george Orwell Flashcards
Catechism
Book with guidelines to Christianity; close questioning of a political figure
Urbane
Polite in a smooth, polished, nice way
Etiolate
To cause or become weak or sickly
Dupes
To decieve
Clandestine
Something concealed for the purpose of deception
Inscrutable
Incapable of being investigated/ analyzed
Vapid
W/out liveliness or spirit;dull and tedious
Fulminating
Shouting or explosive
Lassitude
Weariness of mind or body from strain or climate
Wheedle
To persuade or obtain by flattery or guile
Persiflage
Frivolous bantering talk; light raillery
Ossified
Hardened like ridgid
Tableau
Models, motionless figures, representing a scene from a story or history
Obeisance
A moment of the body showing respect, like a bow or curtsy
Repudiate
To reject, disapproved of, or cast away
Frowsy
Dirty, untidy, slovenly, drowsy
Edified
Instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement
Penitence
the state of repentance (sincere regret or remorse)
Inexorable
Immovable in purpose of will
Avaricious
Characteristically greedy; immoderately desirous of wealth or gain
Solipsism
The theory that only the self exists or can be proved to exist; self- absorption
Palimpsest
A text which had been erased and used again w/ old work showing through
Febile
Pertaining to or marked by fever
Multifarious
Many parts, numerous, varied, greatly diverse
