Animal Farm
Vocabulary Words
Using your dictionaries, please find the definitions to the following words and write them in the
space provided. These words will appear on your reading quizzes as well as the unit test.
1. Scullery
26. Thwart
2. Ensconced
27. Coccidiosis
3. Paddock
28. Beech spinney
4. Enmity
29. Beatifically
5. Gambolled
30. Unscathed
6. Implements
31. Poultices
7. Chaff
32. Superannuated
8. Maxim
33. Piebald
9. Windfalls
34. Tureen
10. Fortnight
35. Cockerel
11. Din
36. Complicity
12. Smithies
37. Stratagem
13. Hobnailed
38. Gill
14. Ignominious
39. Interment
15. Posthumously
40. Rheumy
16. Blithely
41. Morose
17. Gaiters
42. Taciturn
18. Forelock
43. Filial
19. Silage
44. Dynamos
20. Slag
45. Masthead
21. Cog-wheels
46. Deputation
22. Arable
47. Incumbent
23. Paraffin
48. Witticism
24. Malignity
49. Subversive
25. Infanticide
50. Dregs
Expanding Your Vocabulary
In addition to the fifty words above, you must identify ten words that you found challenging and
necessary to define. Write them below, including the page number on which you found the word, as
well as the word’s definition in the context that it was used. You will turn in this page on September
17, 2012 for 20 points (1 point for each word identified, and 1 point for each definition provided).
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