Started reading Brave New World. Well, reading as in what’s called close reading. Darn, it’s more complex than any 20th-century English books I’ve seen in the original before. Of course, the meaning is clear even without delving into bookish words, but I’m not only reading the book, but also trying to learn from it.
Take, for example, the first two pages with my comments. About a dozen unfamiliar words per page. So far, this is a record among the fiction books I’ve read in English.
Here is a list of words that seemed complex to me in the first chapters. Clearly, you wouldn’t hear these in everyday spoken language, and not even in work correspondence, but for broadening horizons, expanding vocabulary, and getting a feel for the language — why not.
soliloquize
callow
burgeon
prodigious
viviparous
largesse
solemn
predestined
caustic
posthumous
spasmodic
inculcate
aperture
maudlin
immoral
effusive
inscrutable
incongruous
axiomatic
renounce
simian
ruminate
incandescence
corporeal
mockery
asceticism
caste
cremate
imminent
satiety
abject
deplorable
repulsive
fulminate
What they mean — see the third picture in the post
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