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Animal Farm
Stack #183379
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| narcissistic | vain |
| tractable | easily managed or controlled |
| ignominious | humiliating, shameful |
| posthumously | arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death |
| sordid | vile, filthy |
| arable | suitable for farming, fit for cultivation |
| lugubrious | gloomy |
| malignity | intense ill will |
| capitulated | to give up resistance, surrendered |
| tyranny | depotic abuse of authority, with absolute power |
| cryptic | mysterious in meaning |
| enmity | a feeling or condition of hostility, hatred, ill will |
| laborious | requiring much work, exertion or perseverance; diligent in doing a lot of work |
| categorically | without exceptions or conditions |
| complicity | the state of being an accomplice, involvement as an accomplice |
| obstinate | not easily controlled or overcome, stubborn |
| satire | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing or deriding vice, folly, etc.; exposing humor |
| allegory | symbolic narrative; the whole narrative is symbolic |
| fable | a short tale to teach a moral lesson usually involving animals |
| capitalism | an economic and political system characterized by a free market for goods and services and private control of production and consumption; private coporation, free enterprise |
| communism | a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state. |
| Mr. Jones | Tsar Nicholas II |
| Manor Farm | Russia |
| Old Major | Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin |
| Napolean | Joseph Stalin |
| Snowball | Leon Trotsky |
| Squealer | Mass Media |
| Dogs | KGB or the Secret Polices |
| Benjamin | Cynical Peoples |
| Mollie | Upper Class |
| Boxer | Working Class (proletariat) |
| Moses | Religion to control the masses |
| Sheep | Blind Followers |
| Mr. Frederick | Adolf Hitler |