Crazy uncommon Spanish words
Bribon "¡Ah, era un ladrón, un viejo bribón!
"Ah, he was a thief, an old rogue!
escrúpulo El escrúpulo es un freno para una vida licenciosa.
Being scruple is a break from a salacious life scruple
Sepelio
Burial
Surco
Fruncir
aludido Desmenuzaba el poema tratando de adivinar a quién o a qué aludía el poeta.
He took the poem apart trying to figure out whom the poet was alluding to. allude
me cuesta + inf
I find it difficult
defenestrado En 2004 parecía defenestrado por sus rivales que temieron el enorme poder que estaba amasando en el Partido
In 2004 he seemed to be ousted by his rival whom feared the enormous power he was amassing in the party
GALIMATÍAS. Parecería una mezcla de conjuros mágicos, minimalismo y confuso GALIMATÍAS.
It would seem to be a mixture of magic words, minimalism and mumbo-jumbo
enmarañado. el Kafa es un enmarañado bosque denso, con matorrales de bambú pantanos
Kafa is a dense tangle of forest, bamboo thickets and wetlands
Ardilla
Squirrell
La desdicha lo carcomía
The misery gnawed at him
La verdad lisa y llana es que
The plain truth of the matter is
Me Inculcaron
They taught me
Hacienda
Treasury Department
navaja. Tememos a la navaja que corta demasiado cerca de la piel.
We fear the razor which cuts too close to the skin.
vigente
active / in force
Coartada
alibi
apelación
appeal
hemerotecas
archive newspaper
ámbitos
areas=entorno
atentar
attack
acometida
attack/ onslaught
Galardón, premio
award
Pésimo/a
awful
antecedente
background
Basado/a
based
estacazos
beat/bat
Colmena
beehive
internado
boarding house
Calderas
boiler
la hoguera, la fogata
bonfire
Auge
boom, climax
colindante
bordering, adjoining
pincelada
brush stroke / note
Sepelio
burial
detenimiento
carefully
caricia
caress
Ganado
cattle
citar
cite
corrilo
clique coterie
clausurar
close
Afín
close by, adjacent
Apelmazado/a
compact, compressed
Desenlace
conclusion
menjurje
concoction
Desacato
contempt of court
cobre
copper
algodón
cotton
Toque de queda
curfew
desprestigiar
discredit
Zanja
ditch
Sumidero
drain
Saneamiento
drainage
amainar
ease
Culto/a
educated
peculado
embezzlement
Emérito/a
emeritus
embuestro
engañador
esclavizar
enslave
ensalzado
exalted
vencimiento
expiration
prorrogar
extend
puso en sintonía
fall in line
Paisano
fellow country
Paisano
fellow country man
quien es nuestro prójimo
fellow man
Abono, fertilizante
fertilizer
leña
firewood
parvada
flock
estulticia
foolishness
sandeces
foolishness
Aftosa
foot and mouth disease
amedrentar
frieghten
fruncir el ceño
frown
pleno
full
Huerta
garden
vislumbrar
glimpse
Atolondrado
goofy
Egresado/a
graduate
Esquema día
gran, outline
Latrocino culpables de haber cometido fraude y Latrocino
guilty of having committed fraud and larceny
caraotas
habichuelas--> beans
Calefacción
heater
desamparo
helplessness, forloness
Azada
hoe
Hoyo, agujero
hole
Pezuña
hoof
birlar
hurtar
analfabetismo
illiteracy
Analfabeto
illiterate
estoy indispuesto
im unwell
inverosímiles
implausible
investidura
inauguration, investiture
Voluble
inconstant, fickle
Encarnizado/a
inflamed
delator
informer
injuria
insult
pasantía
internship
Pesquisa
investigation
Riego
irrigation
Atascado/a
jammed
selvática
jungle
Trastero
junk room
falta de sintonia
lack of understanding
lacia
lank
Vago/a
lazy
Ocio
leisure
Palanca
lever
accionista mayoritario
majority shareholder
confección
making of
Ciénaga
marsh
barrabasada
mischief
tergiversaron
misrepresented
Talante
mood
ayuntamientos
municipalities
autóctona
native
Materia prima
natural resources
endeudados hasta las cejas
neck deep in debt
menester
need
Dañino/a
noxious
hocicar
nuzzle
brindar
offers
Refinería
oil refinery
otrora
once
estrombotico
outlandish
Indulto, perdón
pardon, reprieve, indult
rendir
pay
(se puso a) cavilar
pensive
Alijo
pile, haul
Socavón
pit
verosimiles
plausible
Ameno /a
pleasant
Encuesta, sondeo
poll
Charco de sangre
pool of blood
afiche
poster
prensa
press
cátedra
professorship
Finca
property
Fiscal
prosecutor
Abriga
protect
Charco
puddle
Calcinado/a
quemado
degana
reacio
Reacio/a
reluctant
alejados
remote, distante
Radicados
reside
Alborotado/a
restless, turbulent
Motín
riot
Fuerza de choque
riot control police
Sagaz
sagacious
raspar
scratchy
Abnegado
self-denying
Alcantarillado
sewer system
conmocionar
shake up
amparado
sheltered
negocio naviero
shipping business
Fusilar
shooting death
Escasez
shortage
carestía
shortage
talla
size
Calumnia
slander
Lema
slogan
ramplón
sloppy, average
hocico
snout
Aperos
soil preparing machines
soberanía
sovereignty
Espuela
spur
Arma blanca
stabbing weapon
inanición
starvation
Emisora radio
station
vástagos
stems
polizón
stowaway
Rezagado/a
straggler
Terco/a
stubborn
asignatura
subject
Yunta
team of two animals
los integrantes
the members
no es menester que sea demasiado PASOTA
there is not need to be so light-hearted
Me Inculcaron
they taught me
amarrar
tie
Incidir
to affect, to influence
Crispar
to annoy
Tasar
to appraise
Dar a basto
to be capable
Prevaricar
to change sides, to fail in
Embestir
to charge, to assault
atravesar
to cross
Embaucar
to deceive
Descartar
to discard
Trasvasar
to divert
Esclarecer
to elucidate, to throw light on
ingresar
to enlist, sign up
Encomendar
to entrust
Amargar
to exasperate
reprobar
to fail (a class)
Ostentar
to have, to hold
Implementar
to implement, to establish
apesadumbrar
to make sad
Ordeñar
to milk
Malversar
to misapply
Mellar
to nick, to chip
Elogiar
to praise
matricular(se)
to register, to enroll
Amonestar
to reprimand
poner de manifiesto
to reveal
Hurgar
to rummage around
Empalmar
to scarf, to dovetail
Ampararse, acogerse
to seek shelter
Incautar
to seize, to confiscate
Dar de alta
to sign up/ healthy
Dar de baja
to terminate services
Remolcar
to tow, to tug
Verídico/a
truthful
paro
unemployment/strike
altibajos
ups and downs
Apremio
urgency
Vanguardia
vangard
Damnificados
victims
Aldea
village
Despilfarro
waste
Ondas
waves
Pozo
well
trigo
wheat
Carretilla
wheelbarrow
marrullerías cuando juega a las cartas hace muchas marrullerías.
when he plays cards he does a lot of sweet talking. - chicanry sophistry
enjalbegar
whitening with paint
taller
workshop
redactar
write; escribir/componer
