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Vocabulary : clothes

belt	cinturón
sandals	sandalias
jacket	chaqueta
anorak	anorak
pullover	pullover
skirt	falda
cardigan	chaqueta
trainers	zapatillas
plain	Lisa
slippers	babuchas
brooch	broche
t- shirt	camiseta
vest	camiseta interior
tights	medias
socks	calcetines
shorts	pantalones cortos
wellington boots	Botas de agua
earrings	pendientes
bow - tie	pajarita
waistcoat	chaleco
striped	a rayas
suit	chaqueta
raincoat	impermeable
bracelet	bracalete
checked	a cuadros
blouse	blusa
dress	vestido (una pieza)
high- helled shoes	tacón alto
dungarees	peto
sweatchirt	sudadera
leggings	leotardos
pyjamas	pijamas
braces	tirantes
scarf	bufanda

Vocabulary : Phrasal verbs (give)

• To give up dejar, abandonar, renunciar (un vicio)

• If you don't give up sweets, you are going to get terribly fat.

• To give in ceder

• I asked him so many times than eventually he gave in and said I could go.

• To give off emanar, emitir

• That fire gives off an incredible amount of heat.

• To give out repartir, divulgar

• The teacher gave out the compositions.

• To give away mostrar

• The big smile on his face gave away how happy he was.

• To give back restituir, devolver.

• Don't forget to give back tye keys when you have finished with them.

• To give away , dar libremente, regalar.

• I'm going to give away all these old clothes to charity.

Letter

• Fairly lovely

• Especially particulary

• Remarks coments

• Marvellous great

• A bit a little

• Initially at first

• Appears - seems

• Adores loves

• Numerous lots of

• In fact actually

Vocabulary : body and health

• Time on his hand tiempo de sobra

• Put words in my mouth poner palabras en mi boca (decir que yo he diho algo)

• On the tip of my tongue en la punta de la lengua

• Sweet tooth debilidad por las golosinas

• Have a cheek tener más cara que espalda

• Got off on the wrong foot -> meter la pata

• Get it off your chest quitarse un peso de encima

• To have the heart in his right place --> tener corazón

• plasters tiritas

• heal (a cut) curarse

• stretcher camilla (ambulancia)

• to giggle to laugh in a silly way

• to monitor examinar, mirar, explorar...

• relieve acelerar

• research estudio detallado

Too much of a good thing

vocabulary : phrasal verbs (put)

• put up with something soportar

• put down someone sacrificar

• put money by ahorrar

• put someone down rebajar

• put someone through someone poner a alguien con alguien (teléfono)

• put prices up subir

• put something off for a period of time posponer

• put someone up alojar

• put a fire out apagar, extingir.

Vocabulary / Are you hooked /

• odd one out the exception, the unusual person

• a desire urge

• to compensate make up for

• to change from solid to liquid melt

• to realise what is happening come to my sense

• to stop being under control to go out of hand

• to make people worried raise concerned

• to fall down colapsed

• too much excessive

• very difficult and painful agonising

• fashinable trendu

• to come to an end ran out

How to make a fortune

Vocabulary / Money /

a cheque (book)	talonario
a cashpoint machine	cajero
to withdraw	sacar dinero
a current account	cuenta corriente
a deposit account	depósito
interest	interés
a bank statement	dinero en el banco
to be overdrawn	en números rojos
an exchange rate	tasa de cambio
the economy	economía
cash	metálico
a coin	una moneda
a 10 pound note	billete de 10 libras
change	cambio
a mortgage	hipoteca
to earn	ganar dinero (trabajar)
a wage	salario semanal
a salary	salario mensual
overtime	horas extras
commision	comisión
a tip	propina
to gamble	apostar
a casino	Casino
charity	caridad
to afford	poder permitirse
well-off	rico
herd up	corto de dinero
to be in debt	estar en deuda
to owe	deber
to lend	prestar
to borrow	recibir (pedir prestado)
the stock market	la bolsa
to invest	investigar
shares	acciones
profit	beneficios
loss	pérdidas
tax	impuestos
inflation	inflación
insurance	seguro
a fine	multa
a pension	pensión
a sale	ventas
a bargain	chollo
to inherit	heredar
an heir	heredero

The planet Earth

Vocabulary: weather

Damp	Húmedo
Freezing	Congelado
Humid	Húmedo
Breeze	Brisa
Drizzle	Chiri biri
Snow	Nieve
Pour	Llover mucho
Boling	Calor sofocante
Hail	Granizo
Gale	Levante (aire cálido)
Shower	Chaparrón
Warm	Cálido/ caluroso
Chilly	Fresco (Tª)
Cool	Frío
Frost	Congelado
Gust	Ráfaga viento
Sunny	Soleado
Mild	Tª Normal

Under the weather los problemas nunca vienen solos.

