Vocabulario en inglés: palabras clave y significados para estudiantes

Vocabulario en inglés con definiciones

A continuación encontrarás una lista de palabras en inglés con su significado. Este material resulta útil para ampliar tu vocabulario en inglés y mejorar tu comprensión lectora.

Palabras de la A a la S

• attic: a room at the top of a house, under the roof (desván, buhardilla)
• camp: a place for people to live for a short time (campamento)
• cart: a kind of open 'car' on wheels, usually pulled by horses (carreta, carro)
• cellar: a room under the ground in a house (sótano)
• cough: to send out air from the mouth and throat in a noisy way (toser)
• Council: a group of people who are chosen to work together and to decide things for other people (consejo)
• court-room: a place where judges, lawyers, etc. listen to law cases (sala de tribunal)
• elastic: a kind of 'string' that gets longer when you pull it (elástico)
• faint: to fall down suddenly because you are weak or ill (desmayarse)
• grow up: to become an adult; to change from a child to a man or woman (crecer, hacerse adulto)
• look after: to take care of someone or something (cuidar de)
• nail: a small piece of metal with a sharp end, used to fix things together (clavo)
• Nazis: members of the German National Socialist Party, who controlled Germany under their leader, Hitler (nazis)
• rapids: part of a river where the water moves very fast (rápidos)
• refugee: someone who is running away from war or danger and trying to find a new, safe home (refugiado)
• ruin: a building which is almost destroyed and is falling down (ruina)
• ruined: almost destroyed (arruinado)
• silly: not sensible; stupid (tonto, absurdo)
• zone: (in this story) a part of a country which is controlled by soldiers from another country (zona)

Palabras de la A a la W

• account (n): when you keep your money in a bank, you have a bank account (cuenta)
• appearance: what someone or something looks like (apariencia, aspecto)
• axe: a heavy stick with a sharp piece of metal on the end; used for cutting down trees (hacha)
• burial: burying; putting a dead body in a grave in the ground (entierro)
• cage: a box or a place with bars; for keeping wild animals (jaula)
• chemical (n): liquid or solid things used in or made by chemistry (sustancia química)
• client: someone who pays another person (e.g. a lawyer, a builder) to do a job for him (cliente)
• confession: saying that you have done something wrong (confesión)
• courtyard: an unroofed open space surrounded by walls or buildings (patio)
• dose (n): how much medicine you take at one time (dosis)
• drug (n): a chemical mixture that can make sick people well (a medicine), or that can harm people's minds and bodies (fármaco, droga)
• evil: very bad; harmful (malvado, maligno)
• experiment (n): a scientific test in order to find out what happens and to learn something new (experimento)
• forgive: to stop being angry with someone about something (perdonar)
• God: the person who made the world and controls all things (Dios)
• Good God!: an expression of surprise or fear (¡Dios mío!)
• laboratory: a room where scientists work and do experiments (laboratorio)
• liquid: anything that flows and is not a gas; oil and water are liquids (líquido)
• locksmith: a person who makes and mends locks (cerrajero)
• mask: a cover worn over the face to hide it (máscara)
• master: an old-fashioned word for a male employer (amo, patrón)
• memory: something that you remember (recuerdo, memoria)
• mind (n): the part of the head that thinks, feels and remembers (mente)
• mix (v): to put different things together (mezclar)
• mixture: the result when different things are mixed together (mezcla)
• pale: with little colour in the face (pálido)
• passion: a strong feeling of hate, love, or anger (pasión)
• poison (n): something that can kill you if it is eaten or drunk (veneno)
• pure: completely clean, not mixed with anything else (puro)
• reputation: what people think or say about someone else (reputación)
• respectable: thought to be good, correct, etc., by other people (respetable)
• science: the study of natural things, e.g. biology, chemistry (ciencia)
• scientific: of or belonging to science (científico)
• scientist: a person who studies science, or works with science (científico, científica)
• servant: someone who is paid to work in another person's house (sirviente, criado)
• shameful: very bad or wrong; causing unhappy, painful feelings (vergonzoso)
• shock (n): a sudden and very unpleasant surprise (shock, conmoción)
• thought (n): something that you think (pensamiento)
• upset (adj): unhappy or worried about something (disgustado, preocupado)
• weak: not strong (débil)
• weep: to cry (llorar)
• will (n): someone's written wishes that say who will inherit their money after they die (testamento)