Vocab 💜 Flashcards
Tardar
To be late/ to take too long
Disminuir
To reduce/ to decrease
Actitudes
Attitudes
Adhesión
Belonging/loyalty to
Del mundo occidental
The western world
No solo… sino también
Not only… but also
La emancipación
Emancipation (freeing/liberating)
La boda
Wedding
El embarazo
Pregnancy
La tasa de natalidad
Birth rate
La tasa de desempleo
Unemployment rate
El hogar
Home
Una soltera
A single woman
La viviencia
Experience
Experimentar
To experience
La dictadura
Dictatorship
La transición
Transition
Aumentar
To increase
La vigésima
20th
El retraso
Delay
Aborto
Abortion
Misa
Mass (religious service)
Ciento uno
101 (cien at exactly 100 but ciento plus number after 100)
Divorciarse
To get divorced
Inculcar
To instill
Los valores
Values
Maternidad
Motherhood
Docilidad
Meekness/docility/submissiveness
Libertad
Freedom
Falta el permiso marital
Lack of marital permission
Mientras
While
Preconizar
To praise
Surgir
To arise/emerge
Desarrollar
To develop
Avanzar
To advance/move forward
Norteño
Northern
Promover
To promote
Sumiso/a
Submissive
Cifra
Figure (number)
Segunda
Second
Siglos
Centuries
Actualmente
Currently
Nivel
Level
Los soldados
Soldiers
Los comerciantes
Traders
Viene de/ proceden de
Comes from
Casi
Almost
Dejaron un huella
Left a mark
Décadas
Decades
Sin ninguna duda
Without a doubt
A través de
Through
Todas las fuentes
All the sources
Procedente de
Coming from
Negocios
Business
Entrevista
He/she/it interviews
Debe haber
There should be
El hecho de que
The fact that
El régimen
Regime/system
Libertad de expression
Freedom of expression
Entorno
Environment (ambience/setting)
Tenían que
They had to
Reprimido
Repressed/oppressed
Leyes
Laws
Rezar
To pray
Apoyar
To support
Apetecer
To feel like/fancy
En aquella época
In that time/era
Este
This
Ese
That
Aquel
That (over there)
El diario
Newspaper
Amenazado
Threatened
Los antepasados
Ancestors
Emitir
To broadcast
El franquismo
Franco’s regime
La pena de cárcel
Prison sentence
Por fin
At last
El reconocimiento
Recognition
Sigue siendo
(He/she/it…) continues being
Uniones de hecho
Domestic partnership
Las familias monoparentales
Single parent family
Las familias reconstituidas
Reconstituted family/ step family
Arcaias
Archaic
Perdurar
To endure
Fomentar
To promote
Renunciar
To resign/quit/relinquish
Soltar
To let go
Quedar
To leave/have left
Se me da bien
I am good at
Mezcla
Mixture
Se enseñan
Are taught
Mismas
Same
Ambas
Both
Mitad
Half
Un tercío
A third
Desde una edad temprana
From an early age
Tener derecho a decidir
To have the right to decide
Expresarse con fluidez
Express (oneself) with fluidity
Communicarse con soltura
To communicate with ease/freely
No me apetece aprender ese idioma
I don’t feel like learning that language
Me/te/le… Cuesta recordar
It’s hard to remember
No me/te/le…queda otro remedio
I don’t have another option left
Tampoco es justo perder las raíces
It’s not fair to lose roots
Espaguetis
Spaghetti
Estilo
Style
Esposa
Spouse/wife
Estatua
Statue
Estructura
Structure
Esqueleto
Skeleton
Espina
Spine
Esponja
Sponge
Tareas
Chores
Subestimar
To underestimate
Planchar
To iron
Es decir
That is to say
Quinientos
500
Detras/tras
After
Setencientos
700
Novecientos
900
Alcanzar
To reach/to achieve
Alcanzable
Achieveable
Faltar
To lack
Costar
To cost/be difficult
Me cuesta + infinitive
I find it difficult to…
Conocimientos
Knowledge
Mudarse
To move
Desde mi punta de vida
From my point of view
Estoy de acuerdo con lo que ha dicho
I agree with what (someone) has said
Quejar
To complain
Riqueza
Richness
Inolvidables
Unforgettable
Únicas
Unique
Aceite
Oil
Oliva
Olive tree
Se trata de
It is about
Destaca
It stands out
Sobriedad
Seriousness/sobriety
Por lo menos
At least
Lema/eslogan
Slogan
Chocar
To crash
Aplazar
To postpone
Temporada
Season
Se dan cuenta de que
They realise that
Prevenir
To prevent
Tiene lugar
It takes place
Reemplazar
To replace/substitute
Recolocar
To replace
Sustituir
To substitute
Entre sí
From one to the other
Siempre que
Provided that
Ayuntamiento
Council
Caber
To fit
Quepo
I fit
El alabastro
Alabaster (a type of stone)
Aspirar
To breathe
La butaca
Armchair
Dar una calada
To take a drag on a cigarette
Enredar
To fidget with
La punzada
A stabbing pain, jab
La uña
Fingernail
Ha sido
It has been
Somniferos
Sleeping pills
Cobrar
To collect
Recobrar
To recover
Desperada
Desperate
fingir
To take
Disimular
To pretend
La razón
State of mind