Meanings (ES + gloss)
descaro • desfachatez
Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
Prichard, while keeping school, had the unmitigated gall to teach Greek, although he had never studied the subject.
“Durn ye!” he cried. “I’ll lam ye! Get offen here. I knows ye. Yer one o’ that gang o’ bums that come here last night, an’ now you got the gall to come back beggin’ for food, eh? I…
doloroso • penuria
Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there sh…
The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall.
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agalla
A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).
Even so, Redi retained a belief that in certain other cases—the origin of parasites inside the human or animal body or of grubs inside of oak galls—there must be spontaneous genera…
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Aleppo gallChinese gallTurkish gallapple gallartichoke gallbedeguar gallbeech gallcane gallcola-nut gallcoral gallcranberry gallcrown gallcup gallcurrant gallcypress gallelm gallfilbert gallfungus gallgall gnatgall midgegall mitegall oakgall of glassgall waspgall-nut inkgallapplegallbushgallflowergallflygallicgallicolousgallificationgallnutgallogengallsicknessgoldenrod gallgouty gallhorned oak galliron-gall inkknee gall
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incomodar
To bother or trouble.
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack…
I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my a…
exasperar
To exasperate.
Metrinko was hungry, but he was galled by how self-congratulatory his captors seemed, how generous and noble and proudly Islamic.