Sonia Pandya 1984 Book 2 Ch. 5

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  1. prole
    a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
    Late at
    night, when crowds of rowdy proles roamed the streets, the town had a curiously
    febrile air.
  2. impend
    be imminent or about to happen
    There were times when the fact of
    impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would
    cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping
    at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking.
  3. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
    He had grown fatter, his varicose ulcer had subsided, leaving only a
    brown stain on the skin above his ankle, his fits of coughing in the early morning
    had stopped.
  4. febrile
    of or relating to or characterized by fever
    Late at
    night, when crowds of rowdy proles roamed the streets, the town had a curiously
    febrile air.
  5. labyrinthine
    resembling a maze in form or complexity
    In the labyrinthine Ministry the windowless,
    air-conditioned rooms kept their normal temperature, but outside the pavements
    scorched one’s feet and the stench of the Tubes at the rush hours was
    a horror.
  6. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
    ’It
    just occurred to me you might be interested,’ he would say with a deprecating
    little laugh whenever he produced a new fragment.
  7. effigy
    a representation of a person
    Processions, meetings, military parades,
    lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had
    to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs
    written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
  8. perilously
    in a dangerous manner
    Squads of volunteers, organized by Parsons,
    were preparing the street for Hate Week, stitching banners, painting posters,
    erecting flagstaffs on the roofs, and perilously slinging wires across the street for
    the reception of streamers.
  9. apathetic
    showing little or no emotion or animation
    The
    proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of their
    periodical frenzies of patriotism.
  10. bunting
    a seed-eating songbird of Europe or North America
    Parsons boasted that Victory Mansions alone would
    display four hundred metres of bunting.
Created on Sun Sep 04 23:08:18 EDT 2011

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