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Animal Farm Vocab
animal farm vocab 1--15
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Literature
10th Grade
11/05/2009

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Gullible
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easily fooled or cheated
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folly
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lack of good sense or foresight; criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct
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allegory
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the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence
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deluded
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misled; deceived
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gild
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to give an attractive but often deceptive apperance to
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purge
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the removal of elements or members regarded as undesirable and especially as treacherous and disloyal
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beneficiary
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one that benefits from something
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candid
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blunt, honest; without bias, prejudice, or malice
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denounced
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pronounced publicly to be blameworthy or evil
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fraud
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intentional perversion of truth; an act of deception or misrepresentation
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hypocrisy
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pretending to be what one is not or believe what one does not
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expedient
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advantageous; suitable to achieve an end
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conceding
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yielding; acknowledging grudgingly
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formidable
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causing fear, dread, or aprehension
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manipulated
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contolled or played upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means
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