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animal farm vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |