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Animal Farm Voc.
English Voc. for Animal Farm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Knacker | a person who buys animal carcasses or slaughters useless livestock |
| Ensconced | to settle seculerly or snugly |
| Tyranny | unrestrained exercise of power |
| Scullery | a small room or section of a pantry in which food is cleaned, trimmed, and cut into cooking portions before being served |
| Lurched | a staggering or tottering movement or gait |
| Benevolent | desiring to help others; charitable |
| Laborious | requiring much work, exertion, or perseverance |
| Enmity | hatred; ill will; animosity |
| Dissentients | dissenting, esp. from the opinion of the majority |
| Prosperity | a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition, esp. in financial respects; good fortune |
| Vivacious | full of animation and spirit; lively |
| Expounded | to make a detailed statement |
| Pre-eminent | superior; surpassing |
| Elaborate | worked out with great care and nicety of detail |
| Contrary | opposite in nature or character |
| Capered | a playful leap or hop |
| Implements | a tool or instrument used in doing work |
| Indefatigable | incapable of being tired out |
| Acute | sharp or severe in effect; intense |
| Parasitical | of, pertaining to, or characteristic of parasites |
| Obstinate | firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion |
| Cryptic | mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous |
| Propulsion | a driving force |
| Manipulation | the act of influencing skillfully, esp. in an unfair manner |
| Tractable | easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding |
| Irrepressible | incapable of being restrained; uncontrollable |
| Ignominious | discreditable; humiliating |
| Posthumously | arising, occurring, or continuing after one's death |
| Pretext | something that is put forward to conceal a true purpose or object |
| Publican | a person who owns or manages a tavern; the keeper of a pub |
| Manifestly | readily perceived by the eye or the understanding |
| Factions | a group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious majority within a larger group |
| Eloquence | the practice or art of using language with fluency and aptness |
| Sordid | dirty or filthy |
| Articulate | capable of speech; not speechless |
| Disinterred | to take out of place of interment; exhume; unearth |
| Allegory | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms |
| Fable | a short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters |
| Personification | the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas |
| Suspension of Disbelief | the willingness of a reader or viewer to accept the premises of a work of fiction, even if they are fantastic or impossible |
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