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Animal Farm Vocab Flashcards

1
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Ensconce

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Settle in comfortably

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Benevolent

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Showing kindness or goodwill

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Laborious

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Requiring much effort

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Falter

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Become unsure or hesitant

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5
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Enmity

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Hatred between enemies

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6
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Vivacious

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Lively

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7
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Gambol

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To leap or skip around playfully

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8
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Cryptic

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Having a hidden meaning

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Indefatigable

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Never showing signs of getting tired

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Maxim

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A wise saying

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Ignominious

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Involving total loss of dignity and respect

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12
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Tumult

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A violent noisy commotion

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13
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Posthumously

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Occurring after someone’s death

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Blithely

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Happy, cheerful, and carefree

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15
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Sordid

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Wretched, foul

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16
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Intermediary

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Somone who carries messages between people

17
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Indignation

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Anger caused by something seeming unfair or unreasonable

18
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Capitulate

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To surrender, especially under agreed conditions

19
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Abolish

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To put an end to something such as law

20
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Skulk

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To hide, especially in order to do something sinister

21
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Machination

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The devising of secret or complicated plans and schemes

22
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Conciliatory

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Trying t end an argument and make people feel less angry.

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Lamentation

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To express grief or feel sorry about something

24
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Contemptuous

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Feeling or expressing a strong dislike towards someone or something

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Taciturn

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Habitually uncommunicative or quiet in speech or manner

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Contend

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To fight with, struggle against, or deal with someone or something

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Seclusion

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A place of hiding

28
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Incite

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To cause to riot

29
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Apathy

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Lack or interest or emotions

30
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Obstinate

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Stubborn

31
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Frugal

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Not wasteful, economical

32
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Aloof

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Reserved, indifferent, disinterested

33
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Pretext

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Something put forward to conceal a true purpose

34
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Eminent

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High in rank and reputation, distinguished

35
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Tyrant

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An oppressive ruler

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