Animal Farm Vocab. #2
Terms
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- preeminent
- superior to or notable above all others
- pretext
- a professed purpose; excuse
- dissentient
- moving from the policies or beliefs of a majority
- posthumous
- occuring or continuing after one's death
- scullery
- a small room adjoining a kitchen
- eloquent
- marked by fluent, persuasive speech
- tractable
- easily managed or controlled; governable
- burgeois
- one belonging to the middle class; a capitalist
- unalterable
- impossible to change
- ignominy
- personal dishonor or humiliation; shameful or disgraceful conduct
- expound
- to give a detailed statement of
- mince
- to walk with very short steps or with exaggerated elegance
- idealist
- one whose conduct is influenced by ideals that may not seem practical
- sordid
- filthy; foul; morally degraded
- faction
- a group of people forming a minority within a group