Spanish B2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 2 flashcards
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The most frequent Spanish words beyond B1, split into frequency-order parts. Part 2: politics and society, money, body and mind, feelings, home and culture, travel, key verbs and description, each with an original example sentence.
Learn deck · part of Spanish A1–B2 · written against: CEFR levels A1–B2; neutral Latin-American Spanish with Spain variants noted. Updated 2026-10-10.
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votar (v.)to votePolitics & society
En mi país los jóvenes pueden votar desde los dieciséis años. — In my country, young people can vote from the age of sixteen.
Watch out: You vote por a candidate (Spain and the River Plate also say votar a); el voto = the vote. -
la nación (n.)nationPolitics & society
La nación entera siguió el rescate de los mineros por televisión. — The whole nation followed the miners' rescue on television.
Watch out: The plural drops the accent: naciones; las Naciones Unidas = the United Nations. -
el centavo (n.)centMoney & business
Mi hijo guarda en un frasco de vidrio todos los centavos que encuentra. — My son keeps every cent he finds in a glass jar.
Watch out: Spain says el céntimo; no tener ni un centavo = to be broke. -
la moneda (n.)coin; currencyMoney & business
El peso perdió valor frente a otras monedas durante la crisis. — The peso lost value against other currencies during the crisis.
Watch out: A coin is una moneda, a note un billete; la moneda extranjera = foreign currency. -
el hombro (n.)shoulderBody & mind
Se lastimó el hombro levantando cajas durante la mudanza. — They hurt their shoulder lifting boxes during the move.
Watch out: encogerse de hombros = to shrug; hombro con hombro = side by side. -
la risa (n.)laughter, laughFeelings & reactions
Su risa contagiosa hizo que todo el salón empezara a reír. — Their infectious laugh got the whole room laughing.
Watch out: morirse de risa = to die laughing; me da risa = it makes me laugh. -
la taza (n.)cup, mugHome & culture
Mi hermano dejó una taza sucia junto al fregadero toda la semana. — My brother left a dirty mug by the sink all week.
Watch out: A cup is for hot drinks; el vaso = glass, la copa = wine glass. -
el vehículo (n.)vehicleTravel & transport
Los vehículos eléctricos todavía son caros para la mayoría de las familias. — Electric vehicles are still expensive for most families.
Watch out: The stress falls on -hí-, so it carries a written accent. -
vencer (v.)to defeat, to beat; to overcome; to expire (yo venzo)Key verbs
Después de años de terapia, logró vencer su miedo a volar. — After years of therapy, they managed to overcome their fear of flying.
Watch out: Of a document or deadline it means to expire: mi pasaporte vence en mayo. -
recién (adv.)just, recently; newlyDescription
El hospital recién inaugurado ya atiende a cientos de pacientes. — The newly opened hospital already treats hundreds of patients.
Watch out: In Latin America it also goes before a conjugated verb: recién llegué (Spain: acabo de llegar).
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- Word selection follows a frequency list of Spanish content words (OpenSubtitles 2018 via hermitdave/FrequencyWords: word lists CC BY-SA 4.0, code MIT; lemmas by simplemma), banded to B2 by rank and checked against the Instituto Cervantes Plan Curricular (PCIC) B2 inventories as a reference; meanings and gender checked against the Real Academia Española, Diccionario de la lengua española (dle.rae.es). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
- Meanings, forms and regional labels were also checked against the RAE and ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd) and Diccionario de americanismos (asale.org/damer), the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries, Castellano Actual (Universidad de Piura), and, for migrant terminology, UN General Assembly resolution 3449 (1975) and the European Parliament resolution of 14 January 2009 (reference only; no text copied).
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