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A Tale of Two Cities

Glossary
Charles Dickens / Retold by Ralph Mowat
English Your language
nobleman someone belonging to an important, titled family noble

1 pale with little colour in the face pálido

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English Description in English Spanish peasant a poor farmer who owns or rents a small piece campesino
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citizen someone who belongs to a country or city cuidadano ................ ................
powerful strong or important enough to make other people poderoso
do what you want
condemn to say at a law trial that someone must be condenar ................ ................
punished
revolution when people fight to change the way their country revolución ................ ................
is controlled
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emigrant someone who leaves their own country to live in emigrante servant someone who is paid to work in another person's criado
another country house ................ ................
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grave a hole in the ground where a dead person tumba suffer to feel pain, sadness, etc. in body or mind sufrir
is buried ................ ................
terror very great fear terror ................ ................
guillotine a machine with a big knife for cutting people's guillotina
heads off tribunal a group of people who are judges at some kinds of tribunal ................ ................
trial
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guilty you are guilty if it is proved at a law trial that you culpable
have done something wrong ................ ................
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hang to kill someone by holding them above the ground ahorcar ................ ................
with a rope round their neck
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innocent you are innocent if you are accused of a crime but inocente ................ ................
did not do it
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knit to use long sticks to make clothes from wool hacer media
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