VOCABULARY

The invention of wings Sue Monk Kidd

Handful=pumn, manunchi
Blackbirds=mierle
Shrewd=subtil,ager,siret
Shoulder blades=omoplati
Stuck out=scos
Nubs=protuberanta
Patted=managaie
Malarkey=nonsens
Bedding=lenjerie de pat
Stoking=incarca, alimenta
Wash pot=oala de spalat
Specks=strop
Lye=lesie
Stitched=cusut
The sun looked like a little white button stitched tight to the sky=soarele arata ca un nasture alb
cusut strans de cer
Homespun=tesut in casa
Drawers=chiloti
Sacks=bluza,vesta
Thickset coats=paltoane late in spate
Yarns=fir tors
Trailed=tari
Missus=doamna
Cane stick=bat de trestie de zahar
Devotions=devotiunile
Jammed=blocata
Wept=plans
Obedience=supunere,ascultare
Needle=ac de cusut
Whip up=bici
Quilted petticoats=jupoane matlasate
Looped panniers=cosuri buclate
Buckskin pants=pantaloni din piele de caprioara
Strutted out=merge tantos
Balls of dough=bile de aluat
Tore=rupt
Strips=benzi
Quilts=matlasa,pilote
Tallow=grasime
Stacked=stivuite

Piles=morman
Neat as a pin=ordonat ca o tinta
Patch=plasture,petic,bucata
Scraps=resturi, jumari
Pouch=punga,saculet
Threads=subiecte
Brass=alama
Thimble=degetar
Raw cotton=bumbac brut
Wool thrums=lana
Goose=gasca
Plucked=jumulite
Mattres=saltea
Moss=muschi
Oak=stejar
Chiggers=
Pail=galeata,caldare
Taffy=bomboane
Calicos=o haina de bumbac alba
Gingham=cotton cloth that has a pattern of small white and coloured squares on it
Muslim=muselina
Linen=panza
Scarlet-red thread=ata stacojie
Charcoal=carbine
Backed-up=copii de rezerva
Butcher=macular
Hog=porc
Screeching=tipand
Stable mucker=grajdar
Hovering=plutind
Slapped into=a da o palma
Pole=polonez, batator
Battling stick=batator
Fished up=
Bedcovers=cuverturi
Wash pot=oala de spalat
Flopped=acest moment
Dripping=picurand
Rail=zabrea,sina
Looping=serpuind
Curled=carliontat
Ribbons=panglici
Un-crooked=care nu e stramb, drept

Bore down=a purtat in jos

Gray moss=muschi gri
Poked=bagat,impinge
Manure=balegar
Rose up=sculat
Ripe=parguit
Straw=paie
Whipped up=incitat
Flogged=biciuit
Puckered=incretita
Jabbed=impunse
Squash=inghesuiala
Butternut=a north American tree
Splatted=a stropi
Uproar=zgomot
Backside=reversal
Brace up=stranse
Nursery=cre
Longed=dorit
Strewn=presrat
Glut=supraabunden
Bedlam=balamuc
Balked=mpiedicat
Threshold=prag
Paneled=lambria(acoperit cu lambriu)
Emanated=emanate
Oak canopy=baldachin de stejar
Velvet=catifea
Valance=a length of decorative drapery attached to the canopy or frame of a bed in order to
screen the structure or the space beneath it.
Bedstead=pat, canapea
Towering=impozant
Dread=nfiortor, groaz
Overweening=superior, nfumurat, nchipuit
Drawing=trgnd
Flung=arunc
Door sill=pervazul uii
Artless=ingenuu,simplu,sincer
Hurdles=obstacole
Girlhood=adolescen
Plucky=curajos
Tortoise=broasc estoas
Fright=fric

Bump=izbitur
Audacity=ndrzneal
Hurl=arunca
Door sills=praguri de ui
Pouring off=scurgnd
Windsocks= a light, flexible cylinder or cone mounted on a mast to show the direction and
strength of the wind, especially at an airfield.
Palmettos=palmier pitic
Clatter=zngnit
Eaves=streain
Piazza=verand
Hissed=uier
Porch=verand
Swing=leagn
Groaned=gemu
Tureens=strachin,blid,castron
Wetting=udat
Fastening=fixare, ataare
Wig=peruc
Poke=vr
Rock=furc, stnc
Cradle=leagn, furc
Cowrie shell=scoic cowrie
Rattling=zgomot
Rode=a clri, a merge, a cltori
Sucked=supt
Banshees= (in Irish legend) a female spirit whose wailing warns of an impending death in a house.
Mattresses=saltele
Dwellers=locuitorii
Freckles=pistrui
Forehead=frunte
Charcoal=crbune
Specks=pete
Pitied=comptimi
Planter class=clasa colonitilor
Hair combs and ribbons=piepteni i panglici
Lavish=generos
Atop=deasupra
Forsaken=oropsit
Clucked=cotcodcit
Muttering=mormind
Marbles=minte, intelect, imaginaie
Pouch=pung

Clumped=se reuni, ngrmdi

Centipede=centiped
Hovers=plutete
Gloom=umbr
Admonishes=sftui, admonesta
Lagging=rmnere n urm
Clawing=sfia cu unghiile
Lashes=plesni cu biciul
Transfixed=ncremenit
Sprout=germina, da, lsa
Reconcile=mpca
Mellifluous= (of a voice or words) sweet or musical; pleasant to hear.
Coiling=nfura
Trellis=leas
Scourging=biciuire
Perils=pericole
Bolt=cerceta minuios
Heap=grmad
Scoop up=aduna
Thrashing=btnd
Wharves=pontoane
Gangplank=pasarel
Sobbing=suspinnd
Stumbling=poticnind
Filth = murdrie
Rears back=ridic napoi
Incensed shake=scutur exasperat
Lumps=bulgri
Cleft=fisur
Collar bones=clavicul
Wooing=peit
Mercurial=ager, vioi
Stammer=blbi, gngvi
Belligerent=beligerant
Halting gaps =lacune de staionare
Averted=evitau
Horrid=oribil
Whims=mofturi
Tucking=bga