Essential English Vocabulary for Everyday Life

Common Words and Phrases

Affordable: (asequible)

Amount: (cantidad)

Bargain: (ganga)

Be in debt: (en deuda)

Besides: (además de)

Blind: (ciego)

Break up: (romper la pareja)

Bring up: (educar)

Carry on: (continuar)

Carry out: (llevar a cabo)

Cashpoint: (cajero)

Challenging: (very difficult)

Chief: (jefe)

Claim: (reclamar, demandar)

Coach: (autocar, entrenador)

Concerned: (preocupado)

Current: (la actual)

Deaf: (sordo)

Do without: (estar/pasar sin algo)

Due to: (because of)

Educate: (educar en un colegio)

Elderly: (anciano)

Embrace: (abrazar)

Encourage: (animar)

Etch: (grabar)

Fact: (hecho)

Find out: (discover)

Flourish: (florecer)

Former: (previous)

Free will: (libre albedrío)

Full-time carer: (cuidadora a jornada completa)

Fund: (give money)

Get by: (salir adelante)

Give up: (abandonar la actividad)

Grown-up children: (adolescente)

Guidelines: (directrices)

Hands-on experience: (experiencia práctica)

Hit the brake: (frenar)

Hold: (celebrate)

In time: (a tiempo)

Indeed: (verdaderamente, realmente)

Injury: (herido)

Intake: (ingesta)

Invest: (invertir)

Investment: (inversión)

It amounts to...: (asciende a)

Known as: (conocido como)

Leadership: (liderazgo)

Life expectancy: (esperanza de vida)

Likelihood: (probabilidad)

Likely: (probable)

Look after: (cuidar)

Matinee: (matinal)

Mend: (arreglar)

Mother-in-law: (suegra)

Newly: (recién)

On average: (la media)

On the outskirts of...: (a las afueras)

On time: (puntual)

Outfit: (conjunto de ropa)

Pandemic: (pandemia)

Queue: (cola)

Random: (aleatorio)

Reach: (llegar, alcanzar)

Relatives: (familiares)

Reputed: (presunto)

Run out: (escaso de, no tener)

Shift: (cambio, turno)

Signed performance: (actuación con signos)

Single parent: (padre/madre soltero)

Split up: (separarse)

Standing tickets: (de pie)

Strengthen: (fortalecer)

Stuff: (cosas)

Subtle: (sutil)

Take as long: (tardar)

Take in: (engañar)

Tearfully: (emocionado)

Thrice: (3 times)

Throughout: (all over)

Tiny: (very small)

Tip: (propina o consejo)

To be in a rush: (tener prisa)

To be likely to: (ser probable)

To book: (reservar)

To get rid of: (deshacerse de algo)

Toll: (peaje)

Traffic jam: (atasco)

Trend: (tendencia)

Trial: (prueba, intento)

Tune in: (sintonizar)

Uncork: (abrir el champagne)

Unruly children: (hijas indomables)

Wheelchair: (silla de ruedas)

Wire: (cable)

Yet: (sin embargo)