Vocab Grabber World List: 1984. Nick Sexton

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  1. corrugate
    fold into ridges
    Were there always these vistas of
    rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber,
    their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron,
    their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions?
  2. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
    The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had
    a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the
    way.
  3. baulk
    refuse to comply
    Were there always these vistas of
    rotting nineteenth-century houses, their sides shored up with baulks of timber,
    their windows patched with cardboard and their roofs with corrugated iron,
    their crazy garden walls sagging in all directions?
  4. aureole
    the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere
    It was a lean Jewish face, with a
    great fuzzy aureole of white hair and a small goatee beard — a clever face, and
    yet somehow inherently despicable, with a kind of senile silliness in the long thin
    nose, near the end of which a pair of spectacles w
  5. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
    Thus, at one moment Winston’s
    hatred was not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against
    Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police; and at such moments his heart
    went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole gu
  6. nebulous
    lacking definite form or limits
    It had happened that morning at the Ministry, if anything so nebulous could
    be said to happen.
  7. strident
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
    The telescreen had
    changed over to strident military music.
  8. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
    For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal
    9glance, and that was the end of the story.
  9. specious
    plausible but false
    And all
    the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein’s
    specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the
    endless columns of the Eurasian army — row after row of solid-looking men
    with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and
    vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar.
  10. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
    And the bombed sites where
    the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of
    rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had
    sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?
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