1984 Vocabulary

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  1. garble
    distort or make false by mutilation or addition
  2. spanner
    a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt
  3. cadge
    obtain or seek to obtain by wheedling
  4. proliferate
    grow rapidly
  5. palimpsest
    a manuscript on which more than one text has been written
  6. tinny
    thin, metallic, and displeasing in sound
  7. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
  8. gesticulate
    show, express, or direct through movement
  9. invertebrate
    any animal lacking a backbone or notochord
  10. officiousness
    aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding
  11. discountenance
    look with disfavor on
  12. concertina
    free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
  13. anodyne
    capable of relieving pain
  14. garbled
    lacking orderly continuity
  15. embezzlement
    the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property
  16. pneumatic
    relating to or using air or a similar gas
  17. sinecure
    a job that involves minimal duties
  18. truism
    an obvious statement of fact
  19. camaraderie
    the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
  20. pealing
    a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells)
  21. ulcer
    an inflammatory lesion resulting in decay of tissue
  22. pedant
    a person who is preoccupied with rules and learning
  23. lassitude
    a feeling of lack of interest or energy
  24. repository
    a facility where things can be deposited for safekeeping
  25. caper
    a playful leap or hop
  26. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  27. proletariat
    a social class comprising those who do manual labor
  28. gesticulating
    making gestures while speaking
  29. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  30. altercation
    a noisy, angry argument or fight between people
  31. axiom
    a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof
  32. ideological
    relating to the characteristic thinking of a group
  33. myriad
    a large indefinite number
  34. chastity
    abstaining from sexual relations
  35. oblong
    deviating from a shape by being elongated in one direction
  36. ineffectual
    not producing an intended consequence
  37. obsolete
    no longer in use
Created on 八月 14, 2011 (updated 八月 14, 2011)

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