Small enough to fit in purse or porket, this dictionary presents more than 2.500 American English idiomatic words and expressions with their meanings

Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother’s Taíno Indian language and his father’s Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety...

The book defines the words you need to know in order to achieve a high Critical Reading score. Words are presented in illustrative sentences and thematic word clusters-word groups having similar meanings or words that apply to similar circumstances

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