Make hay while the sun shines Carpe Diem.

It never rains but it pours día de perros.

As right as rain tardar poco tiempo.

A storm in a tea cup _______________________

Put the wind up me corazón en un puño.

Vocabulary: Problems / disasters

Floods	Inundaciones
Earthquake	Terremoto
Famine	Hambruna
Drought	Sequía
Disease	Enfermedad
Emergency	Emergencia
Refugees	Refugiados
Aid	Ayuda
Charity	Caridad
Injuries	Daños (humanos)

VOCABULARIO ESPECÍFICO

1.COCHES

Maniobras:

Girar el volante: to steer.

Adelantar: to overtake

Ir pegado: to stick to someone´s tail

Tocar el claxón: to hoot

Hacer rueda: To roar off

Ir a velocidad de crucero: to cruise along

Ir muy rápido: to tear along

Dar marcha atrás: to reverse

Calarse: to stall

Incorporarse: to pull out

Desincorporarse: to pull in

Parar: to pull up

B. Elementos y nombres asfálticos

Conductor: motorist

Motero: motorcyclist

Carril: lane

Bordillo: kerb

Torrentera: ditch

Ceda el paso: give way sign

Arcén: the hard shoulder

Carretera recta: straight stretch of road

Carretera en zig-zag: a hairpin bend

Calle cortada: a dead end

Test de alcohol: breathalyser test

Parachoques: bumper(s)

Efecto látigo: whiplash effect

Accidentes

Volcar: to overturn

Derrapar: to skid

Abollar: to dent

Girar: to spin

Golpear: to bump into

to bash into

Chocar de frente: to collide head on

Dar un frenazo: to slam on the brakes

Girar fuerte: to swerve

2. PERSONAS

2.1 Tez

Una persona puede tener la tez: morena, gruesa/fina, angular/fornida:

“Features (rasgos) can be swarthy, coarse/fine, angular/thickset”

Una persona puede tener la tez pálida, roja, rosa, o bronceada:

Complexión can be pallid/pasty, rosy/flushed and bronzed.

2.2 Pelo

*Si se carece del mismo: bald, balding, bald patch, a receiding hairline.

“You are entering the fourties, sooner or later you´ll be balding”

“Despite the stiffling heat he put on his hat to disguise the bald patch in his neck”

“The receiding hairline is becoming a bald, indeed”-said Taylor.

*Si se tiene; puede estar grasiento, ralo o tener caspa.

“They took out the prisioner whose face was covered in the silver grey thining hair he had”

“Your greasy hair shines at night”

“I´ll be soon drown in dandroff unless you stop scratching your head”

*Peinado o no

“Even though he´s torie his hair have a parting on the right”

“He´s wig indeed. Even so his hair has a part on the left”

“His fringe defies gravity”

*¿longitud?

“His shoulder-lenght hair is now worn in a pony tail”

“As long as I don´t have hair enough to wear a pig-tail I´ll wear plaits”

“ere I to a latin country I´d brush my hair straight back”

2.3 Orejas

*OREJAS de soplillo:

Mr spock has rather sticking out eras.

2.4. Ojos, cejas y pestañas

Eyes, eyebrows, eyelash.

“His sunken blue eyes look so deep..”

“After the crash she gave him a startled look”

“The grass, the people, the noise... and even so i could perfectly distinguish a furious twinkle in his eyes”

“I wonder wether you can see with that disgusting bushy eyebrows”

“There´s even someone on the tv whose eyes are somewhat more close-set.”

“Should there be any comment abaout our squint director, you would be inmediately sacken”

2.5. NARIZ; respingona, aquilina

“Pluto has a nerverend snub nose.”

