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SPAN 300-Unit 2 Vocabulary: "Los fracasados"
"Los fracasados" Vocabulary
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Language - Spanish
Undergraduate 3
08/31/2011
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Term
fracasar
 Definition
to fail
Term
los fracasados
 Definition
those who failed
Term
el fracaso
 Definition
failure (the event)
Term
la moneda
 Definition
coin
Term
por lo menos
 Definition
at least
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dejar de + infinitive
 Definition
to stop + -ing
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suceder
 Definition
pasar, ocurrir, acontecer
Term
faltarle algo a alguien
 Definition
to be lacking to someone
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no tener nada que + infinitive
 Definition
not to have anything to + inf.
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echar(le) la culpa a alguien
 Definition
to blame someone
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pasar
 Definition
suceder, ocurrir, acontecer
Term
ocurrir
 Definition
pasar, suceder, acontecer
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acontecer
 Definition
pasar, suceder, ocurrir
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hace + time + que + verb/present
 Definition
tells how long something has been going on (ex:
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Hace rato que me preparo.
 Definition
I have been preparing myself for a while)
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pretender
 Definition
querer conseguir (get) algo o aspirar a algo, not to pretend (=fingir)
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ignorar
 Definition
to be ignorant of, not to know
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quejarse
 Definition
to complain
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ni siquiera
 Definition
not even
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enterarse
 Definition
to find out about, be informed
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Es más de lo que yo esperaba.
 Definition
It’s more than I hoped.
Term
falsificaciones
 Definition
obras muy breves (cuentos, anécdotas, dramas) que están basadas en personas y acontecimientos de la historia/mitología/literatura/vida que tienen un final irónico porque “resultan ser lo opuesto de sus modelos históricos.” (Andrian 28)
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