Vocabulary list 5Definitions, 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.