10H Summer Reading Vocab

Front 1

Cacophony

Back 1

An unpleasant noise
Discordant
Harsh mixture of sounds

Hint 1

“You drowned in music and pure cacophony.”

Front 2

Conformist

Back 2

A person who naturally conforms to a group
Marker by convention

Hint 2

Mildred was a conformist.

Front 3

Eradicate

Back 3

To get rid of completely
Annihilate

Hint 3

The goal of Montag's society was to eradicate opinions, not necessarily books.

Front 4

Panacea

Back 4

A remedy for all difficulties
A cure-all

Hint 4

In Fahrenheit 451, reading books is not a panacea to all of society. As said by Granger, the only way to ever consider reintroducing books is to wait until the civilization falls apart and needs their help.

Front 5

Punitive

Back 5

Inflicting punishment
Aiming to punish
Punishing

Hint 5

Montag creates a punitive plan to burn the firemen in the city's houses before realizing that it would do him no good to continue the cycle of destruction.

Front 6

Dearth

Back 6

A scarce supply
Shortage of food, famine.

Hint 6

The dearth of critical thinking done by people in Montag's society leads to a lot of violence and killing for entertainment.

Front 7

Machination (or machinations)

Back 7

Crafty scheme
Plot intended to cause evil

Hint 7

"In the late summer yet
another of Snowball's machinations was laid bare. The wheat crop was full
of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits
Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn."

Front 8

Taciturn

Back 8

Untalkative

Hint 8

"After Boxer's death, the old donkey is 'more morose and taciturn than ever'"

Front 9

Impunity

Back 9

Exemption from punishment

Hint 9

The pigs abuse the animals, but the fear of the animals to speak up is the reason for their impunity.

Front 10

Propaganda

Back 10

Ideas spread to persuade or
*Connotation: mislead
Often for a specific purpose
Advocation for a cause

Hint 10

Napoleon spreads propaganda about Snowball in order to keep the animals from questioning his decisions.

Front 11

Pragmatic

Back 11

Dealing with facts
Practical

Hint 11

Snowball is a pragmatic leader, with ideas backed with facts and a genuine love for the farm, which Napoleon turns corrupt trying to compete with him.

Front 12

Tractable

Back 12

Easily managed
Governable
Easily worked

Hint 12

When the idea of uprising began to spread to other farms, previously tractable animals turned savage.

Front 13

Apathy

Back 13

Lack of concern
Indifference
Lack of emotion

Hint 13

Napoleon has little but apathy for the animals' well being, and avoids confronting the issue.

Front 14

Ignominious

Back 14

Shameful
Disgraceful
Dishonorable

Hint 14

"And so within five minutes of
their invasion they were in ignominious retreat by the same way as they
had come, with a flock of geese hissing after them and pecking at their
calves all the way."

Front 15

Cryptic

Back 15

Having hidden meaning
Mystifying

Hint 15

Many of Napoleon's plans were cryptic, so the animals would not be upset by the true intentions of them.

Front 16

Indefatigable

Back 16

Incapable of fatigue
Tireless

Hint 16

Boxer's hard work made him seem indefatigable to the rest of the farm animals.

Front 17

Blithe

Back 17

Carefree
Lighthearted
Lack of concern
Casual

Hint 17

While the animals were depressed, Squealer would give blithe speeches in order to assure them that everything was going well.

Front 18

Reticent

Back 18

Keeps thoughts and feelings to oneself
Reserved
Reluctant or unwilling

Hint 18

As time went on, Napoleon became more and more reticent, and the other animals rarely saw him in public.

Front 19

Wistful

Back 19

Full of yearning
Pensively sad
Melancholy

Hint 19

The animals, by the end of the novel, are just as wistful as when it began.

Front 20

Maxim

Back 20

A succinct formation of a fundemental principle
A general truth

Hint 20

There was only one maxim for Animal Farm at the end of the novel: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

Front 21

Esoteric

*SAT*

Back 21

Intended for only one group
Exclusive, private, privileged
Having the nature of philosophy

Hint 21

Most of the laws passed under Napoleon were secretly esoteric for the betterment of the pigs.

Front 22

Poignant

*SAT*

Back 22

Distressing to the mind or feelings
Moving or touching
Piercing

Hint 22

Squealer was a very passionate speaker, and his speeches for the animals were always emotional and poignant.

Front 23

Naive (Naïve)

*SAT*

Back 23

Lacking sophistication
Simple and credulous
Lacking analytical insight
Not subtle or learned

Hint 23

Most of the animals on the farm that were not pigs, dogs, or the horses, were naïve and not easily educated.

Front 24

Gullible

*SAT*

Back 24

Easily deceived

Hint 24

The pigs used the animals' gullibility to their advantage when they would lie or read untrue statistics in order to make things seem good.

Front 25

Posterity

*SAT*

Back 25

Future generations

Hint 25

Over the course of the story, the posterity began to forget about the entire rebellious spirit.

Front 26

Stagnant

*SAT*

Back 26

Not moving or advancing
Foul or stale from standing
Showing little sign of activity
Lacking viability

Hint 26

The amount of innovation under Napoleon at Animal Farm was stagnant.

Front 27

Remnant

*SAT*

Back 27

A remainder
Surviving trace or vestige

Hint 27

There was barely anyone still alive from the times of Rebellion, and the remnants of memories about it were faded and near forgotten.