Vocabulario en inglés de The Hound of the Baskervilles: significado de las palabras clave

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Vocabulario

• alley: a narrow road or path
• ash: powder that is left after something has been burnt
• butler: a man servant (a person who works in a house)
• case: something (a problem or a crime) investigated by police
• cheerful: happy
• creature: a living animal or person
• creep: to move slowly along close to the ground
• devil: a cruel or evil person
• divorce: the end of a marriage by law
• faint: to become unconscious for a short time
• fire: to shoot a gun
• footprint: a mark on the ground made by a foot or shoe
• forgive: to stop being angry with someone about something
• grim: (of a place) frightening and unwelcoming
• heaven: the place where God is believed to live
• hedge: a row of small trees planted close together
• hell: the place where the devil is believed to live
• horrible: frightening, terrible; causing horror
• hound: a kind of dog used for chasing
• huge: very big; enormous
• hunt: to chase wild animals, and try to catch them
• hut: a small building made of stone or wood
• ink: a black or colored liquid used for writing
• ivy: a climbing plant with shiny, dark green leaves
• lion: a large, dangerous animal of the 'cat' family
• maid: a woman servant
• mark: to put some kind of sign on something
• marsh: very wet, soft ground
• moor: open land covered with heather and rough grass
• net: an instrument that serves to hunt insects, fish...
• pale: having a light color or lacking color in the face
• perfume: a liquid with a sweet smell to put on the body
• phosphorus: a chemical material which shines in the dark and appears to burn
• print: a mark made by something pressing on something else (e.g. footprints)
• scent: the smell of an animal or a person, which another animal (e.g. a dog) can follow
• science: the study of natural things; biology
• sink: to go down under water (or a marsh)
• supernatural: that cannot be explained by the laws of nature
• tear out: to pull something out very quickly and roughly
• telegram: a message sent by electric wires and then written down
• telescope: a long instrument with special glass that makes distant things look closer
• terror: very great fear
• throat: the front of the neck
• trick: to do something that is not honest in order to get what you want from somebody
• upset: unhappy or worried about something
• waste: to spend or use something (e.g. time) in a useless way
• will: somebody's written wishes that say who will inherit their money, house...
• yew: a kind of tree with small leaves that are always dark green