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vocabulary '1984'
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| to grate | to grincer, râper, être agaçant(e) |
| to utter | to say something or to make a sound with your voice |
| She sat through the whole meeting without a word. | to utter |
| a furnace | a container heated to a high temperature, so that substances inside it will melt or burn |
| grossly | extremely |
| to be aware of something | knowing that something exists |
| Were you of the risks at the time? | to be aware of something |
| to crumple something up | to crush a piece of paper until all of it is folded. |
| a palimpsest | a old document in which writing has been removed and covered or replaced by new writing |
| forgery | an illegal copy of a document, painting, etc. or the crime of making such illegal copies |
| an output | used to refer to the amount of something that a person or thing produces. |
| Government statistics show the largest drop in industrial for ten years. | output |
| dart a glance OR look at sb | to look quickly at someone |
| She a sly sideways glance at Bramwell. | darted |
| to toil | to work hard |
| ineffectual | inefficient |
| The teachers were at maintaining discipline. | ineffectual |
| repository | a person who has, or a book that contains, a lot of information or detailed knowledge |
| multifarious | of many different types |
| The newspaper report detailed the fraudster's business activities. | multifarious |
| kaleidoscope: a changing and enjoyable mixture or pattern | |
| to incur | to experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken |
| The play has the wrath | anger of both audiences and critics. |
| to stroke | in French: caresser |
| to spring | to move quickly and suddenly towards a particularly place |
| I out of bad to answer the door. | sprang |
| pedantic | disapproving, giving too much attention to formal rules or small details |
| Professor Harris had a narrow, approach to history that put us to sleep. | pedantic |
| to leap out at somebody | If something leaps out at you, you notice it immediately |
| As I turned the page his picture out at me. | leapt |
| to disregard | to ignore something |
| The jury was told to the comments made by the witness. | disregard |
| to rise up | to go upwards |
| to hum | to make a low continuous sound |
| The birds sang, the bees . | hummed |
| to blossom | to develop good, attractive, or successful qualities. |
| What began as a local festival has into an international event. | blossomed |
| to gamble | in French: parier |
| to itch | when a part of your body itches, you have an feeling on your skin that makes you want to scratch. |
| stovepipe | pipe usually made of sheet steel used as a stove chimney or to connect a stove with a flue |
| bareness | noun derived from the adj. ‘bare’: not covered by any clothing. |
| the mist | thin frog produced by small drops of water collecting in the air |
| embezzlement | secretly taking money that is in your care or that belongs to your employer (crime) |
| a sinecure | a paid position that involves little or no work. |
| to sag | to become weaker or to drop down to a lower level in the middle |
| The shelf under the weight of the heavy books. | sagged |
| bulging | sticking out in a rounded shape |
| His eyes seemed to like those of a toad. | buldge |
| to bray | to make the loud noise typical of a donkey |
| The mules suddenly started . | braying |
| to jeer | to laugh or shout insults at someone to show you have no respect for them. |
| The people at the back of the hall the speaker. | jeered |
| stratum | one of the parts or layers into which something is separated. |
| A of society is a group of people who are similar in their education, income, or social status. | stratum |
| to scribble | you write quickly and roughly |
| She a note to tell Mum she'd gone out | scribbled |
| a draught | a current of air that comes into a place in an undesirable way |
| tacitly | without expressing something directly |
| truism | a statement that is so obviously true that it is almost not worth saying. |
| As far as health is concerned, it's a that prevention is better than cure. | truism |
| axiom | a statement or principle that is generally accepted to be true, but need not be so. |
| It is a widely held that governments should not negotiate with terrorists. | axiom |
| demeanour | a way of looking and behaving |
| She has the of a woman who is contented with her life. | demeanour |
| To drift | to move slowly, especially as a result of outside forces, with no control over direction |
| No one noticed that the boat had begun to out to sea. | drift |
| to flick | to move with a short, sudden movement. |
| He his cigarette out of the window. | flicked |
| to heave | to move something heavy using a lot of effort. |
| He cleared a space, boxes out of the way. | heaving |
