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1984
Newspeak Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Victory Mansions | government issued housing |
| Big Brother | figurehead of Oceania |
| Hate Week | Week in which Oceanian citizens all attend rallies and parades to inflame hatred of Party enemies and heighten their efforts on behalf of Oceania |
| telescreen | two-way television |
| Police Patrol | travel around Oceania arresting people |
| Thought Police | police force in charge of eliminating crimethink |
| Airstrip One | Britain |
| Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia | three super powers constantly at war |
| Newspeak | language, gets smaller |
| Ministry of Truth | propagate lies |
| Ministry of Love | torture, reconditioning people |
| Ministry of Plenty | economic affairs |
| Ministry of Peace | war |
| the Party | highest group of people on Oceania |
| Party slogans | war is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery |
| physical jerks | morning calisthenics |
| INGSOC | english socialism |
| doublethink | The power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them. |
| mutability of the past | changing the past, make BB loo omniscient |
| "Victory" | government issued |
| speawrite | voice recognition software |
| proles | not considered part of the Party, allowed to do what they wanted |
| Two Minutes Hate | Daily telescreen specials in which various elements of crimethink were packaged into a parade of horrible images and sounds, at which, the viewers were expected to boo, hiss, curse. and release any negative emotions upon. |
| Junior Anti-Sex league | Organization promoting celibacy, and the eradication of the orgasm, because these things cause feelings of ownlife |
| Inner Party | official party members, upper class |
| Outer Party | "middle class" people |
| enemy of the people | Goldstein |
| the Brotherhood | people against BB |
| the Book | written by Goldstein |
| vaporization | elimination of a person |
| the Youth League | marches, party ideology |
| Spies | kids who watch out for their parents |
| memory hole | slots in the walls |
| pornosec | the porno section |
| artsem | artificial insemination |
| facecrime | facial expressions |
| duckspeak | people who spit political jargon |
| ownlife | independent lifestyle |
| Chesnut Tree Cafe | place for intellectuals and artists, symbolic of expression |
| lift | elevator |
| flat | apartment |
| spanner | wrench |
| tube | subway |
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