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Dystopian State and setting of the novel
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The Republic of Gilead
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State secret service who drive in black vans
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The Eyes
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Areas which polluted and radioactive, where labourers and dissenters are sent to clean up the mess
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The Colonies
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Training centre for Handmaids-to-be
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The Rachel and Leah Centre
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State-run whore-house for rebellious Handmaids
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Jezebel's
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Ambulance for driving pregnant Handmaids to hospital
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Birthmobile
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Enforced sex ritual
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The Ceremony
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Serena Joy's perfume
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Lily of the Valley
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Soldiers
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The Angels
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Event in the Middle Gilead period, wiping out records pertaining to think tanks involving the Commander
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The Great Purge
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Underground Railroad for smuggling Handmaids out of the country
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The Underground Femaleroad
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Event which started the Christian fundamentalist takeover, which was blamed on Islamic extremists and used as a scapegoat to justify the takeover
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President's Day Massacre
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Name of the 'subject' taken by Handmaids during their 'training'
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Gyn Ed
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Name for an infertile Handmaid, or a Handmaid who gives birth to a child with deficiencies or disabilities
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Unwoman
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Baby with birth defects
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Unbaby
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Pre-Gilead prostitution service, pun on programme that delivered food to the elderly and vulnerable
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Feels on Wheels
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Some sort of pornography-distributing vans, almost synonymous with the above
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Bun-Dle Buggies
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Public ceremonies, segregated by gender. Women's ceremonies involved marriages of Daughters, men's celebrate military victories
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Prayvaganzas
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Execution ceremonies where rebels are killed
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Salvagings
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State-sanctioned way of describing black people
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Children of Ham
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Meetings between powerful Commanders where the social structure of the State is hammered out
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Sons of Jacob Think-Tank
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Shop which sells meat
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All Flesh
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Shop which sells groceries
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Milk and Honey
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Shop which prints out prayers for Commanders and Wives, used as a way of showing loyalty to the regime
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Soul Scrolls
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The most expensive brand of car in the novel, which is owned by Offred's commander
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Whirlwind
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The cheapest and 'chunky, practical' brand of car in the novel
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Behemoth
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Mid-range brand of car
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Chariot
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Convoluted way of describing homosexuals
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Gender Traitors
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Where dissenters' corpses are hung
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The Wall
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Group execution of a criminal by a group of Handmaids who beat up the accused to death
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Particicution
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ID-card for citizens in the dystopian State
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Identipass
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Shops which selled pornography in the pre-Gilead era
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Pornomarts
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State-sanctioned greeting between Handmaids, first used by Ofglen in Chapter 3
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Blessed be the fruit
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Accepted response to the above
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May the Lord open
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Ceremony as part of the Handmaid training programme, where Handmaids-to-be must own up to their 'sins' from the time before. In the novel Janine is the focus of this ceremony, which is hosted by Aunt Helena who used to run a Weight Watchers group
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Testifying
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The regime's multiple internal forms of electronic communications
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Computalk
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The central bank from which money is controlled by the State
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Compubank
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Number on the above, neologism for credit card number
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Compunumber
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Neologism for credit cards
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Compucount
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Computerized scanning devices that read credit cards and bar-coded pricing and inventory symbols
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Compuchek
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Electronic medical record
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Compudoc
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Secret underground resistance to the regime
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The Mayday Underground
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Signed between the State and other influential world powers in which they agreed not to fight each other in order to deal with internal rebellions and civil wars
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The Spheres of Influence Accord
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