My vocabulary C1 – Unit 1 Compact: compacto, pacto, acuerdo, convenio
Affluence: noun
Affluent: rico; rich, flush, wealthy, loaded
Aisle: pasillo /ail/
All over: por todas partes
Alongside: junto a, al lado de
Ambiente: ambience, atmosphere, surroundings
Amenity: comodidad, servicio
An affluent suburb/neighbourhood/area | an
affluent lifestyle | an affluent family
Armed | heavily armed | armed robbery/conflict
Armed conflict: conflicto armado
As far as: hasta, en cuanto a, en lo que, hasta
donde
As well as curbing: así como frenar
As well as: además de, así como
Ash: ceniza
Asia: /’eisha/
ATM: cash machine
Badger: tejón
Badly neglected: seriamente desatendido
Ball: baile (= a formal dance) /bo:l/
Barrier: valla, barrera, obstáculo
Bay: bahía, cala
Be the spitting image of sb: to look extremely
similar to someone
Beware: tener cuidado (con)
Boost tourism: incentivar/aumentar el turismo
Brim: ala, borde (de un contenedor) | full to the
brim | brimful (adjective) | brimful of something
Buzz: to be busy and full of energy /bas/ | a real
buzz | a buzz about something | buzzing
(adjective)
By the way: a propósito, por cierto (incidentally)
Calm down: calmarse, tranquilizarse
Calm: calma; en calma, tranquilo, apacible
Cancer: /’kansa/
Capture: /’kaptcha/
Cashier: dar de baja, degradar; cajero /ka’chía/
Change: /cheinch/
Chaotic: /keiotic/
Chaotically (adverd) | Chaos (noun)
Charge: cobrar, acusar, estar al cargo; cargo,
coste
Chemical: /’kemikal/
Chew: /shu:/
Child-friendly: acogedor para los niños,
favorable a los niños, para niños
Choke on something | choke to death
Choke: atragantarse, ahogar, asfixiar, obstruir
Cleanliness: limpieza, aseo
Collapse: derrumbarse, desplomarse
Compel: obligar, forzar /kom’pel/ | compulsion
(noun) | compelling (adjective) | compel someone
to do something | a compulsion to do something
| a compelling reason
Completion: finalización /kam’plichion/
Concern: preocupar, concernir; preocupación
/kansen/
Condemn (verb)
Condemned: condenado a muerte; declarado
ruinoso /kan’demd/
Congested: congestionado, colapsado
Congestion (noun) | ease congestion | avoid
congestion | traffic congestion | heavy congestion
Conservative: conservador
Conspicuous consumption: consumo ostentoso
/conspiquious cansupchion/
Crawl: andar a gatas, arrastrarse, paso lento /crol/
| at a crawl
Credit something to someone or something
Credit: abonar, ingresar, atribuir, creer;
reconocimiento, crédito, credibilidad
Crowd: atestar, agolparse, congregarse, reunirse,
abarrotar, llenar hasta los topes; multitud,
muchedumbre, grupo, peña
Deed: acto, acción, hecho /di:d/ | a good/bad
deed
Delighted: encantado /di’laitid/
Demolish: demoler | demolition (noun) | the
demolition of something
Deprived: necesitado, desfavorecido
Derelict: in bad condition
Detective: /di’tektiv/
Discouraged inward investement: desanimado la
inversión interna
Disgusting: repugnante /dis’gastin/
Diverting main roads: desviando las principales
carreteras
Do up: renovar, arreglar algo, abrochar algo
Downtown: céntrico, al/del centro de la ciudad
Downturn: bajón | an economic downturn | a
global downturn
Drawback: inconveniente /’droback/
Dreadful: espantoso, terrible /’dredful/
Driveway: camino de acceso al garaje
Dropp: caer, dejar caer, abandonar
Drug: drogar; medicamento, droga
Dull: aburrido, monótono /dal/
Earthquake: terremoto /ezqueik/
Ease: aliviar, remitir; facilidad /i:z/
Economic downturn: bajón económico
Emerge: salir, aparecer, emerger, surgir,
resultar /i’me:rch/ | emergence (adjective)
Emphasize: enfatizar, subrayar, hacer hincapié
Enrolment: inscripción, matrícula
Entitle: dar derecho (a), tener derecho (a),
autorizar, titular
Exaggerate: exagerar
