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Support vocabulary development and enhance reading comprehension with this set of games and activities to complement Book 1 of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984. Two crossword puzzles, two word search activities, a vocabulary application worksheet, and answer keys are provided. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats.

Specifically, the following vocabulary terms are addressed: atrocity, bough, clamor, conspicuous, contempt, dingy, dissemble, feeble, furtively, genially, heretical, incredulous, inscrutable, interminable, murmur, nebulous, obsolete, odious, procure, reproach, strident, subtlety, tedious, treachery, and tremulous.

By engaging with these activities, students will:

  • Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words
  • Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings
  • Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

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1984 by George Orwell Vocabulary Development Games and Activities Bundle

Frontload assigned readings with these vocabulary games and activities to facilitate comprehension of George Orwell's dystopian novel *1984*. Alternatively, stash these materials in an emergency sub folder to keep students meaningfully engaged in the book during unexpected teacher absences. Included are three vocabulary application activities, six crossword puzzles, six word search games, and answer keys. Materials are delivered in Word Document and PDF formats. A total of 75 challenging words are addressed: abashed, aberrations, allusion, apathetic, assent, atrocity, avaricious, barren, beseech, bough, clamber, clamor, coarse, conspicuous, contempt, continually, denounce, dingy, disquieting, dissemble, doleful, eccentricity, eminent, extricate, exult, feeble, fleeting, furtively, genially, heretical, incredulous, indefatigably, indignation, ineffectual, inscrutable, intently, interminable, keen, luminous, melancholy, mournful, murmur, mutter, nebulous, obsolete, odious, omnipotent, palpable, persecute, prevaricate, procure, recede, reconciliation, relinquish, remonstrance, reproach, reverence, shrill, shudder, solitude, spurious, strident, subdued, subtlety, superfluous, surly, tedious, tentative, torpid, treachery, tremulous, vague, vehemently, weariness, and whimper. By engaging with these activities, students will: * Determine the meaning of unfamiliar and complex words * Consult reference materials in order to learn and verify word meanings * Discern the most proper application of words as they are used in sentences

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