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the length of time that someone can keep their thoughts and interest fixed on something
Attention Span
Reinventar
re-invent
??
childhood shrinking
To make extremely sexual; to accentuate the sexuality of
Empezar a pensar en sexo desde muy joven
Hypersexualization
not having or not needing people to operate or work correctly:
Unmanned
to start working or dealing with something in an energetic and determined way:
Something set to
ordinary, typical, or usual:
Everyday Adj
Every day Adv
it is happening now:
Underway
a meal cooked and bought at a shop or restaurant but taken somewhere else, often home, to be eaten, or the shop or restaurant itself:
Takeaway (meal)
an object or collection of objects wrapped in paper, especially so that it can be sent by post:
Parcel
to prevent someone from doing something or to make someone less enthusiastic about doing something by making it difficult for that person to do it or by threatening bad results if they do i
To deter
to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:
To Poach
Poacher
Snow leopard
(of or relating to) a type of popular newspaper with small pages that has many pictures and short, simple reports:
Tabloid
to achieve as much as your natural ability makes possible
Fullfill the potential
He never really fulfilled his potential as a player.
to suddenly start to be successful or popular:
Take off
to make it possible or easier for something or someone to follow:
Preparar el terreno
pave the way (for something/someone)
a short road on which vehicles join or leave a main road
A slip road
a car that uses more than one means of propulsion that means combining a petrol or diesel engine with an electric motor.
Hybrid cars
with the size of a lipstick
Lipstick-sized
a small device you use to breathe in particular medicines
Inhaler
An action that seems a good idea because is practical
Describe progress in progress
The way forward
Under way
The force to stimulate something to flourish
Driver
magnetic levitation: an advanced type of transport system in which a train travels on a magnetic track, often at very high speeds:
Maglev
a word formed by combining two other words:
Portmanteau word
Fila prioritaria
Priority queuing
is an airline which tries to keep its prices and fares lower than competitors.
Budget airlines
a wide road for fast-moving traffic, especially in the UK, Ireland, and some other countries, with a limited number of places at which drivers can enter and leave it:
Autopista, carretera
Motorway
Lane
Kind of services synonyms
Tiers of services
a large road vehicle that is used for transporting large amounts of goods:
mula
Truck
Lorry
a person who charges very large amounts of money for lending money to someone
Loan shark
Options that are friendly to the planet
Greener options
unable to leave somewhere because of a problem such as not having any transport or money:
Stranded
to move or come together in large numbers:
Flock
a description of possible actions or events in the future:
Scenario
to become fashionable or popular:
To catch on
En el futuro expression
In the long term
different in every way:
Ideas totally different
Disparate
able to be made, done, or achieved:
Feasible
you make sure to know about what is happening (or has happened) to it.
To keep track of something
or intuition, is your immediate understanding of something; there's no need to think it over or get another opinion you just know
Gut instinct
Activities of the brain
Brainware patterns
considered normal, and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc. that are accepted by most people:
common
Mainstream
Compare information with a database
Cross-reference
the quality of being good and deserving praise:
Merit
people that express their opinions and complaints loudly and repeatedly in speech, etc. are made repeatedly and loudly
Vociferous
an amount of food or drink that fills your mouth, or that you put into your mouth at one time:
Mouthful
the action of eating more food than your body needs, especially so that you feel uncomfortably full:
Overeating
Gluttony
a computer program, used especially in business, that allows you to do financial calculations and plans
Hoja de calculo
Spreadsheet
To try something, especially something with which one has little or no experience.
To give something a go
Something that is difficult to deal with or do because it is complicated and full of problems
Tricky
To be even better or greater than somebody or something else
To surpass
To organise and manage what another person does every day.
To run somebody's life
To discover or explain the real reason for a problem
To pinpoint the cause of something
To do something better or more successfully or in greater quantity than somebody else
To outstrip
To happen after a period of time
To come to pass
To be expected to happen but not having happened yet
To be yet to happen
Medical treatment which doesn't involve cutting into the body.
