vocabulary animal farm ch 1-5 Flashcards by Leila Manganelli-Pisanu

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lurch

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make a sudden mouvement

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ensconced

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settled comfortably

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nimble

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quick and light in motion

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capered with joy

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leap or prance about with joy

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knoll

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small hill

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sow

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female pig

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gambolled

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skipped around

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rungs

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crosspieces of a ladder

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toiled

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worked hard and long

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drawback

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disadvantage

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doled out

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given in small portions

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shirked

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avoided evaded the performnce of an obligation

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hoisted

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lifting/raise into position

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tame

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reduce from a state of native wildness

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whelped

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given birth

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weaned

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accustomed to take food otherwise than by nursing

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mingle

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move about, come into contact

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scorn

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express disdain

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shrewd

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wily sly or artful ways of dealing

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contemptible

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disgraceful

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whirling

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moving in a circle with force and speed

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hurled

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thrown forcefully

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gored

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pierced or wounded with something pointed

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ignominious

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shameful, humiliating

post humously

after death

strolled blithely

walked in an idle manner/ without any cares

pranced about

spring from the hind legs

at their ease

free from restraint or discomfort

aloof

away or apart

restive

fidgety, restless, uneasy, ready to break out of control

baying

barking howling loudly and plaintively

dismayed

filled with intense disappointment

liable

likely

plough

till, turn over the soil

mincing

taking quick small steps in an affected effeminate way

grazing

eating the grass

slaughter

butcher/kill in a cruel way

grumble

complain in a low voice

uproar

commotion

apathy

lack of interest