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.