What are five words that describe the change in the pigs in chapter five of Animal Farm?

The pigs are becoming more argumentative. Snowball and Napoleon are in disagreement about almost everything. Snowball wants to electrify the farm with a windmill. He wants to do everything by committee, and Napoleon is more controlling and does not really care about the comfort of the farm animals.

Since the pigs are more argumentative, the animals are more divided. For example, Molly wants luxuries like she had before such as ribbons and sugar. The pigs and Clover do not approve. Snowball’s ideas are favored by many animals on the farm, despite Napoleon’s objections.

The animals had never heard of anything of this kind before (for the farm was an old−fashioned one and had only the most primitive machinery), and they listened in astonishment while Snowball conjured up pictures of fantastic machines which would do their work for them while they grazed at their ease in the fields or improved their minds with reading and conversation. (Ch. 5)

The animals also begin to be troubled by the events on the farm as the pigs become more authoritarian. The best example of this is that in this chapter Snowball is finally run off. The animals learn that Napoleon has his own secret police force of guard dogs. He is willing to enforce his will.

In spite of the shock that Snowball's expulsion had given them, the animals were dismayed by this announcement. Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments. Even Boxer was vaguely troubled. (Ch. 5)

The pigs are also becoming more and more deceptive. Much of what they tell the animals at this point is a blatant lie. They claim that Snowball was in league with humans, and that if the animals do not listen to the pigs then Jones will come back. Naturally the animals do not want that, so they listen to the pigs. They are not sure what to believe anymore.

The pigs also become forward-thinking at this point. A committee of pigs works on “Napoleon’s” plan to build the windmill, and they tell the animals that the windmill will take two years. This is just a way to keep all of the animals busy, but they do not realize it at the time. The animals believe Squealer and Napoleon.

Is there a word/phrase for "unperformant"?

As a software engineer, I need to sometimes describe a piece of code as something that lacks performance or was not written with performance in mind. Example: This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. Based on my Google searches, this isn't a real word. What is the correct way to describe this? EDIT My usage of "performance" here is in regard to speed and efficiency. For example, the better the performance of code the faster the application runs. My question and example target the negative definition, which is in reference to preventing inefficient coding practices. Answer This kind of coding style leads to unmaintainable and unperformant code. In my opinion, reads more easily as: This coding style leads to unmaintainable and poorly performing code. The key to well-written documentation and reports lies in ease of understanding. Adding poorly understood words such as performant decreases that ease. In addressing the use of such a poorly ...

nouns - what do you call the person who passes the trophies to the prize giver/presenter?

The person who gives out the trophies to the winners are called award presenters. So what do u call the person who passes the trophies to the presenter? Thanks!

Is 'efficate' a word in English?

I routinely hear the word "efficate" being used. For example, "The most powerful way to efficate a change in the system is to participate." I do not find entries for this word in common English dictionaries, but I do not have an unabridged dictionary. I have checked the OED (I'm not sure if it is considered unabridged), and it has no entry for "efficate". It does have an entry for "efficiate", which is used in the same way. Wordnik has an entry for "efficate" with over 1800 hits, thus providing some evidence for the frequency of use. I personally like the word and find the meaning very clear and obvious when others use it. If it's not currently an "officially documented" word, perhaps its continued use will result in it being better documented.

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