Tema 6: Las Identidades Personales y Públicas Vocabulario

La asimilación cultural

Cultural assimilation

La enajenación

Alienation/alienate yourself

Adaptarse

To adapt

Xenofobia

Xenophobia (dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries)

La ciudadanía

Citizenship

Deportar

To deport

La tarjeta verde

Green card

Desencadenantes

Triggers

Rodear

To surround

Entrenar

To train

Ligado

Linked, tied

El Perfil

Profiles

Promoviendo

Promoting

Alcanzar

To reach, to achieve

Vivencia

Experience

Trasladarse

To move, to relocate

Desmerecer

To disparage, to belittle

Pertenencia

Belonging

Nocivo

Harmful

Demorarse

To delay, to linger

Pelón

Bald

Un cerco de alambre

A wire fence

Padecer

To suffer

Pizcar

To pick (fruit)/to pinch/to pick at

El/La conserje

Janitor, concierge

Desahijar

To thin out (plants)

El/La funcionario/a

Official, civil servant

Ronco/a

Hoarse

Reluciente

Shining, gleaming

Agachado/a

Bent over, crouched

El alcance

Reach, scope

La normativa

Regulations, rules

Caberle

To fit (someone)

Afinidad

Affinity

Aproximación

Approximation, approach

Armonía

Harmony

Características

Characteristics

Compatibilidad

Compatibility

Compenetración

Mutual understanding

Conformidad

Conformity, agreement

Etnicidad

Ethnicity

Herencia

Heritage, inheritance

Individualismo

Individualism

El Lenguaje

Language

Los Rasgos

Traits, features

La Similitud

Similarity

La Singularidad

Singularity, uniqueness

Uniformidad

Uniformity

Forjar

To forge, to shape

Toparse

To run into, to bump into

El/La anfitrión/anfitriona

Host/Hostess

Derrumbado/a

Collapsed, devastated

El tufo de moho

Musty smell

Husmear

To snoop, to sniff around

Permutar

To exchange, to swap

Ingeniárselas

To manage, to figure out.

atropellar

to run over

resultar

to be +adjective

cotilleo

gossip

intervenido

tapped

asunto

matter

aterrador

terrifying