Animal Farm Vocabulary Quiz

RELEVANT SENTENCE: These Seven Commandments would now be ______d on the wall; they would form an unalterable law. by which all the animals on Animal Farm must live for ever after.

RELEVANT SENTENCE: In return for your four confinements and all your labour in the fields, what have you ever had except your bare ______s and a stall.

RELEVANT SENTENCE: At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ______d on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.

RELEVANT SENTENCE: The oak tree grew on the grassy ______ to the north of the field.

Gamboled: The animals ______ boisterously, hurling themselves into the air in excitement.

Windfall: Refers to a sudden happening bringing good fortune, such as ripe apples falling in the ______.

Superannuated: Animals too old to be useful, retired and moved to a special ______ area.

Cryptic: A hidden or secret meaning, as in a vague statement about dead ______.

Maxim: Boxer’s first maxim is “I will work harder”, a widely accepted ______.

Utilize: The animals couldn't ______ tools like humans due to their hooves.

Piebald: The young pigs were piebald, having patches of different colors, hinting at their ______.

Spring: All evils in their lives ______ from the tyranny of human beings.

Resolution: The animals were determined to harvest the field faster than Jones ever ______.

Ignominious: The troops were in ______ retreat within five minutes of their invasion.

Disinter: The skull of old Major, clean of flesh, had been ______.

Collaborate: Reflecting on the days when students could put desks together to ______.

The animals were unable to use human tools due to their anatomy, creating a drawback

Evidence revealed the Black Jihad's involvement in the murder of Castillo and Tison

Mugs were emptied completely, to the dregs

Old Benjamin, the donkey, was more taciturn than usual due to grief

Animals on neighboring farms grew more restive as rumors spread about Jones' expulsion

Snowball was thought to be skulking about on Pinchfield Farm

The animals flung themselves upon their tormentors with one accord

Another of Frederick's machinations was revealed in late summer

Benjamin was morose and moping around the farm

There were rumors that Old Major was subversive and planning a revolution

Snowball was more vivacious and inventive than Napoleon

The animals broke into an impromptu rendition of The Beasts of England

______-n-punishment RELEVANT SENTENCE: They did not know which was more shocking--the treachery of the offending animals or the cruel ______ they had just witnessed.

______-v-to push against; to jab RELEVANT SENTENCE: Muriel, Benjamin, and all the sheep, with Snowball at the head of them, rushed forward and ______ded the men from every side.

______-v-reflect deeply on a subject and guess at outcomes RELEVANT SENTENCE: The animals found the problem insoluble; in any case, they had little time for speculating on such things now.

______-n-A group aligned in interests or belief RELEVANT SENTENCE: The animals formed themselves into two ______s, with opposing ideologies.

______-n-an absence of emotion RELEVANT SENTENCE: He showed ______, not seeming to care one way or the other.

______-v-discourage; dampen the spirits of RELEVANT SENTENCE: He had become much ______ed after losing money in a lawsuit, and had taken to drinking more than was good for him.

______-v-to bring together; to unite RELEVANT SENTENCE: They all remembered, or thought they remembered, how they had seen Snowball charging ahead of them at the Battle of the Cowshed, how he had rallied and encouraged them at every turn.

______-v-to make an alcoholic beverage; to extract RELEVANT SENTENCE: By the evening of that day it was discovered Jones was ______ing his own whiskey.

______-v-get the opinions (of people) by asking questions; to recruit people to a cause RELEVANT SENTENCE: At the Meetings Snowball often won over the majority by his brilliant speeches, but Napoleon was better at ______ing support for himself in between times.

______-n-rest; freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) RELEVANT SENTENCE: You would not rob us of our ______, would you, comrades.

______-v-clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing RELEVANT SENTENCE: Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and ______ed the principles of Animalism to the others.

______-n-an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade RELEVANT SENTENCE: It now appeared that the traitor had not, as the animals had previously imagined, merely attempted to lose the Battle of the Cowshed by means of a ______, but had been openly fighting on Jones' side.