Animal Farm Chapter 5

Sh C.
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  1. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
    ...set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill.
  2. eloquence
    powerful and effective language
    Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball's eloquence had carried them away.
  3. pretext
    a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason
    On every kind of pretext she would run away and go to the drinking pool...
  4. procure
    get by special effort
    According to Napoleon, what the animals must do was to procure firearms and train themselves in the use of them.
  5. sordid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
    In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs.
Created on Thu Oct 27 09:01:31 EDT 2011 (updated Thu Oct 27 09:25:14 EDT 2011)

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