Boost Your Vocabulary: Ambition, Work, and Travel Terms
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Ambition & Motivation
- Achieve: (conseguirlo)
- Achievement: (éxito)
- Challenging: (estimulante, desafiante)
- Fail: (suspender)
- Fulfil: (satisfacer)
- Get something right: (hacer algo bien, acertar)
- Get something wrong: (hacer algo mal, equivocarse)
- Goal: (objetivo, meta)
- Motivated: (motivado)
- Overcome: (superar)
- Pass: (aprobar)
- Put pressure on: (presionar)
- Satisfying: (gratificante)
- Success: Make it
- Strength: (virtud)
- Under pressure: (presionante)
- Weakness: (debilidad)
- Naturally: Gifted
- Lorry: Truck
- Tiny: Very small
- A visit: A trip
The World of Work
- Ad, Advert: (anuncio)
- Applicant: (candidato)
- Application form: (solicitud, formulario)
- Apply for: (pedir para trabajar)
- Boss: (jefe)
- Employer: (empleador)
- Experience
- Fill something in: (rellenar algo)
- Full-time ≠ Part-time
- Interview: (entrevista)
- Job centre: (centro de trabajo)
- Position: (lugar de trabajo) = job = post
- Reference: (referencias)
- Vacancy: (vacante)
- Wages: (sueldo) / Pay wages (every week or hours)
Home & Abroad
- Abroad: (en el extranjero)
- Border: Frontier
- Culture shock: (choque cultural)
- Currency: (moneda oficial)
- Custom: (costumbres)
- Expatriate: People who live in another country out of his own
- Foreign: (el extranjero)
- Foreigner: (extranjero/a)
- Homesick: (añorar)
- Hometown: (ciudad natal)
- Mother tongue: (lengua materna)
- Official language: (lengua oficial)
- Familiar: (conocido) ≠ Family (familiar)
- Ultimately: (en última instancia) ≠ Recently (últimamente)
- Particular: (determinado) ≠ Private (particular)
- Local government: (council)
- Poor urban areas: (housing states)
- Understanding of: Insight
- With little money: Low incomes
- Confidence: Trust
- Person who works with you: Colleague
- Holy: Sacred
- Slums ≠ Suburbs
Airport Vocabulary
- Arrival hall: (vestíbulo de llegadas)
- Baggage reclaim: (reclamar equipaje)
- Boarding gate: (puerta de embarque)
- Check-in desk: (facturación)
- Customs: (fronteras, aduanas)
- Departure lounge: (sala de embarque)
- Passport control
Types of Travel
- Flight: (vuelo)
- Journey: (from A to B)
- Crossing: (across short distances in water)
- Trip: (from A to B and returning)
- Travel: (fact to travel)
- Voyage: (by sea or space for long time)