Palimpsest. Proletariat. Rectify. Sinecure. Solipsism

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Palimpsest

Definition: A written record which has had the original writing erased and overwritten, but which is still visible in places.

Example:All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary

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Proletariat

Definition: The strata of society described as working-class; laborers. Often used with a negative connotation implying low levels of education.

Example:And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.

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Rectify

Definition: Traditionally, to correct a mistake. In 1984, the term has been adopted into Newspeak and means the alteration of the historical record to match propaganda, with the implication that this act is always a correction, not a lie.

Example:The messages he had received referred to articles or news items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, as the official phrase had it, to rectify.

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Sinecure

Definition: A job or position that requires little or no actual work.

Example:After confessing to these things they had been pardoned, reinstated in the Party, and given posts which were in fact sinecuresbut which sounded important.

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Solipsism

Definition:The belief that the only thing that can possibly be proved real is the self.

Example:The word you are trying to think of is solipsism. But you are mistaken. This is not solipsism. Collective solipsism, if you like.

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