Chapter 10

Question 1

inebriates

Answer 1

Make (someone) drunk; intoxicate.
e.g
Jones too was dead–he had died in an inebriates’ home in another part of the country.

Question 2

stiff

Answer 2

Not easily bent or changed in shape; rigid.
e.g
Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with a tendency to rheumy eyes.

Question 3

muzzle

Answer 3

The projecting part of the face, including the nose and mouth, of an animal such as a dog or horse.
e.g
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.

Question 4

morose

Answer 4

Sullen(Bad-tempered and sulky.) and ill-tempered.
e.g
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.

Question 5

taciturn

Answer 5

(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
e.g
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.

Question 6

filial

Answer 6

Relating to or due from a son or daughter.
e.g
They accepted everything that they were told about the Rebellion and the principles of Animalism, especially from Clover, for whom they had an almost filial respect; but it was doubtful whether they understood very much of it.

Question 7

prosperous

Answer 7

Successful in material terms; flourishing financially.
e.g
The farm was more prosperous now, and better organized: it had even been enlarged by two fields which had been bought from Mr. Pilkington.

Question 8

denounced

Answer 8

Publicly declare to be wrong or evil.
e.g
Napoleon had denounced such ideas as contrary to the spirit of Animalism.

Question 9

frugally

Answer 9

in a careful way when using money or food.
e.g
The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.

Question 10

ignorant

Answer 10

Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
e.g
Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand.

Question 11

memoranda

Answer 11

A written message in business or diplomacy.
e.g
Squealer told them that the pigs had to expend enormous labours every day upon mysterious things called “files,” “reports,” “minutes,” and “memoranda”.

Question 12

welfare

Answer 12

The health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group.
e.g
This was of the highest importance for the welfare of the farm, Squealer said. But still, neither pigs nor dogs produced any food by their own labours; and there were very many of them, and their appetites were always good.

Question 13

racked

Answer 13

Cause extreme pain, anguish, or distress to.
e.g
Sometimes the older ones among them racked their dim memories and tried to determine whether in the early days of the Rebellion, when Jones’s expulsion was still recent, things had been better or worse than now.

Question 14

invariably

Answer 14

In every case or on every occasion; always.
e.g
There was nothing with which they could compare their present lives: they had nothing to go upon except Squealer’s lists of figures, which invariably demonstrated that everything was getting better and better.

Question 15

professed

Answer 15

(of a quality, feeling, or belief) claimed openly but often falsely.
e.g
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

Question 16

unalterable

Answer 16

Not able to be changed.
e.g
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life

Question 17

marvel

Answer 17

Be filled with wonder or astonishment.
e.g
Not one of them, not even the youngest, not even the newcomers who had been brought from farms ten or twenty miles away, ever ceased to marvel at that.

Question 18

masthead

Answer 18

The highest part of a ship’s mast or of the lower section of a mast.
e.g
And when they heard the gun booming and saw the green flag fluttering at the masthead

Question 19

imperishable

Answer 19

Enduring forever.
e.g
their hearts swelled with imperishable pride

Question 20

untrodden

Answer 20

(of a surface) not having been walked on.
e.g
None of the old dreams had been abandoned. The Republic of the Animals which Major had foretold, when the green fields of England should be untrodden by human feet, was still believed in.

Question 21

hummed

Answer 21

Make a low, steady continuous sound like that of a bee.
e.g
Even the tune of ‘Beasts of England’ was perhaps hummed secretly here and there

Question 22

tyrannical

Answer 22

Exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.
e.g
If they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings; if they worked hard

Question 23

strolling

Answer 23

Walk in a leisurely way.
e.g
He was strolling across the yard

Question 24

trifle

Answer 24

A thing of little value or importance.
e.g
Some did it better than others, one or two were even a trifle unsteady and looked as though they would have liked the support of a stick, but every one of them made his way right round the yard successfully.

Question 25

majestically

Answer 25

With impressive beauty or scale.
e.g
And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gamboling round him.

Question 26

haughty

Answer 26

Arrogantly superior and disdainful.
e.g
And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gamboling round him.

