Vocabulary Terms for Animal Farm

 

 

Directions:  Provide a contextually based original definition that directly refers to the story for (at least) each of the underlined vocabulary terms below.  Used a dictionary for help defining a word, but do not rely on the dictionary definition entirely.

 

 

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Correct contextual definition provided on vocabulary flash cards for all words listed

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Correct contextual definition provided for all words listed

Contextual definition provided for all underlined words

Dictionary definition provided for all underlined words

Some definitions for underlined terms are inadequate or missing entirely

No definitions provided

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10 words are used in an original paragraph—part of speech may be changed

5 words are used in original sentences—must use word correctly

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Chapter 1              Chapter 2              Chapter 3              Chapter 4              Chapter 5

         

Chapter 6              Chapter 7              Chapter 8              Chapter 9              Chapter 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter One:

 

Capitalism, communism, socialist, political oppression, social injustice, popholes, lurched, scullery, exhibited, ensconced, majestic, benevolent, concealed, tremendous, cynical, devoted, trodden, mincing, daintily, plaited, contentedly, comrades, fertile, affording, abundance, enormously, inhabit, confinements, tyranny, rebellion, astray, tremendous, dissentients, enmity, tyrannise,  

 

Chapter Two:

 

Cleverest, Napoleon, preeminent, vivacious, nimble, elaborated, Animalism, ism, expounded, apathy, devoted, slavery, disciples, absorbed, disheartened, maltreating, boundaries, castrate, degrading, rubbish, ecstasy, gamboled, spinney, luxury, reproached, unanimous, resolution, commandments, udder, trotters, frothing. 

 

Chapter Three:

 

Wastage, conceived, doled, grudging, parasitical, tremendous, cockerels, motto, obstinate, cryptic, hoisting, indefatigable, literate, essential, influences, maxim, propulsion, manipulation, seclusion, brainworkers.

 

Chapter Four:

 

Mingle, monstrous injustice, sympathized, adjoined, disgraceful, perpetually, fortnight, flourished, cannibalism, circulate, distorted, tractable, contemptible, flogging, irrepressible, din, alighted, skirmishing, maneuver, fifteen stone, gored, ignominious, sentimentality, recounting, exploits, impromptu, conferred, posthumously, artillery, midsummer.

 

Chapter Five:

 

Pretext, blithely, whereabouts, gaiters, publican, manifestly, ratified, acreage, canvassing, liable, innovations, learnedly, dynamo, primitive, astonishment, conjured, incubators, closeted, unintelligible, aloof, urinated, faction, reinstate, restive, advocating, indifferent, eloquence, sordid, expulsion, dismayed, marshal, exaggerated, disinterred, dispersed, maneuver, tactics.

 

Chapter Six:

 

Grudged, absented, toppled, comparatively, yoked, accumulated, superintendence, laborious, frequently, extravagant, unforeseen, procured, abolished, timidly, shrewdly, solicitor, repose, compensated, perpendicularity, marveling, imposing, gale, simultaneously, malignity, ignominious, bushel, indignation, alteration. 

 

Chapter Seven:

 

Rejoice, chaff, mangels, emboldened, famine, cannibalism, infanticide, hitherto, outcry, thwart, capitulated, coccidiosis, pervading, vanity, ambition, stupefied, formulate, graphically, categorically, countenance, tumult, collaborated, ringleaders, retribution, toiled, mournfully.

 

Chapter Eight:

 

Skulking, precautions, magistrates, contemplated, slogan, nocturnal, bewilderment, implements, punctually, impending, pensioner, ecstasies, bank-notes, hullabaloo, forgeries, treacherous, sentinels, conciliatory, wistful, vile, contemptible, unscathed, bestowed, dejectedly, lamentation, solemn, decree, paddock, excess.

 

Chapter Nine:

 

Poultices, pension, superannuated, readjustment, simultaneously, piebald, disused, Spontaneous Demonstration, devotees, Republic, stratagem, Sugarcandy Mountain, laborious, accumulated, distress, knacker, brutes, demeanor, circulated, oration, lamented, internment, maxim, banquet, uproarious, whisky.  

 

 

Chapter Ten:

 

Inebriate’s home, rheumy, morose, taciturn, upstanding, filial, denounced, frugally, memoranda, invariably, insoluble, imperishable, bulk, strolling, majestically, haughty, deputation, diligently, mingled, eminent, incumbent, dispelled, subsisted, witticism, bon mot, pampering, gratified, intimated, malignant, subversive, colleagues, enterprise, suppressed, prosperity, quarrel.