Animal Farm Vocab
Terms
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- maxim
- a saying that widely accepted on its own merits
- capitulated
- surrender on terms or conditions
- scullery
- a small room (in large old British houses) next to the kitchen
- incumbent
- imposed as a duty; obligatory
- retribution
- revenge
- intermediary
- a negotiator who acts as a link between parties
- taciturn
- habitually reserved and uncommunicative
- irrepressible
- impossible to repress or control
- spinney
- a copse that shelters game
- cockerel
- young rooster
- dissentients
- ones who disagree
- manifestly
- unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')
- parasitical
- of plants or persons
- gaiters
- A heavy cloth or leather covering for the leg extending from the instep to the ankle or knee
- lamented
- mourned or grieved for
- knacker
- someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
- hullabaloo
- a clamorous noise or disturbance; uproar
- cryptic
- having a puzzling terseness
- stone
- A unit of weight equal to 14 pounds or 6.4 kilograms
- ignominious
- shameful, dishonorable, undignified, disgraceful
- malignity
- the state or character of being malign; malevolence; intense ill will; spite.
- complicity
- guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
- disinterred
- unearthed;unburied
- publican
- the keeper of a public house
- smithies
- A smith's workshop
- paddock
- pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
- enmity
- ill will; hatred; hostility
- procured
- obtained through care or effort
- categorically
- in an unqualified manner
- canvassing
- persuasion of voters in a political campaign
- expounded
- to explain in elaborate detail
- tushes
- A canine tooth, especially of a horse.
- machinations
- evil schemes or plot
- countenance
- consent to, give permission
- benevolent
- generous; charitable; having a wish to do good
- mangel-wurzels
- large beets
- trotter
- a horse trained to trot
- malignant
- extremely malevolent or malicious
- deputation
- a group of representatives or delegates
- poultices
- 114, dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
- piebald
- having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
- insoluble
- without hope of solution
- indefatigable
- showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality
- blithely
- in a joyous manner
- concilliatory
- making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill
- ensconced
- settled securely
- superannuated
- discharged as too old for use or work
- posthumously
- after death
- pretext
- an artful or simulated semblance
- beatifically
- peacefully, blessedly