Unit 14. Urbanisation Flashcards
(Formal) Unpleasant. (Desagradable, malhumorado, antipático)
Disagreeable
A share or a financial involment in something such as a business. (Participación)
Stake
A small piece of partly burned coal or wood. (Carbonilla, cenizas)
Cinder
(Expression) To increase the prize or reward in a competition or any activity in which you are competing. (Subir la apuesta)
Raise/Up the stakes
- (UK) To introduce a television or radio show. (Presentar) - (Formal) To introduce a person. (Presentar)
Present
To organise and begin an activity or event. (Organizar, montar)
Mount
To put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups. (Ordenar)
Sort
Increase in pay. (Subida/aumento de sueldo)
UK: Raise US: Rise
To get on a horse, bicycle, etc. in order to ride. (Montar)
Mount
(Formal) To end or stop.
Raise
(Expression) If something _, it happens. (Surgir, presentarse)
Present itself
(Informal) To annoy someone. (Irritar, sacar de quicio)
Aggravate
(Phrasal verb) To believe that someone or something is closely connected or involved with something.
Identify somebody/something with something
To walk or move with difficulty as if you are going to fall. (Tambalear)
Stagger
A torn piece of old cloth. (Trapo)
Rag
(Expression) To have difficulty or disagreement with someone.
Have issues (with somebody/something)
To move something in your hand in order to make people look at it. (Agitar)
Flourish
(Expression) To kill someone by tying them to a post and burning them. (Quemar en la hoguera)
Burn somebody at the stake
To cause to exist. (Provocar, plantear, sacar)
Raise
To cause too much of something to be used, especially money. (Suponer una carga)
Strain
To become stretched or to experience preassure, or to make something do or experience this. (Forzar, crear tensiones, tirantez)
Strain
(Expression) To not make any effort to help. (No mover un dedo)
Not lift / raise a finger
To make a problem or situation worse. (Agravar)
Compound
To deal with something by repairing or organising it. (Arreglar)
Sort
(Expression) Used to say that if you tell someone about a problem, it is easier to deal with.
A problem shared is a problem halved
(Expression) To arrive somewhere and introduce yourself. (Presentarse)
Present yourself
(Formal) To make a decision formally or with determination. (Resolver, decider)
Resolve
To place someone on guard.
Mount
- A particular type or quality. (Raza, tipo, variedad) - An animal or plant from a particular group whose characteristics are different in some way from others of the same group. (Variedad)
Strain
To risk an amount of money. (Apostar, jugarse)
Stake
If you _ another player in a game of cards, you risk more money that that player has risked. (Subir la apuesta)
Raise
An agreement in an argument in which the people involved reduce their demand or change their opinion in order to agree. (Arreglo, acuerdo)
Compromise
Able to see things that are far away but not things that are near you. (Hipermétrope, previsor)
UK: Long-sighted US: Far-sighted
(of a substance) Impossible to dissolve. (Insoluble)
Insoluble
To give attention to or deal with a matter. (Abordar)
Address
(Superar una dificultad)
Overcome a difficulty
(Expression) To make the greatest possible effort.
Strain every nerve
To hold up and support something by fastening it to stakes. (Marcar con estacas, postes)
Stake
A _ remark can be understood in two very different ways, one of them positive and one of them negative.
Two-edged
- To arrange things, especially hours of work, holidays, or events, so that they begin at different times those of other people. (Escalonar) - If the start of a race is _, the competitors start at different times or in different positions. (Escalonado)
Stagger
To hit something with great force, especially causing damage. (Estrellar)
Dash
(Dilema)
Dilemma
(Expression) (Informal) To spend time in conditions that are much less good that the standard that you are used to. (Vivir a lo pobre)
Slum it
(Phrasal verb) To risk harming or losing something important if an action, decision, or situation does not have the result you want or expect. (Jugársela en algo)
Stake something on something
Determination (=the ability to continue trying to do something, although it is very difficult) (Determinación)
Resolution
(Dificultad)
Difficulty
(Expression) Most important in what is being discussed. (En cuestión)
At issue
(Expression) To write something quickly, putting little effort into it.
Dash something off
To go somewhere quickly. (Ir a prisa, precipitarse)
Dash
To give, provide, or make something known. (Entragar, hacer entrega de, regalar)
Present
(Expression) (Informal) To go away from a difficult situation in order to avoid trouble. (Largarse, esfumarse)
Make yourself scarce
(Disapproving) To allow your principles to be less strong or your stardards or morals to be lower. (Ceder, transigir)
Compromise
To make an improvement, especially by changing a persons behaviour or the structure of something. (Reformar, mejorar)
Reform
To make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not. (Examinar cuidadosamente, cribar)
Sift
(Specialized) The act of separating or being separated into clearly different parts.
Resolution
(Adecuado)
Adequate
(Expression) To play/sing very loudly and enthusiastically.
Raise the roof
- Only just or almost not. (Escasamente, apenas) - Used to say that something happened immediately after something else happened. (Apenas)
Scarcely
(Deteriorar(se))
Deteriorate
(Expression) To make an effort to improve the way that you do something. (Acelerar la marcha)
Raise your game
(Expression) A small amount of something, especially liquid food, that is added to something else. (Gota, chorrito, pizca, toque)
A dash
A shop where a pawnbroker operates their business. (Casa de empeños)
Pawnbroker’s / Pawnshop
A person who lends money in exchange for things that they can sell if the person leaving them does not pay an agreed amount of money in an agreed time. (Prestamista)
Pawnbroker
Tired or painful eyes as a result of too much reading, looking at a computer screen, etc.
Eyestrain
A horse. (Caballería)
Mount
The act of solving or ending a problem or difficult. (Resolución)
Resolution
Having two sharp edges for cutting. (De doble filo)
Two-edged
