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  1. dace
    small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body
    At the edge of the field were the elm trees, faintly stirring, and somewhere beyond that was the stream where the dace lay in the green pools under the willows.
  2. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
    He had capitulated, that was agreed.
  3. revery
    an abstracted state of absorption
    Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes.
  4. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
    The fallacy was obvious.
  5. torpid
    in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
    Even when he was awake he was completely torpid.
  6. frivolity
    the trait of being not serious or sensible
    From the moment when he was inside the Ministry of Love - and yes, even during those minutes when he and Julia had stood helpless while the iron voice from the telescreen told them what to do - he had grasped the frivolity, the shallowness of his attempt to set himself up against the power of the Party.
  7. coherent
    marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
    It seemed to make no difference, except that one's dreams were more coherent.
  8. tramp
    travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
    What had he done ? How many years had he added to his servitude by that moment of weakness ?

    In another moment he would hear the tramp of boots outside.
  9. reverie
    an abstracted state of absorption
    One day - but " one day " was not the right expression; just as probably it was in the middle of the night : once - he fell into a strange, blissful reverie.
  10. delirium
    a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion
    He was not any longer in the narrow white corridors in the Ministry of Love, he was in the enormous sunlit passage, a kilometre wide, down which he had seemed to walk in the delirium induced by drugs.
  11. infer
    conclude by reasoning
    There was no physical act, no word spoken aloud, that they had not noticed, no train of thought that they had not been able to infer.
  12. accord
    concurrence of opinion
    When he did recall it, it was only by consciously reasoning out what it must be : it did not come of its own accord.
Created on Sun Sep 04 16:39:58 EDT 2011

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