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  1. doublethink
    believing two contradictory ideas at the same time
    Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past.
  2. saboteur
    someone who deliberately destroys or disrupts something
    All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the
    enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.
  3. halfhearted
    feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm
    He picked up his pen halfheartedly, wondering whether he could find something more to write in the
    diary.
  4. gambol
    play or run boisterously
    It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow
    up into man-eaters.
  5. reverberate
    ring or echo with sound
    Somewhere far away a rocket bomb exploded with a dull, reverberating roar.
  6. impedimenta
    the baggage and equipment carried by an army
    Games impedimenta — hockey-sticks,
    boxing-gloves. a burst football, a pair of sweaty shorts turned inside out — lay
    all over the floor, and on the table there was a litter of dirty dishes and dogeared exercise-books.
  7. reverberating
    characterized by resonance
    Somewhere far away a rocket bomb exploded with a dull, reverberating roar.
  8. annihilation
    destruction by obliterating something
    And sure enough, following on a gory
    description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures
    of killed and prisoners, came the announcement that, as from next week, the
    chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty.
  9. drudge
    a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
    He was a
    fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms —
    one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even
    than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.
  10. myriad
    a large indefinite number
    Nothing was your own except the few cubic
    centimetres inside your skull.
    14The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of
    Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of
    a fortress.
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