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Dynamic dictionary: English has more than one million words and is growing all the time. Glossary
AI - A computer programme that has been designed to think.
Pandemonium - Complete chaos or disorder.
Petulant - Childish and bad-tempered.
Valediction - The act of saying goodbye.
George Orwell - Real name Eric Arthur Blair, a world-renowned 20th-century novelist, most famous for his political novels Animal Farm and 1984.
Doublethink - Believing two contradictory things at the same time.