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1984 Vocab 1
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English
10th Grade
01/16/2014

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Adulation
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(n) excessive admiration or praise
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Amenity
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(n) a desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place
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Droll
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(adj) curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement
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Elude
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(v) evade or escape from - a danger, enemy, or pursuer- typically in a skillful or cunning way
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Exorbiant
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(adj) -of a price or amount charged- unreasonably high
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Gamut
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(n) the complete range or scope of something
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Sanguine
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(adj) optimistic or positive, esp. in an apparently bad or difficult situation
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Privation
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(n) a state in which things that are essential for human well-being such as food and warmth are scarce or lacking
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Vexation
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(n) the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried
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Zealous
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(adj) fervent or passionate
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Ruminate
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(v) to think carefully and deeply about something
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Proletariat
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(n) the laboring class; especially: the class of industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live
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Socialism
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(n) a stage of society in a Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
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Totalitarianism
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(n) Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is supressed
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Jingoism
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(n) the feelings and beliefs of people who think that their country is always right and who are in favor of aggressive acts against other countries
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*Ingsoc
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Newspeak for english socialism
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*Newspeak
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The official language of oceania
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*Oldspeak
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The old language of the party
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*Thoughtcrime
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Thinking against the party/doubting big brother
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