“Mr Carmona, have you ever been mistaken with a shark owing to your acquiline nose?”

2.6. Boca, labios, barbilla y papada:

*LABIOS: sobresalidos, fruncidos

“I really love those protruding liups she has.”

“Don´t purse your lips, temptation doesn´t captivate me.”

*BARBILLA: firme, partida/granuda, papada

“I´m astonished with his firm chin”

“The cleft chin makes a sharp division of his face”

“You´d better taken some tablets for that dimpled chin you have”

“In addition to his fleshy lips, the double chin emphazise his flabby features”

2.7. Barba, bigote, patillas.

*BARBA: Bien afeitado, de tres días, tupida

“Clean shaven men have a fresh air, do they not?”

“You look naughty with that five o´clock shadow on your face”

“He has a three days stubble.”

“Tangled/matted beards give a mature aspect.”

*BIGOTE: caído

“If only he didn´t have that nasty droopy moustache, he wouldn´t look so lazy.”

*PATILLAS: sideburns.

2.8.Arrugas, pecas y lunares: warts, freckles and moles.

EXPRESIONES

·To be adj.+ish. “to be tallish, fattish, shortish” (ish = a litle)

·To be on the adj side. Meaning rather. He´s on the elderly side.

2.9 Adjetivos calificativos de

Activo, ambicioso, agresivo, ágil, enervante/irritante:

Bravo, audaz, bullicioso, demasiado desparpajo, engreido

Cauto, astuto, listo, elegante, sereno, superficial, variable, comprometido:

Demacrado, diabolico, dominante, aburrido, dinámico, temerario, resuelto

Relajado, energético, excéntrico, maligno, entretenido, encantador:

Flexible, franco, asustado, fatalista, firme, fascinante, gozador:

Generoso, agradecido, avaricioso, torpe, crédulo :

Histérico, demacrado, altanero,

trabajador, esperanzado, honesto, abatido:

Impetuoso, inteligente, ingenioso, inquisitivo, intelectual:

Celoso, jovial, alegre:

Interesado, de bondadoso corazón, leido:

Leal, amador, solitario, liberal, repugnante, agradable

Mórbido, tacaño, miserable, monstruoso, malhumorado:

Intolerante, asqueroso, notorio(bad), nervioso, cascarrabias, neurotico, de noble mentalidad, inconformista, pulcro, no enérgico, indiferente:

Tolerante, oportunista, obstinado, extrovertido, optimista:

Orgulloso, práctico, valeroso, prepotente

Personalidad/aspecto:

Active,ambitious, agressive, agile, aggravating

Brave, bold, boisterous, brash and bumptious

Cautious, cunning, clever, charming, cool, casual, changeable and committed

Drawn, diabolical, domineering, dull

dynamic, daring and decisive

Easygoing, energetic, eccentric, evil, entertaining and enchanting.

Flexible, frank, frightful, fatalistic, firm fascinating and fun-loving

Generous, grateful, greedy, gauche, gullible

Hysterical, haggard, haughty, hardworking, hopeful, honest and hang-dog.

Impetuous, intelligent, ingenious, inquisitive and intellectual

Jealous, jovial and jolly

Keen and kind-hearted, knowledgeable

Loyal, loving, lonely, liberal, loathsome and lik(e)able

Morbid, mean, miserable monstruous, and moody

Narrrow-minded, nasty, notorious, nervous, nagging, neurotic,noble-minded, non-conformist, neat, non-assertive nonchalant

Open-minded, opportunistic, obstinate, outgoing and optimistic

Proud, practical, plucky and pushy

Chapado a la antigua, callado/tranquilo, mariquita, ingenioso, peleón:

Reservado, de fiar, imprudente, inquieto, retraido, recto/justo:

Timido, sociable, despreciable, escéptico, servil, confiado, (auto)seguro, escrupuloso, sofisticado, escuálido, astuto, egoísta, tímido, modesto, seguro de sí, atolondrado, sagaz, malicioso, de hermana, pretensiones de super. moral

Con tacto, sin tacto, tenaz, taciturno, moderno:

No de fiar, sin escrúpulos, comprensivo, insensible, irracional, servicial, empalagoso, inaguantable, inabordable, discreto, feo, fino/cortés, zafio/burdo:

Violento, cruel, vano, virtuoso, vivaz, vociferante, volatil, vulnerable, vulgar, venerable, despistado, virulento:

Cálido, sabio, voluntarioso, ingenioso, salvaje, bien informado, bien educado, libertino, testarudo, retraido, adinerado:

Xenófobo:

Lleno de juventud, anhelante, complaciente:

Ferviente, vigoroso

Quaint, quiet, queer, quick-witted, quarrelsome

Reserved, reliable, reckless, restless, retiring and righteous.

