George Orwell Word Search
George Orwell, as a word search. 12 words drawn from the life, work, and legacy of a famous figure sit hidden in a 15×15 letter grid, running in every direction. Drag across a word to claim it, and clear the board to finish.
Words to find: ANIMALFARM, DYSTOPIA, NEWSPEAK, DOUBLETHINK, IGUESS, BIGBROTHER, ORWELLIAN, TELESCREEN, MINISTRYOFTRUTH, PROLES, GOLDCSTEIN, EMINENCEFRONT.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
George Orwell word list, defined
- DYSTOPIA /dɪˈstoʊpiə/ · noun
- An imagined state or society in which conditions are extremely bad, typically characterized by oppression, misery, or environmental ruin; the opposite of a utopia. Related: anti-utopia, hell on earth, nightmare world, totalitarian state.
- NEWSPEAK /ˈnuːspiːk/ · noun
- Newspeak is the language of official propaganda, especially language that deliberately distorts, obscures, or trivializes the truth. By extension, it refers to evasive, euphemistic, or overly bureaucratic jargon used to make communication sound authoritative while avoiding clarity. Related: propaganda, officialese, jargon, cant.
- DOUBLETHINK /ˈdʌbəlθɪŋk/ · noun
- The act of simultaneously accepting two contradictory beliefs or ideas as correct, typically without noticing the conflict. The term was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) and is now used more broadly for any self-deceptive mental accommodation of contradiction. Related: self-deception, cognitive dissonance, contradiction, inconsistency.
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