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Animal Farm Vocab 22
22 vocabulary words
Term | Definition |
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ensconced | settled comfortably, wrapped up, entrapped |
enmity | hatred or hostility |
acute | sharp, intense or heightened |
cryptic | secret, mysterious, or puzzling |
indefatigable | untiring, tireless, unfaltering |
tractable | obedient, easy to control, easily managed |
ignominious | dishonarable, shameful, disgraceful, reprehensible |
blithely | merrily, casually, or light-heartedly |
eminent | outstanding, prominent or distinguished |
expound | to explain, to expand upon, to develop or illustrate |
obstinate | stubborn, inflexible, pig-headed, adamant |
posthumous | after death |
pretext | an excuse, an alleged reason, cause or ploy |
capitulate | surrender, give up, to submit or to yield |
retinue | a group of attendants, servants, entourage |
conciliatory | appeasing, agreeable, pacifying, reconcilling |
demeanor | manner, conduct, behavior, or the way a person looks and acts |
taciturn | speaking very little, silent, quiet, aloof |
sordid | low, dirty, disgusting or vile |
disinter | to exhume, to dig up, to remove from a grave |
vice | a moral fault or failing; wickedness; a sin; a defect or shortcoming |
shirk | to avoid; get out of; dodge; shun |