
CRUMB: A small fragment especially of something baked (as bread)
His purple viscous waist coat the crumbs of a considerable colation (pg:175)
LINGER: To be slow in parting or in quitting something
Lenina, who had lingered for a moment to look at the moon… (pg:176)
GRIEVANCE: A cause of distress (as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance.
A secret grievance against the savage, to meditate a campaign…(pg:179).
FOWL: A bird of any kind
…“every fowl of tyrant wing”…(pg:183)
RAKISHLY: In a rakish manner
TILTED: To cover or provide with a tilt.
With a round white cap rakishly tilted over her left ear, stood lenina. (pag: 189)
CLUMSY: Lacking dexterity, nimbleness, or grace
OAF: A stupid person
As a clumsy oaf scrambles to his feet… (pg:190)
CARTRIDGE: A case or container that holds a substance, device, or material which is difficult, troublesome, or awkward to handle and that usually can be easily changed.
Her white patent cartridge belt and hung it carefully over…(pg:192)
PAPS: Something shaped like a nipple.
For those milk papas that through the window bars… (pg:193)
GIRDLE: Something that encircles or confines.
But to the girdle do the gods inherit (pg: 195)
PEEPED: To utter a feeble shrill sound as of a bird newly hatched.
…; peeped through the crack… (pg:197)
TIPTOE: The position of being balanced on the balls of the feet and toes with the heels raised.
Finally, tiptoed into the room (pg:197)