Vocabulario Esencial en Inglés: Glosario de Palabras Avanzadas con Definiciones y Ejemplos

Vocabulario Avanzado en Inglés: Glosario de Palabras Esenciales

Este glosario reúne palabras avanzadas del idioma inglés con sus definiciones. Estudiarlas te ayudará a enriquecer tu vocabulario, mejorar tu comprensión lectora y expresarte con mayor precisión.

Palabras A–C

• Abrogate: (v) Revoke formally.
• Amenable: (adj) Willing to comply; agreeable.
• Angina: (n) Chest pain characterized by choking or suffocating.
• Apollonian: (adj) Relating to the Greek god Apollo, son of Zeus and god of sun, music, and poetry; often used to represent wholeness, lightness, and civilization.
• Apotheosis: (n) The ideal, model of excellence, or one having no equal.
• Badinage: (n) Frivolous banter.
• Calliope: (n) A children's anthology; the Greek goddess of epic poetry; a muse of poetry; an organ with many whistles used to attract people to the circus.
• Chiliasm/tic: (adj) The doctrine of Christ's expected return in the millennium and the peace and happiness that is said to accompany that time / Relating to the doctrine in which...

Palabras D–F

• Detrainment: (n) To remove from a current and disperse into the atmosphere.
• Dionysian: (adj) Relating to the Greek god Dionysius, son of Zeus and god of wine, madness, and ecstasy; often used to represent individualism, darkness, and primal nature.
• Dyspeptic/sia: (adj/n) Having an upset stomach.
• Entrainment: (n) To pull after, draw along, or incorporate into itself.
• Fief/dom: (n) A landed estate under feudalism given by a lord to a vassal in return for the vassal's service to the lord.
• Flâneur: (n) An idler, loafer, or lazy person.
• Fungible: (adj) Relating to assets that are interchangeable; something of equal value that can be exchanged to satisfy a debt.

Palabras H–M

• Hermeneutics: (n) Theory of interpretation, especially of the Bible.
• Homunculi: (n) A tiny, fully-formed human said to exist in the sperm cell or fetus; a diminutive person.
• Inchoate: (adj) Incipient; not fully formed.
• Incubus: (n) A male demon believed to lie on sleeping women and to have sexual intercourse with them.
• Interdiction: (n) Authoritative prohibition.
• Lambent: (adj) Softly radiant or aglow.
• Morass: (n) Bog or mire; a soft wet area that sinks underfoot.
• Moxie: (n) Verve, pep, or vigor.
• Munificent: (adj) Generous.

Palabras N–P

• Nomenclature: (n) The terms comprising a set or system.
• Parturient: (adj) Of or relating to childbirth.
• Paucity: (n) Dearth or scarcity.
• Peripatetic: (adj) Walking or traveling about.
• Phalanx: (n) Any of the bones of the fingers or toes.
• Picayune: (adj) Small or trifling.
• Pillory/ied: (n/v) A wooden device with holes for the head and hands, used to expose a miscreant to public derision / Exposed to ridicule as a punishment.
• Plebiscite/ary: (n/adj) A vote of self-determination in which a population is invited to accept or reject a proposal / Having the character of a vote where...
• Plenum: (n) A meeting of an assembly at which all members are present; a space filled with matter.
• Polemic: (n) A text written to: a) stir up controversy, b) be didactic (trying to teach us something), c) refute something that is widely considered to be beyond dispute.
• Politburo: (n) The chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party during the Cold War.
• Priapic: (adj) Macho; overly concerned with masculinity and male sexuality.
• Privet: (n) Evergreen plant with white flowers often used as a hedge.
• Prodigal: (adj) Extravagant or recklessly wasteful; profligate.

Palabras Q–S

• Quantum: (n/adj) An amount (large or small); in physics, the smallest realizable unit of something / Sudden and significant, sizeable.
• Ratiocination: (n) To reason logically and methodically.
• Recondite: (adj) Abstruse, difficult to understand; incomprehensible to one of ordinary knowledge.
• Ressentiment: (n) a. An oppressive awareness of the futility of trying to improve one's status in life or in society. b. Resentment.
• Riposte: (n) A comeback or return stab.
• Sartorial: (adj) Pertaining to a tailor or tailored clothes.
• Sophism/ist: (n) A false argument that sounds true / One who makes...
• Southerly: (adj) With wind, coming from the south; with anything else, going toward the south.
• Syllogism: (n) Logic: a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. For example: All humans are mortal (major premise), I am a human (minor premise), therefore, I am mortal (conclusion); reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction.

Palabras U–Y

• Urbane: (adj) Showing a high degree of refinement or sophistication.
• Vassal: (n) A person in an inferior position or a position of obligation to another.
• Yeoman: (n/adj) A farmer; an attendant, servant, or lesser official in a petty household / Working class; dependable and loyal.