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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, December 6, 2012

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foretoken - To indicate or give warning of beforehand.
Synonyms: augurpresage
Usage: The heavy clouds seemed to foretoken a storm later that night.
abdicate - To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally.
Synonyms: renounce
Usage: The King abdicated the throne when he married a divorcee.
imbibe - To drink.
Usage: Thus, like figs, do these doctrines fall for you, my friends: imbibe now their juice and their sweet substance.
occlude - To cause to become closed; to prevent the passage of.
Synonyms: close upobturateimpedeobstructjamblock
Usage: There was a dangerous drop just beyond the next turning, so a fence was built to occlude the path.
inveigle - To win over by coaxing, flattery, or artful talk.
Synonyms: cajolecoaxsweet-talkwheedlepersuade
Usage: Unless he can inveigle someone to buy his old car, he won't have enough money for new one.

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