Vocabulary List #3 (12A)

"He was a tiny creature, smaller than Winston, with dark hair and large, protuberant eyes, at once mournful and __________, which seemed to search your face closely while he was speaking to you."

• derisive

• inscrutable

• urbane

• pugnacious

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

"And the Ministry had not only to supply the __________ needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat."

• derisive

• inscrutable

• multifarious

• pugnacious

"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a __________ absurdity."

• multifarious

• pedantic

• lassitude

• palpable

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

"The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made __________ confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years."

• annihilation

• abject

• inscrutable

• urbane

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

"A deadly __________ had taken hold of him. All he wanted was to get home quickly and then sit down and be quiet."

• lassitude

• annihilation

• imbecility

• zeal

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

"He believed in the principles of Ingsoc, he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless __________, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.

• lassitude

• annihilation

• zeal

• imbecility

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

"Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speak-write towards him and began dictating in Big Brother's familiar style: a style at once military and __________, and, because of a trick of asking questions and then promptly answering them...easy to imitate.

• inscrutable

• multifarious

• pugnacious

• pedantic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no __________, absolutely none that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her."

• imbecility

• annihilation

• abject

• zeal

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

"He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O'Brien's _________ manner and his prize-fighter's physique."

• pugnacious

• urbane

• pedantic

• abject

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

"Bad news coming, thought Winston. And sure enough, following on a gory description of the __________ of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty."

• lassitude

• zeal

• imbecility

• annihilation

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4