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El A. de plumas
Horacio Quiroga
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| el almohadón | pillow |
| las plumas | feathers |
| luna de miel | honeymoon |
| escalofrío | shudder, shiver |
| helar | to freeze |
| niñerías | childish ideas |
| un estremecimiento | tingle, shudder, tremble |
| dicha | happiness |
| mudo | mute, dumb |
| incauto/a | unwary, incautious |
| la ternura | tenderness, fondness |
| el semblante | countenance, facial expression |
| contenía (contenerse) | control oneself |
| frisos | frieze (a kind of mural) |
| mármol | marble |
| encantado | enchanted, bewitched |
| otoñol | autumn-like |
| estuco | stucco (white walls) |
| rasguño | scratch, line |
| desapacible | disagreeable, unpleasant, rough |
| pieza | room |
| resonanacia | resonance |
| un nido | a nest |
| echar un velo | covered with a veil |
| adelgazar | to lose weight, to get thinner |
| ligero | light |
| se arrastró (arrastrarse) | to drag on |
| ternura | tenderness |
| reponerse | to recover |
| los sollozos | sobs |
| espanto | fright,fear |
| tentativa | attempt |
| caricia | caress |
| retardándose (retardarse) | to grow less |
| desvanecida | feeling faint |
| la debilidad | debility, feebleness |
| enseguida | immediately |
| aguadísima | excruciating |
| el vaivén | coming and going, pacing |
| a ras del suelo | to the floor |
| desmesuradamente | enormously, disproportionately |
| perlaron (perlar) | to bead up (like sweat) |
| clamó (clamar) | to cry out |
| un alarido | howl, scream |
| extravío | loss |
| se serenó (serenarse) | to calm down |
| porfiado/a | persistent |
| antropoide | anthropoid |
| desangrándose(desangrarse) | to lose blood |
| yacer | to lie down |
| pulsaban (pulsar) | to gauge blood pressure |
| la muñeca | wrist |
| se encogió de hombros (encogerse) | shrug shoulders |
| desalentado | discouraged |
| tamborileó | to drum, to slap |
| bruscamente | brusquely, suddenly |
| agravado | worse |
| remitía (remitir) | to abate, subside |
| lividia | deathly pale, pallid |
| un sincope | a fainting spell, loss of consciousness due to inadequate blood flow |
| desplomado/a | collapsed |
| hundimiento | sunkeness |
| crepusculares | twilight |
| trepabar (trepar) | to creep, to climb |
| colcha | mattress |
| deliró delirar) | to be delirious, to rave |
| fúnebremente | in the manner of a funeral |
| agónico | dying, deathly |
| extrañada | surpirsed, puzzled |
| manchas | stains |
| hueco | indention, hole |
| picadura | tiny bite mark |
| se le erizaba | stood up on end |
| Ronca | hoarse |
| la funda | pillowcase |
| envoltura | cover, wrapping |
| tajo | cut, slice |
| crispadas | tense |
| patas velludas | hairy legs |
| una bola viviente y viscose | a live and viscous ball |
| hinchado | swollen |
| se le pronunciaba (pronunciarse) | to stand out |
| sigilosamente | silently, stealthily |
| trompa | proboscis |
| las seines | the temple (of the head) |
| remoción | removal |
| chupar | to suck, to nuzzle |
| vertiginoso/a | breakneck, dizzying (in speed) |
| había vaciado (vaciar) | to empty out |
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