1984: Chapters 4-6 Vocabulary

• Vocabulary from Chapters 4-6 of 1984

Words and Definitions

• Orifice: A noun that describes an opening, usually referring to an opening on the body.
• Slit: An adjective describing a long, narrow cut or opening.
• Wade: A noun referring to the act of wading, and a verb meaning to walk through a viscous substance or water.
• Collate: A verb meaning to collect and combine texts, information, or sets of figures in proper order.
• Leaflet: A printed sheet of paper, sometimes folded, that contains information or advertising and is usually distributed for free.
• Palimpsest: A manuscript or document that has been written on, erased, and then written over again, with traces of the original text still visible.
• Cubicle: A small, partitioned-off area of a room, such as one containing a bed in a dwelling or a desk in an office.
• Multifarious: An adjective describing something with many and various types, having many different parts or elements.
• Proletariat: A noun referring to workers or working-class people, the social class of wage-earners.
• Abject: An adjective that describres something bad experienced or present in a great way.
• Abstainer: Someone who restrains themself from doing or enjoying something.
• Deafening: An adjective describing a noise so loud as to make it impossible to hear anything else.
• Darning: A verb meaning to mend with crossing threats.
• Prole: A noun referring to a member of the working class, a worker.
• Pannikin: A noun referring to a small metal drinking cup.
• Subsidiary: A noun referring to a company controlled by a holding company.
• Irrepressible: An adjective describing something not to be controlled or restrained.
• Gaping: Meaning bgd
• Proliferate: A verb meaning to increase rapidly in number or to multiply.
• Scuttle: A verb that describes to move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape.
• Reverie: A noun referring to a state of being lost in thoughts (daydream).
• Contorted: An adjective describing something twisted or bent out of the normal shape.
• Debauchery: A noun referring to excessive indulgence in sensual pleasure.
• Promiscuous: An adjective that demonstrates or implies an undiscriminating or unselective approach.
• Beget: typically of a man, sometimes of man and woman, to bring a child in to existence by reproducing as a verb.
• Aquiline: An adjective, like an eagle.
• Paraffin: a verb to wax to put it on and rip it off, but can also be a noun as sticky, solid similar to wax.