Briana Miller - 1984 (Book 2, Chapter 2)

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  1. etiolate
    make weak by stunting the growth or development of
    Already on the walk from the station
    the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors,
    with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin.
  2. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
    I’ve got
    varicose veins.
  3. undifferentiated
    not differentiated
    Not merely the love of one
    person but the animal instinct, the simple undifferentiated desire: that was
    the force that would tear the Party to pieces.
  4. virtuosity
    great technical skill, fluency, or style
    The
    music went on and on, minute after minute, with astonishing variations, never
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    once repeating itself, almost as though the bird were deliberately showing off
    its virtuosity.
  5. daunt
    cause to lose courage
    The sweetness of the air and
    the greenness of the leaves daunted him.
  6. jeer
    laugh at with contempt and derision
    Them, it appeared, meant the Party, and above all the Inner Party, about
    whom she talked with an open jeering hatred which made Winston feel uneasy,
    although he knew that they were safe here if they could be safe anywhere.
  7. shirk
    avoid one's assigned duties
    I always Iook cheerful and I never shirk anything.
  8. obeisance
    bending the head or body in reverence or submission
    It spread out its wings, fitted them carefully into place again, ducked
    its head for a moment, as though making a sort of obeisance to the sun, and
    then began to pour forth a torrent of song.
  9. annihilate
    kill in large numbers
    Almost
    as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she
    flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole
    civilization seemed to be annihilated.
  10. sham
    something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
    Who knew, perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface,
    its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.
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