Inviolate. Obsolete. Oligarchy. Palimpsest. Proletariat. Rectify

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Inviolate

Definition: Protected from any sort of interference or physical attack.

Example:Now he had retreated a step further: in the mind he had surrendered, but he had hoped to keep the inner heart inviolate.

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Obsolete

Definition: No longer necessary, or no longer in use.

Example:What I had really intended to say was that in your article I noticed you had used two words which have become obsolete.

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Oligarchy

Definition: A system of government wherein power lies with a small group of wealthy, influential people, usually without official position.

Example:He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived, whereas adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years.

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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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