Zahra Mahmood, 1984, Book 2, Chapter 8 (Chapter 16)

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  1. decanter
    a bottle with a stopper; for serving drinks
    Winston saw that he was carrying a tray with a decanter and glasses.
  2. lade
    fill or place a load on
    Beyond him Winston
    could see the writing-table with its green- shaded lamp and the speakwrite and
    the wire baskets deep-laden with papers.
  3. persiflage
    light teasing
    When he spoke
    of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was
    with a faint air of persiflage.
  4. wainscoting
    wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
    The passage down which he led
    them was softly carpeted, with cream-papered walls and white wainscoting, all
    exquisitely clean.
  5. venereal
    of or relating to the external sex organs
    ’You are prepared to cheat, to forge, to blackmail, to corrupt the minds of
    children, to distribute habit-forming drugs, to encourage prostitution, to dissem-
    inate venereal diseases — to do anything which is likely to cause demoralization
    and weak
  6. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
    O’Brien’s servant,
    however, had admitted the two of them without demur.
  7. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
    Nothing but a flash of the eyes and a single equivocal remark: beyond
    that, only his own secret imaginings, founded on a dream.
  8. jargon
    technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
    Then he pulled the speakwrite towards him and rapped out a
    message in the hybrid jargon of the Ministries:
    ’Items one comma five comma seven approved fullwise stop suggestion contained
    item six doubleplus ridiculous verging crimethink cancel stop unproceed
    constructionwise antegetting plusfull estimates machinery overheads stop end
    message.’
  9. catechism
    an elementary book summarizing the principles of a religion
    He began asking his
    questions in a low, expressionless voice, as though this were a routine, a sort of
    catechism, most of whose answers were known to him already.
  10. farthing
    a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny
    With a sort of grave courtesy he completed the
    stanza:
    ’Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement’s,
    You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St Martin’s,
    When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey
    When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch.’
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