Non-invasive sugery
To extract mineral for a mine
To mine
Very likely to or certain to
To bound to
time you spend at work talking to people directly, not by email, phone, or online:
Face time
the money that is used in a particular country at a particular time
Currency
Monetary unit
to start working or dealing with something in an energetic and determined way:
To set to
To be going to do something immediately
to be Ready to do something
an arm or leg of a person or animal: (extremidades)
Limbs
an artificial body part, such as an arm, foot, or tooth, that replaces a missing part
Prosthetic
an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people agree with:
norm
something that you get for working, in addition to your pay, that is not in the form of money: (Cesantias)
Fringe benefits
likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, especially by getting worse:
Volatile
(the total amount collected of) a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in large amounts:
Crop
a form of transport existing only in films and stories, that a person can stand on and that floats a short distance above the ground
hoverboard
a brand name for a black material used for building roads, etc., that consists of tar mixed with small stones, or an area covered with this material
Tarmac
a humorous and clever remark:
to say something amusingly
Quip
to travel on ships for pleasure
To cruise
Something that it is difficult to deal with and needs careful attention or skill:
Tricky
the beginning of an organization or official activity:
Inception
to make a continuous low sound:
Hum
in an energetic and continuous way:
Tirelessly
all people, considered as a group
Humankind
to happen:
Come to pass
having important and widely applicable effects
wide-reaching
in a way that is clearly noticeable or very definite:
Distinctly
heavy and solid in an ugly way:
Clunky
Plantas vegetales
Vegetable plants
to cause someone to be confused or uncertain over something that is not understood:
Perplex
great and pleasant surprise:
wonderment
a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder:
Complacency
a feeling of great respect sometimes mixed with fear or surprise:
Awe
complete or extreme:
utter
the fact of something becoming known or starting to exist:
emergence
to be or become greater in amount, degree, or success than something or someone:
To go beyond
outstrips
something that will solve all problems:
Panacea
extremely exciting, beautiful, or surprising:
Breathtaking
information that is shown in electronic form, for example on a computer screen:
Read-out
to find out or say the exact position in space or time of something:
Pinpoint
The size of a needle
Pinprick-sized
the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other living thing
Genome
a brand name for an electric vehicle with two wheels. The rider stands on a base between the wheels and holds onto a bar at waist height.
segway
a person who has had an arm or leg cut off
Amputee
very surprising:
Astonishing
To catch
to pick up
To attach, fasten, or secure someone or something on(to someone or something else).
To strap on
More advanced or innovative than is or was typical in a particular era.
to be ahead of (one's)/its time
giving a reward, especially by making you feel satisfied that you have done something important or useful, or done something well:
Rewarding
useful or convenient:
handy
Without any buttons
Buttonless
an entrance or passage formed by an arch
archway
to cause something that is thin to break suddenly and quickly with a cracking sound:
snap
If a threat or doubt hangs over a place or a situation, it exists:
???
hang over sth
To go away from a place or person in order to escape from fighting or danger:
To retreat
seeming to be everywhere:
ubiquitous
a building where weapons and military equipment are stored:
Arsenal
not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it:
reluctant
extremely small:
Teeny-weeny
Teensy-weensy
itty-bitty
itsy-bitsy
bored, annoyed, or disappointed, especially by something that you have experienced for too long:
To be fed up with
done by a person's husband or wife, or relating to husbands and wives:
Spousal
an organization of several businesses or banks joining together as a group for a shared purpose:
Consortium
an extremely small robot (= a machine controlled by a computer that can do things automatically)
Nanobot
a route that leads from one place to another and is quicker and more direct than the usual route:
Shortcut
able to work as intended or able to succeed:
Viable
Feasible
to (cause to) travel by an imaginary very fast form of transport that uses special technology or special mental powers
Teletransportador
Teleporter
someone who is lazy:
Lazybones
is a word, phrase, name, or title (or some combination of these) used to address someone in writing or while speaking
Term of address
to force someone to leave a particular place:
to come out of a machine when a button is pressed, or to make something do this:
To Eject
Ejector
the door or board at the back of a vehicle that can be brought down to put in goods
to drive too closely behind the vehicle in front
Tailgate
a mirror that allows a driver to see what is happening behind their car
rearview mirror
to lose something temporarily by forgetting where you have put it:
Mislay
added to the beginning of a verb or word formed from a verb, to show that the action referred to by the verb has been done wrongly or badly:
Mis
Those objects that you tend to use every day.
Everyday objects
to move easily and without interruption backwards and forwards or from one side to the other, especially from a fixed point, or to cause something or someone to do this:
Swing
to start to exist suddenly:
To spring up
To emerge
Spring
quite; to a slight degree:
Rather
If something, especially something related to a computer, it is simple for people to use:
User-friendly
To begin to move and go away
it starts moving:
To pull away
Ticket for a bus
Bus pass
included in something at the time that it is created:
Built in
something that you say before you say something that is unpleasant but true:
let's face it
things that are different from each other<br />
Variar
To vary
to become fashionable or popular:
To catch on
the part of a main road where vehicles travel at the fastest speed
Fast lane
Acceleration lane
very serious and having an important bad effect in the future:
Fatal
to admit you were wrong, or to stop supporting a position
Back off
Luces direccionales
Indicators
Dar rienda suelta a tu imaginacion
To give free rein to your imagination
a disadvantage or the negative part of a situation:
Drawback
el futuro ( palabra con way)
The way forward
a set of similar things:
To range
the forces that decide price levels in an economy or trading system whose activities are not influenced or limited by government:
market forces
UK /ˌmɑː.kɪt ˈfɔː.sɪz/
the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something:
Resistance
Verb
Noun
Adjective Boom
Boom
Boom
Booming
Verb
Noun
Adjective Emerge
Emerge
Emergence
Emerging
Verb
Noun
Adjective Expand
Expand
Expansion
Expanding
Noun
Adjective Potencial
Potencial in all the ways
Verb
Noun
Adjective Revolutionise
Revolutionise
Revolution
Revolutionary
Verb
Noun
Adjective Sustain
Sustain
Sustainability
Sustainable
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: a serious disease caused by a virus that destroys the body's natural protection from infection:
AIDS
to need a particular thing or the help and support of someone or something in order to continue, to work correctly, or to succeed:
To trust somebody or something or to expect them or to behave in a particular way
rely on/upon sb/sth
a sudden clever idea:
brainwave
brainstorm
weighing only a little or less than average:
Lightweight
a series of pleasant thoughts about something you would prefer to be doing or something you would like to achieve in the future:
Daydream
the practice of systematically recording information about one's diet, health, or activities, typically by means of a smartphone, so as to discover behavioural patterns that may be adjusted to help improve one's physical or mental well-being.
