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1984 Part 3 Vocab
Flash Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
| insidious | awaiting a chance to entrap, harmful but enticing, having a gradual and cumulative effect |
| timorous | of a timid disposition, fearful |
| respite | a period of temporary delay |
| wanton | merciless, inhumane, lewd, bawdy, playfully mean or cruel, being without check or limitation, unduly lawfish |
| solipsisim | a theory holding that the self can no nothing but it's own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought |
| malleable | capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences, ability to adapt to change |
| torpid | sluggish in functioning or acting, numb, lacking energy or vigor |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms, to cease resisting |
| frivolity | the state of lacking seriousness, the state of unimportance or of lightheartedness |
| oblique | not straightforward, obscure, devious, underhanded, situated at an angle |