How to pronounce“yearning”in English
When Minerva finally gets to go to school, where she learns the truth about Trujillo, she laments, “I’d just left a smaller cage to go into a bigger one, the size of our whole country.”
Yearning for freedom is a pretty relatable sentiment for anyone who’s ever been a kid — and Minerva’s discovery that freedom is an impossibility for everyone in her country is a
painful reversal. By reading about real, ordinary people like the Mirabal sisters, we get a richer understanding of life under dictatorship.
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Definitions of “yearning”
A wistful or melancholy longing.
“She had a yearning to see her long-lost sister again.”
present participle and gerund of yearn
“I've got this burning, yearning, yearning / Feeling inside me / Ooh, deep inside me / And it hurts so bad”
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