1984 Book 1 Vocab List Section 1

nebulous

• Adjective; of a concept or idea; unclear, vague, or ill defined

  “It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if any-thing so nebulous could be said to happen.” (Orwell 13)

• Adjective allaying criticism or hostility ; ingratiating.

  “He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming—in some indefinable way, curiously civilized.” (Orwell 14)

• Noun something such as an opinion or doctrine that is unorthodox.

  “And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.” (Orwell 15)

• noun one that practices sabotage.

  “A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police. (Orwell 17-18)

unorthodoxy

• Adjective; of a concept or idea; unclear, vague, or ill defined

  “It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if any-thing so nebulous could be said to happen.” (Orwell 13)

• Noun something such as an opinion or doctrine that is unorthodox.

  “And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.” (Orwell 15)

• noun a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster).

  “Like a leaden knell the words came back at him: WAR IS PEACE

  FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” (Orwell 131)

• adjective not conforming ; disagreeing

  “It would have been an even more incongruous possession than the glass paper- weight, and impossible to carry home, unless it were taken out of its frame.” (Orwell 125)

disarming

• Noun something such as an opinion or doctrine that is unorthodox.

  “And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.” (Orwell 15)

• Adjective; of a concept or idea; unclear, vague, or ill defined

  “It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if any-thing so nebulous could be said to happen.” (Orwell 13)

• Adjective allaying criticism or hostility ; ingratiating.

  “He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming—in some indefinable way, curiously civilized.” (Orwell 14)

• noun one that practices sabotage.

  “A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police. (Orwell 17-18)

sabotage

• noun an opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards.

  “The heresy of heresies was common sense.” (Orwell 102)

• verb to announce formally the termination of something, such as a treaty.

  “And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which ‘The Times’ did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—’child hero’ was the phrase generally used—had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.” (Orwell 31-32)

• verb to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains.

  “You were abolished, annihilated: VA- PORIZED was the usual word.” (Orwell 24)

• noun destructive or obstructive action carried on by a civilian or enemy agent to hinder a nation's war effort.

  “All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.” (Orwell 16)

saboteur

• noun one that practices sabotage.

  “A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police. (Orwell 17-18)

• noun destructive or obstructive action carried on by a civilian or enemy agent to hinder a nation's war effort.

  “All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.” (Orwell 16)

• Adjective allaying criticism or hostility ; ingratiating.

  “He had a trick of resettling his spectacles on his nose which was curiously disarming—in some indefinable way, curiously civilized.” (Orwell 14)

• Noun something such as an opinion or doctrine that is unorthodox.

  “And again, perhaps it was not even unorthodoxy that was written in his face, but simply intelligence.” (Orwell 15)

heresy

• noun one that practices sabotage.

  “A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police. (Orwell 17-18)

• noun an opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards.

  “The heresy of heresies was common sense.” (Orwell 102)

• verb to announce formally the termination of something, such as a treaty.

  “And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which ‘The Times’ did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—’child hero’ was the phrase generally used—had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.” (Orwell 31-32)

• adjective capable of change or of being changed.

  “Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.” (Orwell 34)

denounce

• noun an opinion, doctrine, or practice contrary to the truth or to generally accepted beliefs or standards.

  “The heresy of heresies was common sense.” (Orwell 102)

• adjective capable of change or of being changed.

  “Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.” (Orwell 34)

• verb to announce formally the termination of something, such as a treaty.

  “And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which ‘The Times’ did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—’child hero’ was the phrase generally used—had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.” (Orwell 31-32)

• noun one that practices sabotage.

  “A day never passed when spies and saboteurs acting under his directions were not unmasked by the Thought Police. (Orwell 17-18)

mutability

• verb to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains.

  “You were abolished, annihilated: VA- PORIZED was the usual word.” (Orwell 24)

• adjective of, relating to, or resembling a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys.

  “His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink.” (Orwell 44)

• adjective not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood ; mysterious

  “But don’t worry, I am on your side!’ And then the flash of intelligence was gone, and O’Brien’s face was as inscrutable as everybody else’s.” (Orwell 22)

• adjective capable of change or of being changed.

  “Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.” (Orwell 34)

zealot

• noun an often blindly partisan advocate or adherent of a particular ideology.

  “Some nosing zealot in the Ministry (a woman, probably: someone like the little sandy-haired woman or the dark-haired girl from the Fiction Depart- ment) might start wondering why he had been writing during the lunch interval, why he had used an old-fash-ioned pen, WHAT he had been writing—and then drop a hint in the appropriate quarter.” (Orwell 36)

• adjective capable of change or of being changed.

  “Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.” (Orwell 34)

• verb to announce formally the termination of something, such as a treaty.

  “And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which ‘The Times’ did not carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak—’child hero’ was the phrase generally used—had overheard some compromising remark and denounced its parents to the Thought Police.” (Orwell 31-32)

• adjective done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed.

  “The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.” (Orwell 9)

furtive

• verb to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains.

  “You were abolished, annihilated: VA- PORIZED was the usual word.” (Orwell 24)

• adjective done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed.

  “The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil.” (Orwell 9)

• adjective of, relating to, or resembling a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys.

  “His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink.” (Orwell 44)

• verb to refuse to accept.

  “To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling care- fully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the pro- cess itself.” (Orwell 44-45)