Chapter 1 Flashcards by Tim Antonelli

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Lecho

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Bed

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Desarrapados

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Shabbily dressed

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Montaraz

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Wild

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Truculento

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Horrifying

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Paila

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Large copper frying pan

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gorrión

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sparrow

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tenaza

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pliers/tongs

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el anafe

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portable stove

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crujir

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to creak

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áspero

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rough

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desaforado

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wild, boundless

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desentrañar

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unravel

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prevenir

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to prevent, to warn

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chivo

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goat

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imantar

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to magnetize

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ensanchar

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to widen

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patrimonio

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heritage, wealth, estate

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desmedrar

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to waste away

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relicario

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locket

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rizo

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curl, lock of hair

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catalejo

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telescope, spyglass, monocular

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lupa

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magnifying glass

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asomarse al algo

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to take a look through something

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pregonar

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to proclaim, make public

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ardiente

passionate, ardent

asombroso

amazing, astonishing

imán

magnet

consternación

dismay, consternation

privación

deprivation, hardship

entregado a algo

devoted/dedicated, or given over to something

abnegación

self-denial, renunciation

Juicio

Judgement

Estragar

To devastate

Husmear

To sniff

Verdín

Moss/mold

Ámbito

Area, field, (in this) regard

Percance

Mishap

nata

skin

Descomunal

Enormous

Dotar

Endow, bestow, equip

Desmonte

Leveling, clearing (land)

Cacería

Hunt

Holgazán

Lazy

Pasmado

Stunned, agape

Estribor

Starboard

Arboladura

Nautical spars (masts, booms)

Piltrafa

Scrap

Velamen

Sails

Jarcias

Rigging, rope

Terso

Smooth

Coraza

Armor-plating, cuirasse

Vedar

To ban

Amapola

Poppy

Adentrarse

To go into, penetrate

Plantearse

To think about, consider

Rumiar

To ponder, brood over

Trasladar

To move, transfer

Veleidad

Follies, caprices

Maraña

Tangle

Contratiempos

Setbacks

Hisopo

Paintbrush (Col.), cotton swab (Lat. Amer.)

Bastar con

To suffice

Alocadas

Reckless impulses

Tomar al pie de la letra

To take literally, seriously

Desarraigar

To uproot

Deriva

Drift

Retirar

To take off, remove

Fogón

Burner

Inverosímiles

Unlikely, improbable

Sacar cuentas

To do (the) math

Pífano

Fife

Son

Sound

Pandereta

Tambourine

Saltimbanqui

Tumbler, jumping jacks

Malabarista

Juggler

Estiércol

Dung

Charco

Puddle

Alquitrán

Tar

Médano

Dune

Arrojar

To throw

Crepúsculo

Twilight

Témpano

Ice floe

Hincharse

To swell up