1984 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. A system of government wherein power lies with a small group of wealthy, influential people, usually without official position.
  2. 4. Bad, the opposite of ‛good.’
  3. 5. To hold two contradictory concepts in your mind simultaneously
  4. 7. A job or position that requires little or no actual work.
  5. 8. the alteration of the historical record to match propaganda, with the implication that this act is always a correction, not a lie.
  6. 9. Protected from any sort of interference or physical attack.
  7. 11. A person about whom all evidence of their existence is erased, typically after they are convicted of a crime and executed.
Down
  1. 1. The strata of society described as working-class; laborers. Often used with a negative connotation implying low levels of education.
  2. 2. Thinking something that violates the government’s prescribed beliefs.
  3. 6. No longer necessary, or no longer in use.
  4. 10. A lack of substance, empty of thought or meaning.