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Animal Farm Vocabulary – Puzzle #1 – myvocabulary.com

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Vocabulary Word List:

75 vocabulary words for Animal Farm are listed alphabetically:

  • Words A-E:
    abolish, apathy, benevolent, bewilderment, blithely, breaches, brood, colleague, confer, contemplate, contemptible–contemptuous, cryptic, daintily, decree, degrade, devotee, din, disinter, dissident, dole, ecstasy, efficiency, ensconce, expulsion
  • Words F-N:
    falter, famine, fidget, forelock, fortnight, gambol, generation, hideous, hoist, ignominious, impending, imperishable, implement, inscribe–inscription, knoll, league, leisure, machination, malignant, maneuver, maxim, nimble
  • Words P-Z:
    poultice, pretext, procure, prosperity–prosperous, pursue, quarry, rafter, rally, scathe–unscathed, scheme, scullery, seclusion, shirk, shrewd, solicitor, snuffle, suppress, toil, tractable, trample, treachery–treacherous, trickle, trotter, unanimous, unison, vicious, wean, whelp, windfall

    The 16 words used in the Interactive word puzzles (in two sets of 8 words each) are:
    BENEVOLENT, BLITHELY, CONTEMPTIBLE, DIN, ENSCONCE, GAMBOL, IGNOMINIOUS, IMPENDING, KNOLL, MACHINATION, MALIGNANT, POULTICE, PREY, QUARRY, SCULLERY, SOLICITOR, WHELP

1) Threatening to occur soon: approaching, looming (adjective) Root PEND = hang, weigh, pay

2) Marked by personal disgrace, dishonor or shame: dishonorable; shameful (adjective) Root NOM = name

3) To skip about in play: frolic, covort (verb) Root GAMBATA = a kick (Italian)

4) To place or hide securely: conceal; to establish comfortably: settle snugly (verb) Root SCHANS = fortress (Dutch)

5) A loud noise, esp. a jumble of confused or discordant sounds (noun) Root DYNE = to sound, boom

6) Deserving of disdain, disrespect or hatred (adjective) Root TEMN = scorn

7) Of a happily lighthearted character or disposition; heedlessly (adv.) Root BHLEI = shine, gleam (Old English)

8) Expressing goodwill or kindly feelings; desiring to help others (adjective) Root BENE = well, good