Sayu Maruyama Round 2

Question 1

Avoid one’s assigned duties

“I always look cheerful and I never _ anything”

Answer 1

shirk

Question 2

Pretend, the act of giving a false appearance

“He went on, conscious that what he was saying must sound both feeble and ___ous”

Answer 2

pretense

Question 3

a secret planning, agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act

“We believe that there is some kind of ___, some kind of secret organization”

Answer 3

conspiracy

Question 4

more than is needed, desired, or required

“…the Newspeak Dictionary, was a provisional one, and contained many ___ words.”

Answer 4

superfluous

Question 5

decline in one’s behavior, go back to bad behavior

“Her large shapely
body seemed to ___ naturally into stillness.”

Answer 5

relapse

Question 6

specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

“Each contained a message of only one or two lines,
in the abbreviated _ -not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words”

Answer 6

jargon

Question 7

a series of questions and answers, an elementary book summarizing the principles of a Christian religion; written as questions and answers

“He began asking his questions in a low, expressionless voice, as though this were a routine, a sort of _ , most of whose answers were known to him already.

Answer 7

catechism

Question 8

extremely impressive in strength or excellence

” In spite of his _ appearance he had a certain charm of manner.”

Answer 8

formidable

Question 9

a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

“Every new political theory, by whatever name it
called itself, led back to _ and regimentation”

Answer 9

hierarchy

Question 10

a quantity much larger than is needed

“Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the _ of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society.”

Answer 10

surplus

Question 11

capable of / tending to/subject to change in form, quality, nature

Answer 11

mutable

Question 12

clouded, hazy, lacking definite form

Answer 12

nebulous

Question 13

a widely accepted bellief/theory

Answer 13

orthodox

Question 14

anything that slows or blocks progress. Something immaterial that interfers with/delays action

Answer 14

impediment

Question 15

destroyed completely, killing large numbers

Answer 15

annihilate

Question 16

marked by a narrow focus on/learning especially its trivial aspects

Answer 16

pedantic

Question 17

speak out against

Answer 17

denounce

Question 18

make unclear, obscure

Answer 18

obfuscate

Question 19

a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)

Answer 19

ration

Question 20

implied by or inferred from actions or statements

Answer 20

tacit

Question 21

have a tendency or disposition to do or be something;

Answer 21

incline (v)

Question 22

the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

Answer 22

virtue

Question 23

Strict, straight laced, and unsmiling, someone who is __ follows moral or religious rules to the letter.

Answer 23

puritanical

Question 24

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual

Answer 24

eccentric

Question 25

destroy completely

Answer 25

demolish

Question 26

easily broken or damaged or destroyed

Answer 26

frail

Question 27

intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

Answer 27

officious

Question 28

conceal or hide

Answer 28

repress

Question 29

lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest

Answer 29

vapid

Question 30

the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance

Answer 30

camouflage

Question 31

not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving

Answer 31

incredulous

Question 32

a quality that arouses emotions

Answer 32

pathos

Question 33

the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane

Answer 33

atrocity

Question 34

complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost

Answer 34

labyrinth

Question 35

secret and sly

Answer 35

furtive

Question 36

Nespeak, double-think, the ___ of the past

Answer 36

mutable

Question 37

..happened that morning at the Ministry, so ___ could be said to happen.

Answer 37

nebulous

Question 38

belief, merely a hope- that O'Brien's political ___ was not perfect

Answer 38

orthodox

Question 39

Games _____ lay all over the floor

Answer 39

impediment

Question 40

...your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, ___: vaporized was the usual word

Answer 40

annihilate

Question 41

It was necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to ___.

Answer 41

rectify

Question 42

Big Brother;s familiar style: a style at once millitary and ___

Answer 42

pedantic

Question 43

you were supposed to call evevryone ___

Answer 43

comrade

Question 44

but so long as he uttered it, in some ___ way the continuity was not broken.

Answer 44

obfuscate

Question 45

Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ___ was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week 50

Answer 45

ration

Question 46

___ly the Party was even inclined to encourage prostitution, as an outlet for instincts which could not be altogether suppressed. 83

Answer 46

tacit

Question 47

Tacitly the Party was even ___d to encourage prostitution 83

Answer 47

incline (v)

Question 48

And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of ___

Answer 48

virtue

Question 49

The sexual ___sm of the Party was not imposed upon them

Answer 49

puritanical

Question 50

The bomb had ___ed a group of houses 200 metres up the street 107

Answer 50

demolish

Question 51

He was a man of perhaps sixty, ___ and bowed,

Answer 51

frail

Question 52

Whether she was really an agent of the Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by ____ness, hardly mattered.

Answer 52

officious

Question 53

All over Oceania this morning there were i___ble spontaneous demonstrations

Answer 53

repress

Question 54

‘I was working,’ said Winston ____.

Answer 54

indifferent

Question 55

A sort of ____ eagerness flitted across Winston’s face at the mention of Big Brother

Answer 55

vapid

Question 56

It paid, she said, it was _____

Answer 56

camouflage

Question 57

In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look ____ when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offence.

Answer 57

incredulous

Question 58

or he would attempt a snivelling note of ___ in his efforts to get more than his share.

Answer 58

pathos

Question 59

Julia’s unit in the Fiction Department had been taken off the production of novels and was rushing out a series of ____ pamphlets.

Answer 59

atrocity

Question 60

His mind slid away into the __ world of doublethink

Answer 60

labyrinth

Question 61

spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous; but no attempt was made to ___ them with the ideology of the Party.

Answer 61

indoctrinate

Question 62

Winston sighed ___. He picked up his pen again and wrote:

Answer 62

inaudible

Question 63

he had procured one, ____ly and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on

Answer 63

furtive