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.
beebread - A brownish substance consisting of a mixture of pollen and honey and used by bees as food.
Synonyms: ambrosia
Usage: The worker bees prepared the beebread, which was then fed to the larvae.
whorl - A form that coils or spirals; a curl or swirl.
Synonyms: curl, curlicue, gyre, ringlet, scroll, coil, roll
Usage: He made each individual line of the bewildering maze of whorls or curves or loops stand out bold and black by reinforcing it with ink.
cacophony - Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance.
Synonyms: blare, blaring, clamor, din
Usage: I heard a cacophony of horns during the traffic jam.
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.
!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
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