Animal Farm Vocab #2 Practice Take out a piece of binder paper.

AF Vocab #2 tractable tractable irrepressible irrepressible ignominious ignominious posthumously posthumously pretext pretext canvassing canvassing sordid sordid arable arable intermediary intermediary malignity malignity AF Vocab #2 Test is this Tuesday

1. Which word best completes the sentence? Vincent van Gogh only became a famous artist ___________________. posthumously

2. Which word best completes the sentence? An ambassador is an ___________________ who helps solve problems between two countries. intermediary

3. Which word best completes the sentence? We couldn’t plant a garden there because it wasn’t ______________ land. arable

4. Which word best completes the sentence? Napoleon demonstrates hatred, ______________ and a hidden desire to harm all of the animals. malignity

5. Which word best completes the sentence? Boxer, who does whatever Napoleon says, is quite ____________________. tractable

6. Which word best completes the sentence? The political campaign worker spent the afternoon _________________ the houses in the neighborhood. canvassing

7. Which word best completes the sentence? The pigs, who pretend to be honorable, are actually quite __________________ in their disregard for the animals. ignominous

8. Which word best completes the sentence? Under the ___________ of using the restroom, the student was actually texting his friends ;-) pretext

9. Which word best completes the sentence? Not even the rain can stop the _________________ joy that we have a five day weekend coming. irrepressible

10. Which word best completes the sentence? His public drunkenness, his laziness and his general foul and __________ behavior caused the animals to run off Mr. Jones. sordid