Animal Farm Vocabulary

  1. Ignominious (“And so within five minutes of their invasion they were in ignominiousretreat by the same way as they had come, with a flock of geese hissing after them and pecking at their calves all the way.”)

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  1. Gambol (“…when they thought of all this, their tiredness forsook them and they gambolled round and round the windmill, uttering cries of triumph.”)

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  1. Reposed (“Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen.”)

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  1. Arable (“And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labouron the upkeep of hedges and gates.”)

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  1. Indefatigable (“He was indefatigable at this”)

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  1. Laborious (“Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.”)

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  1. Procure (“How these were to be procured, Snowball did not say.”)

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  1. Capitulate (“For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes.”)

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  1. Mincing (“At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.”)

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  1. Incite (“The three hens who had been the ringleaders in the attempted rebellion over the eggs now came forward and stated that Snowball had appeared to them in a dream and incited them to disobey Napoleon's orders.”)

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  1. Complicity (“On the same day it was given out that fresh documents had been discovered which revealed further details about Snowball's complicity with Jones.”)

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  1. Dejected (“It was nearly 9 o’clock when Squealer made his appearance, walking slowly and dejectedly……and with every appearance of being seriously ill”)

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  1. Taciturn (“Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more morose and taciturn than ever.”

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  1. Restive (“They had all the more reason for doing so because the news of their defeat had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighbouring farms more restive than ever”)

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  1. Machination (“In the late summer yet another of Snowball's machinationswas laid bare.”)

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  1. Morose (“Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer's death, more moroseand taciturn than ever.”)

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  1. Irrepressible (“And yet the song was irrepressible.”)

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  1. Gruff (“Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruffsoldierly style, and after a single singing of 'Beasts of England', all the animals dispersed”)

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  1. Conciliatory (“In addition, four pigeons were sent to Foxwood with a conciliatory message, which it was hoped might re-establish good relations with Pilkington.”)

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  1. Meddle (“Clover asked Benjamin to read her the Sixth Commandment, and when Benjamin, as usual, said that he refused to meddle in such matters, she fetched Muriel.”)

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  1. Canvass (“At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at canvassingsupport for himself in between times.”)

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  1. Eminent (“Pre- eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale.”)

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  1. Sordid(“In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordidlabour was lifted from the animals' backs.”)Part of Speech- ______

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