Spanish B2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 4 flashcards
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The most frequent Spanish words beyond B1, split into frequency-order parts. Part 4: people and roles, society and news, work and study, nature, everyday things, description, judgment, key verbs and adverbs, each with an original example sentence.
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el / la adolescente (n.)teenager, adolescentPeople & roles
Muchos adolescentes pasan más de cinco horas al día frente a una pantalla. — Many teenagers spend more than five hours a day in front of a screen.
Watch out: La adolescencia = adolescence; adolecer de = to suffer from (a flaw), not related in meaning. -
el campeón (n.)championPeople & roles
El equipo local se proclamó campeón tras ganar la final por penales. — The local team was crowned champion after winning the final on penalties.
Watch out: A woman is la campeona; el campeonato = the championship. -
la identidad (n.)identitySociety & news
Los ladrones usaron una identidad falsa para abrir varias cuentas bancarias. — The thieves used a false identity to open several bank accounts.
Watch out: The ID card is la cédula or el documento de identidad (el DNI in Spain, Argentina and Peru). -
la sección (n.)section, departmentWork & study
Lee la sección de economía si quieres entender la inflación. — Read the business section if you want to understand inflation.
Watch out: Spelled with -cc-, like la lección and la colección. -
la hierba (n.)grass; herbNature & the world
La hierba del parque estaba mojada después de la tormenta. — The grass in the park was wet after the storm.
Watch out: La mala hierba = a weed; yerba is a valid variant spelling, usual in la yerba mate. -
la ducha (n.)showerEveryday things
En el camping, la ducha de agua caliente solo funcionaba por las mañanas. — At the campsite, the hot-water shower only worked in the mornings.
Watch out: Darse una ducha or ducharse; Mexico also says la regadera. -
amarillo (adj.)yellowDescription
Los taxis amarillos esperaban en fila frente a la estación de tren. — The yellow taxis were waiting in line outside the train station.
Watch out: La prensa amarilla = the sensationalist press, the tabloids. -
sagrado (adj.)sacred, holyJudgement & tone
Para esa comunidad, la montaña es un lugar sagrado desde hace siglos. — For that community, the mountain has been a sacred place for centuries.
Watch out: Santo goes with saints and many fixed names (Semana Santa); sagrado stresses being set apart: un deber sagrado. -
apretar (v.)to squeeze, tighten; to press (yo aprieto, tú aprietas)Key verbs
Estos zapatos nuevos me aprietan tanto que no puedo caminar. — These new shoes are squeezing my feet so hard that walking is impossible.
Watch out: Apretar un botón = to press a button; apretado = tight, (a schedule) packed. -
básicamente (adv.)basicallyAdverbs
Básicamente, lo que pide el sindicato es un salario justo y más vacaciones. — Basically, what the union is asking for is a fair wage and more vacation.
Watch out: Common in speech; in formal writing fundamentalmente or en esencia reads better.
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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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