The first children to see the obscure, _______ promontory that approached in the ocean believed that it was an enemy ship.
stealthy-adjective-crafty;sly
He smelled of the ocean, and his only form allowed them to supposed that it was the body of a human, for his hair covered with an armor-plating of_______and mud.
remora-noun-cookiecutter shark;suckerfish
They also noticed that he bored death with dignity, having neither the ______ semblance of the other drowned men from the sea nor the squalid, needy aspect of those who drowned in rivers.
solitary-adjective-unaccompanied;remote
They couldn't find a big enough bed in the village to lay him on nor a table solid enough to hold ____.
vigil-noun-observance;watch
Fascinated by his______and beauty, the women then decided to make him pants with a piece of gaff sail, and a shirt of fine linen, so that he could continue in his death with dignity.
disproportion-noun-imbalance;discrepancy
They compared him in secret to their own men, thinking that they would not be able to do in a lifetime what that man was capable of in a single night, and they ended up repudiating them in the the depths of their hearts as the most _____ and paltry beings
squalid-adjective-grubby;grimy
Im fine here, only to spare the embarassment of breaking the chair, and perhaps without ever knowing that those who told him don't go Estaban, wait until the coffee boils, were the same that later whispered, finally the great fool's left, thank goodness,
bloke-noun-guy;chap
They went on distracted by these labyrinths of fantasy, when the oldest of the women, who by being the oldest had _______ the drowned man with less passion than compassion, sighed: "He has the face of one who's called Esteban.
contemplated-verb-observe;survey
The others, sitting around her, passed from sighs to ______, and the more they wept the more the felt desire to cry, or the drowned man was becoming to them more and more Esteban, until they wept so for him that he was the most helpless man on the earth,
laments-noun-moans;groans
The men thought their gesticulations to be no more than womanly ______.
frivolities-noun-lightheartedness;fun
One of the women, _____ by such insolence, then took off the headscarf from the cadaver's face, and then the men too remained breathless.
mortified-verb-embarassed;humiliated
One of the women, mortified by such _______, then took off the headscarf from the cadaver's face, and then the men too remained breathless.
insolence-noun-impertient;imprudence
There was such truth in his mode of being, that even the most suspicious of the men, those that felt bitterness during the long nights at sea that their wives would become tired of dreaming of them to dream instead of drowned men, even these, and still ot
marrow-noun-kernel;gist
Exhausted from the torturous inquiries of the previous night, the only thing they wanted was to rid themselves once and for all of the_____ of the intruder before the fierce sun of the arid and windless day rose.
nuisance-noun-bother;bore
They wanted to tie a ship anchor to his ankles so that he would be staid without mistake in the deepest waters where the fish are blind and divers die of ______, in such a way that the bad currents would not deposit him on the shore, as it had done with o
nostalgia-noun-remembrance;reminiscence
But only when they finished cleaning him did they become ________ of the sort of man he was, and then they remained, breathless.
conscious-adjective-aware;awake
So that in the dawns of the coming years the travelers on great ships would awaken suffocating on the aroma of gardens on the high sea, and the captain would have to come down from his quarter-deck in full uniform, with his ______, his pole star, and stri
astrolabe-noun-sextant;navigational aid