evil ruler begins to eliminate words in vocabulary

[Victoria]

evil ruler begins to take away words down to only a few, from people to control them by not allowing words that might cause revolution, rebellion and other anti ruler movements-I thought it was The List-but cannot find it

[Lou]

The Wonderful O?

[Devdas]

This is part of Newspeak, the double plus ungood language of Oceania from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. It isn't an evil ruler taking away words though.

[Paige]

The List

[Kris]

Victoria, what's the genre (which we need to add to the header/ topic title) - e.g., for kids, teens or adults? fantasy, dystopia, thriller, etc.?

What type of world is the story set it?

Around what year did you read this book?