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N. Boggiano AF vocab list

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  1. contentedly
    with equanimity
    last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.
  2. attentively
    in a thoughtful manner
    When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began:
  3. breeding
    the activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
    whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale.
  4. faithful
    loyal and reliable
    their most faithful disciples were the two cart horses, Boxer and Clover.
  5. disciple
    one who believes and helps spread the doctrine of another
    their most faithful disciples were the two cart horses, Boxer and Clover.
  6. frightened
    made afraid
    That was theirs too, but they were frightened to go inside.
  7. lithograph
    a print made with a stone or metal plate
    the Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the drawing-room mantel.
  8. trotter
    foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food
    their trotters being well adapted to this task.
  9. comrade
    a friend who is frequently in the company of another
    "Gee up comrade!"
  10. wisp
    a small bundle of straw or hay
    even the ducks and hens toiled to and fro all day in the sun, carrying tiny wisps of hay in their beaks.
  11. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
    he did his work in the same slow obstinate way he had done it in Jones's time.
  12. cryptic
    having a secret or hidden meaning
    "None of you have ever seen a dead donkey," and the other had to be content with this cryptic answer.
  13. literate
    able to read and write
    By the autumn almost every animal on the farm was literate in some degree.
  14. unable
    lacking necessary physical or mental ability
    were unable to learn the Seven Commandments by heart.
  15. seclusion
    the act of isolating oneself from others
    and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.
  16. ripening
    coming to full development; becoming mature
    The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.
  17. fortnight
    a period of fourteen consecutive days
    the whole thing would be over in a fortnight, they said.
  18. tolerate
    put up with something or somebody unpleasant
    they insisted on calling it Manor Farm; they would not tolerate the name "Animal Far."
  19. cannibalism
    the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
    It was given out that the animals on Animal Farm practiced cannibalism,
  20. affairs
    transactions of professional or public interest
    Rumors of a wonderful farm, where the human beings had been turned out and the animals managed their own affairs,
Created on 一月 5, 2014

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