Shy, sociable, scornful, sceptical, servile, self-reliant, self assured, scrupulous, sophisticated, scraggy, sly, selfish, self-conscious, self-effacing, self-confident, scatter-brained, shrewd, spiteful, sisterly, self-righteous

Tactful, tactless, tenacious, taciturn and trendy

Unreliable, unscrupulous, understanding, unfeeling, unreasonable, up-and-coming, unctuous, unbearable, unapproachable,

unobstrusive, unsightly, urbane and uncouth.

Violent, vicious, vain, virtuous, vivacious, vociferous, volatile, vulnerable, vulgar, venerable, vague and vitriolic.

Warm, wise,willing, witty, wild, web-informed, well-bred, wanton, wilful, withdraw, well-off

Xenophobic

Youthful, yearning and yielding

Zealous and zestful.VOCABULARIO DE INGLÉS

A

Abjurar, rechazar: abhor

Distante: aloof

Eficacia: accuracy. En lo que a eficacia concierne: as far as accuracy concerns.

To state repeatedly: to affirm.

Asistir a clase: to attend.

Ayudar: to attend to.

Dolor: agony.

Agobiarse: to agonise over.

Huerta: allotment

Similar: alike

Arreglar: to amend

Arreglo: amendment

Aparecer (abstract): to arise. “the problem arose”

Excitar/estimular: to arouse

Amplio: ample

Bala: (round of) ammunition

Pensión: alimony

Tener respeto/miedo a alg.: to be in awe of smbdy

Estar molesto con: to get annoyed by/with

Brusco: abrupt

Estar acusado/to be charge with: (to be) alleged to

Estar de acuerdo con alguien o algo: to agree with

Dar permiso: to agree to

Acordar una cuestión económica: to agree on

Considerar seriamente para después dar una opinión: (to make an _ of) appraisal

Arduamente: ardently

Pista de aterrizaje silvestre: airstrip

B

Bruscamente: brusquely

Hacer de menos, no dar importancia: to belitle

To be slightly puzzled and confused: (to be) bemused

Emitir: to broadcast/broadcast/broadcast

Idea de explotar, salir con fuerza: to burst/burst/burst

Cardenal/moratón: bruise

Forúnculo: boil

Ampolla: blister

Fat flushed old woman: blowsy

Brío/brioso: brisk

Tímido: bashful

Catarro: blocked nose

Bicho: bug

Despegar: to blast off

Hueso: bone. Arreglar un hueso: to set a bone

Atar: to bind

Problema: a bind

Tener/contar con: to boast. Exp: “Spain boasts a great variety of climates”

Criar: to breed

Presumir: to boast of/abaout

Presuntuoso: boastful

Prohibir: to bar from

Guiño (tic): blink

Mochilar: to backpack

To support: to back

Busto: bossom

Apenas: barely

Brisa: breeze

Ventisca: blizzard

Mucho calor: baking hot

boiling hot.

Fuego: blaze. 2. Centellear: to blaze. 3.Arder: to blaze.

Resumir: to boil down

Achicar: to bail out

Basin: pila de lavar

Tener en cuenta: to bear in mind.

