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100 Cards in this Set
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husmear |
to sniff |
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un laúd |
a lute a sea turtle a lateen rigged sailing boat |
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el foque |
the jib |
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una perilla |
a goatee stubble |
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un galeote |
a galley slave |
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un yelmo |
a helmet (armor) |
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zambullir |
to dive, plunge |
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remecer (Am)
remecerse |
to wave (as a flag)
to swing back and forth |
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una andana
llamarse andana |
a row, tier
to go back on one's word |
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sedante |
sedative |
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un bombardino |
a tuba |
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un racimo |
a cluster (of fruit) |
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en tesitura de
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(to be) in a situation to (do something) (to be) in a mood to (do something) |
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un cachete |
a cheek a butt cheek (col) |
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la connivencia |
connivance |
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combar |
to bend |
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añejar
añejarse |
to age
to age, mature; to get stale |
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asediar |
to besiege |
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emborronar |
to scribble to blot |
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una cuartilla (col) |
a sheet of paper (col) |
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casquivano |
scatterbrained |
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imponible |
taxable |
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el hiel = el bilis |
bile, gall |
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un adarme
ni un adarme |
a whit (literally, a dram) not a whit |
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un azahar |
an orange blossom |
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un activo |
an asset |
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un forro |
a lining (clothes) a book cover |
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embarrancar |
to run aground to run into a ditch
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una plusvalía |
a capital gain |
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subido |
bright, loud (color) high (price) |
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enhiesto |
erect, upright |
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blavo (raro) |
dun color |
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un jarrón |
a vase |
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la escayola = el yeso |
plaster |
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un quinto |
a conscript |
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acogotar |
to knock down, poleax |
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un pesebre |
a manger |
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a secas |
straight, without anything else |
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un postor |
a bidder |
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una almazara |
an oil press |
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una viga |
a beam a wind vane, a water mill |
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aparcar |
to park to put on hold |
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gacho |
bent down |
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un revulsivo |
an emetic |
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una tartana |
a trap (light carriage) |
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aporrear |
to pound on |
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una palangana |
a wash basin a buttinsky (col) an airhead (col) |
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añil |
indigo |
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agotar |
to exhaust to deplete |
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dar largas a |
to drag one's feet |
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un señuelo |
a lure |
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un símil |
a simile |
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el guijo = la grava |
gravel |
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recogido |
gathered cozy secluded |
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apañado |
adept fitting |
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cundir |
to spread |
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barajar |
to shuffle to consider |
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huraño |
shy, retiring |
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pasarlo bien |
to have fun |
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vividor |
opportunistic, freeloading |
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un topo |
a mole |
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trastocar |
to disrupt |
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los víveres |
provisions |
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mohíno y cabizbajo |
sad and ashamed |
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una camisa de fuerza |
a straight jacket |
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férreo |
of iron hard |
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un chusco
chusco |
a muffin
funny |
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recalar |
to reach port, to land at to end up at |
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aleatorio |
random |
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fisgar |
to pry into |
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alelado |
bewildered |
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una bicoca |
a cushy job a bargain |
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un conato |
a failed attempt |
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una tórtola |
a turtledove |
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una corneja |
a rook (bird) |
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agorero |
pessimistic |
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enderezar |
to straighten up to put right |
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el paular |
marshy ground |
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las pintas (col) |
a look (appearance) (col) |
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una pandilla |
a group the gang |
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adefesio |
hideously ugly |
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creído |
vain |
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una lacra |
a consequence a (moral) stain |
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la escoria |
slag |
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avieso |
wicked |
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morigerar
morigerado |
to ease off
restrained, law-abiding |
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una finta = un amago |
a feint |
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conculcar |
to infringe on |
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el recato |
modesty |
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desbaratar
desbaratarse |
to ruin to throw into confusion
to become confused |
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la hechicería |
witchcraft |
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empalmar |
to splice together (also a vulgarism) |
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los enseres |
the basics |
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un batín |
a dressing gown a smoking jacket |
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apremiar |
to hurry along |
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jactarse |
to brag |
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modal |
customary modal (music)
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un/una ordenanza |
an orderly (military) an office boy/girl |
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al margen de |
apart from |
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una cotorra |
a parrot a chatterbox (col) |