Facility: buildings, equipment or services that are
provided for a particular purpose
Far: lejos, lejano, mucho
Fast train: speed train
Fate: destino, suerte | decide someone’s fate
Favour: favor /feiva/
Finances: /’fainans/
Find out: descubrir, averiguar, enterarse
Flesh: carne, pulpa (the soft part under the skin)
Flock: rebaño; congregarse, reunirse
Flooding: inundación /’fla:din/
Flourish: florecer, prosperar, crecer bien; ademán
| flourishing (adjective)
Foolish: insentato, estúpido, ridículo
Freak out: flipar, alucinar (a mix of fellings)
Fulfil: cumplir (con), llevar a cabo, satisfacer
/ful’fil/
Fumes: gases /fiums/ | toxic/poisonous fumes |
petrol/diesel/exhaust/traffic fumes
Funding: financiación /’fandin/
Fur: pelo, piel, pelaje
Give off: emitir, soltar, producir (= to produce)
Go on: durar, pasar, continuar, seguir, hablar sin
parar
Grab: agarrar, coger, atrapar
Graze: to eat grass
Grip: agarrar, cautivar la atención de, aferrar;
agarre, sujeción | be gripped by something |
gripping (adjective)
Halt: parar, detener(se); parada, interrupción
Harm: hacer daño a, estropear; daño, mal,
perjuicio /ha:m/
Harvest: cosechar; cosecha /’ha:vist/
Hassle: engorro, molestia, pelea, bronca;
pelearse, discutir, reñir, dar la lata a
Heavily: enormemente
Hideous: horrible, horroroso /’hidies/
History: /’histori/
Hit it off: caerse bien
Hit: golpear, afectar; éxito, golpe
Hometown: ciudad natal
Hopefully: con suerte, con esperanza, ojalá,
esperemos que
Horn: pito, cuerno, trompa
Host: ofrecer, presentar; anfitrión, presentador,
huésped
Hotel: /ho’tel/
House: alojar, guardar; casa | housing (noun)
Hurricane: /jarrican/
Hurry: darse prisa, tener prisa, meter prisa,
aligerar, acelerar; prisa, urgencia
Hybrid: /’haibrid/
Iconic: icónico
Ideal: idóneo, ideal /ai’dial/
Image: /’imich/
Impose: imponer, molestar, abusar de
In turn: sucesivamente, a su vez
Inequality: desigualdad
Inhabitant: habitante
Initiate: iniciar, dar comienzo a, poner en
marca /i’nichieit/
Insane | insanely (adverb) | insanity (noun) || sane
(adjective)
Into one far better for: en uno mucho mejor
para…
Investor: inversor
Inward: interior, hacia dentro
Isolated: not near to other places
Isolation: the condition of being alone
Issue: proveer, expedir (to officially give
something to someone); asunto, número,
edición /’ichu:/
Italic: cursivo/a
Journalism: /’ye:nalisen/
Key in attracting: clave en la atracción
Knock down: derribar, rebajar
Large-scale: involving many people or things
Largely credited: en gran medida atribuido
Latter part: la última parte
Latter: último
Lemon: /’lemon/
Lent: cuaresma
Liner: transatlántico
Litter: basura; estar esparcido por
Long-term: a largo plazo
Make up: inventar, maquillar, completar, hacer
las paces
Manner: manera, manera de ser, modo de
comportarse / manners (modales)
Marina: puerto deportivo
Mayor: alcalde /mea/
Message: /’mesich/
Mislead: engañar /misli:d/
Miss: echar de menos, perderse, fallar, no
atrapar, no dar a, perder, llegar tarde a
Modernized: to make something more modern
Mouth: /mauz/
Mug | mugger (noun)
Mugging: atraco (an attack in a public place in
which is stolen from someone)
Museum: /miu’zium/
Naked: desnudo, al descubierto /’neikid/
Name: llamar, poner nombre, fama y reputación
Nearby: cercano, cerca
Neat: tidy, well-ordered
Neglect: descuidar, desatender, no cumplir con;
negligencia, descuido, dejadez
Nevertheless: no obstante, sin embargo, aún asi
Next up: next in order to appear or happen, often
in some form of entertainment
No-go zone: zona prohibida
OAP: old age pensioner
Ongoin: en curso, que sigue
Ongoing heavy investment: intensa inversión en
curso
Owl: búho /aul/
Packed: abarrotado
Parade: desfilar, hacer alarde de, pasar revista;
