Michelle Tan, 1984, Book 1 Chapter 8

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  1. anodyne
    capable of relieving pain
    It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their
    intellectual stimulant.
  2. concertina
    free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
    At the same instant a man in a concertina-like black suit,
    who had emerged from a side alley, ran towards Winston, pointing excitedly to
    the sky.
  3. convolute
    rolled longitudinally upon itself
    At the heart of it, magnified by the curved
    surface, there was a strange, pink, convoluted object that recalled a rose or a
    sea anemone.
  4. flunky
    an underling of unquestioning obedience
    Flunkies of the ruling class!”
  5. lavatory
    a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
    For a couple of minutes he had the
    feeling that he would die if he did not reach a lavatory soon.
  6. officiousness
    aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding
    Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police,
    or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered.
  7. prole
    a member of the working class (not necessarily employed)
    ’If there is hope,’ he had written in the diary, ’it lies in the proles.’
  8. reconnoitre
    explore, often with a goal of finding something or somebody
    He got away from Mr Charrington and went down the stairs alone, so as
    not to let the old man see him reconnoitring the street before stepping out of
    the door.
  9. unprocurable
    not capable of being obtained
    But it needed desperate courage
    to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison,
    were completely unprocurable.
  10. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
    He had walked several kilometres over pavements, and his varicose ulcer
    was throbbing.
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