Brave New World, chapters 4-6
Across
- 2. a unit of surface or land (10,000 square metres)
- 8. mournful; expressing sorrow or melancholy
- 9. relating to formal ceremonies for public worship; ritual
- 10. a philosophy that stresses the repression of emotion or indifference to pleasure or pain
- 12. courteousness, friendliness or warmth
- 13. to drink copiously and with enjoyment (particularly alcohol)
- 14. shining, luminous, resplendent
- 17. manifesting ecstatic joy or delight
- 20. the trunk of a human body
- 22. the intestine
- 23. the highest point; culmination (antonym: nadir)
- 26. in a haughty, dictatorial manner
- 28. increasing or restoring health; invigorating mentally or physically
- 29. to recline or lean in a relaxed or lazy manner
- 31. something that is likely to occur at any moment
- 33. a state of insensibility, mental torpor, apathy
- 37. in an excessively moralising or self-righteous manner
- 38. elated, jubilant, triumphant
- 39. in a state of decay or decomposition; corrupt or depraved
- 40. trembling, shaking, quivering
- 41. the act of completing, perfecting or fulfilling something
- 43. greeting in speech or writing
- 44. miserable, pitiable; despicable, contemptible
Down
- 1. the state of having one’s desires or appetites satisfied
- 3. a substance released or excreted by an organism
- 4. the middle part of the body between the chest and waist
- 5. the emission of light caused by high temperature
- 6. an utterance or action cursing or reviling God or sacred things
- 7. enduring or lasting indefinitely
- 11. having a tendency to in luxury, pleasure and sensuous enjoyment
- 12. an affectionate gesture, e.g. a stroke, embrace, kiss, etc.
- 15. lying on one’s back
- 16. to sing or him in a soothing voice; to sing in an exaggerated maner
- 18. a substitute or replacement
- 19. the doctrine that one can attain a high spiritual or moral state through rigorous self-denial or abstinence
- 20. period of soft, diffuse light when the sun is setting
- 21. behaving in a kindly or beneficial way
- 24. causing reproach, censure or disapproval; regrettable or lamentable
- 25. chewing cud (of a cow); thus, meditating on or pondering something
- 27. to puncture, perforate, make a hole in something
- 30. reparation for wrong-doing or sins
- 32. to treat someone with indifference or contempt; to snub
- 33. to make a high-pitched, piercing sound
- 34. disturbing; causing anxiety or distress
- 35. muscular strength; well-developed muscles
- 36. unable to express oneself clearly and effectively
- 42. to stare open-mouthed, as in wonder