A Comprehensive List of English Vocabulary Terms

Essential Vocabulary List

• Profound: (profundo) Showing deep insight or understanding; going beyond what is obvious or easily seen.
• Apathetic: (apático) Having or showing little emotion or excitement; indifferent.
• Ineffable: (inexplicable) That cannot be expressed in words.
• Skeptical: (escéptico) Inclined to have doubt or doubts.
• Utilitarian: (utilitario) Designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.
• Inept: (inepto) Without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit.
• Parody: (parodia) A feeble or ridiculous imitation.
• Skirmish: (escaramuza) A minor dispute or contest between opposing parties.
• Discern: (discernir) To detect with senses other than vision.
• Fickle: (voluble) Easily rolling or turning.
• Apprehensive: (aprensivo) Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
• Discord: (discordia) Disagreement between people; lack of harmony between notes sounding together.
• Inexorable: (inexorable) Impossible to stop or prevent.
• Circumvent: (evitar) Find a way around an obstacle.
• Discrepancy: (discrepancia) A lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts.
• Vacillate: (vacilar) Waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive. Someone that wavers.
• Appease: (apaciguar) Pacify or placate someone by acceding to their demands; relieve or satisfy a demand or feeling.
• Masochist: (masoquista) A person who finds pleasure in self-denial, submissiveness, etc.
• Prolific: (prolífico) Producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring; present in large numbers or quantities; plentiful.
• Inevitable: (inevitable) Certain to happen; unavoidable.
• Meager: (pobre o escaso) Lacking in quantity or quality.
• Partisan: (partidista) An adherent or supporter of a person, group, party, or cause, especially a person who shows a biased, emotional allegiance.
• Solace: (consuelo) Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort.
• Vapid: (insípido) Lacking or having lost life, sharpness, or flavor; insipid; flat.
• Arbitrary: (arbitrario) Subject to individual will or judgment without restriction; contingent solely upon one's discretion.
• Discriminate: (discriminar) To observe a difference between two things.
• Infallible: (infalible) Not fallible; exempt from liability to error, as persons, their judgment, or pronouncements.
• Infamous: (reputación mala) Someone who has a bad reputation because of the acts they committed.
• Clamor: (clamor) Popular outcry.
• Flaunt: (lucir) To display oneself boldly.