Animal Farm Vocabulary Flashcards
to carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface
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Inscribe
These Seven Commandments would now be inscribed on the wall; they would form an unalterable law by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.
a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)
Ration
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare rations and a stall?
entrench; fix firmly; absorb in
Ensconce
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
a small natural hill
Knoll
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
The oak tree grew on the grassy knoll to the north of the field.
mine
Quarry
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand.
material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Chaff
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
They met with many difficulties–for instance, later in the year, when they harvested the corn, they had to tread it out in the ancient style and blow away the chaff with their breath, since the farm possessed no threshing machine–but the pigs wit
play boisterously
Gambol
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
In the ecstasy of that thought they gamboled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.
a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
Windfall
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.
too old to be useful; retired
Superannuated
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
Now that the small field beyond the orchard had been set aside for barley, it was rumoured that a corner of the large pasture was to be fenced off and turned into a grazing-ground for superannuated animals.
adj-having a secret or hidden meaning
Cryptic
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,” and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer.
a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
Maxim
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
Boxer’s first maxim is “I will work harder.”
v.- to put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
Utilize
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
The animals could not utilize tools the way humans do because it is difficult to hold a tool with a hoof.
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
Piebald
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
The young pigs were piebald, and as Napoleon was the only boar on the farm, it was possible to guess at their parentage.
originate; come forth from
Spring
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
“Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?”
determination
Resolution
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
The animals’ resolution to harvest the field was absolute, and they did it faster than Jones ever did.
adj.-(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
Ignominious
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
And so within five minutes of their invasion the troops were in ignominious retreat.
-dig up for reburial or for medical investigation
Disinter
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
The skull of old Major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred.
-work together on a common enterprise of project
Collaborate
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
Don’t you miss the days when students could put desks together to collaborate?
-large deep serving dish with a cover; for serving soups and stews
Tureen
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
Please pass the tureen; I could really use some soup.
adj-characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; esp. physical effort
Laborious
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
avoid (one’s assigned duties)
Shirk
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
Nobody shirked–or almost nobody.
work hard
Toil
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
For that day we all must labor, though we die before it break; Cows and horses, geese and turkeys, All must toil for freedom’s sake.
to make a legally binding command (as if issued by a court or judge)
Decreed
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
He decreed the hens’ rations to be stopped,
-n-the refuse or waste formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
Slag
RELEVANT SENTENCE:
The slag at the bottom of the wheelbarrow made my hand dirty when I touched it.