desfile /pa’reid/
Patrol: patrullar; patrulla /pa’trol/
Peel: pelar(se); piel, monda, corteza /pi:l/
Persuade: persuadir, disuadir /pe’sueid/
Pile: amontonar, apilar; montón, pila
Pitch: the things that you say to persuade
someone to buy something or to support you
Poison: envenenar; veneno
Polluted: contaminado
Pour: vertir, servir, derramar / pour money into…
/po:r/
Pretend: fingir, simular, hacer como si
Pricey: caro
Promenade: paseo marítimo; pasear(se)
Proposal: propuesta, proposición /pro’pousal/
Punish: castigar /’panish/
Quiet: /cuaiet/ callado, tranquilo, reservado
Quite: /cuait/ bastante
Raise: levantar, aumentar, criar, recaudar,
cultivar, provocar; aumento | raise an
issue/question | raise a subject | raise concerns
Rate: estimar, tasar, valorar; tasa, índice,
porcentaje
Recession: recesión /’risechon/
Reckon: creer, pensar, estimar, considerar
Recurrent: happening again many times
/ri’karent/
Region: /riyon/
Reinforce: reforzar, reafirmar
Relocated: trasladar(se), reasentar, realojar,
mudar de casa
Renewal: renovación
Require: necesitar, requerir, exigir /ri’kuaia(r)/
Resemble: parecerse (a) /ri’zembl/
Reunion: reencuentro, reunión /ri’ju:niun/
Reverse: dar marcha atrás (a), invertir, anular |
reversal (noun)
Riot: disturbio, motín; amotinarse, participar en
disturbios /raiot/
Rob: you rob a person or place
Run out of something: quedarse sin algo
Run out: terminarse, agotarse
Run-down: in very bad condition
Rush: pricipitarse, darse prisa, meter prisa a,
llevar a toda prisa
Rushed: precipitado
Scene | a music/arts/drug/club… scene
Schoolmate: compañero de clase
Secure: amarrar, fijar, asegurar, afianzar, proteger
| secure a contract/deal | secure funding | security
| securely (adverd) || insecure (adjective) |
insecurity (noun)
Set out: to start a journey; ponerse en camino,
partir
Sett: madriguera
Severe pollution: seria contaminación
Sewer: alcantarilla (=drain) → desaguar(se),
desagüe; costurero /sua/
Shipbuilding: construcción naval
Showing off: presumir, exhibir, lucir
Shrove: carnaval
Skycraper: rascacielos
Slum: suburbio
Smog: niebla producida por contaminación
Smoothly: suavemente, ir sobre ruedas (to
happen without any problems)
So far: hasta ahora (until now)
So-called: supuesto, presunto
Soar: dispararse, planear, volar, remontarse,
remontar el vuelo /so:(r)/ | soaring (adjective)
Sometime: en algún momento
Sometimes: a veces
Sound: /saund/
Spark plug: bujía
Spark: echar chispas, chispear; chispa
Sparkle: brillar, centellar, destellar; centelleo,
destello /’spa:kl/
Sparkling: lively; brillante, chispeante
Spoilt: malcriado, mimado
Spot: localizar, descubrir
Spotless: impoluto, impecable (very clean)
Spotlessly (adverb) | spotlessly clean Throw away: tirar, deshacerse de, desperdiciar,
Sprawl (nound) | urban sprawl echar a perder
Sprawl: despatarrarse, extenderse; expansión, Timescale: espacio de tiempo, plazo, cronología
postura, extensión To halt the decline: para detener el declive
Sprawling: en crecimiento Token: señal, vale, ficha; simbólico
Spread out: extender, prolongar, separar Trace: localizar, seguir la pista, calcar; rastro,
Spread: esparcir, extender(se), untar, huella
propagar(se); expansión, propagación Track: seguir la pista de, rastrear
Springing up: to start to exist suddendly Tram: tranvía
Stall: calar(se); puesto, caseta /’stol/ Treat: tratar, invitar, convidar; regalo, lujo, placer
Steal: you steal something that does not belong Trial: proceso, juicio, prueba, ensayo | be on trial
to you Trim: cortar, recortar, podar (árbol)
Stench: hedor, peste, mal olor Unbearably: insoportablemente
Still: quedarse quieto (to stand, to stay… without Undergo some changes: sufre algunos cambios
moving); sin gas Undergo: experimentar, someter(se) a, sufrir,
Stink: apestar pasar (por)
Story: /’sto:ri/ Unite: unir(se), juntar (to join together) /ju:’nait/
Strain: esforzarse al máximo, lesionar, estirar, Until the early 80s: hasta principios de los 80
tensar, poner a prueba, abusar; tensión, presión, Vibrant nightlife | a vibrant city
estrés Vibrant: energetic, exciting and full of
Strand: mechón, tira, trozo, abandonar enthusiasm /vaibrant/
Stretch out: estirarse, tumbarse Wave: hacer señas, saludar (con la mano),
Subsequent: posterior ondear; seña, saludo | a wave of something
Subtle: sutil /’satl/ Well-run: well-managed; organizado
Such as: como, así, Whoever: quien, quienquiera, quedarse
Suck: chupar Withdraw: sacar, retirar(se) (dinero)
Surge: aumentar vertiginosamente, invadir; Within: dentro (de), en el interior, en menos de, a
aumento, subida, ola, marea menos de
Surgically: quirúrgicamente | surgical (adjective) Work out: hacer ejercicio, resolver(se),
| surgery (noun) solucionar, calcular; to come to a satisfactory end
Surrounding: circundante /sa’raundin/ You might as well walk: también podrías
Swear: jurar, blasfemar, decir palabrotas caminar
Synonym: /’sinonim/
Tackle: abordar; entrada, placaje /takel/ Binomials
Take up: tomar, robar, empezar a, emprender, Bits and pieces: small things or jobs of different
acortar, recoger types
Tearful: lloroso Every now and then: de vez en cuando, from
Tease: burlarse de, meterse con, molestar, irritar, time to time, occasionally
provocar, picar First and foremost
Tee off: to hit a golf ball off the tee, or to begin a Here and there
game of golf by doing this Hit and miss: if something is hit and miss you
Tempting: tentador cannot depend on it to be of good quality, on
Tentative: provisional, tentativo, de prueba, time, accurate… sometimes is good but
indeciso /’tentetif/ sometimes is failed
Terrorism: /terrorisem/ Hot and humid
The lack of facilities: la falta de instalaciones Law and order
Theft: /zeft/ Long and hard
Themes = topics On and off: not in a permanent way, a veces sí, a
Thought long and hard: pensamiento largo y veces no
difícil Peace and quiet
Thrilled | thrilling (adjective) | thrill (verb) | Rules and regulations
thrillingly (adverb) Safe and secure
Sick and tired Bear: aguantar, soportar, cargar, llevar, dar a luz;
Up and down: sometimes happy and sometimes oso /bar/
sad Being: /’bi:in/
Biometric: /baio’metric/
Vocabulary C1 – Unit 2 Bitchy: malintencionado, malicioso, víbora, arpía
/’bichi/
A bit of + a/an (whatever) → después de of va Blame: culpar a alguien de algo, tener al culpa
a/an Blind date: cita a ciegas
A huge increase in the number or Blow over: pasar, quedar olvidado (y enterrado)
A thing of the past Blow: soplar, hacer sonar, llevar
A wealth of studies: una abundancia de estudios Both: /bouz/
Able: competente (adjective) | be able to do Bothered: preocupado /’bodet/
something (poder hacer algo, saber hacer algo) Bottle up: reprimir
Address: dirección; dirigir, abordar, dirigirse a, Break out: estallar, desatarse, evadirse,
tratar /a’dres/ escapar(se) | start suddenly (fire)
Adjust: ajustar, adaptarse, amoldarse /a’dyast/ Break up: romper, terminar(se), acabar(se),
Agenda: orden del día /a’yenda/ cerrar(se), hacer pedazos | closed for the
Aid: ayudar; ayuda /eid/ holidays; a marriage
Aim: objetivo; aspirar, pretender, apuntar, tener Breakdown: avería, crisis, ruptura, colapso
la intención /eim/ Bright: vivo, brillante, listo
Ambitious: ambicioso /am’biches/ Bring out: publish | divulgar, sacar a luz pública
Anger: cólera, ira Bring up: to care for a child to adult age and
Angry: enfadado /’angri/ teach…
Appliance: electrodoméstico /a’plaiens/ Bully: intimidar; matón /’buli/
Approach: acercarse (a), aproximarse; Carry on: continue doing something, continuar,
aproximación, acercamiento, enfoque, llegada, proseguir, dirigir; equipaje de mano
abordar /a’prouch/ Cattle: ganado /’katl/
Argue: discutir, argumentar /’a:gju:/ Cause: causar; causa, motivo
Argument: riña, discusión, Challenge: reto, desafío; cuestionar, desafiar,
argumento /’a:giu·ment/ retar, poner en duda /’cha·linch/
Armed: armado /a:md/ Charm/ charming: encanto; seducir / seductor,
Arrange a meeting: organizar, concertar, arreglar, encantador
disponer una cita Chicken out: acobardarse
Arrange: organizar, concertar, arreglar, disponer Childcare: cuidado de niños
Arrogance/ arrogant: arrogancia / arrogante Choice: posibilidad de elegir, elección /shois/
As a teenager, she really sparked my interest in Clash: enfrentarse, no pegar (por ejemplo 2
science colores), coincidir (2 eventos), sonar,
As far as I know: según tengo entendido entrechocar; enfrentamiento, sonido, choque
Athlete: /’azli:t/ Coastal: costero /’koustl/
Awareness: conciencia /a’weanes/ Coherent: coherente, lúcido /ko’jierent/
Awkward: incómodo, patoso, torpe, difícil, Colleague: /’ko:li:g/
delicado, peliagudo /’o:kwd/ College: universidad
Back down: echarse/volverse atrás, rajarse | to Come down: bajar | to make a decision that
stop asking for something, or to stop saying that supports or opposes someone or something | to
you will do something, because a lot of people continue to exist from a long time ago | to be
oppose you long or deep enough to reach a particular lower
Barefoot: descalzo /’beefut/ point or level |
Bass: bajo, grave /beis/ Come into: inherit
Be going through a very rough patch Come to blow: llegar a las manos
Be subjected to: (ser) propenso a; (estar) sujeto a Come up with: ocurrirse, acercarse, salir | to
Be sufficient to determine whether think of; to produce
Commend: elogiar, alabar, encomendar Exaggerate: exagerar
/ka’mend/ Exam: /ig’sam/
Commit: cometer, comprometerse, internar Excess: exceso /ik’ses/
/ke’mit/ Exhausted: /exostid/
Complexion: cutis, tez /kom’plekshon/ Extinguish: extinguir /ik’stingwich/
Confide: confiarse a alguien | to tell something Extreme weather conditions
secret or personal to someone who you trust not Failure: fracaso, suspenso /’feilia(r)/
to tell anyone else /con’faid/ Fall in love (with): enamorarse
Confident: seguro, seguro de sí Fall out: reñir, pelearse
mismo /’kanfident/ Farmland: tierras de labranza /’fa:mland/
Conscious: consciente /’konches/ Fat: = overweight, obese, stout, plump
Conservative: /kon’se:vativ/ Feature: /fishar/ → el -ture se pronuncia /sha/
Conservatory: (= green house) invernadero Field: campo, prado /’fild/
/kon’se:vatri/ Fix: arreglar, fijar, preparar, acordar
Contest: /’kantest/ concurso, competición Frail: frágil, débil
Contest: /kan’test/ to state formally that you Get back on the straight and narrow
disagree with something or think it is wrong | to Get by: to manage to live or do a particular thing
compete for a job or for success in a competition using
Contribute equally to Get on: llevarse bien (con), desenvolverse,
Control: control, mando /kon’troul/ progresar, avanzar | have a very good
Convince: convencer (de) /kan’vins/ relationship with
Cope: arreglárselas (con), poder con, dar abasto Get over: recover from (going over it (to a best
Counterpart: homólogo, equivalente /’cauntepa:t/ position)
Creep: andar sigilosamente, trepar Get rid of: deshacerse
Crib: cuna; copiar, plagiar Give me a reason to smile
Cut off: cortar, aislar Give up: stop
Cynic/ cynical: cínico Go out: stop burning
Dating cruise Go up: increase
Depict: representar, pintar, retratar, describir | to Go with: match, ir bien con, hacer juego con
represent or show something in a picture or story Going to bars
Detail: /’di:teil/ Gross domestic product: PIB
Detect the signs of Grow up: crecer, hacerse mayor | to become
Determine: determinar /di’te:min/ older or an adult
Disappear: desaparecer /disa’pia(r)/ Guess: adivinar, supongo que
Discharge: liberar, dar el alta, cumplir con Half hour: a period of 30 minutes
Distinctive: distintivo, característico /di’stinktif/ He doesn’t tend to pull his weight, which causes
Draw lessons from some friction in the office
Drink up: bebérselo todo He pushes his kids incredibly hard
Drop off: soltarse, caerse, dormirse, dejar He’s between jobs: está en el paro
Drop out: to leave school without finishing your Heat weaves: olas de calor
studies Hit it off: entenderse/llevarse bien con alguien,
Due: debido, previsto /diu:/ conectar, congeniar
Ear: oreja /ia(r)/ Hit: golpear, afectar
Egg on: animar, incitar Hold up: robber (specially a bank)
Either: /’aidza(r)/ Hose: regar con manguera; manguera /hous/
Embark: embarcar Household: personas que viven en una casa
Emit: despedir, emitir /i’mit/ Hungry: /’jangri/
End up: occupy, exist, set, acabar, terminar I don’t really know any of them as we tend to
Enter: /’enta(r)/ keep ourselves to ourselves
Environment: entorno, ambiente, medio I keep an eye on her as she’s quite frail and has
ambiente /in’vaia(r)nment/ no relatives nearby
Every: /evri/ I’d: /aid/
I’ve collaborated with him on a number of Opt: optar por algo, optar por hacer algo /opt/
projects and he’s taugh me a lot Origin: /’oriyin/
Ignore: /ig’no:(r)/ Otherwise: a parte de eso, otra cosa
In her early thirties Outburst: explosión (angry feelings)
In her late thirties Outdated: desfasado
Incompetent/ incompetence: incompetente/ Outgoing: extrovertido, sociable
incompetencia Outside: /,aut’said/
Infrastructure: /’in.fras.trak.shar/ Pardon: /’pa:don/
Inherit: heredar /in’herit/ Patch: zona, parcela, terreno, parche; arreglar,
Initiative: iniciativa /i’nichiativ/ remendar /patsh/
Instil: infundir, inculcar Pattern: patrón, modelo /paten/
Insurance: seguro /’inshourens/ Playwright: dramaturgo
Intervene: intervenir /inte’vin/ Plump: carnoso, rellenito, gordito /plamp/
It make sense for me Point black: rotundo, directo, directamente, a
Joint: junta, conjunto, articulación /yoint/ quemarropa
Keep things fresh Pool: reunir, juntar, poner en común; piscina,
Lack of water billar, charco | carpooling
Lad: muchacho Pouring: /po:rin/
Laid-back: tranquilo, relajado /leid’bak/ Praise: elogiar, alabar; elogios
Landfill: vertedero /’lanfil/ Pride oneself on: enorgullecerse, sentirse/estar
Law: /lo:/ orgulloso
Layer: poner a capas, dividir en capas; capa Principles/ principled: principios / de princios
/leia(r)/ Promise: prometer /’promis/
Left-wing Proper: correcto, adecuado /’propa(r)/
Lie: tumbarse, estar tumbado /lai/ Prove: probar, demostrar, resultar
Light brown: marrón claro Pull in: parar aparcar
Light up: alegrarse, relajarse Punishment: castigo
Live to tell the tale Put out: stop burning
Look after: cuidar, ocuparse de Put up: to let someone stay at your home
Look down on: to think you are better than Reassure: tranquilizar /ri:e’cho(r)/
someone Recognise/ze: reconocer /’rek·og·nais/
Look up to: respect and admire Reddish: rojizo
May well prove to be Refuse: rechazar, negarse /ri’fiu:s/
Melt: derretir(se) /melt/ Regard: considerar, mirar, tener consideración;
Messed up: amargado /mest’ap/ saludos, estima, respeto /ri’ga:d/
Microwave: /’maicro·weiv/ Reject: rechazar, no aceptar; artículo defectuoso
Misbehave: /mis·bi’heiv/ Relative: pariente /’relativ/