Self-tracking
the part of a job that involves writing letters and reports and keeping records
Paperwork
to chase and try to catch and kill an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit:
Hunt
an increase, especially one that is gradual:
To build up
a piece of furniture or a small part of a room with a door or doors behind which there is space for storing things, usually on shelves:
Cupboard
immediately:
straightaway
to obtain knowledge of something, or to obtain knowledge of someone's activities, esp. dishonest ones:<br />
descubrir algo
find out (something)<br />
I just found out that he was cheating on the test.
in total:
Altogether
a small problem or fault that prevents something from being successful or working as well as it should:
Glitch
to start a new business:
To arrange a situation so that somebody is blamed for doing something especially something illegal
Set up
to produce a copy of a computer document from a printer
To print out
a copy of information held on a computer that is stored separately from the computer:
Back up
to vomit:
To show something
throw (sth) up
To scan again
Rescan
finding out of the best way to reach a desired result or a correct solution by trying out one or more ways or means and by noting and eliminating errors or causes of failure also :
It's a process of trial and error
to not be important or popular any longer:
be (as) dead as a/the dodo
a device for keeping a door or gate closed, consisting of a metal bar that fits into a hole and is lifted by pushing down on another bar<br />
Piece of metal<br />
Pestillo
Latch<br />
stuck and unable to move, or stuck in something:
jammed
adjective
US /dʒæmd/
a legible version of a piece of information not printed on a physical medium, especially as stored or displayed on a computer.
Soft copy
information from a computer that has been printed on pape
Hard copy
being the first one after the present one or after the one just mentioned:
Next to (it)
i'll explain as we go<br />
f they're teaching you how to do something they go step by step as you go instead of all at once.
I'll talk you through it
(of a computer) to switch off and then start again immediately, or to make a computer do this:
To reboot
in a very bad situation that is difficult to fix:
in dire straits
a small device or machine with a particular purpose:
Gadget
the number of jobs that are available in a particular place or for a particular type of work:
The job market
Ask for directions
To ask the way
To go ahead/ first
To lead the way
To discover the route somewhere
To find the way
To be familiar with the route somewhere
To know the way
To arrive soon
To be on the way
To have things as you want them
To have your own way
To block the path
To stop blocking the path
Get in the way
Get out of the way
a storm with thunder and lightning and usually heavy rain
Thunderstorm
a person who works for different organisations, rather than working all the time for a single organisation.
Freelancer
severely damaged by a long war, especially between different groups from the same country.
War-torn
Reversed (word with way)
The wrong way round
The wrong way up
Much too (big) word with way
Way too much bigger
To take extra trouble to do something
(word with way)
To go out of your way
Absolutely not ( word with way)
No way
La mejor manera
Odio la manera (words with way)
The best way
I hate the way
to move down the screen (for example when using a smartphone)
To scroll down
it stops working because its parts have become stuck and can no longer move:
To freeze
A machine that sometimes works and sometimes does not:
Temperamental
To press a combination of words
To hold down
Apagar o prender algo
Turn something off
Turn something on
a result or effect of an action, situation, etc.:
outcome
he money that you pay for sending letters and parcels through the post:
Postage
a long, thin mark that is easily noticed because it is very different from the area surrounding it:
Red streaks
a service providing advice and comfort to worried or unhappy people on the phone:
Helpline
in the correct way or at the correct time; as expected:
Duly
I duly did
large:
Sizeable
it is unsuccessful or produces nothing of value:
Fruitless (hours)
to pay back money to someone who has spent it for you or lost it because of you:
reimburse
to experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken:
To incur
a person or company that takes messages, letters, or parcels from one person or place to another:
Courier
Opposite
Get better
Get worse
Opposite
Deteriorate
Improve
Opposite
Increase
Decrease
Opposite
Rapidly
Slowly
Opposite
Blurred
Clear
Opposite
Longer and longer
Shorter and shorter
Opposite
More and more
Less and less
or
Fewer and fewer
a rapid increase in activity or popularity a sales
massive boom
to achieve as much as your natural ability makes possible
To fulfil your potential
Somebody who works hard doing practical things to achieve social or political change
Activist
To be no longer seeing, talking to or living with a husband /wife or relative
To be estranged
To be the victim of a dishonest plan that is intended to trick somebody
To be set up by
(informal)
To stop accusing somebody of a crime
To drop charges
To have a guilty verdict changed so that it becomes the opposite of what it was before
To have a conviction overturned
To secretly join an organisation or enter a place in order to find out information about it or harm it
To infiltrate
To make sure nobody else finds out who somebody is
To protect somebody's identity
To give secret information to somebody about a foreign government, military or criminal plans.
