Essential English Vocabulary: Comprehensive Word List

Essential English Vocabulary Reference

• Abundance: A large quantity.
• Amusement: Entretenimiento.
• Astonishing: Very surprising.
• Awaiting trial: A la espera del juicio.
• Besieged: Asediado, sitiado.
• Biofuels: Fuel made from living things.
• Boom: A major increase.
• Crop: A plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable that is grown in large amounts by farmers.
• Dexterity: Skill in performing tasks.
• Doom: Fate.
• Drought: A long period when there is little or no rain (sequía).
• Famine: A situation in which there is not enough food for a great number of people.
• Gathering: A party or a meeting when many people come together as a group (reunión).
• Hatred: An extremely strong feeling of dislike.
• Health screenings: Tests that look for diseases before you have symptoms.
• Heart-warming: Something positive and good, causing feelings of pleasure and happiness.
• Heavyweight: A weight in boxing, typically the heaviest category.
• Hilltop: The top part of a hill, rather than its sloping sides.
• Imam: A leader in the Islamic religion.
• Legacy: Something that is a part of your history or that remains from an earlier time.
• Maker: Fabricante.
• Meltdown: A situation when fuel in a nuclear power station becomes very hot and melts through its container, escaping into the air.
• Outbreak: A time when something suddenly begins, especially a disease or something dangerous or unpleasant.
• Pallbearers: People who help to carry the coffin at a funeral.
• Poacher: Someone who catches and kills animals illegally (cazador furtivo).
• Prosecution: Proceso judicial, procesamiento.
• Raid: Redada.
• Reactor: A machine which produces nuclear energy.
• Retailer: A person, shop, or business that sells goods to the public.
• Salvo: A sudden attack.
• Senior: High or higher in rank; older and more experienced than the other members of a team.
• Soil: The top layer of earth that plants grow in.
• Stand against: To publicly oppose something or someone.
• Stress management: Any technique developed to help someone cope with or lessen the physical and emotional effects of everyday life pressure.
• Swathe: A large area of land.
• To be upstaged: Eclipsado.
• To catch your breath: Struggling to breathe normally after physical activity.
• To crash: Colarse.
• To guard: To protect someone or something from being attacked or stolen.
• To harvest: To pick and collect crops, or to collect plants, animals, or fish to eat.
• To honour: To give praise to someone in public.
• To march: To go forward; advance; proceed.
• To nominate: The act of choosing someone as a candidate to receive an award.
• Trafficker: A person who trades in something.
• Trend: A general development or change in a situation or in the way people are behaving.
• Tributes: Public acts which show respect to someone.
• Turnaround: Any change from one thing to its opposite (cambio, giro).
• Unforgiving: Implacable.
• Upside: Positive aspect of something.
• Vigils: Acts of staying awake at night in order to pray, protest, or give support to something.
• Wildlife: Fauna silvestre.
• Workshop: Taller.