As Veias Abertas ~ New Vocab Flashcards
a herança
heritage
a bonança
good times/prosperity
precoce
premature
o solo
ground/soil
o salva-vidas
lifequard
esgotar
to drain
a horta
vegetable garden
amaldiçoar
to curse
a nuvem
cloud
o hino
hymn
a punhal
dagger
a rota
route
o cacau
cocoa
os charutos
cigars
a colheita
harvest
a varinha
wand
o latifúndio
agricultural estate
a façanha
feat
o bucho
belly
o abutre
vulture
a ferrovia
railroad
aprimorar
to improve/perfect
a comarca
district
cravar
to drive/sink in
a vigência
period of relevance
o cárcere
prison
caudaloso
abundant
o manancial/a nascente
spring
estar convicto
to be convinced
a engrenagem
gear
alheio
alien/foreign
de ponta-cabeça
headfirst
a pampa
grassland
a borracha
rubber
a mata
wood/forest
afogar
to drown
insondável
bottomless
o proxeneta
pimp
a mendicância
beggary
o mendigo
begger
a beira
edge
restar/sobrar
to be left over
a pílula
pill
o mestre
master
a natalidade
birth-rate
a greve
strike
a rapinagem
plundering
a nau
sailing ship
a casca
tree bark
tenebroso
vile
estar à espreita
to be lurking
o gengibre
ginger
a noz
walnut
a canela
cinnamon
cobiçar
to covet
exaurir
to exhaust
erguer
to raise/erect
a rainha
queen
abençoar
to bless
a redenção
redemption
entrementes
meantime
a alvorada
dawn
a brandura
gentleness
ousar
to dare/risk
a monte
hill
manar
to flow
degolar
to decapitate
enforcar
to strangle
o presságio
presentiment/sign/omen
a maré
tide
a coroa
crown
auferir
to get
a povoação
settlement
o leste
East
o berço
crib
a praga
plague
acometer
to attack
arrebatar
snatch
trovejar
to thunder
a inveja
envy
o ímã
magnet
a seda
silk
o tecido
tissue/fabric
a alcatifa
carpeta
queixar-se
to complain
a tourada
bullfight
mastigar
to chew
triturar
to crush
senão
otherwise
o flemengo
Flemish
o esbanjamento
profiligacy
inchar
to inflate
o queixo
chin
o herege
heretic
aprofundar
to deepen
arcaico
archaic
esmagar
to squeeze
verter
to pour/spill
descarregar
to unload
apossar-se
to take possession of
a mercadoria
merchandise
o chicote
whip
repartir
to separate/divide
o trigo
wheat
fugir
to flee
o fidalgo
nobleman/aristocrat
vangloriar-se
to brag
os escombros
debris
o retalho
scrap
arranhar
to sratch
o armazém
warehouse
a bruxaria
witchcraft
o sino
bell
a sublevação
revolt
a cúpula
dome
ceifar
to reap
a choça
shack
a corte
court
amparar
to support
o frei
mpnk
o gado
cattle
despedaçar
to tear into pieces
a rocha
rock
o moço
youngster
o pó
dust/powder
o amo
master
a capela
chapel
egendrar
to come up with a plan
o afã
dilligence
vigente
in effect
o sertão
backcountry
eclodir
to emerge
ocasionar
to cause
o estaleiro
shipyard
o charque
beef jerky
o couro
leather
assolar
to devastate
a rapina
plunder
o adubo
fertilizer
suprir
to replace
a safra
harvest
o transtorno
disturbance
a creche
daycare
o internato
boarding school
o orfanato
orphanage
amontoar
to pile up
a gaita
harmonica
os ourives
goldsmiths
a coleira
leash
pavonear
to strut
o melaço
molasses
açoitar
to beat
o amo
master
a gravida
pregnant woman
a farinha
flour
manar
to flow
o xelim
shilling
desbancar
to surpass
a bugiganga
junk
pleitear
to plead/dispute
desabar
to collapse
o trigo
wheat
a ribeira
riverbank
a tumba
grave
o jipe
jeep
o balaço
gunshot
a pechincha
bargain
o sossego
tranquility
salientar
to stress/emphasize
o revanche
revenge
açambarcar
to monopolize
assinalar
to mark
o prócer
magnate
emudecer
to silence
isento
exempt
o cerco
siege
a erva
herb
jactar-se
to brag
o desquite
divorce
mimar
to spoil
abalançar-se
to throw yourself
abalançar
to balance
tombar
to fall/knock down
amiúde
often