To provide intelligence
To find a way in which two ideas, situations or facts can both be true or acceptable.
To reconcile (two things)
Working secretly in order to catch criminals or find out information.
Undercover
to hate someone or something:
To can't stand the sight of somebody/something
become fatter (or thinner).
put on (or lose) weight
you speak without trying to be polite or considering other people's feelings:
Blunty
an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person:
Rumour
illegal or disapproved of by society:
Illicit
to tell someone about something again:
To retell
to make something more beautiful by adding something to it:
To embellish ( the facts)
To have an incorrect image of something
To be under false impression
To testify in court and promise to telling the truth.
To testify under oath
to escape blame or punishment when you do something wrong, or to avoid harm or criticism for something you did:
To get away with ( something)
not known to many people:
Obscure
books that are no longer available to buy because new copies are no longer being produced:
Out of print
to try to make others believe that someone or something is something other than what the person or thing is:
To pass something off as something
To give or be given from one person to another or to move from one place to another
To go round
false, not real, or not legal:
Bogus
A situation in which someone is tricked into doing something or is made to seem guilty of something they did not do
To set up
To deceive or trick someone
To take in (Someone)
To finally be in a particular place or situation
To end up
a true but unpleasant fact about yourself that another person tells you:
Home truth
a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick:
A Hoax
to carry out a hoax
an illegal copy of a document, painting, etc. or the crime of making such illegal copies:
Forgery
To commit a forgery
you secretly have a sexual relationship with someone else that is not your couple
Cheating on someone
the process or practice of using another person's ideas or work and pretending that it is your own:
Plagiarism
To tell a lie that not cause harm
To tell a fib
To make someone believe something false so that the person will give you their money possessions.
To con people /out of money)
To tell lies in court when you have promised to tell the truth
To commit perjury
To gossip about another person's secrets or wrongdoings
To tell tales
to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is
To exaggerate
a false reason that you give to explain why you do something:
To make an excuse
the ability to say or do the right thing without making anyone unhappy or angry:
Tactful
to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage:
To deceive
morally wrong, or outside society's standards of acceptable, honest, and moral behaviour:
Immoral
behaving in a way that is dishonest or unfair in order to get what you want:
Unscrupulous
To change someone's point of view
To cause to turn over
To change a legal decision
If you vote with many people that are agree you defeat the other that are against you
To overturn
To give something to a person or legal authority
To turn something over to somebody/something
different from what is usual or from the way most people do things:
Unconventional
the areas that form the edge of a town or city:
Outskirts
a person who sells illegal drugs:
Drug dealer
an informal name for someone or something, especially a name that you are called by your friends or family, usually based on your real name or your character:
Nickname
used to describe someone who shows, especially by what they say, that they understand and care about someone else's suffering:
Agreeing with or supporting
Sympathetic
To move someone by force
To push forward
A small stick or rod
Police baton
to suddenly become involved in a situation or discussion:
To jump in
A situation with too much noise
Confusion
To find a way in which two situations or beliefs are opposed to each other can agree and exist together.
Reconcile
it is lucky:
It is a good thing
the time at the beginning of the day when light first appears.
Dawn
daybreak
Example: The boats set off at dawn. / I was up at the crack of dawn to get the plane.)
According to legend
Legend has it that...
(Example: Local legend has it that the island was the original Garden of Eden.)
thin in an attractive or graceful way
Slender
Example: She’s slender and stylish. / Beatrice’s tall, slender figure.
to force yourself to stop behaving in a nervous, frightened or uncontrolled way
Pull yourself together
Example: With an effort Mary pulled herself together. / Just pull yourself together — there’s no point crying about it.)
to defend someone who is being criticised, especially when nobody else will defend them.
Stick up for somebody
Example: With an effort Mary pulled herself together. / Just pull yourself together — there’s no point crying about it.)
a small piece of metal, plastic, cloth, etc with words or a picture on it, that is pinned or sewn to your clothing, often to show your support for a political organisation or belief, or your rank, or membership of a group, etc
Badge
(Example: Everyone at the conference wore a badge with their name on.)
a man who is employed to take the place of an actor when something dangerous has to be done in a film
Stunt man
said when it’s raining very heavily
It’s tipping it down Example: It was absolutely tipping it down.)
A member of senior management in any organisation. Field officer, a military officer usually of the rank of lieutenant commander, major, squadron leader or above.
a rank in the prison services of the United Kingdom and other countries.
Senior officer
The lastest problem in a series of problems that makes situations impossible to accept
The last straw/ the final straw
If a business or a large piece of equipment do that it stops operating:
To shut down something
finding it difficult to choose between two possibilities:
To be torn
not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it:
Reluctant
to suddenly start doing something
To break open or apart suddenly or to make something do this
To burst into
To be out of control
To be out of someone's hands
break up, come apart, or disintegrate.
