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  1. saboteur
    someone who deliberately destroys or disrupts something
    A day never passed when spies and
    saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police.
  2. polysyllabic
    having or characterized by words of more than three syllables
    He was abusing
    Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom
    of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he
    was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed — and all this
    in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual style of
    the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more Newspeak
    words, inde...
  3. claptrap
    foolish, empty, or pompous talk or writing
    And all
    the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein’s
    specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the
    endless columns of the Eurasian army — row after row of solid-looking men
    with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and
    vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar.
  4. aureole
    the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere
    It was a lean Jewish face, with a
    great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard — a clever face, and
    yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin
    nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles was perched.
  5. bristle
    a stiff hair
    It
    was a noise that set one’s teeth on edge and bristled the hair at the back of
    one’s neck.
  6. compendium
    a publication containing a variety of works
    There were also whispered stories of a terrible book,
    a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which
    circulated clandestinely here and there.
  7. nebulous
    lacking definite form or limits
    It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if anything so nebulous could
    be said to happen.
  8. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
    The telescreen had
    changed over to strident military music.
  9. smelt
    extract by heating, as a metal
    The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.
  10. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
    And the bombed sites where
    the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of
    rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had
    sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?
Created on Thu Sep 08 21:21:18 EDT 2011

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