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

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