English, vocabulary

Question 1

gear

Answer 1

engrane

The car should be in gear. El auto debería estar listo para andar.

Question 2

cradle

Answer 2

cuna

Question 3

weary

Answer 3

muy cansado (; por la jornada)
aburrido

Question 4

cram

Answer 4

apretujar: 8 children were crammed into the back of the car

aprender de a rápido: She is cramming for her history exam

Question 5

moreover

Answer 5

para agregar más información

The whole report is badly written. Moreover, it’s inaccurate.

Question 6

fancy

Answer 6

querer tener o hacer
I don’t fancy swimming in that water.
Ser sexualmente atractivo
He could tell she fancied him

Question 7

likely

Answer 7

algo esperado o probable

do remind me because I’m likely to forget

Question 8

frill

Answer 8

cosas extras que se agregan para volver algo mas atractivo o placentero.

cintas

Question 9

dwindle

Answer 9

disminuir

the community has dwindled to a tenth of its former size in the last two years

Question 10

burden

Answer 10

carga pesada

the little donkey struggled under its heavy burden

Question 11

slew

Answer 11

a large amount or number

He has been charged with a whole slew of other crimes

Question 12

coarse

Answer 12

rough and not smooth or soft, or not in very small pieces

rude
a coarse joke
coarse language

Question 13

whereas

Answer 13

compared with the fact that; but

He must be about sixty, whereas his wife looks about thirty

Question 14

cue

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

rather

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

retrieve

Answer 16

find and bring back something

computers are used to store and retrieve information efficiently.
we taught our dog to retrieve a ball.

Question 17

namely

Answer 17

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.