1984 Vocabulary

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Ruffianism

violent, lawless behavior

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Torpid

mentally or physically inactive; lethargic

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Indiscreet

careless in speech or action; showing a readiness to reveal things that should be left private

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Desultorily

jumping from one topic to another

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Perturbed

anxious or unsettled; upset

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Blubbering

loud weeping or crying

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Sanctimonious

making a show of being morally superior to other people

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Insidious

intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous

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Obscenity

an offensive or indecent word or phrase

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Denounce

to condemn openly

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Posteriors

situated in the back

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Timorous

fearful, timid

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Emaciated

extremely thin; wasted away

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Unreproved

not criticized for a fault or misdeed

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Hypodermic

pertaining to under the skin

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Truncheon

a police officer's stick

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Forsook

left, abandoned

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Stupor

a state of reduced awareness and responsiveness, where a person can be aroused by strong stimulation but is not fully conscious and may not make complete sense.

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Sniveling

crying and sniffing in a feeble or fretful way.

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Prevaricate

speak or act in an evasive way

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Prostrate

reduce to extreme physical weakness

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Solipsism

the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

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Hedonistic

engaged in the pursuit of pleasure