To experience serious emotional problems that make you unable to think or act in usual way
To fall apart
To leave somewhere
To get out
a building or room where people perform their jobs, or these places generally:
Workplace
Something that you remember very clearly
To seem untruthful or insincere
To ring hollow in one's ears
It becomes knownn publicly after it has been kept secret
To come out
extremely sad:
Heartbroken
A change from supporting to opposing someone or something
To turn against someone
To be completely done with something
To burn a bridge
(especially in Christianity) an occasion when someone is saved from evil, suffering, etc.
The act of paying back a loan
Redemption
To ending the process of a business, system, industry etc
To close down
The bad things that happen in a particular event
The radioactive dust in the air after a nuclear explosion
Fallout
To discover the facts about something bad that has happened
Inquiry
A feeling of extreme worry, sadness or pain
Distress
The result or effect of an action or situation
Outcome
A person who is large and strong.
Well-built
planned in an effective way:
Well-thought-out
Mucho antes del amanecer
Well before dawn
A long way behind
Well behind us
Interesting and helpful
Well worth doing
Muy consciente
Well aware
Used many times before and known to be effective
Well tried
A person who is calm and reasonable and shows good judgement
Well-balanced
To behave correctly
Well-behaved
Carefully chosen
Well-chosen
Wearing attractive and stylish clothes
Well-dressed
Deserved for your achievements
Well-earned
Having a good education
Well-educated
Written in an effective or interesting way
Well-written
Having a lot of information about a particular subject
Well-informed
Having lot to eat
Well-fed
Known or recognised by many people
Well-known
???
Well-laid-out
Bien cuidado
Somebody especially children who are taken care by social services or somebody
Well-looked-after
Bien pagado
Well-paid
Made ready for use with care or effort
Well-prepared
Someone who has learned a lot of infomation on different subjects by reading
Well-read
A perfect husband
Potential husband
the quality of being honest and not containing or telling any lies:
truthfulness
To enter a place
To go in
in a way that is honest and does not contain or tell any lies:
Truthfully
To become fixed
Stick
a piece of electronic equipment used to try to discover if someone is telling lies
Polygraph
The meassuring of electrical conductivity of the skin and emotional responses
Electrodermal
relating to the production of medicines:
Pharmaceutical
using a system of radio signals rather than wires to connect computers, mobile phones, etc. to each other:
Wireless
informal for microphone
Mike
a very small device fixed on to a phone or hidden in a room, that allows you to listen to what people are saying without them knowing
Bug
??
Halfrings
To improve
To pick up
the action of keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage:
deceitfulness
the fact of being present but needing particular conditions to become active, obvious, or completely developed:
Latency
To become redder or darker
Blushing
To cause something to start
A part of a gun that causes something
Something that causes somebody gets anger or sad because it remember something bad in the past
To cause a strong emotional reaction or fear or shick anger etc
Trigger
To plan something in detail
To map something out
Detector de calor
Heat-sensing
threats used to force a person to do something:
Duress
To reduce the amont of applications for a position and focus only in the applicants that are qualified for that position
To screen job
To subject job
the way in which the sound of your voice changes during speech, for example when you emphasize particular words:
Inflection
attracting a lot of attention and interest from the public and newspapers, television, etc.:
Famous, prominent
High-profile
To tell people something secret often without intending to
To give something to somebody without asking a payment
To tell a secret or show your feelings unintentionally
To supply something at no charge
To give away
To get rid of something that is not useful or wanted often using its parts in a new way
To sell something for scrap
Relating to a house or flat and the people who live there
Household
Insurance that you buy to protect your home or things inside it
Home insurance
Having finished training course or having skills
Qualified
a worker trained with special skills, especially in science or engineering:
technician
Skilled
Accomplished
To use a keyboard without looking at the keys
Touch-type
the job of being an accountant:
Accountancy
General Certificate of Secondary Education: a system of public exams taken in various subjects from the age of about 16, or one of these exams, or a qualification from this system:
GCSE
To ask a dog to walk near to you
Heel
a type of paint
acrilico
Acrylic
a strong, light material made by twisting together small threads of glass and plastic, used especially for structures such as cars and boats, or one of these small threads
Fibre glass
Limar
To buff ( the nails)
Resina pegante
Resin
To teach new skills or prepare smeone to reach a new ability
To train someone up
Using for telling someone that they have had all of something and there will be no more
That's your lot
Having no firm ideas
Wishy-washy
To admire
To go for something
I don't think it is true
Expression
I don't buy
Expensive and luxurious
Opullent
Llav del baño
Tap
To make a continuous sound
To rumble
To discover an ilicity activity
Rumble
Victoria limpia
A clean sweep
A saying when you get caught doing something wrong and you agree that you were wrong
It's a fair cop
Extremely dissapponted and unhappy
Gutted
The early hours of the morning between 12 and 6 a.m
Wee small hours
To go somewhere quickly
Dash
Following, pursuing someone
On one's trail
A person who asks for something they believe belongs to them or have the right to
Claimant
A particular type of animal or plant
A type of a person or a thing
To keep animals for the purpose of producing young animals in a controlled way
Breed
To claim at an object or place and move directly to it
Focus attention to a problem
To home in on something
To put down or drop something in a careless way
to get rid of something unwanted, especially by leaving it in a place where it is not allowed to be:
to suddenly end a romantic relationship you have been having with someone:
a place where people are allowed to leave their rubbish:
To dump
Closed-circuit television
CCTV
An object has been designed so that it can be held and used easily with one or two hands:
Hand-held
To find out information illegaly
To hack into
To connect a machine to a power supply to another machine or to connect a person to a piece of medical equipment
To hook something/someone up
??
