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  1. predestine
    decree or determine beforehand
    Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.
  2. varicose
    abnormally swollen or knotty
    They had dressed his varicose ulcer with soothing ointment.
  3. cyst
    a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure
    And all the while he must keep his hatred locked up inside him like a ball of matter which was part of himself and yet unconnected with the rest of him, a kind of cyst.
  4. athleticism
    the quality of having physical strength, speed, and energy
    It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors.
  5. revery
    an abstracted state of absorption
    Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes.
  6. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
    The fallacy was obvious.
  7. frivolity
    the trait of being not serious or sensible
    From the moment when he was inside the Ministry of Love — and yes, even during those minutes when he and Julia had stood helpless while the iron voice from the telescreen told them what to do — he had grasped the frivolity, the shallowness of his attempt to set himself up against the power of the Party.
  8. succumb
    give in, as to overwhelming force, influence, or pressure
    He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it.
  9. intermittent
    stopping and starting at irregular intervals
    He began to grow actually proud of his body, and to cherish an intermittent belief that his face also was growing back to normal.
  10. reverie
    an abstracted state of absorption
    One day — but ’one day’ was not the right expression; just as probably it was in the middle of the night: once — he fell into a strange, blissful reverie.
Created on 九月 10, 2011

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