Unit 8. Through the Ages Flashcards
A period of time of which particular events or stages of development are typical. E.g. the Clinton era, the post-war era. (Era, época)
Era
To collect in or form into a mass, or to make something do this. (Acumularse)
Bank
Either of the two points at the most northern and most southern ends of the Earth, around which the Earth turns. (Polo)
Pole
- A simple, quickly-made drawing that does not have many details. (Boceto, croquis) - A short written or spoken story that does not have many details. (Borrador, esquema)
Sketch
(Expression) To be able to understand a clock.
Tell the time
If your watch or clock is _, it shows a time that is later than the correct rime. (Adelantado)
Fast
(Idiom) To make a difficult situation even worse for someone. (Hurgar en la herida)
Rub salt in/into the wound
A legth of hair or other material that is divided into three parts that are then crossed over each other in a special pattern. (Trenza)
Plait
The work of a dentist. (Odontología)
Dentistry
To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have. (Deducir, insinuar, inferior)
Infer
Giving all your attention to something. (Ensimismado, absorto)
Engrossed
A pile or mass of earth, clouds,etc. (Montículo, agrupación)
Bank
Before a particular time or event. (Antes de)
Prior to something
To exist or continue for a particular length of time. (Abarcar)
Span
In the past.
Formerly
(an example of) Uncontrolled and excited behaviour or emotion that is sometimes violent. (Frenesí, histeria)
Frenzy
To join three or more pieces of hair or string-like material by putting them over each other in a special pattern. (Trenzar)
Plait
(Idiom) (Especially of a place) very clean and tidy.
Spick and span
To have existed or happened before another thing. (Antedatar, precede, ser anterior a)
Predate
A _ of something, such as blood or human organs for medical use, is a place that stores these things for a later use. (Banco)
Bank
A row of similar things, especially machines or parts of machines. (Hilera)
Bank
(Phrasal verb) (UK informal) If two people _, they work or live together in a satisfactory way. (Llevarse bien con, ser tal para cual)
Rub along
(Expression) (Formal) The particular problem that makes a situation difficult or impossible. (El problema)
The rub
(Cronológico)
Chronological
(Phrasal verb) To remove something, especially a pencil mark by rubbing it. (Borrar)
UK: Rub out US: Erase
(Puntual)
Punctual
A particular period of time. E.g. the Victorian age, the modern age, the nuclear age. (Era, época)
Age
To introduce something in stages over a particular period of time. (Introducir paulatinamente)
Phase
- To keep your money in a particular bank, or to put money into a bank. (Tener una cuenta con, ingresar, depositar) - (Informal) To win or earn a particular amount of money.
Bank
(Phrasal verb) To murder someone.
Rub out
(Consecutivo)
Consecutive
To be one of the first people to do something. (Ser pionero)
Pioneer
In a bridge _ a river, it goes from one side to the other. (Cruzar, extenderse sobre)
Span
(Formal) Existing of happening before something else, or before a particular time. (Anterior, previo)
Prior
The act or rubbing something. (Frote)
Rub
To make a sketch of something. (Esbozar)
Sketch
A person who is one of the first people to do something. (Pionero)
Pioneer
A period of 1000 years, or the time when a period of 1000 years ends. (Milenio, fin de milenio)
Millennium Plural: Millennia / Millenniums
(Idiom) To annoy someone without intending to. (Irritar, fastidiar)
UK: rub somebody up the wrong way US: rub somebody the wrong way
(Phrasal verb) If a quality or characteristic that someone has _, other people begin to have it because they have been with the person and learned it from them. (Contagiarse)
Rub off
To press or be pressed against something with a circular or up-and-down repeated movement. (Frotar, restregar)
Rub
To slowly reduce or destroy something. (Mermar, deteriorarse, desgastar)
Erode
(Expression) Happening or done at the particular moment that it was expected to happen or be done.
(Bang / Dead/ Right) On time
To look at something or someone for a long time, especially in surprise or admiration, or because you are thinking about something else. (Mirar fijamente)
Gaze
(Excavación)
Excavation
(Inminente)
Imminent
(Idiom) To meet and spend time with someone. (Codearse)
UK: rub shoulders with US: rub elbows with
A long look, usually of a particular kind. (Mirada)
Gaze
Slopping raised land, especially along the sides of a river. (Orilla)
Bank
(Formal) More important
Prior
To rub or be rubbed away gradually. (Erosionar(se))
Erode
A person who goes to an area and builds a house, begins a farm, etc. (Colonizador)
Pioneer
- The length of something from one end the other. (Palmo, envergadura) - The area of a bridge, etc. between two supports. (Arcada)
Span
(Idiom) To say or do things that make someone remember that they failed or got something wrong. (Restregar algo por las narices)
Rub somebody’s nose in it
- A length of time. (Periodo, tiempo) - In school, a division of time in the day when a subject is taught. (Clase) - A fixed time during the life of a person or in history. (Etapa, periodo)
Period
The period of time that something exists or happens. (Lapso, espacio de tiempo)
Span
(Arqueólogo)
Archeologist
A short humorous part of a longer show on stage, television or radio. (Sketch)
Sketch
(Que require mucho tiempo)
Time-consuming
Either of two completely opposite or different opinions, positions, or qualities. (Polo)
Pole
If something _ you, it is so interesting that you give it all attention. (Absorber, cautivar)
Engross
(of an aircraft) To fly with one wing higher than the other when turning. (Ladear)
Bank
A raised area of earth made, especially in the past, for defence against enemy attack. (Excavación, movimientos de tierra, terraplén)
Earthwork
A long, thin stick of wood or metal, often used standing straight up in the ground to support things. (Poste, asta, palo)
Pole
(Expression) Early enough
In time
- Connected with studying or representing things from the past. - Used to describe prices, values, etc, in the past.
Historical
- Any stage in a series of events or in a process of development. (Fase, etapa) - A period of time of strange or difficult behaviour, especially that a young child or person goes through, that will stop after a while. - The _ of the moon are the regular changes in its shape as it appears to us on Earth. (Fases de la luna)
Phase
