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 vocabularies of a language (10[2])where all parts of speech (10[1])are interchangeable. (-5[1])In this novel, (10[1])the philologist Syme (-5[1])works on the eleventh (10[2])edition (10[1])of a dictionary. A dark-haired (-5[1])girl throws a dictionary at an image of Emmanuel Goldstein in this novel on (10[1])a “bright cold day in April [when] the clocks were striking thirteen.” For 10 points, the words “thoughtcrime” and “doublethink” and the (10[1])language Newspeak originate from what George Orwell (10[1])novel about Winston Smith? ■END■ (10[1])

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