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| environment, atmosphere (air around us, as well as things and conditions that surround us) |
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| to be stark-naked (colloquial) |
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| to reveal, give away; to inform on (a natural revealing of some circumstance or situation or to betray a person by purposefully revealing secrets, crimes, behavior, etc. to a third party) |
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| to denounce, report-a crime (to report a crime or a violation of some ordinance to a proper authority) |
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| to betray (indicates an act or disloyalty, treachery, or unfaithfulness to a person, institution, or nation) |
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| cost (preferred when larger amounts of money are involved) |
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| to pay for, pay the cost of |
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| to warn, notify, alert (to call a person's attention to something that they should know or realize) |
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| to advise (standard for 'to advise' or give advice) |
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| to inform, let know, notify (syn. informar) |
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| to catch (indicates the unexpected catching of someone who is doing something they shouldn't be) |
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| to catch (taboo in sp. america) |
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| to catch, grasp (to catch or grasp something that has a handle such as a pot, umbrella, or weapon) |
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| to catch; gras; grab (to catch or grab, often with force. also a replacement for coger) |
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| to catch, trap (to catch, especially after a pursuit or as a result of cunning or entrapment; physical or figurative) |
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| to understand, comprehend; to comprise-embrace (suggesting a deeper or more complete understanding of something) |
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| to understand (most common in both spoken and written spanish, to understand in the sense of being intelligible with regard to means of communication) |
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| loose, free; not confined (when referring to something that is not constricted by being bound, tied down, or confined) |
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| to let loose, let go of; to free |
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| tight (opposite of both suelto and flojo; conveys the idea of overcrowding or overfilling a particular space or of excessively closing of tightening physical things or objects) |
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| loose, slack (not tight); lazy (in the sense of not tense or tight, also lazy) |
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| the red-light district, chinatown (designates a seamy area of town, characterized by cheap bars, prostitution, etc.; akin to the tenderloin district in some american cities) |
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| district, quarter, neighborhood, section (of a city) (any specific area of neighborhood defined along ethnic, socio-economic or similar lines) |
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| district (shares an area of meaning with 'zona', but reflects established adminstrative or governmental divisions) |
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| zone, district, area (syn. of barrio, sometimes used to designate commericial, industrial, or residential use) |
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| suburb; outlying slum (in more recent times, designates newer middle-class or upper-class residential areas) |
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| outskirts, suburbs (the safest interpretation of the english term 'suburbs') |
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| to bring near; to approach |
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| to bring near; to approach, draw near |
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| storm (a rainstorm accompanied by strong winds, thunder, and lightning. can be used figuratively) |
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| storm (longer in duration and may last several days at times; similar to a storm front) |
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| storm (syn. of tempestad, but also indicates a storm without rain) |
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| shower, storm (sudden, brief, and heavy rainstorms) |
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| squall, shower, storm (most often associated with storms at sea and characterized by very strong winds) |
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| shower, downpour (sudden, brief, and heavy rainstorms) |
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| to get, obtain; to succeed in + gerund (indicates a person's obtaining or successfully doing what they desire) |
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| to get, obtain, achieve; to succeed in + gerund |
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| to reach, overtake, obtain; to manage to + infinitive (stresses the arrival at some physical destination and figuratively indicates reaching other types of goals through effort) |
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| to obtain, get (implies to obtain by effort) |
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| to back; to endorse (to protect or help someone by offering a personal guarantee of support) |
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| to support, back; to lean (to help someone by backing or standing behind them; to lean, implies a lesser degree of personal commitment than respaldar) |
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| to shelter, protect (implies protection in the form of physical or spiritual shelter for someone in need or in danger) |
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| to help, aid (suggests urgency or immediate aid to someone in danger or need) |
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| to help, aid, assist (a general term with a meaning broad enough to encompass the other terms) |
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