Animal Farm Vocabulary List
Due Feb. 4th
As you read your novel at home, please look for the following vocabulary words. You
should be able to locate each vocabulary word on or near the page listed next to each
word. (The exact location of each vocabulary word depends on which copy of the book
you have. Different publications have different page numbers.)
Please make your best guess as to the meaning of each vocabulary word. Then look the
word up in the dictionary and write the meaning in your own words (paraphrase).
Finally, use the word in a sentence.
Scullery - 15
Mincing - 17
Tyranny – 20
Dissentients – 21
Enmity – 21
pre-eminent – 25
Expounded – 26
Spinney – 31
Unalterable – 32
Grudging – 36
Parasitical – 36
Obstinate – 37
Cryptic – 38
Tractable – 46
Irrepressible – 46
Ignominious – 48
Posthumously – 50
Pretext – 51
Publican – 52
Manifestly – 52
Factions – 55
Eloquence – 57
Sordid – 57
Articulate – 59
Disinterred – 60
Laborious – 64
Arable – 65
Repose – 70
Perpendicularity – 71
Flagstaff – 71
Malignity – 72
Chaff – 75
Mangels – 75
Infanticide – 75
Capitulated – 75
Coccidiosis – 77
Stupefied – 79
Categorically – 81
Countenance – 82
Retinue – 89
Impending – 92
Beatifically – 95
Conciliatory – 96
Vengeance – 98
Superannuated – 105
Complicity – 109
Knacker – 113
Morose – 117
Taciturn – 117
Filial – 188
Imperishable – 120
Deputation – 123
Eminent - 124