1984 Background Vocabulary

Directions: Students are to take 7 of these words and use them three separate times each (one notecard for each word, with the word on the front, and the three usages on the back). I want one sentence using the term in an analogous relationship, one where they use the term then define it in their own words, and one where they use the term in a sentence.

1984 Vocabulary: WAR IS PEACE (184-199)

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Neolithic: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age
Irrevocable: unable to be repealed or annulled
Gyroscope: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction
Arbitrary: subject to individual will or judgment without restriction
Annihilating: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence
Chivalrous: having the qualities of chivalry, as courage, courtesy, and loyalty
Reprisals: Retaliation for an injury with the intent of inflicting at least as much injury in return
Meritorious: deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc
Fecundity: fruitfulness or fertility, as of the earth
Archipelago: a large group or chain of island
Armaments: the arms and equipment with which a military unit or military apparatus is supplied
Inviolate: free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage
Dilapidated: reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect.
Antiseptic: free from or cleaned of germs and other microorganisms.
Empirical: derived from or guided by experience or experiment
Espionage: the act or practice of spying.
Inherent: existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute
Drudgery: menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
Confer: to consult together; compare opinions
Privations: Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life.
Obsolete: no longer in general use
Deliberate: carefully weighed or considered
Scarcity: insufficiency or shortness of supply; dearth
Austere: severe in manner or appearance
Laborious: requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance
Besieged: to crowd around; crowd in upon; surround
Credulous: willing to believe or trust too readily
Adulation: to show excessive admiration or devotion to
Orgiastic: of, pertaining to, or having the nature of an orgy
Spurious: not genuine, authentic, or true
Preponderance: superiority in weight, power, numbers
Diminution: the act, fact, or process of diminishing; lessening; reduction
Indefatigably: incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring
Soluble: capable of being solved or explained
Superseded: to replace in power, authority, effectiveness, acceptance, us
Assimilate: to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb
Tacitly: understood without being openly expressed; implied
Execrate: to detest utterly; abhor; abominate.
Barbarous: uncivilized; wild; savage; crude.
Distinguishable: to mark off as different
Impose: to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled
Impair: to make or cause to become worse
Inimical: adverse in tendency or effect
Palpable: readily or plainly seen, heard, perceive
Obliged: to require or constrain, as by law, command, conscience, or force of necessity
Ruminant: contemplative; meditative
Plundered: To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war
Inviolate: free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage