English, vocabulary Flashcards
(17 cards)
gear
engrane
The car should be in gear. El auto debería estar listo para andar.
cradle
cuna
weary
muy cansado (; por la jornada) aburrido
cram
apretujar: 8 children were crammed into the back of the car
aprender de a rápido: She is cramming for her history exam
moreover
para agregar más información
The whole report is badly written. Moreover, it’s inaccurate.
fancy
querer tener o hacer
I don’t fancy swimming in that water.
Ser sexualmente atractivo
He could tell she fancied him
likely
algo esperado o probable
do remind me because I’m likely to forget
frill
cosas extras que se agregan para volver algo mas atractivo o placentero.
cintas
dwindle
disminuir
the community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years
burden
carga pesada
the little donkey struggled under its heavy burden
slew
a large amount or number
He has been charged with a whole slew of other crimes
coarse
rough and not smooth or soft, or not in very small pieces
rude
a coarse joke
coarse language
whereas
compared with the fact that; but
He must be about sixty, whereas his wife looks about thirty
cue
señal
they started washing up, so that was our cue to leave the party.
on cue: it happends just after someone has said or thought it would happen.
I was just wondering where Sara was, when, righ on cue, she came in.
rather
small amount: it’s rather cold today, isn’t it?
that’s rather a difficult book
more exactly: She’ll go to London on thursday, or rather, she will if she has to.
He is my sisters’s friend really, rather than mine.
retrieve
find and bring back something
computers are used to store and retrieve information efficiently.
we taught our dog to retrieve a ball.
namely
used to give more detail about something you have just said.
We need to get more teachers into the classrooms where they are most needed, namely in high poverty areas.
