Animal Farm Vocabulary List Abolish (v) Bewilderment (n) Blithe (adj) Brood (n/v) Confer (v) Contempt (n) Cryptic (adj) Daintily (adv) Decree (n) Din (n) Disinter (v) Dissident (adj/n) Dole (v) Falter (v) Famine (n) Fidget (v) Fortnight (n) Gambol (v) Hoist (v) Ignominious (adj) Inscribe (v) Knoll (n) Machination (n) Maxim (n) Nimble (adj) Poultice (n) Rally (v) Scathe (v) Seclude (v) Shirk (v) Shrewd (adj) Toil (v) Tractable (adj) Unanimous (adj) Unison (n) to do away with; put an end to; annul; make void. a confusing maze or tangle, as of objects or conditions. joyous, merry, or gay in disposition; glad; cheerful. a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of
offspring or young OR to think or worry persistently or moodily
about; ponder.
to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or
deliberation
the feeling with which a person regards anything considered
mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn
mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous. of delicate beauty; exquisite.
a formal and authoritative order, especially one having the
force of law.
a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound;
noisy clamor.
to bring from obscurity into view; unearth
disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude OR a person
who dissents
a dealing out or distributing, especially in charity to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way
extreme hunger; starvation
to move about restlessly, nervously, or impatiently the space of fourteen nights and days; two weeks to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic
to raise or lift, especially by some mechanical appliance
marked by or attended with humiliation; discreditable to write, print, mark, or engrave
a small, rounded hill or eminence; hillock
crafty schemes; plots; intrigues
a principle or rule of conduct
quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active;
rapid a soft, moist mass of cloth, bread, meal, herbs, etc., applied hot
as a medicament to the body
to bring into order again; gather and organize or inspire anew
to hurt, harm, or injure, as by scorching
to place in or withdraw into solitude; remove from social contact
and activity
to evade (work, duty, responsibility, etc.).
astute or sharp in practical matters
hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort easily managed or controlled; docile; yielding
of one mind; in complete agreement
a process in which all elements behave in the same way at the
same time