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65 Cards in this Set
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Pasara lo que pasara
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whatever happened,
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Encaramada a un árbol
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perched/stuck in a tree
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Más allá de mis conocimientos de sanadora
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far beyond my capacity to heal
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Agacharse
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to bend down low, to crouch
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Un salvavidas
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a lifeline
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Aferrar
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to grasp, cling to
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El regazo
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the lap
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Tupidos,as
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dense, thick
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Estar ronca
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to be hoarse
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En lo más profundo del prado
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deep in the meadow
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El sauce
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the willow tree
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Hierba
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grass
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Una almohada
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pillow
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Recostar
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to lie down
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Las margaritas
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the daisies
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Perdurar
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to last, to endure
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Bien oculta
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hidden far away
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Casi inquietante
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almost eerily
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La sien
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the temple (side of the face, lateral to the eye)
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Las correas
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the straps
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Un cachorrito
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a baby animal
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Los desvaríos
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ravings
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Inútil
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pointless
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To ignore
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no hacer caso, OR hacer caso omiso (that’s what’s used here)
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Someter
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to submit to
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Vengarse
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to take revenge
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Un tallo
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a stalk, stem
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No ha templado
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has not tempered, lessened
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Dentro de nada
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in no time, soon
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No obstante
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however, nevertheless,
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Abatimiento
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despondency, dejection, depression
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Sea por lo que sea
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for whatever reason,
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Duermevela
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light sleep or drowsy in-between period of sleep
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Plomo
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lead (the heavy element, Pb)
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El dosel de hojas
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the canopy of leaves
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Restregar
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to scrub, to rub hard (frotar, which we learned last year, also means the same thing). This one is e-> ie, so restriego . . .
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Estar enfadado, a
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to be angry
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Agrietado, a
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cracked, covered with cracks. (if skin, then chapped), but in this chapter, it means cracked
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Asomar
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to poke out, to come out, to show one’s face
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Amenazar
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to threaten
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Un estofado
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a stew. Think: la estufa is a stove. A stew is simmered on a stove, so it’s kind of an estofado
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Sobre todo si hace buen tiempo
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especially if the weather is good. NOTE HOW ESPECIALLY can be said with “sobre todo”
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Encaramada
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perched
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Los tejados
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the rooftops
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Colar
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to strain or to sneak. To slip through. To squeeze through.
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Apostar
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to bet
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Derrumbar
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to knock down, demolish. It can be a building, but also can be moral, as in “to devastate or shatter,” a person, or a person’s hopes. In this chapter it will mean “to break down (emotionally)”
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Los tratos
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the dealings (with another person)
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Salvo con
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means except, or but
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Estar al mando
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to be in charge. Remember: to mandar is to order someone or send them. So you have to be in charge or in authority to do that.
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Dar cabida
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to accommodate or to have capacity for
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Con sumo cuidado
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with great care
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Aterradora
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(adj) frightful, terrible, dreadful
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Rosáceo
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pinkish
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Las cenizas
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the ashes (remember how Cinderella comes from the name Cinders? Cinders are ashes? Well, in Spanish Cinderella is called Cenicientas – also named after cinders/ashes)
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La sequía
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the drought (notice the word seca, dry in this word)
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Reluciente (adj)
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shining, gleaming, resplendent, glittering
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Derrotar
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to defeat
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Aniquilar
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to annihilate, to crush
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Decimotercero
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thirteenth
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Como recordatorio
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as a reminder
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Abrasador (adj)
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burning, very hot, steaming. A synonym is abrasante.
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Un páramo
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an alpine plain open to the winds. Any place extremely cold. A bleak plateau, a high moor
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Para que resulte (note that that’s in subjunctive b/c of the “para que”) humillante
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to make it humiliating
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Un acontecimiento
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an event
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