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La Yaqui Hermosa Vocab

  1. faenas
    jobs/labors
  2. Coraje
    Courage/bravery/valor
  3. huérfanos/as
    orphans
  4. ni siquiera
    not even
  5. repartidos/as
    split up/repartir=to divide up
  6. suavidad
    suave/softness/tenderness (good for a woman, bad for a man)
  7. barro
    clay/mud
  8. caza
    hunting/game(meat)
  9. enternecido
    moved to compassion
  10. esbelta
    skinny (well formed/healthy/attractive)
  11. casta
    caste/ethnic group
  12. comarca
    region
  13. cahita
    language of the Yaqui Indians
  14. cazadores
    hunters
  15. guerra
    war
  16. riberas
    riversides/flood plains of a river
  17. tenacidad bravía
    tenacious ferocity
  18. recurrir a
    to resort to
  19. descepar
    to uproot
  20. ama
    amar=to love, ama=love, mistress/woman of the house
  21. terruño
    homeland
  22. entereza
    integrity
  23. sometida
    someter=to submit
  24. criollos
    creole (first generation Spaniard born in the Americas)
  25. disputaba
    disputar=to dispute
  26. ávidamente
    avidly
  27. se adolece
    adolecerse=to suffer from
  28. terrateniente
    land owner
  29. ambos
    both
  30. fierezas
    fierceness
  31. acurrucadas
    acurrucar=to huddle up
  32. rincones
    conrners (rincón)
  33. sostenían
    sostener=to maintain/sustain
  34. callaban
    callar=be quiet
  35. hoscas
    gloomy
  36. fiel
    faithful
  37. conmovedor
    moving
  38. hízolos
    los hizo=he made them
  39. dirigióse
    se dirgió=he directed himself to
  40. ganar
    to earn
  41. armas
    arms/weapons
  42. carabinas y fusiles
    rifles and carbines (a type of rifle)
  43. recorrer
    to cover/travel around
  44. cenceño
    thin/skinny (like esbelto/a)
  45. madrugó
    madrugar=to get up at dawn
  46. lucero
    morning star
  47. tamaño
    size
  48. quejas
    complaints
  49. extranjeros
    foreigners
  50. tunas
    prickly pear (a cactus fruit)
  51. mejillas
    cheeks
  52. relumbrosos
    brilliant /shining
  53. acabar
    to end/run out
  54. lóbregas
    dark/murky
  55. tenazmente
    tenaciously
  56. enclavijaba
    enclavijar=to clasp
  57. cabo
    the end
  58. encogida
    encojer=to shrink/cringe
  59. fiebre
    fever
  60. quinina
    quinine (old treatment for malaria)
  61. quincena
    a (roughly) two week period
  62. enterrar
    to bury
  63. peñas
    boulders
  64. amapolas
    poppies
Author
Marina2
ID
5505
Card Set
La Yaqui Hermosa Vocab
Description
Spanish vocabulary words from the story La Yaqui Hermosa
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