C

Lona, lienzo:canvas

Camping: camping site

Acampada libre: rough camping

Recordar: to come round

Estar desesperado porque ocurra algo: to crave

Comunicar: to convey

Acerse a la idea: to come to terms with

Calambre: cramp

Coagularse la sangre: to clot

Irreflexivo: cavalier.2. Irrespetuoso

Contusión: concussion

Estreñimiento: constipation

Muy pequeño, reducido: confined

Baja: casualty

Urgencias: casualty department

Coherente: consistent

Desprecio: comptent

Contar con alg.: to count on

Moverse muy despacio: to creep/crept/crept

Conformar/formar: to comprise of/to

Despreciante: comptuous

Cintas círgenes: blank casettes

Agarrar flojo/coger: to clasp

Torcido: crooked

Despreciable: comptentible

Escote: cleavage

Aparecer: to crop up

Carne de cañon: cannon fodder

Chaparrón: cloudburst

Repollo: cabbage

Alcanzar un compromiso: to compromise

Adecuado, fácil: convenient

Capa: cloak

Persuadir, hacer moder el anzuelo: to coax

Cojo: cripple

Concluir, decidir: to come up with

Frío/fresco: chilly

Cruel: callous

Revisión del coche: to get one´s car serviced

Dependiendo de: consequent upon

Aparecer en pantalla: to call up

Desgraciado: creep

Cartas (de navegación): (navigation) charts

Patio: courtyard

Calleja asfaltada: cobbled lane

Descubrir: to come upon. 2. Encontrarse

D

Dishearted/ depressed: downcast

Destreza: dexterity

Dormir en el suelo: to doss down

Atrevese a: to dare to

Tenerle terror a algo: to dread +ing

Rollo/coñazo: a drag

Dispensar: to dispense

Prescindir: to dispense with

Asqueroso: distasteful

Mareado: dizzy

Engaño: deceit, guile

Engañar: to deceive

Aventureros: dashing

Babear: to dribble

Propinar, repartir: to deal/dealt/dealt

Consulta del doctor: Doctor´s surgery

Producto lácteo: dairy product

Idear: to devise

Apropiado: duly

Una desgracia: a disgrace

Mustio/aburrido: dull. 2.Nuboso: dull

Embotar: to dull. Beber para ahogar el sufrimiento: to drink to dull the gief.

Pardo: dun

Muy severo: draconian

Artificial: dummy

Prblemas: disturbance

Disfrazarse: to dress up.2. Vestirse elegante.

Poner todo el cuidado en: to devote one´s utmost care in

Fiable: dependable

Disfrazarse/ocultar: disguise

Detractar/criticar: to detract

Distraer: to divert something

to distract someone

Deformar: distort

To avoid: to dodge

Pelea de cazas: dogfight

Negar: to disclaim.2. Renunciar (propiedad)

Empequeñecer: to dwarf

Mostrar: to depict

Taladrar: to drill. Hacer algo repetitivo: to drill.

Abrocharse botones, cremalleras, cinturones: to do up buttons, zips, and belts

Chaparrón: downpour

Chirimiri: drizzle

Caro (pagar caro): dearly (to pay_)

Caverna: dungeon

Inservible: defunct

Irrepetuoso: dismissive

Discriminar: to discriminate against

Desafiar: to defy

Caído: droppy

Sobrecogedor/aterrador: daunting

Carajo: damn.2. Condenar: to damn

Pedir: to demand from

Day after day: day in, day out

Día a día (para cmbios graduales en el tiempo): Day by day

Por muchos días (duración): for days on end

E

Fascinante: enthralling

Aunque: even tough

No obstante: even so

Inútil: effete

Evasiva: elusive

Caricia: endearment

Prescindible: expendable

Relajado: easygoing

Encarnar/personificar: to embody

Acabar de alguna forma: to end up

Adhesionarse: to engulf

Enfatizar: to emphazise. Poner énfasis en: to put emphazis on

Olmo: elm

F

Fluidez: fluency

Horrible: frightful

Pegarse: to fix

Conjunto de animales (manada, bandada...): a flock of

En lo que a fluidez refiere: as far as fluency goes

Lugares de farra: fleshpots

Amañar un partido: to fix a match

Cumplir un deseo: to fulfil a wish

Caza: a fighter

Piso completamente equipado: self-contained flat

Pelicula principal: feature film

Salir en fila india: to file out

Entrar en fila india: to file in

Braguetas: flies

Logros: feats

Congelar: to freeze/froze/frozen

Bromear: to fool around

Cabrearse: to froth over

Preocuparse: to fret over

Lands: folds

En buena hora: a fine time. Exp: “En buena hora me dices que no cenas aquí”

“This is a fine time to tell me you are not going to have supper here”

Caer: to fall/fell/fallen

G

Charlar: to gabble away

Agarrar: to grip

Conseguir que algo se te aferre: toget to the gips with.

