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1984, Book 3, Ch. 3

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  1. abasement
    depriving one of self-esteem
    In our
    world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.
  2. barbarity
    the quality of being cruel, inhumane, or uncivilized
    A thousand
    times better than Winston he knew what the world was really like, in what
    degradation the mass of human beings lived and by what lies and barbarities
    the Party kept them there.
  3. digression
    a message that departs from the main subject
    All this is a digression,’ he added in a different tone.
  4. doublethink
    believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
    Have you
    forgotten doublethink?’
  5. emaciation
    extreme thinness, usually caused by starvation or disease
    But the truly frightening thing was the emaciation of his body.
  6. hedonistic
    devoted to pleasure
    It is the exact opposite
    of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined.
  7. inarticulate
    without or deprived of the use of speech or words
    Feebly, without arguments, with
    nothing to support him except his inarticulate horror of what O’Brien had said,
    he returned to the attack.
  8. proletarian
    belonging to or characteristic of the working class
    The secret
    accumulation of knowledge — a gradual spread of enlightenment — ultimately
    a proletarian rebellion — the overthrow of the Party.
  9. solipsism
    the philosophical theory that the self is all that exists
    The word you are trying to think of is solipsism.
  10. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
    Here and there under the dirt there were the red scars of wounds,
    and near the ankle the varicose ulcer was an inflamed mass with flakes of skin
    peeling off it.
Created on 九月 5, 2011 (updated 九月 5, 2011)

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