Grade 12 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Vocabularies

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Grade 12

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

Gabriel García Márquez



Vocabularies


  • crab - n. fish for crab
  • drenched - covered
  • courtyard - n. an area wholly / partly surrounded by walls or buildings
  • strench - n. a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
  • glimmered - n. a flash of light (especially reflected light) / shine brightly like a star or light
  • powdered (light) - consisting of fire particles
  • stew (of mud) - n. agitation resulting from active worry (don't get in a stew)
  • groaning - n. an utterance expressing pain or disapproval (indicate pain / discomfort)
  • impeded (by his enormous wings) - made difficult or slow / obstructed
  • stupor - n. the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when somehing bad happens accidently
  • ragpicker - n. an unskilled person who picks up rags from trash cans and public dumps as a means of livelihood / unskilled person
  • buzzard - n. vulture
  • plucked - having the feather removed / featherless / unfeathered
  • entangled - deeply involved especially in something complicated / twisted together in a tangled mass / involes in difficulties
  • overcome - beat / deal with successfully / get on top of
  • incomprehentible - incapable of being explained / accounted for / difficult to understand
  • dialect - n. the usage / vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
  • skip - bypass / jump lightly / throw
  • castaway - n. a person who is rejected (from society/home)
  • roft - lot / mess
  • angel - n. spiritual being attendent upon God / good person / supernatural being
  • captive - n. unfree ; a person who is confined especially a prisoner of war
  • fugitive - individual
  • survivors - alive people
  • coop - n. a farm building for housing poultry
  • magnanimous - n. noble and generous in spirit / a great hearted / noble / generous and understanding and tolerant
  • reverence - n. a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
  • conjecture - a hypothesis / big - boned / big shouldered
  • robust - sturdy and strong in form
  • sterner - forbidding in aspect / strict
  • catechism - n. a series of question put to an individual
  • decrepit - worm and broken down by hard use / frail / lacking bodily / muscular strength or vitality
  • onlooker - n. someone who looks on / spectator / viewer
  • frivolous - not serious in content / attitude / behaviour

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