Unit 2: The Three Chicarrones

Learn these words from the modern fairy tale by Patricia Santos Marcantonio (Inside: Level C, Unit 2).

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  1. fortune
    a large amount of wealth or prosperity
  2. advice
    a proposal for an appropriate course of action
  3. drawl
    speak in a slow and drawn out way
  4. whine
    complain whiningly
  5. indicate
    designate a place, direction, person, or thing
  6. farewell
    an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting
  7. property
    something owned
  8. toil
    productive work, especially physical work done for wages
  9. merely
    and nothing more
  10. hungry
    feeling a need or desire to eat food
  11. famished
    extremely hungry
  12. site
    the piece of land on which something is located
  13. smooth
    agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication
  14. bellow
    shout loudly and without restraint
  15. cheat
    defeat through trickery or deceit
  16. deserve
    be worthy
  17. pudgy
    short and plump
  18. empty
    holding or containing nothing
  19. frustration
    a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized
  20. flood
    the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto land
  21. plain
    an extensive tract of level, open land
  22. sleazy
    morally degraded
  23. fiesta
    a public celebration or party
  24. business
    the principal activity in one's life to earn money
  25. license
    a legal document giving official permission to do something
  26. sturdy
    substantially made or constructed
Created on Wed Aug 03 17:31:02 EDT 2016 (updated Wed Aug 17 15:44:36 EDT 2016)

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