Spanish B2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 3 flashcards
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The most frequent Spanish words beyond B1, split into frequency-order parts. Part 3: abstract nouns, people, law and politics, health, media, everyday life, nature, qualities and key verbs, each with an original example sentence.
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la presencia (n.)presence; appearance (of a person)Abstract nouns
La presencia de periodistas extranjeros incomodó a las autoridades locales. — The presence of foreign journalists made the local authorities uneasy.
Watch out: en presencia de = in the presence of; buena presencia = a smart appearance, as job ads ask for. -
la importancia (n.)importanceAbstract nouns
Los expertos subrayan la importancia de dormir bien antes de un examen. — Experts stress the importance of sleeping well before an exam.
Watch out: darle importancia a algo = to attach importance to something; No tiene importancia = It does not matter. -
el camarero (n.)waiter, waitress (la camarera)People
La camarera nos guardó la mesa de la ventana aunque llegamos tarde. — The waitress held the window table for us even though we arrived late.
Watch out: Mostly a Spain word: Mexico says el mesero, Argentina el mozo. -
el delito (n.)crime, offenseLaw & politics
El fraude fiscal es un delito que puede castigarse con prisión. — Tax fraud is a crime that can be punished with prison.
Watch out: el delito is the legal term for any offense; el crimen usually means a serious violent crime, especially murder. -
el tratamiento (n.)treatmentHealth & sport
El nuevo tratamiento reduce los síntomas en la mayoría de los pacientes. — The new treatment reduces the symptoms in most patients.
Watch out: el tratamiento de datos = data processing; the verb tratar = to treat. -
la comunicación (n.)communicationMedia & communication
Los radioaficionados mantuvieron la comunicación con la isla durante el apagón. — Ham radio operators maintained communication with the island during the blackout.
Watch out: los medios de comunicación = the media. -
el cable (n.)cable, wire; (power) leadEveryday life
Alguien desconectó el cable y nos quedamos sin internet toda la tarde. — Someone unplugged the cable and we were left without internet all afternoon.
Watch out: echar un cable = to lend a hand (Spain, informal). -
la parada (n.)stop (bus, train)Places & nature
Cambiaron la parada del 14 a la esquina de la panadería. — They moved the number 14 stop to the corner by the bakery.
Watch out: From parar (to stop); sin parar = nonstop. -
magnífico (adj.)magnificent, superbQualities & attitudes
El tenor estuvo magnífico en el segundo acto, aunque nunca había cantado en Viena. — The tenor was magnificent in the second act, although he had never sung in Vienna before.
Watch out: Stressed on the third-to-last syllable, hence the accent: mag-ní-fi-co. -
confesar (v.)to confess, to admit (yo confieso, tú confiesas)Key verbs
Al final, el acusado confesó que había mentido sobre su coartada. — In the end, the defendant admitted he had lied about his alibi.
Watch out: confesarse = to go to confession; la confesión = confession.
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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 Real Academia Española/ASALE Diccionario panhispánico de dudas (rae.es/dpd), the ASALE Diccionario de americanismos and the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries (reference only; no text copied).
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