JORGE GUILLEN

"Viviendo"

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192 A - col A
brumas                mists             
plomizos              lead-colored, leaden
humeantes             smoky, steaming
desgarradas           torn
sume                  sumir: sinks (me hunde)
apogeos               (fig.) heights
se atenúan            atenuarse: are lessened, toned down
pendiente             pending, unsettled
trepida               trepidar: shakes, vibrates
abocadas              abocar: (fig) leading up to, ending up in
alza                  alzar: raises (up)
fulgura               fulgurar: shines, gleams  
me deslizo            deslizarse: slide along              
funde                 fundir: fuse, unite
conmueve              conmover: moves, touches, affects

192 A - col. B

sometido              someterse a:  yielding to
escoltan              escoltar:  escort
cotidianos            daily
enredos               entanglements, intrigues
asperezas             harshness
telón                 (teatro):  curtain
desenlace             (teatro): ending, denouement
afán                        anxiety, desire, urge
quehacer              job, task
sienes                temple (forehead)
tránsito              transit, passage
latido                beating, throbbing, pulsation
esfumarse             fade away
infunde               infundir:  infuses
concordia             harmony
ahincadamente         ahincado:  earnest, emphatic
aúnan                 aunar:  join, unite
disparates            nonsense
merced a              thanks to
me acomodo            acomodarse: conform, adapt, reconcile

192 B

errabundo             wandering
interpuesto           placed in between
se agrupan            agruparse:  gather, bunch together
pregón                street cry (vendor's cry)
quiebros de luces     swerving lights
roces de              brushes with  
caudal                abundance, wealth, volume of a river
ansiwedad             debe ser: ansiedad
pasaje                passage, passing

"Tornasol"

persianas             Venetian blind, slatted shutter
enramada              arbour
tornasol              sunflower; fig., sheen, iridescence
pintas                spots, dots
vaivén                to-and-fro movement 
red                   net, mesh, network 			
varia                 varied, variegated 
al trasluz            against the light    
trémulo               flickering
ondea                 ondear: waves, ripples
visos                 glints, sheen 
informes              shapeless, formless 
confín                limit, boundary

"Primavera delgada"

perfil                profile; fig., outline
a la deriva           adrift
sesgo a sesgo         swerve after swerve
dibjuante             designer
desenlace             (teatro, lit.): outcome, denouement
equívoco              equivocal, ambiguous
alamedas              poplar groves, tree-lined wlks
estelas               (Naut.): wake
vibradoras            vibrating
sinuoso               sinuous, winding
en coro               in chorus, in unison
ondulación            undulation (wavy motion)
pompas                bubbles
agudas                [at an] acute [angle]


1   "Más allá"  I

4  asombro           wonder, astonishment, amazement
6  rodea             rodear:  surrounds, encloses               
7  irrumpen          burst in, invade
9  agudos            acute (angulo agudo)
10 ternura           tenderness
11 alboreado         alborear: to dawn
12 estancia          room, dwelling
12 difusa            diffused [se dice de la luz = scattered]
15 disponerse        arrange itself
17 caos              chaos 
18 brinda            brindar:  offers
19 hervor            boiling, seething 
20 frescura          freshness
20 chispas           sparks
22 cunde             cundir: spreads, increases
23 aploma            aplomar: makes perpendicular
35 salvando          salvar: jumping over, rising above
36 en vilo           up in the air; suspended
38 avidez            eagerness
45 al azar de        with the unplanned (random) occurence of      
46 suertes únicas    unique, singular destinies
46 tropel            jumble
47 surgir            to emerge unexpectedly
48 alzarse           to rise up
49 a la fuerza	     compulsively, of necessity
49 fundirse          fuse, unite
50 sonoridad         sonority, sonorousness (resonant sound)
51 tenaz             durable, tenacious
60 salve!            Hail! (latino)

3   "Naturaleza viva"

1  tablero           board
3  raso              smooth
3  nivel             level
4  resuelto          firmly, resolutely
7  aplomo            verticality (measured by a plumbing line)
8  tacto             touch
9  palpa             palpar: touches, feels
10 gravita           gravitar:  weighs down
11 pesadumbre        normally tristeza; here weight, heft
12 leña              firewood
13 nogal             walnut
14 confiado a        confident in
14 nudos             knots
15 vetas             grain (lines of the wood)
16 potestad          authority, dominion
17 reconcentrada     concentrated
20 silvestre         wild (término botánico)

5   "Cima de la delicia"

3  se cierne         cernerse:  hovers
4  resuelto en       resolved into
5  hueste            (literario):  host, army
5  esbeltas          slender, graceful
6  alacridad         alacrity, swiftness
8  henchido          swollen, filled with
9  cándida           simple, naive
10 profundidad       depth
16 desamé            desamar:  des + amar
18 en volandas       swiftly, as if on wings       


9   "Beato sillón"

1  beato              blessed
2  corrobora          corroborar:  corroborates, confirms
9  marea              tide
10 vaivén             to-and-fro motion, backwards and forwards
				motion

12   "Muerte a lo lejos"

1  certeza            certainty
2  se estremece       estremecerse: trembles
3  acechándole        acechar: spying on it, lying in wait for it
4  arrabal            suburb
4  tropieza           tropezar:  trip
6  desnuda            desnudar: to denude, lay bare
6  apuro              difficulty, urgency
8  descorteza         descortezar:  peel fruit
10 tenderse           to stretch out
11 sin afán           afan:  anxiety, exertion
11 acatando           acatar:  respect, defer to
11 inminente          imminent, impending     
12 embiste            embestir: attack
13 cano               (poet)  snow white