Word Translation (analysis)

English Reading Blog:

Are there any words you are unsure of their meaning? Write down the words. Then write down what you think they mean, guessing from the context. Then write down a dictionary meaning.

English word	The meaning I think	The real meaning
clutched	hielt	klammerte
smirked	lächelte	grinste
impishly	gemein	verschmitzt
menacing	drohend	bedrohlich
exaggerated	übertreiben	übertreiben
fiendish	fies	teuflisch
customary	häufig	üblich
sprouted	-	sprossen
oddly	seltsam	eigenartig
toenails	Fussnägel	Fussnägel
fuselage	Brustkorb	Rumpf
forlorn	einsam	verlassen
southward	Nach süden	Nach Süden
belly	unterseite	Bauch
glistening	funkelnd	glänzend
disturbing	störend	störend

Text with the words:

The devil clutched a bomb in his left hand, a pitchfork in his right, and smirked impishly. He might have appeared menacing if it wasn't for the exaggerated eyebrows and the half-moon eyes. They gave him more of a sleepy gremlin look than the fiendish expression expected from the ruler of hell. Yet he wore the customary red suit and sprouted regulation horns and long forked tail. Oddly, the clawlike toenails of his feet were curled over a gold bar that was labeled 24 K.

In black letters above and below the circled figure on the fuselage of the B-29 bomber were the words Dennings' Demons.

The aircraft, named for its commander and crew, sat like a forlorn ghost under a sheet of rain driven southward over the Aleutian Islands by a wind from the Bering Sea. A battery of portable lights illuminated the area beneath the open belly of the plane, casting wavering shadows from the ground crew on the glistening aluminum body, Flashes of lightning added to the haunting scene, stabbing the darkness of the airfield with disturbing frequency.

279 words (but the text is from the book)