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foul dirty, bad, horrible asqueroso, pestilente, sin (n) the offence of breaking religious or pecado / (n) pecador
6 repugnante moral rules; sinner (n) a person who
breaks these rules
gentleman a man of good family and social caballero

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position, usually rich
(informal American) the spoken form
of “have got a” or “have got to”
tengo / tengo que
style the distinctive way in which
something is done or expressed
estilo

sweeping (of an arm movement or a amplio

Stella Gibbons statement) taking a wide, vague area
gourd a container made from the hard skin calabaza
Retold by Clare West of a large dried fruit (a used gourd sweetheart (an expression of affection) darling cariño, mi vida
is a idiom meaning “something no
task a piece of work which has to be done tarea

Glossary
longer useful or needed”)

3 intellectual (n) a person with excellent mental

abilities who enjoys activities
that further develop the mind (a
intelectual telegram a message sent by telephone and
delivered in printed form
telegrama

thrilling causing excitement, full of emotional emocionante

description used ironically in this power
story)
English Description in English Spanish tidy up to put things in order ordenar
the Lord God el Señor (Dios)
ball a formal party for dancing baile trap (horse a light carriage pulled by a horse coche ligero de
Master a respectful title, used by servants to amo
and trap) dos ruedas
beetle a kind of insect, often large and escarabajo or about their employers
black, with hard wing-cases tray a flat piece of wood (or metal or bandeja
milk (v) to draw milk from cows ordeñar
plastic) with raised edges, used for
bellow (v & n) to make a deep loud noise bramar (v) / bramido (n)
mop (n) (in this story) a piece of sponge or escobilla para lavar carrying plates of food, cups of tea,
(such as a bull makes) los platos etc.
cloth attached to a wooden handle,
best man a male friend or relative of a padrino (de boda) used for washing dishes water-vole a small animal, similar to a mouse, topillo acuático
bridegroom who assists him at his which lives in or near water
moral (adj) good in character; following right moral
wedding
and accepted standards of behaviour well (n) a hole dug in the ground so that pozo
brassière underwear worn to support a sujetador
novel (n) an invented story in prose, long novela water can be drawn up
woman’s breasts
enough to fill a complete book windswept open to or swept by the wind azotado por el viento
brochure an illustrated booklet, often used for folleto
Persuasion a famous nineteenth-century novel Persuasión (novela
advertising yeah (American) yes sí
by Jane Austen de Jane Austen)
the Brontës the sisters Anne, Charlotte, and los hermanos Brontë
poetry (n) literature in verse or rhyming form; poesía /
Emily (famous nineteenth-century poet (n) poeta
poet (n) a person who writes poetry
novelists) and their brother Branwell Words to learn
(an alcoholic) porridge a cereal cooked in water or milk and avena cocida

bull an adult male cow toro

usually eaten hot for breakfast • Write down any other new words you
preach to explain religious ideas, to teach predicar discover in your Oxford Graded Reader.
chaperone an older woman who accompanies acompañante (de
a young unmarried woman on social señoritas), carabina
about religion (usually, but not • Translate them into your language.
always, in church)
occasions • Now try to learn them!
primitive uncivilized primitivo
concert (in this story) a performance of concierto
classical music psychoanalyst a person who treats mental patients psicoanalista English Your language
by studying the workings of their
damned condemned to hell after death condenado al infierno
minds
doom (n) death or a terrible fate perdición, fatalidad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
sealed fastened, closed (my lips are sealed is sellado, precintado
doomed (adj) certain to suffer a terrible fate condenado an idiom meaning “I am determined
(por el destino) to reveal nothing”) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
elegant attractive and pleasing in elegante shed a small building used to store tools, barraca, cabaña /
wood, bicycles, etc. or to shelter establo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
appearance or manner
animals
Ford van a covered vehicle, with no side furgoneta Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
windows, used for carrying goods or shilling a British coin until 1971, worth 5p in chelín
people (Ford is the name of a vehicle today’s money
manufacturing company) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .