Master English Expressions and Body Language

Essential Vocabulary and Definitions

• A first aid kit – botiquín de primeros auxilios
• Angle – ángulo / to bend
• Bandwidth – ancho de banda (data transfer rate)
• Be laid back – to be relaxed
• Bombarded – to attack with bombs (assail/attack)
• Bullish – optimista / bullish (bychiy)
• Butterfly something – abrir para trocear (to cut open)
• Clenched – apretado, contraído, agarrado
• Compelling – persuasive / neotrazimiy
• Congruent – corresponding, identical
• Contempt – desprecio / neuvazhenie
• Dash – to run / arruinar, estallar
• Devote – dedicarse (to dedicate oneself)
• Dim lighting – luz tenue
• Draw somebody out – to help someone express their thoughts and feelings
• Dreadful – awful, frightening, very unpleasant
• Enticing – attractive / seductor / soblaznitelniy
• Foot – to walk on / to pay a bill (informal)
• Flounder – to have problems / putatsya / a type of fish
• Gaping – with open mouth / wide, huge
• Grinning – smiling / ukhmilyatsya
• Hostile – not friendly, enemy / vrazhdebniy
• Hunched position – bent / jorobado
• Impostor – moshennik, obmanshchik
• Indispensable – necessary / nezamenimiy
• Infuriating – privodyashchiy v yarost
• Jabs – golpe, pinchar, inyeccion, puñetazo
• Nerve – nervio, valor, coraje
• Off-putting – poco atractivo / smuschauschiy, nepriyatniy
• Pin – pinchar, fijar
• Pluck – desplumar, depilar
• Push your buttons – to irritate or provoke
• Raised – podnyatiy, reliefniy
• Reassuring – obnadezhivayushchiy, uspokaivayushchiy
• Receipts – kvitanciya, viruchka
• Resentful – obizhenniy
• Rolled – prokatniy
• Scowl – khmuritsya, ceño fruncido
• Shrugged – pozhimat plechami
• Sneering – nasmeshliviy
• Splash – bryzgatsya / a spot (pyatno)
• Suppress – sderzhivat, skryvat, usmiryat
• Tapped – intervenido / pinchado (informal)
• Tell-tale – chivito / signaling device
• Unscrupulous – nedobrosovestniy
• Unsettling – trevozhniy
• Wince – vzdrognut, morshchitsya
• Without budging an inch – ne dvigatsya
• Yawn – zevat

Idioms and Phrases with "Back"

• Get your own back – to take revenge
• Go back on your word – to break a promise
• Go back to the drawing board – to start a plan or project from the beginning again
• Go behind someone’s back – to act without consulting someone
• Know something like the back of your hand – to be very familiar with something
• Put it on the back burner – to leave for later
• Take a back seat – to have a less active role
• Turn back the clock – to return to an earlier time
• Turn your back on – to refuse to help

Descriptive Adjectives and Emotions

• Disconcerting – troubling, disturbing / desconcertante
• Maddening – svodyashchiy s uma
• Rousing – vozbuzhdayushchiy / emocionante
• Soothing – providing comfort, calming
• Stirring – dynamic, energetic / estimulante
• Tempting – zamanchiviy, soblaznitelniy

Common Body Language Gestures

• Clench your fists – сожмите кулаки
• Drum your fingers – барабанить пальцами
• Roll your eyes – zakatit glaza
• Shake your head – to shake one's head
• Shrug your shoulders – pozhimat plechami
• Tap your feet – stuchat nogoy