To stamp down on
??
To some extent
A watch kept over a person
Surveillance
great danger, or something that is very dangerous:
peril
by which way or method:
whereby
the basic and most important part of something:
Core
to make something certain to happen:
Ensure
knowing a lot about modern technology, especially computers:
Tech-savvy
If a light or a machine it stops working:
it explodes:
it is not good to eat or drink any more because it is too old:
To go off
a lie that is told in order to be polite or to stop someone from being upset by the truth
White lie
An iliness that is usually not serious and is caused by bacteria or a virus
Stomach bug
Illegal or disapproved of by society
Ilicit
A sexual relationship, especially a secret one.
Affair
in every part, or during the whole period of time:
throughout
to take care of someone and provide a place in your home for them:
to cause someone to believe something that is not true, or to trick or deceive someone:
To take somebody in
to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong:
To tell somebody off
intended to harm or upset other people:
malicious
the fact of officially being found to be guilty of a particular crime, or the act of officially finding someone guilty:
Conviction
a long piece of cloth with words written on it, sometimes stretched between two poles and carried by people taking part in a march:

an idea, principle, or belief that is strongly supported by someone:
Banner
to take legal action against a person or organization, especially by making a legal claim for money because of some harm that they have caused you:
Sue
Bien respetado
Well-respected
The fact of liking or enjoying something
A taste for something
used to refer to someone who has the same job or interests as you, or is in the same situation as you:
Fellow
Very drunk
Covered with a mixture of flour eggs and milk before being cooked
Hurt by being repeatedly beaten
Battered
emotionally hurt as a result of a bad experience:
having bruises:
Bruised
a factory where substances in their natural state, such as oil or sugar, are made pure:
Refinery
the area just inside the main entrance of a house, apartment, or other building that leads to other rooms and usually to the stairs:
Hall
To destroy one's path, connections, reputation, opportunities
To burn someone's bridges
to escape by running away, especially because of danger or fear:
Flee
A question
An official process to discover the facts about something bad that has happened
Enquiry
a line of words printed in large letters as the title of a story in a newspaper, or the main points of the news that are broadcast on television or radio:
Headline
Planned in an effective way
Well-though-out
To arrange something on a flat surface
To spend money especially in a large amount
To explain something clearly usually in writing
To lay something out
an occasion when someone interrupts someone else, or the interruptions themselves:
a word or phrase that is used as a short, sudden expression of emotion:
Interjection
To say something quickly and angrily
To spit something out
Used to tell somebody to start speaking or to speak more quickly, when they are unwilling to speak or are speaking slowly
To spit it out
To examine somebody or something to discover if there is anything wrong with her mind
Screen
An idea or theory on which a statement or action is based
Premise
the action of keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage:
Deceitfulness
able to be trusted
Trustworthy
Relating to the human body
Bodily
Escape running away or avoiding something
Flight
the act of expressing or feeling opposition to or dislike of something or someone:
Objection
an organization or a business that collects or provides information:
a piece of furniture with a lid that opens to form a writing surface
bureau
the Federal Bureau of Investigation: one of the national police forces in the US controlled by the Federal government
The FBI
the Central Intelligence Agency: a US government organization that secretly collects information about other countries
The CIA
seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed:
A plausible person appears to be honest and telling the truth, even if they are not:
Plausible
To make something continue at its present level and not aloww it to fail
To keep something up
the job or activity of keeping an exact record of the money that has been spent or received by a business or other organization
Book keeping
having the highest rank, level, or importance:
Supreme
not difficult to see through:
Thin
Taking seriously because of being powerful important or good
To be reckoned with
to be equal to someone else in ability or in a particular skill:
To be up there with somebody or something
An action movement or sound that gives information, a message or warning or an order
Signalling
to relax into a comfortable position:
to reach a decision or an agreement about something, or to end a disagreement:
Settle
expensive and luxurious:
Opulent
Other than or except for
Outside of
to arrest someone for a crime:
to receive or obtain something:
to take or hold:
Cop
not loud, bright, noticeable, or obvious in any way:
achieved in a quiet way that does not attract attention to itself and is therefore good or clever:
not loud, bright, noticeable, or obvious:
Subtle
pleasant or enjoyable:
Lovely
To take an exam
Sit an exam
involving, using, or relating to computers, especially the internet:
Cyber
dishonest and illegal:
Fraudulent
to not continue with a system or plan:
to get rid of something that is no longer useful or wanted, often using its parts in new ways:
to have a fight or an argument
Scrap
Used parts of cars that are selled
For a scrap
the crime of illegally entering a building and stealing things
Burglary
the crime of getting money by deceiving people:
Fraud
, it is real and exactly what it appears to be:
Genuine
in the middle of or surrounded by other things:
happening or being included as part of a group of people or things:
Amongst
making you feel that something illegal is happening or that something is wrong:
feeling doubt or no trust in someone or something:
Suspicious
To show that somebody is doing wrong
To trick somebody into making a mistake
To put somebody in a difficult situation
To catch somebody up
the activity of meeting people who might be useful to know, especially in your job:
Networking
the speed at which someone or something moves, or with which something happens or changes:
Pace
the possibility that something good might happen in the future:
Prospects
to find someone or something that was lost:
to find the origin of something:
to describe the way in which something has developed:
Trace
to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one:
to be known or discovered finally and surprisingly:
To turn out
To discover somebody is doing something wrong
To find somebody out
existing or happening in many places and/or among many people:
Widespread
a word or action in a play or film that is used as a signal by a performer to begin saying or doing something
a signal for someone to do something:
Cue
To take notice of somebodys' words or behaviour so that you know what you should do
To take your cue from somebody
to make something happen:
to make someone decide to say or do something:
Prompts
To make somebody decide to do something or say
Prompt somebody to do something
to not include someone or something:
To leave somebody out
Public relations men
PR Men
having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally:
Ambiguous
To weight
To tip the scales at
the punishment of being put in prison for a very long time without an arranged time for release or, in the US, until death
Life imprisonment
To know someone when you're not planning to
To bump into something
to destroy something, esp. a building:
to earn an amount of money:
To pull down something
an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, especially one made at the end of a trial:
verdict
a request to the public for money, information, or help:
a request made to a court of law or to someone in authority to change a previous decision:
to make a serious or formal request, especially to the public, for money, information, or help:
Appeal
According to the legend
Leyend has it that
The start of a period of time or the beginning something new
The dawn of something
To careful watching of a person or place especially by the police or army because of a crime that has happened or experienced
suivellance
to sleep at someone's house for one night:
To stay over
a path through a countryside, mountain, or forest area, often made or used for a particular purpose:
he smell or series of marks left by a person, animal, or thing as it moves along:
various pieces of information that together show where someone you are searching for has gone:
Trail
To appear suddenly
Flash up
To make a hole in something of a lack of something
To knock a hole in something
Something that is very dangerous
Perits
of people or things is a very large number or great variety of them.
Myriad
the last in a series of unpleasant events that finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation:
The fast straw/ the final straw
Relating to the skin
Dermal
to test or examine someone or something to discover if there is anything wrong with him, her, or it:
Screen
to avoid something
Shun
someone who is old-fashioned and too serious and avoids enjoyable activities:
A person who resists changes
To be stick-in-the-mud
To care for something or someone
To Tend
Una pocilga
Pigsty
in sports such as football and baseball, a substitute who rarely plays
Benchwarmer
to hate someone or something:
Loathe
to try to do something:
a hard attempt to achieve something
Endeavour
The toilet (informal)
Bog
Hedor o fetidez
Stench
a type of poison made from a plant with small white flowers and divided leaves,
Cicuta
Hemlock
to feel a strong dislike for someone or something because you think that that person or thing is bad or has no value:
Desprecio
Despise
to balance one influence against an opposing influence, so that there is no great difference as a result:
Offset
a set of rules or suggestions that are considered to be suitable for a particular activity, industry, or job:
Libro de jugadas
Playbook
to open the mouth wide and take a lot of air into the lungs and slowly send it out, usually when tired or bored:
Bostezar
Yawn
to hope very much that something or someone will help you to achieve what you want
To pin your hopes on sth/sb
Informal way to referring a girl
Gal
extremely hungry:
Famished
is easily changed into a new shape:
Maleable||
Malleable
If a theory or argument is in that way, it cannot be supported or defended against criticism.
Untenable
Insostenible
A person or thing that occupies the position or place of another person or thing
Placeholder
to make unpleasant feelings less strong:
Calmar ( algun dolor)
Assuage
to leave secretly:
Slip away
Escabullirse o escurrirse
|not thinking or worrying about any pain caused to others; cruel:
Ruthless
Despiadado
a small, usually black or brown creature with a long, soft body and no arms or legs, like a snail but with no shell
Slug
a short interruption in a war or argument, or an agreement to stop fighting or arguing for a period of time:
Truce
Tregua
To increase and become more obvious
To bubble up
an owner of a particular building or piece of land
Freeholder
used to describe something that sticks onto someone or something tightly:
Clingy
Pegajoso
without injuries or damage being caused:
Unscathed
Ileso
to behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance, or power and earns you respect from others:
Assert
Afirmar o hacer valer
unwilling or unable to stay still or to be quiet and calm, because you are worried or bored:
Restless
to cause difficulty to someone, or to cause someone to feel angry, annoyed, or upset:
Vex
Fastidiar
Buñuelos de New Orleands
Beignet
On the top of
Atop
skill at making things:
Craftsmanship
a tool with a long handle and two or three large points used for moving hay (= cut dried grass) or straw (= cut dried stems of crops)
Pitchfork
El verbo es clavar o catapultar algo
to delay taking action or avoid giving an answer in order to have more time to make a decision or get an advantage:
To delay or put off action
To stall
offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it.
