Understanding Key Concepts: A Comprehensive Glossary

A-E

• Appeal: The action of appealing.
• Bison: A troop or a soldier.
• Cloying: To puddle the ground or form a pool of water.
• Concoct: To prepare the threads in the loom to pass.
• Coto: Bounded land.
• Demarcate: To draw the boundaries or confines of a country or area.
• Deplorable: Deserving to be deplored.
• Discern: To distinguish something from something else, noting the difference between them.
• Discreet: Endowed with discretion.
• Disfunción: Derangement in the operation of something or its rightful role.
• Drastic: Rigorous, energetic, radical, draconian.
• Eager: Having an impetuous force.
• Effectiveness: The ability to achieve the desired effect or expected result.
• Espadrille: Footwear with a sole of esparto or hemp canvas, which is secured by a simple adjustment or tapes.
• Expectation: The hope to do or accomplish something.
• Exile: The penalty of expelling someone from a place.
• Extravagant: That which is done or said outside the common order or mode of action.

G-I

• Gallardo: Freed, graceful, and gallant.
• Haza: A portion of agricultural land.
• Heresy: An error in matters of faith, held with stubbornness.
• Immune: Of or relating to immunity.
• Impute: To attribute responsibility to someone for a wrongful act.
• Inevitable: That which cannot be ignored.
• Inherent: That which by its nature is so attached to something that it cannot be separated from it.

L-P

• Lance: The action and effect of launching.
• Lean: Tall, thin, and proportioned figure.
• Main: Skill, ability.
• Morar: Inhabiting or habitually residing in one place.
• Novice: A person in a religion who has taken the habit but has not yet professed.
• Panorama: A quite extensive landscape visible from an observation point.
• Pathogen: That which creates and develops a disease.
• Pernicious: Seriously harmful and damaging.
• Portentous: Singular, strange, and causing admiration because of its novelty, terror, or awe.
• Preliminary: That which serves as a preamble or preface to treat a subject solidly.

R-Z

• Recruit: The action and effect of recruiting.
• Reproached: Criticizing someone harshly.
• Rudiments: The embryo or primordial condition of an organic being.
• Scrupulous: To have scruples.
• Sheriff: A junior justice officer who implements court orders.
• Shire: A division of territory comprising several villages.
• Solemn: Held or done publicly with extraordinary pomp or ceremony.
• Strident: To emit a sound.
• Sucedáneo: That which is of a substance.
• Susceptible: Able to receive modification or impression.
• Tort: An offense that is made to someone's honor or reputation with something said or done.
• Transcendent: That which is beyond the limits of any possible knowledge.
• Tul: A thin, transparent fabric of silk, cotton, or linen, which forms a mesh, usually in octagons.
• Unclean: Dirty and disgusting.
• Valle: A plain land between mountains or heights.
• Vasta: Dilated, very large, or widespread.
• Vice: An unpleasant taste that something leaves.
• Voluptuousness: Complacency in sensual delights.
• Without: To abstain, to be deprived of something, to avoid it.
• Zagal: A young shepherd.