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faenas
jobs/labors
Coraje
Courage/bravery/valor
huérfanos/as
orphans
ni siquiera
not even
repartidos/as
split up/repartir=to divide up
suavidad
suave/softness/tenderness (good for a woman, bad for a man)
barro
clay/mud
caza
hunting/game(meat)
enternecido
moved to compassion
esbelta
skinny (well formed/healthy/attractive)
casta
caste/ethnic group
comarca
region
cahita
language of the Yaqui Indians
cazadores
hunters
guerra
war
riberas
riversides/flood plains of a river
tenacidad bravía
tenacious ferocity
recurrir a
to resort to
descepar
to uproot
ama
amar=to love, ama=love, mistress/woman of the house
terruño
homeland
entereza
integrity
sometida
someter=to submit
criollos
creole (first generation Spaniard born in the Americas)
disputaba
disputar=to dispute
ávidamente
avidly
se adolece
adolecerse=to suffer from
terrateniente
land owner
ambos
both
fierezas
fierceness
acurrucadas
acurrucar=to huddle up
rincones
conrners (rincón)
sostenían
sostener=to maintain/sustain
callaban
callar=be quiet
hoscas
gloomy
fiel
faithful
conmovedor
moving
hízolos
los hizo=he made them
dirigióse
se dirgió=he directed himself to
ganar
to earn
armas
arms/weapons
carabinas y fusiles
rifles and carbines (a type of rifle)
recorrer
to cover/travel around
cenceño
thin/skinny (like esbelto/a)
madrugó
madrugar=to get up at dawn
lucero
morning star
tamaño
size
quejas
complaints
extranjeros
foreigners
tunas
prickly pear (a cactus fruit)
mejillas
cheeks
relumbrosos
brilliant /shining
acabar
to end/run out
lóbregas
dark/murky
tenazmente
tenaciously
enclavijaba
enclavijar=to clasp
cabo
the end
encogida
encojer=to shrink/cringe
fiebre
fever
quinina
quinine (old treatment for malaria)
quincena
a (roughly) two week period
enterrar
to bury
peñas
boulders
amapolas
poppies
Author
Marina2
ID
5505
Card Set
La Yaqui Hermosa Vocab
Description
Spanish vocabulary words from the story La Yaqui Hermosa
Updated
2010-01-28T20:38:31Z
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