Question 27

glances

Answer 27

Take a brief or hurried look.
e.g
And finally there was a tremendous baying of dogs and a shrill crowing from the black cockerel, and out came Napoleon himself, majestically upright, casting haughty glances from side to side, and with his dogs gamboling round him.

Question 28

huddling

Answer 28

Crowd together; nestle closely.
e.g
There was a deadly silence. Amazed, terrified, huddling together, the animals watched the long line of pigs march slowly round the yard.

Question 29

criticizing

Answer 29

Indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way.
e.g
Then there came a moment when the first shock had worn off and when, in spite of everything-in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticizing, no matter what happened–they might have uttered some word of protest.

Question 30

uttered

Answer 30

Make (a sound) with one’s voice.
e.g
Then there came a moment when the first shock had worn off and when, in spite of everything-in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticizing, no matter what happened–they might have uttered some word of protest.

Question 31

protest

Answer 31

A statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.
e.g
Then there came a moment when the first shock had worn off and when, in spite of everything-in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticizing, no matter what happened–they might have uttered some word of protest.

Question 32

tugged

Answer 32

Pull (something) hard or suddenly.
e.g
Her old eyes looked dimmer than ever. Without saying anything, she tugged gently at his mane and led him round to the end of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written.

Question 33

consented

Answer 33

Give permission for something to happen.
e.g
For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read out to her what was written on the wall.

Question 34

supervising

Answer 34

Observe and direct the execution of (a task or activity).
e.g
After that it did not seem strange when next day the pigs who were supervising the work of the farm all carried whips in their trotters.

Question 35

breeches

Answer 35

Short trousers fastened just below the knee, now chiefly worn for riding or as part of ceremonial dress.
e.g
Mr. Jones’s clothes out of the wardrobes and put them on, Napoleon himself appearing in a black coat, ratcatcher breeches.

Question 36

deputation

Answer 36

A group of people appointed to undertake a mission or take part in a formal process on behalf of a larger group.
e.g
A deputation of neighboring farmers had been invited to make a tour of inspection.

Question 37

diligently

Answer 37

In a way that shows care and conscientiousness in one’s work or duties.
e.g
The animals were weeding the turnip field. They worked diligently hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors.

Question 38

curiosity

Answer 38

A strong desire to know or learn something.
e.g
And suddenly, at the sound of the mingled voices, the animals were stricken with curiosity

Question 39

tiptoed

Answer 39

Walk quietly and carefully with one’s heels raised and one’s weight on the balls of the feet.
e.g
They tiptoed up to the house, and such animals as were tall enough peered in at the dining-room window.

Question 40

eminent

Answer 40

(of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere.
e.g
There, round the long table, sat half a dozen farmers and half a dozen of the more eminent pigs, Napoleon himself occupying the seat of honor at the head of the table.

Question 41

incumbent

Answer 41

Necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility.
e.g
But before doing so, there were a few words that he felt it incumbent upon him to say.

Question 42

proprietors

Answer 42

The owner of a business, or a holder of property.
e.g
There had been a time–not that he, or any of the present company, had shared such sentiments–but there had been a time when the respected proprietors of Animal Farm had been regarded, he would not say with hostility, but perhaps with a certain measure of misgiving, by their human neighbours.

Question 43

liable

Answer 43

Responsible by law; legally answerable.
e.g
It had been felt that the existence of a farm owned and operated by pigs was somehow abnormal and was liable to have an unsettling effect in the neighbourhood.

Question 44

prevail

Answer 44

Prove more powerful or superior.
e.g
Too many farmers had assumed, without due enquiry, that on such a farm a spirit of license and indiscipline would prevail.

Question 45

emphasizing

Answer 45

Give special importance or value to (something) in speaking or writing.
e.g
He would end his remarks, he said, by emphasizing once again the friendly feelings that subsisted, and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbours.

Question 46

subsisted

Answer 46

Maintain or support oneself, especially at a minimal level.
e.g
He would end his remarks, he said, by emphasizing once again the friendly feelings that subsisted, and ought to subsist, between Animal Farm and its neighbours.