Sinecure. Solipsism. Thoughtcrime. Ungood. Unperson. Anodyne

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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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Thoughtcrime

Definition: Thinking something that violates the government’s prescribed beliefs.

Example:Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

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Ungood

Definition: Bad, the opposite of ‛good.’

Example:Take ‘good’, for instance. If you have a word like ‘good’, what need is there for a word like ‘bad’? ‘Ungood’ will do just as well—better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not.

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Unperson

Definition: A person about whom all evidence of their existence is erased, typically after they are convicted of a crime and executed.

Example:Withers, however, was already an UNPERSON. He did not exist: he had never existed.

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Vapid

Definition: A lack of substance, empty of thought or meaning.

Example:A sort of vapideagerness flitted across Winston’s face at the mention of Big Brother.

Anodyne

Definition: Inoffensive, unlikely to inspire disagreement. Alternatively, a numbing agent or painkiller.

Example:It was their delight, their folly, their anodyne, their intellectual stimulant.

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