Spanish B2 — Core Vocabulary, Part 5 flashcards
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The most frequent Spanish words beyond B1, split into frequency-order parts. Part 5: news and society, law and conflict, feelings, health, food, places, science and key verbs, 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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la organización (n.)organizationNews & society
La organización envió médicos voluntarios a las zonas afectadas. — The organization sent volunteer doctors to the affected areas.
Watch out: Nouns ending in -ción are feminine, and the accent drops in the plural: las organizaciones. -
acusar (v.)to accuseLaw & conflict
El sindicato acusa a la empresa de ignorar las normas de seguridad. — The union accuses the company of ignoring safety rules.
Watch out: You accuse someone de something: acusar a alguien de robo. -
la preocupación (n.)worry, concernFeelings & character
La falta de agua es la principal preocupación de los vecinos. — The lack of water is the residents' main concern.
Watch out: The accent drops in the plural: las preocupaciones. -
curar (v.)to cure, heal; to treat (a wound)Body & health
Los médicos lograron curar la infección con un nuevo antibiótico. — The doctors managed to cure the infection with a new antibiotic.
Watch out: curarse = to recover, get better: Ya me curé del resfriado. -
el azúcar (n.)sugarFood & home
Esta receta lleva mucho menos azúcar que la versión tradicional. — This recipe uses much less sugar than the traditional version.
Watch out: Both genders are correct: on its own it is usually masculine (el azúcar); with an adjective the feminine is common: el azúcar moreno, la azúcar morena or el azúcar morena. -
el océano (n.)oceanPlaces & nature
El barco cruzó el océano Atlántico en menos de dos semanas. — The ship crossed the Atlantic Ocean in less than two weeks.
Watch out: Stressed on the second syllable: o-CÉ-a-no. -
el ordenador (n.)computer (Spain)Science & objects
En la oficina de Madrid, los becarios comparten un ordenador viejo junto a la ventana. — In the Madrid office, the interns share an old computer by the window.
Watch out: Spain only; Latin America says la computadora (or el computador in Chile and Colombia). -
aumentar (v.)to increase, riseKey verbs
Tras la apertura del nuevo centro comercial, el tráfico del barrio aumentó en un tercio. — After the new shopping mall opened, traffic in the neighborhood rose by a third.
Watch out: el aumento = increase; un aumento de sueldo = a pay raise. -
aéreo (adj.)air (as in air travel); aerialDescription
El tráfico aéreo se interrumpió por la tormenta de nieve. — Air traffic was halted by the snowstorm.
Watch out: la línea aérea = airline; por vía aérea = by air. -
anteriormente (adv.)previously, beforeAdverbs
Anteriormente, el edificio funcionaba como una estación de tren. — The building previously served as a train station.
Watch out: Formal; in conversation antes is more common.
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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), Ortografía de la lengua española and Diccionario de americanismos (asale.org/damer), the SpanishDict, WordReference and Cambridge Spanish–English dictionaries, FundéuRAE, and the official identity-document pages of Spain's Policía Nacional (dnielectronico.es), Argentina's RENAPER and Peru's RENIEC (reference only; no text copied).
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