Miserable: triste, desgraciado, lamentable Reliable: fiable /ri’laiabol/
Muse: cavilar, reflexionar Remarkably: extraordinariamente
Narrow down: to make a number or list of things Request: petición, solicitud; solicitar, pedir
smaller, by removing the things that are least /ri’kwest/
important, necessary, or suitable | reduce, Require: necesitar, requerir, precisar, exigir
decrease, simplify /’narrou/ /ri’kuaia(r)/
Naughty: /’no:ti/ Residual: /ri’zidjual/
Nearby: cercano, cerca /nia’bai/ Residue: /’rezidju:/
Neighbourhood: /’neibohud/ → NO se pronuncia Response: contestación, respuesta, reacción
gh (eight…) /ri’spons/
Noticeable: considerable /’noutisabol/ Ripe: maduro, en su punto /raip/
Noticed: /’nou·tis/ Rough: áspero, rugoso, aproximado, peligroso,
Occupy: /’okiupai/ violento, duro, brusco, rudo, turbulento /raf/
Of course: por supuesto, desde luego Run over: atropellar, revisar, repasar
Offer: ofrecer(se a)/’ofa(r)/ Scene: (an argument in public)
Search: /se:tch/
See eye to eye: estar de acuerdo con alguien
Sense: sentir, intuir; sentimiento, sentido, buen
juicio | make sense
Setback: revés, atraso
Severe: /si’vi(r)/
Severely: /si’vi(r)li/
Shame: vergüenza, pena /cheim/
She puts people at their ease and reassures
them about the whole process
Sheer: /shi(r)/
Shy: tímido /shai/
Silly: /’sili/
Slacker: vago, flojo /’slaka/
Smash: hacer(se) pedazos, destrozar(se), romper,
quebrar, arruinar, estrellar(se)
Snob/ snobbish: creído / presumido
Solve: /solv/
Sort out: to solve, plan, find
Sound out: (= consult, investigate), to survey, to
consult
Spark: (= awake)
Splice: coser, unir; costura, unión
Split up: romper (pareja), terminar una relación
Spoil: estropear, mimar, malcriar
Squat: ocupa
Stand up for: apoyar
State: /esteit/
Stout: regordete /staut/
Strand: mechón, tira, trozo, hilo; abandonar
Streak: tira, mechón, ramarazo
Strict: (= totally opposite)
Stride: dar zancadas; zancadas
Stubborn/ stubbornness: testarudo / terquedad,
tercamente
Suck up: lamer el culo a alguien
Sufficient: /se’fichent/
Suit: /sut/
Support: apoyar, mantener, sostener, soportar, ser
seguidor; apoyo, mantenimiento /so’po:t/
Surrender: rendirse, renunciar (a), devolver
/sa’rrenda/
Take over: (= conquer) tomar las riendas, hacerse
con el poder, entrar en funciones, relevar a
alguien
Teacher: /’ti:cha(r)/
Thank: agradecer /dzank/
The far left
They get on each other’s nerves all the time and
they’re constantly competing for my attention
They maintain a professional relationship, but
they don’t see eye to eye on many issues
They’re going through a bit of a rough patch
and have talked about splitting up
They’re not on speaking terms at the moment,
which can make it awkward at meeting
Through friends
Toodler: niño pequeño (comienza a andar)
Torture: /’to:tsha(r)/
Traces: /treisis/ → cuando noun ends in -es
pronunciamos /is/
Trait: rasgo, característica /treit/
Trick: engañar, embaucar; truco, trato, engaño
Troubleshoot: solucionar problemas
Troubleshooter: solucionador de problemas
Troubleshooting: solución de problemas
Tuck: meter, remeter; pliegue, chucherías /tak/
Turn back: to return the way you have come
Turn up: to arrive (for not come to class)
Turning point: punto decisivo
Tweak: pellizcar, ajustar, poner a punto; pellizco,
ajuste
Uncommon: raro, poco común
Undermine: minar, debilitar
Urban: /’e:ban/
Utterly: absolutamente
Vegetarian: /vedyi’tarian/
We’re on first-name terms as I have to go and
see hin so ofter
Whereby: por medio del cual, por lo cual, según
el cual
Wilful: intencionado, deliberado, terco,
obstinado
Willing: complaciente, dispuesto
Wisdom: sabiduría
World: /we:ld/
Would: /gud/
Yield: producir, dar; producción, cosecha /ji:ld/
You are guilty NOT you have the guilty