HE! vocab test for animal farm

abolish

to formally put an end to something: to completely end

Benevolent

• well-meaning; kind; marked by or disposed to doing good

Aloof

distant, reserved, and not particularly friendly or sociable

Manifest

• clear or obvious to the eye or mind; (Verb): to make evident or clear by showing or displaying

Manipulate

• o control or influence (a person or situation) cleverly, unfairly, or unscrupulously

Obstinate

• stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so 

Procure

• obtain something, especially with care or effort

Regime

• a government, especially an authoritarian one 

Repose

• a state of rest, sleep, or tranquility; a place of rest

Acute

• sharp; felt, perceived, or experienced intensely; characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset

Cryptic

• mysterious; having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning

Indefatigable

• incapable of being tired out; untiring

Maxim

• a short statement expressing a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct

Ignominious

humiliating or degrading; deserving or causing public disgrace or shame; dishonorable

Impromptu

•  without preparation; made, done, or formed as if on the spur of the moment