Corfu

Corfu is a small island just off the East coast of Greece. It is about 237 square miles and has a population of about 100,000. Its principal city, also named Corfu has a population of about 40,000. Its history includes many battles and conquests which can be told by the many castles and forts throughout the island. Corfu is a very popular tourist destination and was mainly visited by higher class family's from England up until WW1 and today is visited by mainly middle class family's

Spanish, Lesson 7

'Introducing someone' is the topic of this week's lesson...

New phrases:

Soy (I am):  Jennifer, Jacob, etc.

Este es:  This is (male), Estos son:  This is, they are (plural, masculine, or group of males and females)

Esta es:  This is (female), Estas son:  This is, they are (plural, feminine)

Ejemplos: 

Esta es la novia de Carlos.: This is Carlos' girlfriend.

Este es el novio de Laura.: This is Laura's boyfriend.

Estos son mis vecinos - They are my neighbors.

Esta es mi esposa - This is my wife.

Esto es mi esposo - This is my husband.

New words:

Esposo/a: Husband/wife

Vecino/a: Neighbor (male/female)

Compañero/a: companion, classmate

Jefe/a: boss (male/female)

¡Mucho gusto!  - Pleased to meet you!  (Directly translated it means 'much pleasure', but can be used as a greeting also.)

Encantado/a - Enchanted (Male/Female): as in 'enchanted to meet you'.

Spelling/Vocabulary List #5

Anecdote - noun

a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
  • an account regarded as unreliable or hearsay
  • the depiction of a minor narrative incident in a painting

Cunning - adjective

1. having or showing skill in achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion
  • ingenious

2. attractive; quaint

Elixir - noun

a magical or medicinal potion
  • a preparation that was supposedly able to change metals into gold, sought by alchemists.
  • (also elixir of life) a preparation supposedly able to prolong life indefinitely.
  • a medicinal solution of a specified type; i.e. for coughs

Graft -

noun
Horticulture .

a. a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or stock of another plant in which it continues to grow.
b. the plant resulting from such an operation; the united stock and scion.
c. the place where the scion is inserted.
2. Surgery . a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.
3. an act of grafting.

verb (used with object)
4. to insert (a graft) into a tree or other plant; insert a scion of (one plant) into another plant.
5. to cause (a plant) to reproduce through grafting.
6. Surgery . to transplant (a portion of living tissue, as of skin or bone) as a graft.


Horde -


noun
1. a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd.
2. a tribe or troop of Asian nomads.
3. any nomadic group.
4. a moving pack or swarm of animals.

verb (used without object)
5. to gather in a horde.


Lugubrious - adjective
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner.

Nigh -


adverb
1. near  in space, time, or relation.
2. nearly; almost; (often followed by on  or onto).

adjective
3. near;  approaching.
4. short or direct: to take the nighest route.
5. (of an animal or vehicle) being on the left side.
6. Archaic . parsimonious; stingy.

preposition
7. near.

verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
8. Archaic. to approach.

Progeny - noun, plural -ny or, for plants or animals, -nies.

1. a descendant or offspring, as a child, plant, or animal.
2. such descendants or offspring collectively.
3. something that originates or results from something else; outcome; issue.

Scorn -


noun
1. open or unqualified contempt; disdain.
2. an object of derision or contempt.
3. a derisive or contemptuous action or speech.

verb (used with object)
4. to treat or regard with contempt or disdain.
5. to reject, refuse, or ignore with contempt or disdain.

verb (used without object)
6. to mock; jeer.

Idiom
7. laugh to scorn, to ridicule; deride.

Shole - noun

A plank fixed beneath an object, as beneath the rudder of a vessel, to protect it from injury; a plank on the ground under the end of a shore or the like.

Shoal -

noun

1. a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow.
2. a sandbank or sand bar in the bed of a body of water, especially one that is exposed above the surface of the water at low tide.

adjective
3. of little depth, as water; shallow.


Sojourn -

noun
1. a temporary stay.

verb (used without object)
2. to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily.

Toil -

noun
1. hard and continuous work; exhausting labor or effort.
2. a laborious task.
3. Archaic . battle; strife; struggle.

verb (used without object)
4. to engage in hard and continuous work; labor arduously: to toil in the fields.
5. to move or travel with difficulty, weariness, or pain.
verb (used with object)
6. to accomplish or produce by toil.

Truculent - adjective

1. fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
2. brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing.
3. aggressively hostile; belligerent.

Unctuous - adjective

1. characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug.
2. of the nature of or characteristic of an unguent or ointment; oily; greasy.
3. having an oily or soapy feel, as certain minerals.

Vociferous - adjective

Crying out noisily; clamorous.