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Animal Farm Vocabulary
Possible Pop Quiz and Sure Test
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9th Grade
04/14/2008
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Benevolent 
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Kind, good
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Caper
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skip or frisk about playfully
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Cynical  
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Pessimestic
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Disciples  
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Followers devoted people
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Dissentients
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Deserters or turncoats
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enmity
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hatred
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ensconced
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settled comfortably
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expound
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elaborate
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gambol
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skip or frolic playfully
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knacker
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Person who sells worn out animals to slaughter and sell as food
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minicing
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walking very short steps
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Pre-Eminent

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Surpassed
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reproach
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Critisize
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Scullery
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Small dishwashing room next to the kitchen
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tushes
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Animal teeth
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Tyranny
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Absolute power
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Vivacious
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Lively, full of spirt
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Acute
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Severe, Serious
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Grudging
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resentfulness
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Parasitical
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exploitive to others
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Shirk
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To avoid duty
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Maxim
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Rule of belief or conduct
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Propulsion
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Pushing foward
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Seculusion
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A place that is a apart
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Monstrous
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Abnormal
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Adjoin
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To join
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Tractable
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Easily handled or manageable
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Maneuver
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artful plan
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Ignominious
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shameful, humiliating
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impromptu
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unrehearsed
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posthumously
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occouring after death
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Pretext
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false reason ( to hide a real one)
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blithely
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Carefree
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ratified
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formally approved
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aloof
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to be emotionally distant
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faction
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A group that oppses the government.
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restive
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nervous restless
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sordid
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degrading
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articualte
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to speak clearly
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disinter
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remove from ground
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Matted
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entangled, and uncombed
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procure
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to obtain
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comminsion
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assign duties
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repose
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rest
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embolden
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to foster courage
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infanticide
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The killing of children
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capitualte
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to give in
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stupefy
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surprise
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graphically
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to describe in vivid, clear detail
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secrete
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to hide or conceal
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retribrution
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to seek revenge or compensation
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decree
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to order by officials
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skulk
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to move secretlyor hide
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Impend
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abount to occur
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pensioner
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a person who recieves a fixed stipend
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hullabaloo
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great excitement
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conciliatory
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having to do with agreement
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Wistful
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Longing
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Unscathed
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Unharmed
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Lamentation
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Feeling of sorrow, mourning
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Complicity
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Partenrship in wrongdoing
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knoll
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a small, round hill
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demeanor
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outward manner
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lament
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mourn
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upstanding
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marked by integrity and character
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Frugally
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Sparing, without waste.
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