Chapter 1 Animal Farm vocabulary

What is a scullery?

• A hat that fits close to your head.

• A place where skulls are stored.

• A small room or kitchen used to wash dishes or similar work.

• A small place of worship.

What is dignity?

• The state of being in awe of someone.

• The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.

• The state or quality of showing mercy.

• The state of intense anger and fear.

Dissentients (plural noun) are:

• people who oppose a majority or official opinion

• people who eat eggs for breakfast

• animals that can speak like humans

• people who live underground

Ensconsed means:

• wrap gifts in an extravagant way

• sleep late on Saturdays

• eat a large amount in one sitting

• establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place

What is a ration?

• A fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime

• An allergic reaction to an particular food

• A rational response to a crazy situation.

• An irrational fear of a particular food.

Enmity is:

• the state or feeling of being friendly

• the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something

• the state or feeling of being anonymous

• the state or feeling of being afraid

What is a knacker?

• a person who helps with the harvest

• a person whose business is to shoe and look after horses

• a person whose business is to butcher animals for human consumption.

• a person whose business is the disposal of dead or unwanted animals, especially those whose flesh is not fit for human consumption

What are vices (plural noun)?

• wicked or immoral behavior or characteristic

• pious and moral behavior

• well wishes

• evil spells

Cynical (adjective)

• believing that people are innately good

• believing that people are gullible and naive

• believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity

• believing that the earth is flat

Preliminary (adjective)

• denoting an action or event preceding or done in preparation for something fuller or more important

• denoting an action or event subsequent to a main event

• denoting an action or event that comes at the end of everything

• denoting an extra side dish that accompanies an main meal