¡Mira que luna......! Look at that moon....! Resources for learning English: Advanced English Vocabulary:

!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

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Advanced English Vocabulary:

stealthy
adjective
secret, furtive, secretive, sneaking, surreptitious

stealthy

stealthy stealthier stealthiest

Stealthy actions or movements are performed quietly and carefully, so that no one will notice what you are doing.

I would creep in and with stealthy footsteps explore the second-floor.

It was a stealthy sound made by someone anxious not to be heard.

ADJ-GRADED

= furtive * overt

· stealthily

Slowly and stealthily, someone was creeping up the stairs.

ADV-GRADED: ADV with v

deep-seated discuss
Definition:	(adjective) (Used especially of ideas or principles) deeply rooted; firmly fixed or held.
Synonyms:	deep-rooted, implanted, ingrained,planted
Usage:	He divined the fanatical love of freedom in her, the deep-seated antipathy for restraint of any sort.

misconstrue
Definition:	Interpret in the wrong way.
Synonyms:	be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misinterpret

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