Essential English Vocabulary: Key Terms for Hunger, Poverty, Money and Daily Life
Vocabulary: Hunger, Poverty and Wealth
- Famine / Hunger: hambre
- Hungry: hambriento
- Poverty: pobreza
- Poor: pobre
- Rich / Wealth / Richness: rico
- Despite: a pesar de
Money and Finance
- To lend money: prestar dinero
- To borrow money: pedir prestado dinero
- To spend money: gastar dinero
- To rent: alquilar
- To pay back: devolver
Environment and Daily Life
- Surroundings: alrededores
- As: ya que
- Tears: lágrimas
- Fields: campos cultivados
- To manage: conseguir
- Shortage: escasez
- Moreover / Furthermore / Besides / What's more / In addition: además
- Hard / Difficult: difícil
- Easy: fácil
- Way: manera
- Effort: esfuerzo
- Quite / Pretty: bastante
- To look after: cuidar
Society, Equality and Media
- Gender gap: brecha de género
- Equality: igualdad
- Adverts: anuncios
- Advertisement: anuncio publicitario
- Breaking down barriers: rompiendo barreras
- Recognizable: reconocible
- Commentator: comentarista
- To comment: comentar
- Nickname: apodo
- To argue: discutir
- Argument: discusión
- To remain: permanecer
- Mass media: medios de comunicación
- Opportunity / Chance: oportunidad
- To embrace: abrazar
- Older people / Old people: persona mayor
- Research: investigación
- Concern: asunto
Energy, Objects and Practical Terms
- Energy-saving: ahorro de energía
- Wind-up: de cuerda
- Handy: prácticas
- Inefficient: ineficaz
- Battery-operated: a pilas
- Impractical: poco práctico
- Clay pot: cántara
- Flour: harina
- Slippers: zapatillas de casa
- Wind-up radio: radio a cuerda
- Mill: molino
- Resource: fuente de información
- Clay: arcilla
- Pot: recipiente / vasija
Verbs and Phrasal Verbs
- Range: variedad
- Spectrum: gama
- To exploit: explotar
- To permit / To allow: permitir
- To spend time on: pasar tiempo
- To come up with: ocurrírsele
- Appropriately: de manera apropiada
- To give up: parar
- To look for: buscar
- To look on: mirar mal
- To face: afrontar / plantarle cara
- Desire: deseo
- Real: auténtico
- Amazed / Amazing: alucinado
- Fluency: fluidez
- To threaten: amenazar
- Threatening: amenazante
- Survival: supervivencia
- To survive: sobrevivir
Vocabulary: Achievement, Development and Adjectives
- To achieve (v): lograr
- Achievement (n): logro
- To develop (v): desarrollar
- Development (n): desarrollo
- Developed (adj): desarrollado
- Well-known (adj): muy conocido
- Simple ↔ Complex
- Superfluous ↔ Essential: superlativo / esencial
- Old-fashioned ↔ Modern: pasado de moda / moderno
- Low-cost ↔ Expensive: económico / caro
- Inefficient ↔ Efficient
- Modern / Trendy / Fashionable
- Low-cost / Cheap
- Necessity (n): necesidad
- Necessary (adj): necesario
- Solution (n): solución
- To solve (vb): resolver
- Desperate (adj): desesperado
- Desperation (n): desesperación
- To produce (vb): producir
- Produced (adj): producido
- Production (n): producción
- To apply (vb): solicitar
- Application (n): solicitud
- Reward (n): recompensa
- Rewarding (adj): que se merece una recompensa
- Satisfying (adj): satisfactorio
- Satisfaction (n): satisfacción
- To satisfy (vb): satisfacer
- To realise: darse cuenta
- Meaningful (adj): significativo
- Meaningless (adj): insignificante
- To mean (vb): significar
- Meaning (n): significado
- At present / Nowadays / Today / This time: ahora mismo
- Burnt-out (adj): quemado
- To support (vb): apoyar
- Supporter (n): aficionado
- To expect (vb): esperar
- Expectation (n): expectativa
- Increasing (adj): en aumento
- To increase (vb): aumentar
- Hopeful: esperanzador
- Hopeless: desesperanzador