Vocabulary Activity_How My Brother Leon brought Home a Wife

Choose the meaning of

carretela

In a sentence: She stepped down from the carretela of Ca Celin with a quick, delicate grace.

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fragrant

In a sentence: She was fragrant like a morning when papayas are in bloom.

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trunks

In a sentence: My brother Leon put down the two trunks on the grassy side of the road.

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camino real

In a sentence: At the bend of the camino real, big duhat tree grew, he rattled the handle of his braided rattan whip against the spokes of the wheel.

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golden haze

In a sentence: Before us, the fields swam in a golden haze through which floated big purple and red and yellow bubbles when I looked at the sinking sun

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yoke

In a sentence: I stopped in the act of tying the sinta across Labang’s neck to the opposite end of the yoke, because her teeth were very white, her eyes were so full of laughter, and there was the small dimple high up on her right cheek.

• group of yarns, plies, fibres, or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form

• a wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plow or cart that they are to pull

Choose the meaning of

stern

In a sentence: My brother Leon laid a hand on my shoulder and said sternly, "Who told you to drive through the fields tonight?”

• serious and strict

• gentle and happy