Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez died on April 17, 2014. A novelist, short story writer and poet of boundless imagination, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. Here is a list of 10 vocabulary words, focusing on Marquez's most famous novels, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera." These words in context provide a sense of the rhythm of Marquez's prose and the use of imagery that made him unique.
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