Vocab Animal Farm

Scullery

Room in a house, traditionally used for washing up dishes and laundry

Mane

Long and heavy growing about the neck and head of some mammals

Mare

Female horse

Linseed

Seed of the flax plant

Knoll

Small hill or mound

Flung (to fling)

Throw or hurl forcefully

Tiptoe

Walk quietly or carefully with one’s heels

Heap

Large amount of something

Hay

Grass that’s been dried for animals to eat

Obstinate

Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion

Cryptic

Mysterious, having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning

Tractable

Easy to control or influence

Irrepressible

Not able to be controlled or restrained

Ignominious

Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

Posthumously

After the death of the originator

Blithe

Showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper

Pretext

Reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason (cover up true motive)

Eloquence

Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing

Sordid

Immoral or dishonest

Manifestly

In a way that is clear or obvious to the eye or mind

Articulate

Express thoughts and feelings easily and clearly, or showing this quality

Factions

Small or tiny part, amount, or proportion of something

Disinter

Dig up something that has been buried, especially a corpse

Laborious

Working hard, requiring considerable effort and time (especially of a task, process or journey)

Flagstaff

Pole on which a flag is raised

Arable

Fit for or used for growing of crops (land)

Malignity

Persistent, intense Ill will or desire to harm others

Chaff

Husk surrounding a seed

Mangels

A beet of a variety with a large root, cultivated as feed for livestock

Infanticide

Killing young children, within weeks of birth, often by burying them alive

Capitulated

Accept defeat or to give up or give in

Stupefy

Make someone unable to think or feel properly

Countenance

Appearance or expression of someone’s face

Impending

Something is about to happen

Beatific

Happy and calm

Knacker

Tire someone out

Morose

Sullen and ill-tempered

Filial

Resembling or befitting a son or daughter

Imperishable

Enduring forever

Taciturn

Reserved or uncommunicative in speech, saying little

Eminent

Famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession