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 the A, (10[1])B, and C vocabularies of a language where all parts of speech (10[1])are interchangeable. In this novel, the philologist Syme works on the eleventh edition (10[1])of a dictionary. (10[1])A dark-haired girl (10[1])throws a dictionary at an image (10[1])of Emmanuel Goldstein in this novel (10[1])on a “bright cold day in April [when] the clocks were striking thirteen.” (10[1])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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