Animal Farm Vocabulary Chapters 9-10

Mrs. Crow's Advanced English Nine

complicity

involvement in something illegal or wrong

interment

burial of a dead body

knacker

someone who kills horses for profit

piebald

multicolored; spotted

poultices

moist substances applied to a wound

superannuated

retired; old; useless; out of style

tureen

serving bowl

wafted

floated gently through the air

denounced

criticized sharply

filial

parental; like a parent

frugally

with thrift; cheaply

invariably

always or almost always

morose

withdrawn; saddened

rheumy

watery

taciturn

reserved; silent by nature

witticism

a witty or clever remark