Vocabulary Chapter 6 and 7

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“The animals carried on as best they could with the rebuilding of the windmill, well knowing that the outside world was watching them and that the envious human beings would rejoice and triumph if the mill were not finished on time.”

• Feeling superior

• Feeling jealous

• Expressing strength

• Untrustworthy

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“There seemed no way of doing this except with picks and crowbars, which no animal could stand on his hind legs. Only after weeks of vain effort did the right idea occur to somebody- namely to utilise the force of gravity.”

• Excessively proud

• Concern in one’s appearance

• Without real importance

• Ineffectual or unsuccessful

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“But it was a slow, laborious process. Frequently it took a whole day of exhausting effort to drag a single boulder to the top of the quarry, and sometimes when it was pushed over the edge it failed to break.”

• Requiring much work

• Detailed

• Dull and boring

• Lack of spontaneity

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

‘He intended to take the whole burden upon his own shoulders. A Mr. Whymper, a solicitor living in Willingdon, had agreed to act as intermediary between Animal Farm and the outside world, and would visit the farm every Monday morning to receive his instructions.”

• A medium or means

• Someone who goes between things

• A person who buys items

• A person who sales items

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“In their spare moments the animals would walk round and round the half-finished mill, admiring the strength and perpendicularity of its walls and marveling that they should have ever been able to build anything so imposing.”

• Laying or sitting on something

• Setting with authority

• Impressive due to its size

• Inflicting a penalty upon someone

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“Snowball has done this thing! In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.”

• Out of kindness

• Out of spite or ill-will

• A person who does evil

• To destroy something

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“It was vitally necessary to conceal this fact from the outside world. Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm.”

• Excited

• Discouraged

• Encouraged

• Frustrated

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“On some suitable pretext Whymper was led through the store-shed and allowed to catch a glimpse of the bins. He was deceived, and continued to report to the outside world that there was no food shortage on Animal Farm.”

• Something that is written prior

• Something is stored

• Something that completely tells the truth

• Something put forward to conceal the truth

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon’s wishes.”

• To prevent from accomplishing

• To help achieve an accomplishment

• To provide support

• To combine others’ efforts

Use Context Clues to decipher the meaning of the underlined word.

“For five days the hens held out; then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes.”

• To stand up to someone

• To prevent

• To provide

• To give up resistance