Spanish Vocab Part III Flashcards
To light up / to give birth to
Alumbrar
To kill / to kick the bucket
Palmar
Obscure
Rebuscado
Local (person of a village)
Lugareño (adj) / el lugareño
To make up (facts)
Sacar(se) de la manga
To get rid of something
Quitar de en medio algo
To give / contribute / produce / provide
Aportar
Merit / worth / praiseworthy act
El mérito
Plausible
Plausible
To get rid of / dispose of / give up
Despojarse de / desprenderse de
Immediately afterwards
Acto seguido
Somewhere very remote and far away
El quinto coño
Machete
La machete
Host family / foster family
La familia de acogida
Nonsense / farce / joke
El cachondeo
Blurred
Borroso
To arrive to a conclusion
Sacar una conclusión
Rumors / gossip / hearsay
Habladurías
To pick someone up
Rocoger a alguien
What is this based on?
En qué se basa esto?
Circle / group of people / crowd OR cliff / rock
La peña
To involve / to get mixed up in
Pringar(se)
Unknown
Incógnito
Reward
La recompensa
Curt / rude OR sudden / abrupt
Brusco
To plant (as in to place something somewhere purposefully)
Plantar
The sun sets
Se pone el sol
To pretend / feign OR to have the appearance of
Aparentar
Suddenly / all at once
De golpe
Shelter
El cobijo
It doesn’t make any sense
No tiene ni pies ni cabeza O ni cabeza ni pies
Truthfulness / veracity
La veracidad
Debated / in question
Debatido
To get on board with a theory
Subirse a la teoría
I’m unsure of the truth of the things
Me baila la veracidad de las cosas
News report / literary report or journal
El boletín
Interminable
Inacabable
To accept
Acogerse a
Excursionists
Los Excursionistas
Entrepreneur (n) / entrepreneurial (adj)
El emprendedor / la emprendedora
Emprendedor / emprendedora
Bet
La apuesta
Deck of cards
La baraja
To clear one’s throat
carraspear
To bribe
Sobornar
To lose your way / go off track
Perder rumbo
Sniper
El francotirador
Ranks
Las filas
Contracted person / the signing or contracting of someone
El fichaje
Unemployment / unemployment benefits / stoppage (cessation of activity) / worker’s strike
El paro
Device / mechanism
El dispositivo
Investiture (a ceremony at which honours or rank are formally conferred on a particular person)
La investidura
Van / pickup truck
La furgoneta
Confidential
Confidencial
Confidentiality
La confidencialidad
Bone marrow
La médula
To pull somebody’s leg / poke fun at someone / secretly make fun of someone
Tomar el pelo
To hide / conceal emotions or thoughts OR to pretend (like fingir)
Disimular
To review / to describe
Reseñar
To have an effect on / to affect
Impactar
se usa para referirnos a una persona que no tiene vergüenza y se aprovecha constantemente de la buena voluntad de los demás
Tener más cara que espalda
Cover up
El encubrimiento
To gag
amordazar
