Glosario Esencial de Vocabulario y Phrasal Verbs en Inglés con Ejemplos

Vocabulario Esencial en Inglés

Straightforward

Significado: Simple and easy to understand.

Ejemplo: Installing the program is relatively straightforward.

Daunting

Significado: Frightening in a way that makes you feel less confident.

Ejemplo: The trip seemed rather daunting for a young girl.

Self-assured

Significado: Having confidence in your own abilities.

Ejemplo: A woman's voice came on the line, firm and self-assured.

Broaden Someone's Horizons

Significado: To increase someone's interests, skills, or experiences beyond their current range.

Ejemplo: He broadened his horizons by finally trying Vietnamese cuisine.

Peers

Significado: Your peers are the people who are the same age as you, or who have the same type of job, social class, etc.

Ejemplo: American children did less well in math than their peers in Japan.

Horizons

Significado: The limit of your ideas, knowledge, and experience.

Ejemplo: A course of study that will broaden your horizons.

Sort Out

Significado: To deal successfully with a problem, a situation, or a person who is having difficulties.

Ejemplo: We've sorted out the computer system's initial problems.

Turn Out

Significado: To happen in a particular way, or to have a particular result, especially one that you did not expect.

Ejemplo: It was a difficult time, but eventually things turned out all right.

Phrasal Verbs Comunes

To Take Up

• 1. To become interested in a new activity and to spend time doing it.
  Ejemplo: Roger took painting up for a while, but soon lost interest.
• 2. To accept a suggestion, offer, or idea.
  Ejemplo: Rob took up the invitation to visit.

To Start Up

• 1. If you start up a business, company, etc., or it starts up, it begins to exist.
  Ejemplo: Tax breaks help new companies start up.
• 2. If an engine, car, etc., starts up, or you start it up, it begins working.
  Ejemplo: The driver got back into the car and started up.

To Make Up

Significado: To produce a new story, song, game, excuse, etc., by thinking.

Ejemplo: Nick made up a song about them.

To Sum Up

Significado: To give the main information in a report, speech, etc., in a short statement at the end.

Ejemplo: Gerald will open the debate and I will sum up. (= summarize)

To End Up

Significado: To be in a particular situation, state, or place after a series of events, especially when you did not plan it.

Ejemplo: He came round for a coffee and we ended up having a meal together.

To Go Off

Significado: To explode or fire.

Ejemplo: The bomb went off at 6:30 this morning.

To Put Off

Significado: To delay doing something or to arrange to do something at a later time or date, especially because there is a problem or you do not want to do it now.

Ejemplo: The match has been put off until tomorrow because of bad weather.

To Let Someone Off

Significado: If someone in authority lets you off something you should do, they give you permission not to do it.

Ejemplo: You have worked hard all week, so I’ll let you off today.

To Show Off

Significado: To try to make people admire your abilities, achievements, or possessions.

Ejemplo: He couldn’t resist showing off on the tennis court.

To Set Off

Significado: To start to go somewhere.

Ejemplo: I’ll set off early to avoid the traffic.

To Cut Off

Significado: When you completely stop doing something or supplying something.

Ejemplo: A full-scale cut-off of US aid would be a disaster.