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25 Cards in this Set
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Ensconced
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To settle comfortbly
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Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw.
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Dissentients
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Different in opion or feeling especially from sentiment or policies of a majority.
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There were only four Dissentients, the three dogs and a cat.
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Tushes
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Hair
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A majestic- looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.
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Preeminent
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Superior ro all others, outstanding
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Preemient among the pigs were two young boars.
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Knacker
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A person who buys animals and slaughter. (butcher)
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Jones will sell you to the knacker.
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Vivacious
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Full of spirit; very lively
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Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon.
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Trotter
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Foot of a pig
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Major raised his trotter for silence.
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Expounded
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To give detalied statement
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They held secret meetings in the barn and expounded principles of Animalism to the others.
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Gamboled
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Leap around playfully, skip
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In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round.
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Scullery
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A room attached to kitchen
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The barrel of beer in the sullery was stove in with a kick from Boxer's hoof.
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Parasitical
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One who take sadavantage of generosity of others without making any useful return.
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Witht he parasitical human begings gone.
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Maxim
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Gneral truth, short it, main idea
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That the sevan commandments could in effect be reduced to a single maxim.
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Cryptic
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Hidden meaing
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None of you has ever seen a dead doney," and the others had to be content with this cryptic anser.
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Irrepressible
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Impossible to control, irresistable
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And yet the song was irrepressible.
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Shirked
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Avoid or neglect duty
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Nobody shirecked- or alomost nobody.
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Smithy
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Blacksmith's shop
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It got into the din of the smithies and tune of the churchbell
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Paddock
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A fenced area near a stable
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To set the small paddock behind the orchard.
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Stone
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Hard soild piece
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Snowball flug his fifteen stone against jone's leg.
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Indefatigable
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Incapable
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He was Indefatigable at this.
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Posthumously
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continuing after one death
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Which was conferred Posthumously on the dead sheep.
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Pretext
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An excuse
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On every kind of pretext she would run away from work
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Canvassing
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Examine carefully or disscuss throughly
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Napoleon was better at canvassing support for himself between times.
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Blithely
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Craefree and lighthearted
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One day as Mollie stolled blithely into the yard.
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Disinterred
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Remvoed from its grave, digged out
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The skull of Old major, now clean of flesh, had been disinterred from the orchard.
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Gaiters
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A type of clothing for leg
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