- phlegmsaliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passagesWarm phlegm gathered in Eckels' throat; he swallowed and pushed it down.Phlegm is a thick secretion of mucous
- glorioushaving great beauty and splendorall, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh deathWhen something is fabulous and gorgeous.
- swaypitching dangerously to one sideEckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff.Back and forth.... Back and forth... Back and forth are you sea sick yet?
- envelopenclose or enfold completely with or as if with a coveringThe fog that had enveloped the Machine blew away and they were in an old time, a very old time indeed, three hunters and two Safari Heads with their blue metal guns across their knees.When something is enveloped, it is wrapped around you.
- franchisea business authorized to sell a company's goods or servicesWe have to pay big graft to keep our franchise.franchise is a right granted by a government or corporation to an individual or group of individuals
- finickyexacting especially about detailsA Time Machine is finicky business.You reject any vegetable that isn't yellow. You like basmati rice, but detest jasmine, Arborio, and brown.
- annihilatekill in large numbersWith a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!Killing ends when the thing you are killing is dead
- expendablesuitable to be used upAnd the caveman, please note, is not just any expendable man, no!
- slaykill intentionally and with premeditationIt is comparable to slaying some of Adam's grandchildren.
- infinitesimalimmeasurably smallCrushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally.
- disproportionimbalance among the parts of somethingA dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in far-flung countries.
- correlatebring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relationThen I correlate our arrival in the Past so that we meet the Monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway.
- bisectcut in half or cut in two"Up ahead, We'll bisect his trail in sixty seconds.
- resilientrebounding readilyIt came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs.
- poisedmarked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for actionIt ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons.
- remitsend in paymentWe'll remit half your fee."
- engulfflow over or cover completelyA windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood.
- malfunctionfail to work properlyWithin, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen, everything shutting off, closing up forever.
- tonnagea tax imposed on ships that enter the USBones cracked; the tonnage of its own flesh, off balance, dead weight, snapped the delicate forearms, caught underneath.In this sentence, the tonnage is the flesh itself which is so heavy it's crushing.
- stagnateexist in a changeless situationThey gazed back at the ruined Monster, the stagnating mound, where already strange reptilian birds and golden insects were busy at the steaming armor.
- primevalhaving existed from the beginningEckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror.
- subtleworking or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious wayEckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there.
- subliminalbelow the threshold of conscious perceptionEckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there.
- embeddedenclosed firmly in a surrounding massEmbedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.
- scrabblefeel searchinglyHe scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers. "Can't we," he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "can't we take it back, can't we make it alive again? Can't we start over? Can't we-"
Monday, October 26, 2015
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