Round 1: Tossup 17

In this novel, a contradictory word meaning to quack like a duck is brought up by a character who desires to express every concept using exactly one word. This novel’s appendix details (10[1])the A, B, and C (10[1])vocabularies of a language where all parts of speech are interchangeable. (10[1])In this novel, the philologist Syme (10[1])works on the eleventh (10[1])edition of a (10[1])dictionary. (10[1])A dark-haired girl (10[1])throws a dictionary at an image of Emmanuel Goldstein in this novel on a “bright cold day in April [when] the clocks were (10[1])striking thirteen.” For 10 points, the words “thoughtcrime” and “doublethink” and the language Newspeak originate from what George Orwell novel about Winston Smith? ■END■

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