- burnish - To make smooth or glossy by or as if by rubbing; polish.Usage: Every afternoon, she would obsessively burnish the floors until the parlor gleamed like an ice rink.disperse - To drive off or scatter in different directions.Usage: When it seemed that a riot was about to start, the police arrived to disperse the crowd.mollify - To calm in temper or feeling; to lessen in intensity.Usage: She was so outraged that nothing her friends said could mollify her anger.teem - To be full of things; abound or swarm.Usage: The street teemed with hundreds of policemen who questioned every potential witness.vilify - To make vicious and defamatory statements about.Usage: The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews.
!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
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
MATCH UP RESULTS FROM THE FREE DICTIONARY. 06-04-2011.
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