Someone Might Be Watching: Dystopian Fiction Vocabulary

to cause (someone) to become motionless with horror, wonder, or astonishment.

• saturate

• eradicate

• transfix

• peril

relating to the combining or interaction of social and political factors.

• automation

• sociopolitical

• industrialization

• totalitarianism

to twist out of shape, form, or meaning

• distort

• saturate

• transfix

• peril

government control over every aspect of public and private life

• Sociopolitical

• Totalitarianism

• Compulsion

• Surveillance

government control over every aspect of public and private life

• eradicate

• transfix

• peril

• saturate

to soak thoroughly, fill to capacity; to satisfy fully

• distort

• transfix

• eradicate

• saturate

a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation

• surveillance

• industrialization

• automation

• distort

the use of machines and automatic equipment in a production process

• totalitarianism

• sociopolitical

• automation

• industrialization

to end or destroy something completely

• peril

• eradicate

• distort

• compulsion

n irresistible urge to repeatedly carry out some act that seems strange and unreasonable

• compulsion

• transfix

• eradicate

• distort