Animal Farm Vocab 1-5
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- arable
- fit for or used for growing crops
- cryptic
- hiding or concealing
- tractable
- easy to manage or guide
- contemptible
- dishonorable
- flogging
- to beat harshly w/ a whip or rod
- plaited
- to braid or weave
- acute
- keen, sharp, sensitive
- conceived
- to form a concept or idea
- gamboled
- to run, leap, or skip about; to frolic
- abdicate
- to formally relinquish a position of power, a claim or a right
- cynical
- showing little or no faith in human nature
- enmity
- mutual feeling of enemies between eachother
- apathy
- absence of desire or emotion
- ensconced
- to position oneself firmly or comfortably
- capitulated
- to accept defeat
- impromptu
- not planned, spur of the moment
- ignominious
- loss of reputation or shame or disgrace
- dissentient
- disagrees with majority of opinion
- manifesty
- to prove or reveal
- pretext
- a made up excuse; an untrue or misleading reason for doing something in attempt to conceal the reason
- liable
- likely
- procurred
- to get by, special effort; obtain or acquire
- malignity
- intense, ill will, or hatred
- innovations
- a new idea, method, or advice
- publican
- tax collector
- irrepressible
- imposible to restrain
- restive
- hard to handle or control
- maxim
- a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct
- pre-eminent
- having paramount rank, dignity, or importance