Animal Farm Vocab.
Terms
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- disinterred (verb)
- uncover
- fable
- a very brief story told to teach a lesson using talking animals
- countenance (noun)
- bearing or demenor; to extend approval or saction
- to expound (verb)
- to present a detailed statement
- irony
- the contrast between what is real and what appears to be real
- maxim (noun)
- ageneral truth, fundamental principle,or rule of conduct
- benevolent (adj)
- marked by or disposed to doing good
- ignominious (adj)
- marked with or characterized by disgrace or shame
- blithely (adv)
- filled with gaiety: cheerful
- gamboling (verb)
- to frisk about: frolic
- posthumously (adv)
- following or occuring after death
- cryptic (adj)
- secret, occult
- impromptu (adj)
- not prepared
- aloof (adj)
- disinterested
- forsook (verb)
- to renounce or turn away entirely
- pretext (noun)
- false reason, or excuse given
- reproach (verb)
- disapproval
- demeanor (noun)
- one's conduct toward others: deportment
- foreshadowing
- the provision of clues or suggestions of coming events
- to shirk (verb)
- to avoid doing (work or duty)
- symbolism
- the use of objects, people or places to represent something else
- satire
- a form of writing that ridicules abuses and human flaws in hope of improving or remedying them
- tractable (adj)
- easily controlled
- Contemptuously (adv)
- scornfully
- allegory
- a story in which fictional characters and events are used for symbolic purposes. They symbolize some deeper, underlying meaning.
- scapegoat (noun)
- one that is made an object of blame for others
- ensconced (verb)
- shelter, conceal