1. Definitions, Parts of Speech, and Example Sentences
Vocabulary list 8
Definitions, Parts of Speech, and Example Sentences

2. To Cauterize (verb) DEF: To make insensible (by burning or freezing).
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Cauterization, noun
EX. SENTENCE: “Something was killed in your breast, burnt out, cauterized out.”

3. To Prevaricate (verb)
DEF: To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information. To deviate from the truth
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Prevarication, noun
EX. SENTENCE: During the hearings the witness was willing to prevaricate in order to protect his friend, even though he was under oath to tell the whole truth.

4. To Writhe (verb)
DEF: To react to pain by moving and twisting about uncontrollably.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/a
EX. SENTENCE: Winston could see Julia on the floor, writhing in pain from the blow to her stomach.

5. To Flit (Verb)
DEF: To move rapidly and lightly. To skim or dart about.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/a
EX. SENTENCE: “His eyes flitted around the walls, as if he half expected to find a window somewhere.”

6. Fallacy (Noun) DEF: A false or mistaken idea. RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Fallacious, adj.
Fallaciously, adv.
EX. SENTENCE: The fallacies of the Party could never be proven because all the documents that could prove the lies had been destroyed.

7. Premonitory (Adj.) DEF: Warning of future misfortune
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Premonitorily, adv.
EX. SENTENCES: The volcano created a tremble in the earth, which some scientists believe is a premonitory sign of an inevitable catastrophic eruption.

8. To Grovel (Verb) DEF: To show submission or fear. To cower.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/a
EX. SENTENCE: “He felt the smash of truncheons on his elbows and iron-shod boots on his shins; he saw himself groveling on the floor, screaming for mercy through broken teeth.”

9. Sanctimonious (Adj)
DEF: Excessively or hypocritically pious or devout.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Sanctimoniously, adv.
Sanctimoniousness, noun
EX. SENTENCE: Some politicians sanctimoniously criticize others for engaging in immoral activity while themselves engaging in such activities in private.

10. Malleable (Adj) DEF: Easily influence or shaped.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
Malleability, noun
EXAMPLE SENTENCE: The Party takes advantage of the malleability of people in order to shape them to believe exactly what the Party wants them to believe.

11. Sinecure (noun)
DEF: An office or position (normally a government job) that requires little or no work but provides enough income to live.
RELATED PARTS OF SPEECH:
n/a
EX. SENTENCE: In order to keep his opponents quiet, the ruler gave them sinecures for which they would be indebted to him.