1984 Vocabulary

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1984 - Terms and Vocabulary

Here's a vocabulary list from 1984, by George Orwell. Use these terms for reference, study, and discussion.

1984: Alphabetically Listed

• allusion
• altercation
• annihilate
• aquiline
• austere
• balminess
• bludgeon
• catapult
• chastity
• collate
• commodity
• cumbersome
• dapple
• debauchery
• degradation
• demeanor
• denounce
• depict
• despicable
• digression
• dilapidated
• discountenanced
• disdain
• dissipate
• eccentricity
• effigies
• embezzlement
• fathom
• fecundity
• flog
• forlorn
• fretted
• gamboling
• gnawing
• guise
• haggling
• hallucination
• heretic
• hierarchy
• hoard
• implicate
• improvisation
• inconceivable
• incriminate
• indignation
• infallible
• innumerable
• inquisitor
• inscrutable
• interminable
• intermittent
• interpose
• intimidate
• invariably
• irony
• irreconcilable
• irrepressible
• irrevocable
• jostle
• kaleidoscope
• listless
• luminous
• malignant
• meditatively
• multifarious
• mutability
• niggling
• officiousness
• oligarchical
• orifice
• pathos
• peddler
• perish
• plunder
• polysyllabic
• posterity
• predicament
• preponderance
• proles
• proliferate
• promiscuity
• queue
• raspingly
• ravage
• recurrence
• refute
• remonstrance
• remorselessly
• renegade
• repression
• reprisal
• reproach
• repudiate
• reverberate
• reverence
• rowdy
• ruminant
• sabotage
• saboteur
• salutation
• scrounge
• scrutinize
• sordid
• shrewish
• simultaneously
• sordid
• spurious
• stagnant
• stratum
• strenuousness
• supple
• swine
• tacitly
• taut
• tiddlywinks
• timorously
• truncheon
• unendurable
• unorthodox
• unprocurable
• venerate
• voluptuous
• wainscoting

1984: Listed by Appearance

Part I:

I:

• depict
• simultaneously
• predicament
• interminable
• unorthodox
• renegade
• polysyllabic
• refute
• flog
• inscrutable

II:

• discountenanced
• gamboling
• saboteur
• raspingly
• reverberate

III:

• reproach
• fathom
• disdain
• annihilate
• repudiate
• shrewish

IV:

• orifice
• collate
• multifarious
• kaleidoscope
• denounce
• implicatep

V:

• hoard
• remorselessly
• venerate
• heretic
• catapult
• irrepressible
• proliferate

VI:

• debauchery
• promiscuity
• aquiline

VII:

• jostle
• flog
• listless
• incriminate
• posterity
• stratum

VIII:

• balminess
• sordid
• altercation
• meditatively
• innumerable
• cumbersome
• officiousness
• unprocurable

Part II:

I:

• niggling
• hallucination
• malignant
• guise

II:

• dapple
• swine
• strenuousness

III:

• demeanor
• stagnant
• commodity
• chastity

IV:

• inconceivable
• eccentricity
• unendurable

V:

• effigies
• rowdy
• indignation
• perish
• mutability

VI:

• invariably

VII:

• queue
• intermittent
• luminous
• scrounge
• pathos
• remonstrance
• proles

VIII:

• intimidate
• wainscoting
• salutation
• allusion

IX:

• fretted
• voluptuous
• reprisal
• fecundity
• dilapidated
• ravage
• austere
• spurious
• preponderance
• tacitly
• ruminant
• plunder
• irrevocable
• irreconcilable
• recurrence
• hierarchy
• infallible
• oligarchical
• scrutinize
• dissipate
• repression

X:

• supple
• reverence

Part III:

I:

• gnawing
• peddler
• timorously
• irony

II:

• sabotage
• truncheon
• embezzlement
• inquisitor
• despicable

III:

• bludgeon
• forlorn
• degradation

IV:

• taut
• improvisation

V:

• interpose

VI:

• haggling
• digression
• tiddlywinks