DonQuijote

America S.
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  1. heroic tale
    a story of an adventure
    Cervantes’s sudden interruption of the narrative draws attention to the deficiencies of the work and, by implication, those of other heroic tales.
  2. Don
    a Spanish gentleman or nobleman
    A laborer finds Don Quixote lying near the road and leads him home on his mule.
  3. dulcinea
    a woman who is a man's sweetheart
    He and Sancho camp for the night, but Don Quixote does not sleep and instead stays up all night remembering his love, Dulcinea.
  4. windmill
    a mill that is powered by the wind
    Chapter VIII
    After a full day, Don Quixote and Sancho come to a field of windmills, which Don Quixote mistakes for giants.
  5. befuddle
    be confusing or perplexing to
    Don Quixote’s violent idealism befuddles Sancho, who consistently warns his master about the error of his ways.
  6. suspenseful
    characterized by or causing excited anticipation
    Unlike many of the novel’s battle scenes, which at times seem mechanical and plodding, the battle between Don Quixote and the attendant is genuinely suspenseful.
  7. laborer
    someone who works with their hands
    A laborer finds Don Quixote lying near the road and leads him home on his mule.
  8. parchment
    a superior paper resembling sheepskin
    He says that he was at a fair in the Spanish city of Toledo when he discovered a boy selling Arabic parchments in the street.
Created on Thu Mar 03 16:04:15 EST 2011

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