Animal Farm /Chps: 5,6,7,8,9,10
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- INTERMENT
- (n) the act of burial
- COMMUNIST SYSTEM
- everyone works to his or her ability and receives according to his or her need; totally economic equality; no one gets ahead, but no one starves either
- SITUATIONAL IRONY
- occurs when there is a difference between what is expected or what would be appropriate and what really does happen.
- CENSURED
- (v) condemned as wrong; strongly disapproved
- MALIGNITY
- (n) example of bad behavior
- INEBRIATES
- (n) those who are habitually drunk
- CAPITULATED
- (v) gave up; surrendered; stopped resisting
- IDEALISTIC
- overly optimistic thinking
- DYNAMO
- (n) electric generator
- INCUMBENT
- (adj) resting on, as a duty or obligation
- MANEUVER
- (n) strategy to gain a particular aim
- DEVOTEES
- (n) ardent followers
- SORDID
- (adj) not noble in character or quality
- DEPUTATION
- (n) a group appointed to represent others
- CATEGORICALLY
- (adj) without qualifications or conditions; absolutely; positively
- ARABLE
- (adj) suitable for plowing, hence for producing crops
- DEPORTED
- sent away from a country into exile
- EMBOLDEN
- (v) to instill with courage
- COCCIDIOSIS
- (n) parasitic disease
- CONCILIATORY
- (adj) tending to soothe or make friendly
- FABLE
- a narrative that enforces a useful truth. It's two important characteristics are that they teach a lesson through the personification of animals
- TACITURN
- (adj) not inclined to talking
- SOCIALIST
- a person who wants to change society
- CANVAS
- (v) to request support
- CAPITALIST SYSTEM
- free enterprise; if you work hard you can get ahead; become a millionaire; or lose every penny
- DEMEANOR
- ((n) outward manner
- MACHINATIONS
- (n) scheming actions
- SUPERINTENDENCE
- (n) the act of directing
- ALLEGORY
- a narrative that can be read on more than one level
- DRAMATIC IRONY
- occurs when what a character believes to be true, but the reader knows it is not
- SATIRE
- a literary device in which the author attacks a serious issue by presenting it in a ridiculous light, or othewise poking fun at it in order to make a point.
- VERBAL IRONY
- occurs when someone says one thing but means something else
- CZARIST GOVERNMENT
- a government ruled by absolute power similiar to a king
- PERPENDICULARITY
- (n) the state of being perpendicular, or at right angles, to a plane
- TOTALITARIANISM
- a one-party-rules-everything type of government
- RETRIBUTION
- (n) punishment for wrongdoing