English Vocabulary with Translations, Phrasal Verbs & Word Families

Vocabulary: Words, Phrasal Verbs & Word Families

Headwords with Translations

• unique (unusual, special)
• Random (aleatorio)
• stands out (destaca, más impresionante)
• attached (adjunta, connected to)
• claims
• recall (remember)

Phrasal Verbs & Common Expressions

• sign up for (matricularse en)
• carry out (realizar)
• cope with (enfrentarse con)
• figure out (averiguar)
• brought up (educar)
• comes up with (inventar / pensar algo)
• fall for (creer)
• keep up with (seguir)
• put up with (soportar — alguien)
• run out of (quedarse sin — energía)

Additional Vocabulary and Usage

• Ban (prohibit)
• conscious (aware)
• convince (persuade)
• eventually (in the end)
• fascinating (very interesting)
• key (important)
• significance (importance)
• waste (desperdiciar)

Phrases for Planning, Decisions & Thinking

• Bear in mind (tener en cuenta)
• set yourself a goal
• Take time off
• Decision-making
• Suspend judgement
• Self-motivated
• Change your mind
• Brainstorm solutions
• Draw conclusions
• Have memory loss

Word Families & Derivatives

• Affect — affection, affectable
• Create — creation, creativity, creative
• Decorate — decoration, decorative
• identity — identify, identifiable
• Judgement — judgment, triable
• music — musician, musical
• predict — prediction, predictable
• Solve — solution, solvable
• achieve — achievement
• journalism — journalist
• rely — reliable

Occupations, Sensations & Traits

• Practitioners
• Sensations
• Cope
• Empathy
• Self-centred (selfish)
• appalling (terrible)
• bad-mannered (rude)
• broad-minded (tolerant — mente abierta)
• gripping (very exciting)
• hilarious
• Outdated (anticuado — obsolete)
• own up (confesar)
• secluded (aislado — privado)

Creativity, Inspiration & Thought Processes

Actions, Phrases & Verbs

• boost — aumentar
• Daydream (thinking about)
• Dream up (thinking of, inventar)
• emerge (surgir, come out)
• Explore (explorar)
• Follow through — seguir adelante
• Get inspiration (come up with ideas)
• Get stuck — atascarse
• Stick with (continue with it / poder sacarse de encima)
• Stimulate
• A flash of inspiration
• Capture people’s imagination
• Follow a train of thought
• Think on your feet
• Think out loud
• Think outside the box

Market & Action Verbs

• Auction — subasta (public sale)
• Bring about — producir (happen)
• Bring up — sacar un tema (mention)
• Check out — comprobar (take a look at)
• Intrigued
• on a par with — equivalente
• Portrait

Descriptors & Species

• Primitive (very basic)
• Sophisticated (advanced)
• Species
• Actual — real
• Counterfeit — falsificación
• Genuine — auténtico
• Original
• Pretend — falso
• Replica
• resemble — parecerse
• Similarity

Dreams, Exploration & Related Families

• Dream — dream / dreamer — dreamy
• Explore — exploration / explore — exploratory
• Pretend — pretence — pretend
• Resemble — resemblance — resemblant
• Stimulate (awaken) — stimulation — stimulated

Notes: Spelling and capitalization have been corrected for clarity. Spanish translations have been retained where provided. All original content has been preserved and organized for easier reading and study.