Animal Farm Vocabulary Flashcards

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Ensconced

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Place to hide

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Cynical

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Selfish / dishonest / negative attitide

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Plaited

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Braided

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Dissentient

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To publicly disagree with an official opinion

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Enmity

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Very deep unfriendly feelings

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Pre-eminent

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More important / skillful / successful than others

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Apathy

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Not having much emotion or interest

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Gambolled

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To run or jump in a lively way

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Conceived

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To become pregnant / give birth

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Acute

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Strong / sharp / sensitive / clear

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Cryptic

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Has a hidden meaning, difficult to understand

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Maxim

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A common, well known truth / saying

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Tractable

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Easy and simple to control

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Contemptible

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Doesn’t deserve any acknowledgement or respect

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Flogging

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To whip someone / to be whipped

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Irrepressible

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Can’t be stopped, usually in a positive manner

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Ignominious

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Making / causing shame

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Impromptu

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Made up on the spot with no planning

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Pretext

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A lie to cover up what you’re really doing

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Publican

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Someone who owns a pub

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Manifestly

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Easily seen / recognizable

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Liable

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Able to be held responsible for something

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Innovation

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New idea or new improvment

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Procured

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To obtain by some effort

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Restive

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Difficult to control

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Articulate

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To speak clearly

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Disinter

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To reveal

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Arable

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Able to grow crops

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Malignity

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The effect is evil

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Capitulated

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To surrender and to make an agreement like a treaty

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Attribute

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A characteristic / quality

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Graphically

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Vivid clear picture / explination

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Categorically

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Divided into an organized system

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Countenance

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Calm expression

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Incited

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To stir up and move to action

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Retribution

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Something given in payment for an offensive

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Sulking

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To be angry or upset, and stubborn

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Rash

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To be too quick in speech or action

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Machinations

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A plan to usually target towards accomplishing evil

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Censured

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Act of blaming someone

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Conciliatory

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To have people agree

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Unscathed

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Not hurt, harmed, or damaged

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Contrived

A

Fake

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Superannuated

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Old, out of date

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Complicity

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To associate with the wrong group

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Demeanor

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A behavior

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Inebriate

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To make drunk

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Morose

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Having a negative attitude, sullen, gloomy

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Taciturn

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Temperamentally declined to talk

50
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Subsisted

A

To exist