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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Several words to enhance your vocabulary



THE FREE DICTIONARY. MACH UP RESULTS.


melange 

melange - A mixture.
Synonyms: mishmash, farrago, hodgepodge, mingle-mangle, oddments, odds and ends, omnium-gatherum, ragbag
Usage: The movie was a strange melange of romance, science fiction, comedy, and drama.







pirogue 

pirogue - A canoe made from a hollowed tree trunk.
Synonyms: dugout canoe, dugout
Usage: Then I'll take you some night in the pirogue when the moon shines.





schism 

schism - A separation or division into factions.
Synonyms: discord, split
Usage: Heretics were burned for attempting to create a schism in the Catholic Church.





panegyric 

panegyric - A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment.
Synonyms: encomium, eulogy, paean, pean
Usage: Now, sir, if we apply this to your modest aversion to panegyric, how reasonable will your fears of me appear!





teetotum 

teetotum - A top, usually having four lettered sides, that is used to play various games of chance.
Synonyms: spinning top, whirligig, top
Usage: The boy was thrilled to get a bright red teetotum for his birthday and spent all summer watching it spin.


WHIRLIGIG





? PRONUNCIATION OF VOCABULARY  from THE FREE DICTIONARY.

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