!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
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
04-01-2011 DAILY MATCH UP RESULTS AND VOCABULARY MEANING from FREE DICTIONARY 03-01-2011.
pliant - Easily bent or flexed; pliable.
Synonyms: plastic
Usage: We searched for a more pliant material to wrap around the leaking pipe.
amatory - Of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially sexual love.
Synonyms: amorous, romantic
Usage: She showed her friends the stack of old love letters and read them excerpts from the couple's amatory correspondence.
petulant - Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered.
Synonyms: peevish, testy, fretful, cranky, fractious
Usage: After their fight, her friend came to make amends, but she was feeling petulant and sulky and ignored him.
gargantuan - Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic.
Synonyms: elephantine, giant, jumbo
Usage: He was full to capacity after polishing off a gargantuan, five-course meal.
inured - Made tough by habitual exposure.
Synonyms: enured, hardened
Usage: The Old West had made him inured and hardened against the wilderness, thievery and corruption.
Transmigrate: (verb) Be born a new in another body after death.
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