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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. prole
    a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
    Soon he was within arm’s length of the girl, but the way
    was blocked by an enormous prole and an almost equally enormous woman,
    presumably his wife, who seemed to form an impenetrable wall of flesh.
  3. niggling
    (informal) small and of little importance
    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.
  4. haricot
    a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans
    The stuff they were eating was
    a thin stew, actually a soup, of haricot beans.
  5. rectification
    the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake
    Fortunately
    the piece of work he was engaged on was mere routine, the rectification of a
    long list of figures, not needing close attention.
  6. incurious
    showing absence of intellectual inquisitiveness or natural curiosity
    Their sad, Mongolian faces gazed out over the sides of the trucks
    utterly incurious.
  7. clank
    a loud resonant repeating noise
    Occasionally when a truck jolted there was a clank-clank of
    metal: all the prisoners were wearing leg-irons.
  8. saccharine
    overly sweet
    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.
  9. 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.
  10. vanquish
    defeat in a competition, race, or conflict
    He wandered
    round the base of the enormous fluted column, at the top of which Big Brother’s
    statue gazed southward towards the skies where he had vanquished the Eurasian
    aeroplanes (the Eastasian aeroplanes, it had been, a few years ago) in the Battle
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    of Airstrip One.
Created on Fri Sep 09 08:15:50 EDT 2011

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