Lo fundamental/la idea: the gist

Glamouroso: glitzy

Saturar: to glut

Extenuante: gruelling

Raspón: a graze

Dar una oportunidad: to give a go

Atracarse: to gorge oneself

Intentar comunicarse: to get through to

Salir de la trinchera: to go over the top

Vestido: gown

Agarrar: tograb

Mirar: to gaze

Quejarse/gemir: groan

Viento fuerte: gale

Soplo de viento: a gust of wind

Obstaculizar (abstracto): to hinder

Accesorios/pijadas: gimmicks

Sonrisa: grin

H

Progreso: a headway

Protestar: to hold a protest

Humilde: humble

Caos: havoc

Sujetar: to hold/held/held

Alergia: hay fever

Resaca: hangover

Contratar: to hire

Tener/llegar a una idea: to hit on/upon

Oír alabanzas de: to hear high praise of

Deprisa: hastily

Desafortunado: hapless

Granizo: hail

To take care, to take in: to harbour

Humedad: humidity

Húmedo: humid

Therefore: hence

Dominar: to henpeck

Calzonazos: henpecked

Deprisa: in haste

Peligro: hazard

To leave: to head off

To go: to head

Jorobado: hunchbacked

I

Picar: to itch

Adquirir: to indulge

En contraste: in contrast

Chubascos aislados: isolated showers/scatered showers

Irritante: irksome

Influenciar: to influence. Tener influencia en: to have an influence on

Deduciendo de: inferring from

By chance: incidentally.2. Por si acaso

Impermeable, impasible: impervious

J

Articulaciones: joints

Juzgando por: judging by

K

Muelle, dique: key

Bien, apropiado: kosher

Caseta de perro: (dog) kennel

L

Tapadera: lid

Apoyarse: to lean against

Pensión: lodging house

Echarse la culpa: to lay the blame at one´s door

Lánguido, apático: listless

Bombilla: lightbulb

Pérdida: loss. No saber cómo reaccionar; “to be at a loss”

