Katie Welles 1984 Book 1 Ch. 2

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  1. spanner
    a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
    ‘Have you got a spanner?’ said Winston, fiddling with the nut on the anglejoint.
  2. unorthodoxy
    the quality of being different from what is considered correct
    Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and
    day for symptoms of unorthodoxy.
  3. saboteur
    someone who deliberately destroys or disrupts something
    All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the
    enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.
  4. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
    Some nosing zealot in the
    Ministry (a woman, probably: someone like the little sandy-haired woman or
    the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Department) might start wondering why he
    had been writing during the lunch interval, why he had used an old-fashioned
    pen, what he had been writing — and then drop a hint in the appropriate
    quarter.
  5. invertebrate
    any animal lacking a backbone or notochord
    ‘A spanner,’ said Mrs Parsons, immediately becoming invertebrate.
  6. discountenance
    look with disfavor on
    (’Mrs’ was
    a word somewhat discountenanced by the Party — you were supposed to call
    everyone ’comrade’ — but with some women one used it instinctively.)
  7. gambol
    play or run boisterously
    It was somehow
    slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow
    up into man-eaters.
  8. reverberate
    ring or echo with sound
    Somewhere far away a rocket bomb exploded with a dull, reverberating roar.
  9. mutability
    the quality of being capable of change
    Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.
  10. impedimenta
    the baggage and equipment carried by an army
    Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks,
    boxing-gloves. a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay
    all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dogeared
    exercise-books.
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