1984 Book 2 Chapter 7

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  1. prole
    a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
    If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.
  2. doublethink
    believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
    But simultaneously,
    true to the Principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were
    natural inferiors who must be kept in sub jection, like animals, by the application
    of a few simple rules.
  3. inalterable
    not capable of being changed or altered
    At one time it
    had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today,
    to believe that the past is inalterable.
  4. indoctrinate
    teach uncritically
    A few agents of
    the Thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumours and
    marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of
    becoming dangerous; but no attempt was made to indoctrinate them with the
    ideology of the Party.
  5. dinginess
    discoloration due to dirtiness
    It struck him that the truly
    characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but
    simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.
  6. rehash
    present or use again, with no or few changes
    Always they were a rehashing of the ancient themes — slum tenements,
    starving children, street battles, capitalists in top hats — even on the barricades
    the capitalists still seemed to cling to their top hats an endless, hopeless effort
    to get back into the past.
  7. pouched
    having a pouch
    He was a monstrous man, with a mane of greasy grey
    hair, his face pouched and seamed, with thick negroid lips.
  8. racketeer
    someone who commits crimes for profit
    There was a vast amount of criminality in London, a whole world-
    within-a-world of thieves, bandits, prostitutes, drug-peddlers, and racketeers of
    every description; but since it all happened among the proles themselves, it
    was of no importance.
  9. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
    Winston reached down and cautiously scratched his varicose ulcer.
  10. wispy
    thin and weak
    He seemed to see a vision of London, vast and ruinous, city of a million dustbins,
    and mixed up with it was a picture of Mrs Parsons, a woman with lined face
    and wispy hair, fiddling helplessly with a blocked waste-pipe.
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