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Cajas de Carton
vocab from the story (beginning to line 90)
Question | Answer |
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Cosecha | harvest |
entristecerse | to make sad; upset |
callado | to be silent |
choza ( chocita) | hut |
magrugada | sunrise |
colchón | mattress |
abollar | to dent, bump |
sofocados | suffocated |
desempacar | unpack |
rumbo | direction |
alejarse | to move away |
capataz | foreman, superviosr, overseer |
sudor | sweat |
pañuelo | handkerchief |
alzar | to rise |
borrar | to erase |
parras | grapevine |
humedecidos | teary, watery eyed |
impertinente | impertinent, irrelevent |
matricular | to enroll |
mareado | dizzy |
pizcar | to pick |
detener | to stop |
jarra | jug |
zumbido | buzzing |
esfuerzo | effort |
añadir | to add |
contratista | contractor |
braceros | day-laborers |
pizcador | picker |
señalo | signaled |
ya es horra | it's time |
mocho | broken; badly spoken (broken spanish) |
rumbo | on the way (direction) |
volante | steering wheel |
echo para atras | he threw back |
polvo | dust |
toser | cough |
pertenecia | what belonged to us |
peso | weight |
pegado | wink |
amanecer | dawn |
trastes | utensils |
encender | to start |
derecho | the right |
palmo a palmo | inch by inch |
perico | parakeet |
dueño | owner |
maneras | anyways |
acarrear | to carry |
capota | hood |
lazos | ties; knots |
abolladuras | dents |
mellas | nicks |
sujete | i held |
sacó | took out |
agarrandola | grabbing it |
asas | handles |
cocidos | cooked |
suspiró | sighed |
mangas | sleeves |
nudo en la garganta | lump in my throat |
barrer el suelo | to sweep the floor |
lata | tin |