Chronicle of a Death Foretold - part 3

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• pommel a rounded knob at the end of a cane
• impertinence lack of respect, rudeness
• bash party or social event
• panopticon circular prison
• serenade a piece of music sung in the open air, typically by a man at night by the window of his belowed
• foretell predict the future
• foretold förutspådd
• steer a young bull
• gored by a bull pierced by a bull's horn
• stolid and stunned impassive, stout, apathetic, unresponsive to something that might normally excite interest or emotion
• scapular can mean both a pendant with some sort of religious icon or a long type of cloth worn by priests around their necks, also shoulder bone
• scimitar a short sword with a curved blade
• permanganate salt containing an anion (to cure blennorrhagia)
• anion a negatively chaged ion (jon)
• purge to rid, remove something unwanted. Also, an abrupt or violent removal of a group of people
• seton medical drainage, a bit of thread or cloth left in wound for drainage
• fervor intense and passionate feeling
• boobish foolish, silly
• gourd type of pumpkin
• Saint Elmo's fire light phenomenon that can warn about an imminent lightning strike. Seen as a bad omen by sailors

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