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animal farm vocab
Term | Definition |
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Ensconced | settled comfortably, snigly, or securely |
benvolent | doing or in clined to do good, kindly |
cynical | beliving that people are motivated only by selfishness |
laborious | requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance |
tyranny | a vehicles's transmission |
dissentients | dissenting, espcially from the opinion of majority |
preeminent | superior to others. especially in a particular quality |
viacious | lively |
gamolled | jumped and skipped about in play; frulicked |
obstinate | stubborny refusing to change one's oppinion |
cryptic | having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure |
indefatigable | that which cannot be tired out |
maxim | concisely expressed priniple or rule of conduct; a stament of general truth |
propulsion | a pushing, driving, or impelling onward or forward; a driving force |
tractable | easily managed or controlled |
irrepressible | that which cannot be controlled or restorired |
ignominious | shamful; dishonorable; disgraceful |
posthumously | occuring or conting after one's death |
pretext | face reason or motive put forth to hide the real one, excuse |
cavassing | soliciting or requesting |
sordid | not noble in character or quelity; base |
arable | sutable for plowing, hence for producing crops |
intermediary | one who acts as a go between |
perpendicularity | uprightness; the state of being stranging up and down |
mailgnity | persistent intense will or desire to harm others |
capitulated | gave up; surrendered; stoped resisting |
categorically | without qualifications or conditions; absolutley positvely |
rertribution | punishment for wrong doing |
impending | about to happen |
machinations | artful or secret plots or schemes, especially those by one with evil intent |
censured | condemmed as wrong, strongly dissapproved, officially disapprove |
conciliatory | tending to sactne anger or make friendly |
supperannuated | of a position or employee belonging to an supernnnuation plan |
incumbent | necessary for someone as a duty or responsility |
licence | formal permission, permission from goverment |
bon mot | a witty remark |