| to heave | If something heaves, it makes one or more large movements up and down |
| As the wind increased, the deck of the ship began to beneath his feet. | heave |
| coated | thickly covered |
| Your trousers are in mud! | coated |
| to dodge | to avoid being hit, caught, or seen by moving suddenly |
| Stiff | firm and not easily bent or moving with pain or difficulty |
| I'm all over right now. | stiff |
| to grasp | to grip firmly or to understand |
| sour | having a sharp biting taste like the taste of lemon juice or vinegar |
| Stifling | suffocating |
| The heat of the little room was beginning to make me nauseous. | stifling |
| sweltering | something extremely hot that makes you feel uncomfortable (weather) |
| In the summer, it's in the smaller classrooms. | sweltering |
| loosestrife | any of various primulaceous plants of the genus Lysimachia, esp the yellow-flowered |
| to blaze | to burn fiercely |
| to tickle | chatouiller |
| to wriggle | to twist and turn with quick movements |
| to dissent | do disagree |
| Anyone wishing to from the motion should now raise their hand. | dissent |
| cunning | clever at deceiving |
| to scrape | to produce a grating sound by rubbing against (something else) |
| She went round the car the frost off the windows. | scraping |
| sodden | soaking wet |
| a shelter | something that provides cover or protection from weather or danger. |
| A neighbour the boy for seven days. | sheltered |
| a rubble | pile of broken stones or bricks |
| to scrounge | to beg |
| Peter never buys anything - he just off his friends. | scrounges |
| a mantelpiece | a shelf above a fireplace, usually part of a frame that surrounds the fireplace. |
| counterpane | a bed covering |
| a fender | a low metal frame around an open fireplace that stops the coal or wood from falling out |
| pathos | the power of a person, situation, or work of art to cause feelings of sadness, people feel sympathy |
| The dying girl’s speech generates genuine . | pathos |
| to wrench | to pull and twist something suddenly or violently away from its position |
| the phone had been from (or ‘off’) the wall. | to wrench |
| to pilfer | to steal things of small values. |
| He was caught sweet from the shop. | pilfering |
| quilted | (especially on clothes) filled with thick soft material that is sewn in place |
| to be in the grip of something | to be experiencing something unpleasant that you have no control over |
| The country currently in the grip of the worst recession in 20 years. | to be in the grip of |
| a stream | water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed usually at ground level |
| a stalk | the main stem of a plant, or the narrow stem that joins leaves, flowers, or fruit to the main stem. |
| She trimmed the of the tulips before putting them in a vase. | stalks |
| downhearted | sad and discouraged |
| After hearing the news of the defeat, she told supporters not to be . | downhearted |
| to outwit | to get an advantage over someone by acting more cleverly and often by using a trick. |
| In the story, the cunning fox the hunters. | outwits |
| utmost | to emphasise how important or serious something is |
| The situation needs to be handled with the care. | utmost |
| varicose veins | a condition in which the tubes that carry blood, are swollen and can be seen on the skin |
| Pregnant women often get . | varicose vein |
| dimly | in a way that does not give or have much light |
| The room was lit. | dimly |
| torpid | not active or thinking slowly, especially as a result of being lazy or feeling that you want to sleep |
| It remains there quiescent, dormant and torpid in the hope that someday the waters will return. | torpid |
| taut | tight |
| He kept his eyes on the road ahead, his face with concentration. | taut |
| to squat | to crouch with the knees bent and the weight on the feet |
| He down and examined the front wheel of his bike. | squatted |
| whitish | almost white in colour |
| a lump | a small solid mass without definite shape |
| blissful | extremely delightful |
| We spent a year together before things started to go wrong. | blissful |
| elm | a kind of tree (orme in French |
| willow | a tree that grows near water and has long, thin branches that hang down. (saule pleureur) |
| a furrow | a long line or hollow that is formed or cut into the surface of something |
| a deep has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries. | furrow |
| onwards | If you move onwards, you continue to go forwards |
| We sailed in a westerly direction. | onwards |
| cyst | a round mass growing just under the skin or deeper in the body, that contains liquid |
| to plunge | to (cause someone or something to) move or fall suddenly and often forward, down, or into something |
| We ran down to the beach and into the sea. | plunged |
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