Terms
Define accompline.
What is a person who helps another commit a crime?
Able to be seen; noticed.
What is perceptible?
“You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to __________ venereal diseases—to do anything which is likely to cause demoralization and weaken the power of the Party?”
What is disseminate?
Julia could be seen as this word to Winston's rebellion, aiding him in breaking the Party's rules.
What is an accomplice?
The first transcontinental railroad was built this year.
What is 1869?
Define efficient.
What is achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort.
The state of being poor.
What is impoverishment?
When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of ___________.
What is persiflage?
O'Brien's false explanation of Party doctrine to Winston mirrors this type of fake reasoning or belief.
What is spurious?
This layer of Earth's atmosphere contains the ozone layer and is where airplanes fly.
What is the stratosphere?
Define ravage.
To cause severe damage.
To make someone unable to think or feel properly.
What is stupefy?
The world of today is a bare, hungry, ________ place compared with the world that existed before 1914, and still more so if compared with the imaginary future to which the people of that period looked forward.
What is dilapidated?
The constant bombing and neglect of prole neighborhoods leave many buildings in this condition.
What is dilapidated?
Who wrote the Wealth of Nations?
Who is Adam Smith?
What is based on conjecture but not knowledge?
Existing at a particular time; dominant or widespread.
What is prevailing?
It is deliberate policy to keep even the favored groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of _________ increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.
What is scarcity?
Winston often feels this way after torture sessions in the Ministry of Love—barely able to think at all.
What is stupefy? Or stupefied?
This acronym helps you remember what sine, cosine, and tangent represent in a right triangle.
What is SOH CAH TOA?
Define catechism.
What is a summary of religious doctrine?
Not genuine; counterfeit.
What is spurious?
The social atmosphere is that of a ________ city, where the possession of a lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty.
What is besieged?
Big Brother's goal is to ensure this concept—where the Party's ideology dominates every aspect of life.
What is prevailing?
Who was the Italian leader during World War II?
Who is Benito Mussolini?