Titania Chin, 1984 - Book 2 Chapter 1

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  1. niggle
    worry unnecessarily or excessively
    What was even
    worse than having to focus his mind on a series of niggling jobs was the need to
    conceal his agitation from the telescreen.
  2. insatiably
    to an insatiable degree
    The trucks were still filing post, the people
    still insatiably gaping.
  3. queue
    a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
    The queue edged
    forward tillWinston was almost at the counter, then was held up for two minutes
    because someone in front was complaining that he had not received his tablet
    of saccharine.
  4. pneumatic
    relating to or using air or a similar gas
    He rolled up the completed bundle of work and slid it into the pneumatic
    tube.
  5. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
    The irritating thing was
    that in the racket of voices Winston could hardly hear what Parsons was saying,
    and was constantly having to ask for some fatuous remark to be repeated.
  6. shirk
    avoid one's assigned duties
    His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to
    shirk his evening at the Centre.
  7. nimbly
    in a nimble or agile manner
    The girl nipped
    nimbly round the lions at the base of the monument and joined in the rush.
  8. extricate
    release from entanglement or difficulty
    But for the moment they could not extricate
    themselves from the crowd.
  9. enquiry
    an instance of questioning
    There
    was no enquiry he could make.
  10. solemn
    dignified and somber in manner or character
    He wolfed another tasteless meal
    in the canteen, hurried off to the Centre, took part in the solemn foolery of a
    ’discussion group’, played two games of table tennis, swallowed several glasses
    of gin, and sat for half an hour through a lecture entitled ’Ingsoc in relation to
    chess’.
Created on Tue Sep 06 15:51:31 EDT 2011

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