Spanish Meaning 2 Flashcards
Chicly
Chinky drinking
Slash
cut, cut open, gash, slit, split open, lacerate, knife, hack, make an incision in, score. rip, tear. literary rend. 2’the company was forced to slash prices’
Instantly slashes fuel consumption by 12%
used to link alternatives or words denoting or describing a dual (or multiple) function or nature.
“a fashionable theatre-slash-bar-slash-restaurant”
Convey
transmitir
You would convey the elegance that is long gone at the event
Inflict
Imponer
impose something unwelcome on.
“she is wrong to inflict her beliefs on everyone else”
Regain
Recuperar
obtain possession or use of (something, typically a quality or ability) again after losing it.
“he soon regained his composure”
More than the most
Más que la mayoría
Each person is an anachronism in their own era, and monarchs more than most
Keep calm and carry on
Mantener la calma y continuar
Start off
begin to travel or move.
“we started off on our journey”
Don’t cry you will start me off
Race ahead
Race ahead” means, more or less, run or speed ahead of someone or something else, as if in a race. If two competitors are in a race and #1 is ahead at first,
The book seemed to race ahead
Brittle
Frágil
hard but liable to break easily.
“her bones became fragile and brittle”
Despise
look down on with disrespect or aversion
Should I might forget about it
Debería olvidarlo
Sloppy
(of a garment) casual and loose-fitting.
“she wore a sloppy sweater and jeans”
careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.
“we gave away a goal through sloppy defending”
Self satisfied
Smug/ ful of himself