Vocabulary List

ANIMAL FARM

1. cynical – tending to disbelieve

2. dissentient – individuals who disagree
3. enmity – mutual hatred or hostility, ill will
4. ensconce – settle comfortably
5. plaited - braided
6. benevolent - kind
7. abolish – to get rid of
8. apathy – no emotion
9. gambol – frolic, skip and play
10. preeminent – surpassing, better than, superior, outstanding

1. tormentors – people who cause great pain or make fun of others

2. acute – mentally alert and awake
3. conceive – to imagine or understand the meaning of something
4. cryptic – mysterious, hidden
5. maxim – a rule
6. principle – a law or a rule
7. contemptible – considered low or worthless, despicable
8. flogging – to beat with a stick
9. ignominious – shameful, disgraceful
10. impromptu – without preparing,

1. irrepressible – not able to keep down, always coming up

2. tractable – easy to deal with, docile
3. perpetual – to last for a long time, never ending
4. articulate – expressing oneself clearly, easy to hear or understand
5. disinterred – something taken out of a tomb or grave
6. innovate – to create, to make changes to
7. liable - likely
8. manifest – to reveal, to show itself plainly
9. pretext – misleading excuse
10. procure – to get, to obtain

1. publican – a tax collector

2. restive – unruly, restless
3. arable – fit for cultivation (farming)
4. malignity – great hatred
5. toil – work hard
6. indignation – a feeling or expression of anger because of an unjust or mean action
7. solicitor – in England, a lawyer
8. intermediary – the person who acts as the go-between
9. attribute – part of, belonging to
 10. capitulate – surrender

1. categorically - absolutely
2. countenance – facial expression
3. graphically - clearly
4. incited - caused
5. retribution – punishment, payback
6. cower – to crouch or huddle up in fear, cringe
7. censure – blame, official disapproval, criticism
8. conciliatory – peace-making
9. contrive – to plan
10. machinations – a plot or plan of evil doings

1. rash – hasty, risky

2. skulk - sneak
3. unscathed - unharmed
4. cunning - sly
5. liberal – generous, plenty
6. complicity – partnership in wrongdoing
7. demeanor – a way a person looks or acts
8. superannuated - retired
9. knacker – in England, animal slaughter
10. spontaneous – without planning, spur of the moment

1. morose – sad, gloomy

2. subsist – to stay alive on the barest means, barely stay alive
3. taciturn – quiet, not liking to talk, always quiet

THE GREAT GATSBY

1. Feign
2. Supercilious
3. Conscientious
4. Incredulous
5. Reciprocal
6. Wan
7. Complacent
8. Intimation
9. Infinite
10. Anon

1. Contiguous
2. Facet
3. Cower
4. Interpose
5. Apathetic
6. Languid
7. Imply
8. Strident
9. Deft
10. Clad

1. Permeate
2. Innuendo
3. Erroneous
4. Vehement
5. Cordial
6. Impetuous
7. Vacuous
8. Corpulent
9. Provincial
10. Din

1. Knickerbockers
2. Fluctuate
3. Sporadic
4. Divine retribution
5. Rajah
6. Elicit
7. Valour (valor in the contemporary American spelling)
8. Somnambulatory
9. Denizen
10. Jauntily

1. Rout
2. Suppressed
3. Innumerable
4. Ecstatic
5. Reproach
6. Serf
7. Obstinate
8. Exultation
9. Hulking
10. Nebulous

1. Laudable
2. Insidious
3. Repose
4. Debauch
5. Antecedent
6. Ingratiate
7. Perturb
8. Dilatory
9. Desolate
10. Elusive

1. Lapse
2. Insistent
3. Tentative
4. Abrupt
5. Tumult
6. Portentous
7. Irreverent
8. Vicarious
9. Rancor
10. Formidable

1. Humidor
2. Indiscernible
3. Settee
4. In cahoots
5. Divot
6. Garrulous
7. Incoherent
8. Conceivable
9. Forlorn
10. Laden

1. Pasquinade
2. Derange
3. Surmise
4. Superfluous
5. Elocution
6. Unutterable
7. Subtle
8. Orgiastic
9. Borne
10. Ceaselessly

1. scornful
expressing extreme contempt
“Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!” p. 38
Ch 2
2. ebullience
eager enjoyment or approval
 "Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep
up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the
conch…" p. 38
Ch 2
3. indignant
angered at something unjust or wrong
“I got the conch,” said Piggy indignantly. “You let me speak!” p. 42
Ch 2
4. recrimination
mutual accusations
"His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination." p. 43
Ch 2
5. tumult
a state of commotion and noise and confusion
"He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and
down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where
they had found dead wood." p. 43
Ch 2
6. tirade
a speech of violent denunciation
"By now they were listening to the tirade." p. 45
Ch 2
7. oppressive
weighing heavily on the senses or spirit
"The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and
at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects." p.
49
Ch 3
8. inscrutable
difficult or impossible to understand
"Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of
creeper that lay across the trail." p. 49
Ch 3
9. vicissitude
a variation in circumstances or fortune
"Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth,
stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting." p. 49
Ch 3
10. furtive
secret and sly
 "Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and
for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like
among the tangle of trees." p. 49
Ch 3
11. tacit
implied by or inferred from actions or statements
"There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that
Piggy was an outsider." p. 55
Ch 3
12. flaunt
display proudly
"A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees
that still stood and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays
right to the top." p. 56
Ch 3
13. blatant
without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious
"The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes
of blatant impossibility." p. 58
Ch 4
14. preposterous
inviting ridicule
"The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards
to Henry’s right and fell in the water." p. 62
Ch 4
15. incredulous
not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
“I can’t see no smoke,” said Piggy incredulously. “I can’t see no
smoke, Ralph—where is it?” p. 66
Ch 4
16. irrelevance
the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
"Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy
to let it worry him." p. 69
Ch 4
17. implication
something that is inferred
"Jack, faced at once with too many awful implications, ducked
away from them." p. 70
Ch 4
18. malevolent
 wishing or appearing to wish evil to others
"He looked malevolently at Jack." p. 71
Ch 4
19. improvise
manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand
"He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,
where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of
one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet." p. 76
Ch 5
20. speculation
continuous contemplation on a subject of a deep nature
"Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so
foreign to him." p. 78
Ch 5
21. ludicrous
inviting ridicule
"But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains." p. 78
Ch 5
22. ineffectual
not producing an intended consequence
"Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ineffectual protest made, and
joined the others." p. 79
Ch 5
23. jeer
laugh at with contempt and derision
"A sound, half-laugh, half- jeer, rose among the seated boys." p. 84
Ch 5
24. inarticulate
without or deprived of the use of speech or words
"Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s
essential illness." p. 89
Ch 5
25. squawk
make a harsh, abrupt noise
"A single sea bird flapped upwards with a hoarse cry that was
echoed presently, and something squawked in the forest." p. 99
Ch 6
26. bristle
a stiff hair
"The circle of boys before him bristled with hunting spears." p.
100
 Ch 6
27. relentless
never-ceasing
“Let’s be moving,” said Jack relentlessly, “we’re wasting time.” p.
101
Ch 6
28. leviathan
the largest or most massive thing of its kind
"Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the
weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a
roar." p. 105
Ch 6
29. clamor
utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
"The clamor broke out. Some of the boys wanted to go back to the
beach. Some wanted to roll more rocks." p. 108
Ch 6
30. mutinous
characterized by a rebellion against authority
" Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering." p. 108
Ch 6
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