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Pallid
"...a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid
shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only...a laboratory." - Answers Very pale suggesting poor
health.
Synonyms: ashen, pasty, pale, blanched
Hatchery - Answers place for hatching eggs especially a large, government site where the young are
hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed
recession - Answers A slowdown. A period of declining growth or distance from a period of progress.
soliloquizing
"Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and
Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum
or whistle, of absorbed concentration." - Answers talk to oneself
particular
"For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually
necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of
society." - Answers Specific; separate and distinct; single
general
"For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually
necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of
society." - Answers A conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad
statement about a topic or person
zealous
,"'I shall begin at the beginning,' said the DHC and the more zealous students recorded his intention in
their notebooks: 'Begin at the beginning.'" - Answers Extremely active, eager, devoted
ova
"'The week's supply of ova. Kept,' he explained, 'at blood heat; whereas the male gametes,' and here he
opened another door, 'they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven." - Answers A female
reproductive organ. One of two glands located on each side of the pelvic cavity that produce ova and
female sex hormones
gametes
"'The week's supply of ova. Kept,' he explained, 'at blood heat; whereas the male gametes,' and here he
opened another door, 'they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven." - Answers A haploid
cell such as an egg or sperm. Gametes unite during sexual reproduction to produce a diploid zygote.
excise
"the operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a
bonus amounting to six months' salary"; continued with some account of the technique for preserving
the excised ovary alive and actively developing..." - Answers To cut out of; remove
porous
"The operation undergone...preserve[s] the excised ovary...[in] optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity;
...the eggs...were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle..." -
Answers (adj.) full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water
receptacle
"The operation undergone...preserve[s] the excised ovary...[in] optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity;
...the eggs...were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle...this
receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa" - Answers a
container that is used to put or keep things in
bouillon - Answers a clear, thin broth, usually of chicken or beef
, the eggs...were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle...this
receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa"
spermatozoa
"this receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa" - Answers
Male gametes also called sperm.
prodigious
"By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six
embryos--a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature." - Answers (adj.) immense;
extraordinary in bulk, size, or degree
viviparous
"Identical twins--but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old viviparous days, when an egg would
sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time." - Answers A type of
development in which the young obtain their nutrients directly from the mother and are birthed live.
tremulous
"The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm." - Answers (of the voice) quivering as from weakness
or fear
fertility
"In the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely is a nuisance. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred--that
would really be quite sufficient for our purposes." - Answers In the context of human populations, this
refers to the potential for reproduction exhibited in a population. It may be measured as fertility rate,
which is the number of births per thousand women of child-bearing age. Alternatively it may be
measured as total fertility, which is simply the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime.
apoplectic
Pallid
"...a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid
shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only...a laboratory." - Answers Very pale suggesting poor
health.
Synonyms: ashen, pasty, pale, blanched
Hatchery - Answers place for hatching eggs especially a large, government site where the young are
hatched, cared for, and sold or distributed
recession - Answers A slowdown. A period of declining growth or distance from a period of progress.
soliloquizing
"Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and
Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum
or whistle, of absorbed concentration." - Answers talk to oneself
particular
"For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually
necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of
society." - Answers Specific; separate and distinct; single
general
"For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually
necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of
society." - Answers A conclusion drawn from specific information that is used to make a broad
statement about a topic or person
zealous
,"'I shall begin at the beginning,' said the DHC and the more zealous students recorded his intention in
their notebooks: 'Begin at the beginning.'" - Answers Extremely active, eager, devoted
ova
"'The week's supply of ova. Kept,' he explained, 'at blood heat; whereas the male gametes,' and here he
opened another door, 'they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven." - Answers A female
reproductive organ. One of two glands located on each side of the pelvic cavity that produce ova and
female sex hormones
gametes
"'The week's supply of ova. Kept,' he explained, 'at blood heat; whereas the male gametes,' and here he
opened another door, 'they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven." - Answers A haploid
cell such as an egg or sperm. Gametes unite during sexual reproduction to produce a diploid zygote.
excise
"the operation undergone voluntarily for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that it carries a
bonus amounting to six months' salary"; continued with some account of the technique for preserving
the excised ovary alive and actively developing..." - Answers To cut out of; remove
porous
"The operation undergone...preserve[s] the excised ovary...[in] optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity;
...the eggs...were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle..." -
Answers (adj.) full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water
receptacle
"The operation undergone...preserve[s] the excised ovary...[in] optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity;
...the eggs...were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle...this
receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa" - Answers a
container that is used to put or keep things in
bouillon - Answers a clear, thin broth, usually of chicken or beef
, the eggs...were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle...this
receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa"
spermatozoa
"this receptacle was immersed in a warm bouillon containing free-swimming spermatozoa" - Answers
Male gametes also called sperm.
prodigious
"By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six
embryos--a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature." - Answers (adj.) immense;
extraordinary in bulk, size, or degree
viviparous
"Identical twins--but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old viviparous days, when an egg would
sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time." - Answers A type of
development in which the young obtain their nutrients directly from the mother and are birthed live.
tremulous
"The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm." - Answers (of the voice) quivering as from weakness
or fear
fertility
"In the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely is a nuisance. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred--that
would really be quite sufficient for our purposes." - Answers In the context of human populations, this
refers to the potential for reproduction exhibited in a population. It may be measured as fertility rate,
which is the number of births per thousand women of child-bearing age. Alternatively it may be
measured as total fertility, which is simply the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime.
apoplectic
