1984 Vocab 2 Flashcards

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Menace

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Person or thing likely to cause harm

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Statutory

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Required, permitted

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Partisanship

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Bias

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Myriad

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Countless or extremely great number

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Quail

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Show fear obviously

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Rasp

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Harsh grating noise

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Invertebrate

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Animal lacking a backbone

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Abject

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Something unpleasant, degrading, someone with no pride

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Fabrication

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Invention, lie

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Forgery

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A forged document, or act of making one

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Proletariat

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Workers, or working class

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Gratuitous

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Given free of charge

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary, more than enough

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Purge

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Rid someone of something unwanted, such as a pain or memory, violent removal of people from a place

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Ideological

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Body of doctrine or beliefs that lead a person or group

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Indoctrinate

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Teach people to accept a belief

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Posterity

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All future generations, one’s descendants

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Obeisance

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Deferential respect

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Stratum

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Level or class where people are assigned due to certain factors

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Lassitude

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Lack of energy, physical weariness

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Shirk

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Avoid or neglect

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Acrid

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Having an unpleasant or strong taste or smell

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Pretext

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A reason given for something but is not the real reason

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Fecundity

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Fertility, the ability or capacity to produce great numbers of young