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Worksheets1984 Book One Chapter 1-2 Vocab
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
His hair was very fair, his face naturally sanguine, his skin roughened by coarse soap and blunt razor blades and the cold of the winter that had just ended.
SANGUINE most likely means:
bleeding profusely
having a reddish complexion
pale and yellowish
blood vessels
He felt deeply drawn to him, and not solely because he was intrigued by the contrast between O'Brian's urbane manner and his prizefighter's physique.
URBANE most likely means:
living in a city
large population
unrefined
polished, suave
All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching.
HERESIES most likely means:
dissent from a theory, opinion, or practice
agreement with one's superiors
to select, adopt
following a crowd
It was a lean Jewish face, with a great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard...
AUREOLE most likely means:
origin
line; streak
ring surrounding the head
wisp
It struck Goldstein's nose and bounced off; the voice continued inexorably.
INEXORABLY most likely means:
quietly
with great care
relentlessly
intermittently
Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold.
ENTRAILS most likely means:
limbs of the body
thoughts
fingers
parts inside the trunk of the body
And then the flash of intelligence was gone, and O'Brien's face was as inscrutable as everybody else's.
INSCRUTABLE most likely means:
mysterious
determined
without meaning
to discern
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story.
EQUIVOCAL most likely means:
in complete agreement
undecided; uncertain
frightened
insipid
Games impedimenta...lay all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dog-eared exercise books.
IMPEDIMENTA most likely means:
toys
old, worn clothes
broken furniture
things that get in the way
And in front of him there lay not death but annihilation.
ANNIHILATION most likely means:
total destruction
pain
remorse
sadness
which is NOT a synonym for urbane
worldly
sophisticated
dignified
boorish
Which is an ANTONYM for annihilation
demolish
obliteration
reclamation
decimation
What is a synonym for sanguine
bronzed
rosy
anemic
cadaverous
Which is NOT an antonym for heresies
heterodoxies
conformities
orthodoxies
conventionalities
Which is NOT a related word of aureole?
starburst
halo
bask
corona
Which is an ANTONYM for inexorably
relentless
preventable
decided
inescapable
Which is not another word for entrails
bowels
intestines
talons
chitlins
EQUIVOCAL means:
debatable
definitive
clear
indisputable
impedimenta
things that aid
things that hinder
things that glow
things that bleed
inscrutable means:
evident
mysterious
obvious
unambiguous
