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1984 by George Orwell Book 1 Chapters 6 & 7

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  1. recur
    happen or occur again
    He shut his eyes and pressed his fingers against them, trying to squeeze out the vision that kept recurring.
  2. contortion
    a tortuous and twisted shape or position
    They were a few metres apart when the left side of the man's face was suddenly contorted by a sort of spasm.
  3. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
    Tacitly the Party was even inclined to encourage prostitution, as an outlet for instincts which could not be altogether suppressed.
  4. formidable
    extremely impressive in strength or excellence
    It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep, loud 'Oh-o-o-o-oh!' that went humming on like the reverberation of a bell.
  5. reverberate
    ring or echo with sound
    It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep, loud 'Oh-o-o-o-oh!' that went humming on like the reverberation of a bell.
  6. axiom
    a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof
    With the feeling that he was speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
  7. posterity
    all future generations
    They were executed, and their fate was recorded in the Party histories, a warning to posterity.
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