Animal Farm Vocabulary Flashcards
Ensconced
Place to hide
Cynical
Selfish / dishonest / negative attitide
Plaited
Braided
Dissentient
To publicly disagree with an official opinion
Enmity
Very deep unfriendly feelings
Pre-eminent
More important / skillful / successful than others
Apathy
Not having much emotion or interest
Gambolled
To run or jump in a lively way
Conceived
To become pregnant / give birth
Acute
Strong / sharp / sensitive / clear
Cryptic
Has a hidden meaning, difficult to understand
Maxim
A common, well known truth / saying
Tractable
Easy and simple to control
Contemptible
Doesn’t deserve any acknowledgement or respect
Flogging
To whip someone / to be whipped
Irrepressible
Can’t be stopped, usually in a positive manner
Ignominious
Making / causing shame
Impromptu
Made up on the spot with no planning
Pretext
A lie to cover up what you’re really doing
Publican
Someone who owns a pub
Manifestly
Easily seen / recognizable
Liable
Able to be held responsible for something
Innovation
New idea or new improvment
Procured
To obtain by some effort
Restive
Difficult to control
Articulate
To speak clearly
Disinter
To reveal
Arable
Able to grow crops
Malignity
The effect is evil
Capitulated
To surrender and to make an agreement like a treaty
Attribute
A characteristic / quality
Graphically
Vivid clear picture / explination
Categorically
Divided into an organized system
Countenance
Calm expression
Incited
To stir up and move to action
Retribution
Something given in payment for an offensive
Sulking
To be angry or upset, and stubborn
Rash
To be too quick in speech or action
Machinations
A plan to usually target towards accomplishing evil
Censured
Act of blaming someone
Conciliatory
To have people agree
Unscathed
Not hurt, harmed, or damaged
Contrived
Fake
Superannuated
Old, out of date
Complicity
To associate with the wrong group
Demeanor
A behavior
Inebriate
To make drunk
Morose
Having a negative attitude, sullen, gloomy
Taciturn
Temperamentally declined to talk
Subsisted
To exist