Vocabulary list 5
Definitions, Parts of Speech, and Example Sentences
To Garble (verb)
DEF: to reproduce something in a confused and distorted
way.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Garbled, adjective
Garble, noun
EX. SENTENCE: The candidate complained that his
opponent deliberately garbled his views on health care.
To Indoctrinate (Verb)
DEF: To fill someone’s mind with a usually partisan
opinion, point of view, or principle.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Indoctrination, noun
EX. SENTENCE: The goal should be to teach politics,
rather than to indoctrinate students with a narrow set of
political beliefs.
To Collate (Verb)
DEF: To assemble in a proper sequence
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
EX. SENTENCE: The hardest part of writing an essay is
researching and collating all of the evidence in support of
the thesis.
Palimpsest (noun)
DEF: Writing material used one or more times after earlier
writing has been erased from it. OR anything having
diverse layers beneath the surface.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
EX. SENTENCE: All history was a palimpsest, scraped
clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary to
keep the Party in the right.
To Proliferate (Verb)
DEF: To grow or increase in number rapidly
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Proliferation, noun
EX. SENTENCE: “Beetle-like” men proliferated the
Ministry of Truth: “little dumpy men, growing very stout
very early in life” seemed to be everywhere.
To Gesticulate (Verb)
DEF: To make gestures, especially when talking.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
EX. SENTENCES: She spoke wildly and swept her hands
through the air, gesticulating towards the scene of the
accident.
To Fulminate (verb)
DEF: To explode violently and with loud noise, often used
to describe a violent way of speaking.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Fulmination, noun
EX. SENTENCE: The voice on the telescreen fulminated
loudly about the atrocities committed by the hated enemy.
To Incriminate (Verb)
DEF: To suggest that someone is guilty. To charge or show
evidence of involvement in a crime.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Incrimination, noun
Incriminatory, adj.
EX. SENTENCE: In exchange for a reduced sentence, the
thief agreed to incriminate his accomplice.
Mutable (adj)
DEF: Capable of being changed
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Mutability, noun
Mutably, adverb
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: The Party’s power rests on the
mutability of the past, because, as the slogan says, “who controls
the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the
past.”
Anodyne (adjective)
DEF: serving to alleviate pain
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Anodyne, noun
EX. SENTENCE: The doctors prescribed a strong anodyne
to help with the pain after my knee surgery.