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Vocabulario útil de El Coronel no tiene quien le escriba:
Capítulo 1 Capítulo 2
1. fogón – fireplace 1. Silbidos – whistles
2. verter – pour 2. Sastrería – tailor shop
3. raspaduras – scrapings 3.acribillado – riddled with bullets
4. infusion – steeping 4.fugado – escaped
5. expectativa – expectation 5.maniobra – maneuver
6. tripas – intestines 6.sirio – Syrian
7.sortear – get through 7.lancha – launch
8.pedregosa – rocky 8.charolados – polished
9.arqueada – arched 9.podridas – rotten
10.reventar – burst 10.desandar – retrace
11.aciago – unlucky 11.crónica – chronicle
12.labrada – cultivated 12.censura – censorship
13.tapete – scarf 13.orinar – urinate
14.paño – scarf 14.horcón – forked pole
15.tómbola – raffle for charity15.zancudos – long-legged
16.tacto – touch 16.estragado – corrupt
17.lazos – bonds 17.excusado – bathroom
18.hebillas – buckles 18.cuchicheo – whispering
19.riñones – kidneys 19.enrarecido – thinned, scarce
20.cartón – cardboard 20.vaho – steam, vapor, breath
21.postizo – false 21.acuclillado – crouched, squatted
22.apelotonada – crowded 22.ninfa – nymph
23.compadre –relationship between father and godfather 23.hálito – breath
24.tuerco y tornillo – nuts and bolts 24.pliegos – folds
25.perplejo – perplexed 25.frascos – jars
26.aullido – howl 26.muestras – samples
27.alarido – shout 27.gratuítas – free
28.carraspear – clear one’s throat 28.betún – shoe polish
29.cortejo – funeral procession 29.retazos – remnants
30.pito – whistle31.estera – mat
32.sancocho – stew meat








Capítulo 3 Capítulo 4
1.piojos – lice 1. Secante – drying
2.alhucema – lavender 2.insoportable - unbearable
3.nuca – neck 3.diluvio - deluge
4. peinata – curved comb 4.hipoteca - mortgage
5.balde – bucket 5.aguacero - downpour
6.retroceder – back up, reverse 6.estupor - stupor
7.buey – ox 7.sopor -drowsiness
8. colmillos – eyeteeth 8.gutural – guttural (from the throat)
9.puntullas – slippers 9.sepulcro – tomb
10.contraloria – controller’s office 10.envoltorio – bundle, package
11.pianola – player piano 11.dril – strong cloth like denim
12.teclas – piano keys 12.taburete – stool
13.vericuetos – by-ways 13.herméticos – airtight, secretive
14.nalgas – buttocks, rump14.cárdenos – livid
15.limosna – alms (charity) 15.travesaño – cross beam
16.indemnizaciones – indemnities Capítulo 6
17.acampado – encamped 1.peones - peasants
18. patas – paws 2.embotado – blunt, dull
19.escueta – bare, unadorned 3.capataz – overseer, foreman
20.bufandar – puff 4.fregar - rub
21.reverberante – reverberating 5.fusilar - shoot
22. escalafón – pay scale, wage list6.vientre – stomach, abdomen
Capítulo 5 7.voluminoso – bulky
1. empotrado – embedded 8.cremallera – rack
2.estribos – stirrups 9.barcaza – barge
3.jeringuilla – syringe 10.hermetismo – secrecy
4.fláccidas – flaccid, flabby 11.revendera – retailer
5.salpicadas – spattered, sprinkled (with dirt) 12.cajón – drawer
6.lunares – moles 13.clandestina – secretive
7.pastilla –pill 14.azar – accident, chance
8.martirio – martyrdom 15.rastrillo – rake
9.verruga pilosa – hairy wart 16.aindiado – Indian-like
10.hule – rubber, oil-skin 17.tufo – vapor, airs, conceit
11.lavandera - laundress 18.triturado – ground, crushed
12. Fuelle – bellows, pucker (in clothes) Capítulo 7
13.filos – edges 1.calzado – footwear 7.inasible-ungraspable
14.mazamorra– thick corn soup 2.circo – circus 8.recapacitar-reconsider
15. enrasar – smooth, level 3.trabazón – juncture, connection
16. Tinajero – maker of jars 4.arrepentirse – to repent 9.portillo-aperture,opening
17. asfixiarse – suffocate 5.yacer – to lie down
6.correazos – lashes with a leather strap

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