Understanding English Grammar and Vocabulary
Key English Vocabulary
Here is a list of useful English words and their translations:
- Watchful: Vigilante
- Evolves: Evolucionado
- Speed Cameras: Cámaras de velocidad
- Astounding: Asombroso
- Rough: Peligroso
- Brain: Cerebro
- Conduct: Realizar
- Put up: Colgar
- Figure: Dato
- Likely: Probable
- It’s a pity: Es una lástima
- Behave: Comportarse
- Ensure: Asegurar
- Tend to: Tienden a
- Choice: Elección
- Signals: Señales
- Take place: Tener lugar
- Worldwide: Mundial
- Tempted: Tentado
- White lie: Mentira piadosa
- Cheated: Engañado
- Trust: Confiar
- Change
Brain Facts, Policies, and Owl Behavior: A Quiz and Analysis
Brain Facts, Policies, and Owl Behavior
1. The human brain makes up only 2 percent of an adult’s body weight.
2. The foreign policies that the Hoover administration undertook in 1929 were marked by good will & peaceful purpose.
3. Children usually turn to their parents rather than to other figures of authority for protection from threats in the environment.
4. Because of the high tides & winds during hurricanes cause extensive damage to Pacific island nations each year.
5. Anthropologists study
Read MoreFahrenheit 451: Unhappiness and Escape in a Dystopian Society
At the very least, Clarisse awakens in Montag a love and desire to enjoy the simple and innocent things in life. She speaks to him about her delight in letting the rain fall upon her face and into her mouth. Later, Montag, too, turns his head upward into the early November rain in order to catch a mouthful of the cool liquid. In effect, Clarisse, in a very few meetings, exerts a powerful influence on Montag, and he is never able to find happiness in his former life again.
The Illusion of Happiness
Read MorePoetry Analysis: Mother, Father, and Nature’s Resilience
Praise Song for My Mother
- “Water” — metaphor: basic need for survival; her mother was essential and surrounded her life
- “Moon’s” — a sacred image; symbol of her mother (gentle in nature, caring and motherly)
- “Sunrise” — her mother was there at the start of every new day
- “The fishes’ red gill” — a fish’s gill is vital for survival; in this way, her mother was someone she always depended on
- “The flame tree’s” — gave her shelter and protection, also symbolizes life and growth
- “The crab’s leg/The
Lazarillo de Tormes: A Picaresque Novel Summary
Lazarillo de Tormes is an anonymous Spanish picaresque novel, whose full title is “The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes, and His Fortunes and Adversities.” Published in 1554, it is the biography of a rogue who serves different masters, invariably taking advantage of them. It is a short novel divided into seven treaties.
Treaty One: The Blind Beggar
In the first treaty, we are introduced to Lazarus, a boy of low and shameful extraction. His father was a thief, and he lived with his mother in Salamanca.
Read MoreCatalan Glossary: Common Words and Phrases
A
- Arthritics: Affected by arthritis (inflammation of the joints)
- Angry: With anger, irritated
- Astorada: Scared, in shock
- Tested: Tested, trained
- Afaitarà: (Popular) To take, to steal
- Arnado: Damage done by moths (insect larvae that feed on certain tissues)
- Arsenic: Toxic substance
- Arramben: (Popular) To take, to take away
- What good was it?: What purpose did it serve?
- Avalanche: Many
- Azaleas: Showy flowers, shrubs, originating from Asia
- In turn: When one period ends and another begins
B
- Bain-marie: (Figuratively)