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A More Perfect Union - Barach Obama speech

Sun May 11 23:30:54 EDT 2008
By Augusto T. (Rio de Janeiro Brazil)
Highlighted vocabulary from the speech
ail
to make ill
amass
to accumulate
bawdy
off-colour, "bawdy jokes"
bogus
false, fake, phoney
bondage
slavery
chasm
gap
cherish
to love, to care
constricted
narrowed
crank
bad-tempered
cringe
to feel embarassed; to show fear
den
pt. cova
disown
V. pt. repudiar
fodder
animal food
haunt
(V) pt. assombrar
jarring
disagreeable
languish
to weaken
parchment
high quality paper (made of the thin dried skin of some animals)
peddle
to sell things, to spread information(disapproving)
pervasive
permeating
pew
(N) a church bench
pounce
to attack
rafter
pt. viga
relish
(v) to savour; (s) a kind of sauce
sear
to burn
set forth
to express
shuttered
closed off with shutters
snippet
(N) a piece of something
squarely
solidly
stain
(V) pt. manchar
stalemate
deadlock
stalwart
loyal
truism
(N) an obvious truth
unyielding
refusing to give away
utter
to express
woodwork
carpentry
claw
to scratch with claws

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