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100 Cards in this Set
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una estela |
a wake (boat) |
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calcar
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to trace, copy |
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prescrito
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moot
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la displicencia |
dispepsia |
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una bronca |
a jeer |
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depurar
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to purify
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un colofón |
a culmination |
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el cieno |
mire, silt |
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un reo |
a prisoner an accused |
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un astillero |
a shipyard |
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la tira y afloja |
the give and take |
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un varapalo |
a blow (with a stick) a blow (emotional) |
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una desgravación |
a tax exemption |
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un armador |
a ship owner |
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enrevesado |
tangled (esp of affairs) |
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gemir
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to moan
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afincarse en
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to settle in
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desbordar |
to overflow
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cenagoso
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muddy
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una era |
an era a threshing floor |
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un segador |
a reaper |
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afianzar
afianzarse a |
to secure |
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una ara |
an altar |
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una puja |
a bid |
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un cerco a un cerco de |
a siege |
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un ajuste |
a coupling an adaptation |
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anonadar |
to stun
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una caza |
a fighter plane prey (in a hunt)
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zarpar
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to set sail, weigh anchor
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el desaliento |
discouragement
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una bocanada |
a puff a gust |
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empedernido |
inveterate |
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la congoja |
anxiety
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soez |
rude |
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una mueca |
a mocking face |
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el amasijo |
dough |
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la chatarra |
junk kitchen utensils |
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santiagués |
of Santiago de Compostela |
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el despiste |
distraction, absent mindedness
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el rubor |
blushing embarrassment |
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siniestro
un siniestro |
left sinister
a disaster |
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halagar
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to flatter
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diantre!
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damn it!
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una mafia |
a mafia |
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una travesura |
a bit of mischief |
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un paraje |
a natural setting |
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agreste |
wild (as in nature)
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medioambiental |
environmental
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una madriguera |
a lair, hideout |
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el rezago |
backwardness |
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un títere |
a puppet |
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un sepelio |
a burial |
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arrimar
arrimarse a |
to put close to to bring over
to latch onto |
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un tocador |
a dressing table a powder room a jewelry box |
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tremebundo
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terrible |
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pavoroso
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dreadful
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esperpéntico
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grotesque
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una pinacoteca |
an art gallery |
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el facial
facial |
the face value
facial |
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piojoso |
lousy |
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una papada |
a double chin, dewlap |
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un acuse de recibo |
an acknowledgement of receipt |
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el hormigón |
concrete |
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el caucho |
(natural) rubber |
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un pillo |
a sneak thief |
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apuesto (lit) |
good looking (lit) |
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colar |
to strain to seep through |
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un renglón |
a line (of text) |
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siderúrgico |
iron and steel (adj) |
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el cromo un cromo |
chrome |
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reparar
reparar en |
to repair
to notice |
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en entredicho |
in question |
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el esquisto |
shale
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somero
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shallow summary |
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una aportación |
a financial allocation to a financial assessment from |
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la vaqueta |
cowhide, leather |
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la entereza |
self-possession, integrity |
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el tesón
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tenacity
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una rémora |
a remora hence a hindrance |
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un maremoto |
a tidal wave |
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alabar
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to praise
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un aquelarre |
a witches' sabath a coven |
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un mancebo |
a lad |
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un toque de queda |
a curfew |
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aupar
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to lift, hoist to commend |
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una veleta |
a weather vane |
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necio |
stupid
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la osadía |
audacity
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intervenir en |
to take part in |
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expoliar
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to despoil
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incautarse de
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to confiscate
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una ebanistería |
a cabinet making workshop |
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la desenvoltura |
ease, grace, fluency
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el cartón
un cartón |
cardboard
a cardboard box |
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una vereda |
a path |
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vetusto |
ancient |
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una víbora |
a viper |
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una vieira |
a scallop |
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una viga |
a beam |
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un volante |
a steering wheel a flounce |