Less carrot more stick
to lose strength or purpose and stop, or almost stop:
Falter
Desfallecer
(of something bad, such as damage, cruelty, waste) extreme and showing no care at all:
Wanton
to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc. :
Feign
to repeat something you have heard, or to broadcast a signal, message, or programme on television or radio:
Relay
Retransmitir
A toilet brush is a tool for cleaning a toilet bow
Toilet scrubber
an amount of money that you risk in the hope of winning more, by trying to guess something uncertain, or the agreement that you make to take this risk:
Wager
Apuesta
to spoil something that is pure or someone's perfect reputation:
Sully
Manchar
To get into a vehicle
To hop in
a valuable object that has been given by older members of a family to younger members of the same family over many years:
Heirloom
Reliquia familiar
a small card for recording the score while watching or taking part in a game, race, or competition
Scorecard
to be friendly towards someone:
Befriend
to make someone feel angry, upset, embarrassed, etc
To struck a nerve
someone who does unpleasant or illegal things for a powerful person:
Henchman
Secuaz
to make someone weaker or take away strength or an important quality from someone, especially over a long period of time:
Sap
someone whose job is to speak on radio or television programmes:
A news anchor
A news presenter
A news broadcaster
someone who is sent as a representative from one government or organization to another:
envoy
Enviado
a strip of cloth that covers someone's eyes and stops them from seeing
Blindfold
Venda ojos
to walk slowly with a lot of effort, especially over a difficult surface or while carrying something heavy:
Trudge
to remove the stomach and bowels from a dead animal, or to kill a person in this way, especially in the past as a punishment
Disembowelment
to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:
Gloat
Relamerse
When you arrest someone you put them
Manacle
Esposas
it becomes less strong or extreme:
Subside
considered to be holy and deserving respect, especially because of a connection with a god:
Sacred
If a piece of knitted or woven cloth, a knot, or a mass of thread unravels, it separates into a single thread, and if you unravel it, you separate it into a single thread:
Unravel
Desenredar
Paleta de hiello
Popsicle
A person who is unpleseant
Bad penny
the most important male servant in a house, usually responsible for organizing the other servants
Butler
Mayordomo
an animal or plant that is a mixture of breeds and is therefore a new variety (= type of plant or animal)
Cross-breed
Hibrido
Mestizo perro
the smallest and weakest animal of a group born at the same time to the same mother
Runt
redrojo
having a lot of trouble with something, or having to deal with a lot of something that causes problems:
Beset
Acosar / Asaltar
again or one more time, especially in a different way:
Anew
an established standard or principle by which something is judged:
Touchstone
to prevent someone from seeing or understanding something.
Blind somebody to something
a large pile of wood on which a dead body is burned in some parts of the world:
Pyre
Pira
having a small distance between two opposite sides:
Thin
If a cut or other injury festers, it becomes infected and produces pus:
Fester
Enconarse
to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success:
Gamble
a climbing plant with flowers that smell sweet
Honeysuckle
to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:
Languish
Languidecer
a long, narrow space between rows of seats in an aircraft, cinema, or church:
Aisle
A way to ask god to come by a place
Come by here
Kumbaya
a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc.
Janitor
Batido
Milshake
either of the two occasions in the year when the sun is directly above either the furthest point north or the furthest point south of the equator that it ever reaches. These are the times in the year, in the middle of the summer or winter, when there are the longest hours of day or night:
Solstice
To calm down or become less ardent
To cool off
weak and without energy, strength, or power:
Feeble
any of the large, sloping pieces of wood that support a roof
Rafter
a dark grey rock that can be easily divided into thin pieces, or a small, thin piece of this used to cover a roof
Slate
to throw something with a lot of force, usually in an angry or violent way:
Hurl
a useful or valuable quality, skill, or perso
Asset
covered in scabs or scab:
Scabby
to push a finger or other pointed object quickly into someone or something:
Poke
to grow, develop, or be successful:
Thrive
to throw several objects up into the air, and then catch and throw them up repeatedly so that one or more stays in the air, usually in order to entertain people:
Juggle
a person whose behaviour is unusual and strange
Oddball
To establish an expected, required, or desired (but ultimately constrictive) standard of quality.
Lowbar
to increase because of something, or to use something to succeed or get advantages:
feed off/on something
to get pregnant. (phrasal verb)
to get knocked up
having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel:
ambivalent
fail to keep an appointment with someone.
ignore or dismiss someone or something.
to blow off someone
quickly finish or consume something.
to polish off