1984 Section 3 Flashcards
Bolster
: a long bag of cloth completely filled with soft material : a long pillow or cushion
Incredulity
: a feeling that you do not or cannot believe or accept that something is true or real
Cunning
: getting what is wanted in a clever and often deceptive way
Driveling
to talk in a very foolish or silly way
Etiolate
To make feeble/ pale/ elderly
Fatuous
: foolish or stupid
Rectification
to correct (something that is wrong)
Enunciating
: to make a clear statement of (ideas, beliefs, etc.)
: to pronounce words or parts of words clearly
Extricate
to free or remove (someone or something) fromsomething (such as a trap or a difficult situation)
Pediment
Used to crown an opening, a monument, form part of a decrative scheme
Mortgage
: a legal agreement in which a person borrows money to buy property (such as a house) and pays back the money over a period of years
Obeisance
: a movement of your body (such as bowing) that shows respect for someone or something
: respect for someone or something
Prosaically
: dull or ordinary
Virtuosity
Moral excellence/ righteousness
Chastity
Lunacy
: extreme foolishness
: something that is very foolish
: extreme mental illness