Loable: laudable

Ni siquiera: let alone

Asomarse por la ventana: to lean out of the window

Asomarse: to lean over

Animarse: liven up

Yacer: li/lay/lain

Forro interior de la ropa: lining

M

Tomar una decisión: to make a decision

Travieso: mischievous

Bloques de pesos: multi-storey-bloacks

Sarampión: measless

Mal: malaise

Misa: mass

Portarse mal: to misbehave

Oscuro: murk

Niebla: mist

Bromas: mockery

Hacerse/ser una ruina: to make a loss

N

Regañar: to nag

Insensibilidad: numbness

Nato, innatos: naïve

O

Operar: to operate on

Quirófano: operating theatre

Remo: oar

Todo lo contrario: on the contrary

Por otra parte: otherwise

Por otro lado: on the other hand

Agradecido: (to be) obliged

Porque: on account of

Nuboso: overcast

Extrovertido: outgoing

De forma abrumadora, abrumadoramente: overwhelmingly

Posibilidades: odds

P

Mirar por un agujero: to peep

Oprimir, perseguir de forma injusta: to persecute

Perseguir legalmente: to prosecute

To chase: to pursue

Abrirse paso: to plough through

to plow through

Cotorrear: to prattle away

Apoyarse: to prop

Conservantes: preservatives

Ritmo: pace

Escayolar: to put in plaster

Buzón: pillarbox

Peste: plague

Rechoncho: plump

Muelle civil: pier

Machacar: to pound

Mirar detenidamente: to peer

Jadear de agotamiento: to pant

Tirón: pulled muscles

sprained muscles

Aguacero: pouring rain

pissing down

Plácido: placid

Desfile: parade

Elogio: praise

Loable: praiseworthy

Q

Old-fashioned: quaint

R

Carne cruda: raw meat

Incesante: relentless

Tomar una decisión: to reach a decisión

Vallas de metal: railings

Remar: to row

Catarro: running nose

Arroyo: ravine

Round way: pista de aterrizaje

Diarrea: running stomach

Sarpullido: rush

Ataque y retirada: to raid

Retaguardia: rearguard

Felpudo: rug

Repetirse (un incidente): to recur

Devolver: to retract

Repetidamente: repeteadly

Rodar: to roll

S

Cuerda: string

Escalar: to scale

Pánico escénico: stage fright

Sombrío: shady

Asentarse: to settle down

Buscar: seek/sought/sought

Agitar: shake/shook/shaken

Encoge: to shrink/shrank/shrunk

Quemarse lentamente/consumirse: to smoulder

Provocativo, ardiente: smouldering

To train fighting: to spar

Sombrío: sombre

To go across: to span

Tomar notas: to scrap

Costra: scab

Trastabillarse: to stumble .Trastabillarse en sus palabras: to stumble over one´s words

Felipar: to splutter

Tartamudear: to stammer

Estenuante: strenuous

Embolia: stroke

Gran cantidad: score (by the score) (in scores)

Coser: to sew/sewed/sewn

Arbustos: schruberies

Subir muy rápido: to soar into the sky

Torre picuda: spire

Rich/big: stately

Poder adquisitivo: spending power

Pegarse (pegamento): to stick

Desprecio: scorn

Despreciable: scornful

Tensión: stress

Tensión: strain

Tensión&tensión: stress&strain

Enervar: to stir

Hinchado: swelling

Punto: stich

Sedante: sedative

Dejado: sloven

Destornillador: screw

Camisa de fuerza: straitjacket

Atornillar/desatornillar: to screw

Tío chulo, listillo: smart alec

Dejadez: slovenliness

Ser un caos: to be a shambles

Partir: to set forth

Apenas: scarcely

Estar destinado (sentido militar): to be stationed

Metralla: schrapnel

Bad behaviour: solecism

Calar: to soak

Estar calado: to be soaked to the skin

Moverse como un ratón: to scurry

Atizar el fuego: to stoke

Agarrar: to seize

Estufa/cocina: stove

Brotar: spring/sprang/sprung

Romperse en cachitos: to shatter

Calor sofocante: stiffling heat

Calor y humedad: sultry

Aguanieve: sleet

Esparcir: to scater

Cazar: to stalk

Laziness: sloth

Dejadez (mental): sloppiness

Cuajar: to set

Hosco: sullen

Hosquedad: sulleness

De forma hosca: sullenly

Mancillar: to sully

Sutil: subtle

Refugio: shelter (to take, to give)

Marca de carácter: (to have a) streak

Grito, chillido: screech

Sobresaltar, sorprender: to startle

En solitario: single-handed

Chispa: spark

Mocoso: snoffy

T

Tenia: tapeworm

Tomar una decisión: to take a decision

Probar: to try +ing

Intentar: to try +inf

Elegante: tasteful

Soso: tasteless

Teja: tile

To get worse: to turn sour

To decrease at a gentle pace: to tapper off

Andar por detrás: to trail

Sabroso: tasty

Invitar: to treat som. to

Exhausto: tired out

Castigar dura y legalmente: to throw the book at som.

Por ahora: For the time being

Una y otra vez: time and time again

Pellero: truant (to play): hacer pellas

Golpear: to tap

Trueno: thunderclap

That´s why: therefore

Frustrar, malograr: to thwart

Experimentar: to try out

U

Experimentar, transformar: to undergo

No pvimentado: unpaved

Llevar a cabo: to undertake

to carry out

Tranquilo: unwind

Desabrocharse los botones, las cremalleras, los cinturones: to undo buttons, zips and belts

Empeorar: to undermin

Revisar: to under view

V

Garantizar: to vouch

To believe: to vindicate

Camiseta: vest

Saltar por encima de algo: to vault

Furgoneta: van

Valorar algo: to value

Cruel: vicious

W

Estela: wake

Ingenioso: witty

Idea genial: wheeze

Moverse como la gelatina: to wobble

Entrenar: to work out

Entrenamiento: work out

To hold back, not to give: withold

Exhausto: worn out

Arrugas: warts Estar cubiertos de arrugas: tobe covered in warts

Rechoncho: web-padded

Chirrido: whine

Sauce: willow

Partícula enfática negativa que complementa al nombre: whatsoever

Salario: wage

Extreme: wretched

Extremely: wretchedly