Vocabulario de Como agua para chocolate
aguantarse | to bear, to endure |
el alba | daybreak |
albo/a | white (poetic language) |
el aliento | breath |
aliviar | to relieve |
amamantar | to nurse |
el/la amante | lover |
añorar | to yearn for, to miss |
la apariencia | appearance |
asombrado/a | surprised |
el/la boletero/a | ticket seller |
cansarse | to get tired |
la castidad | chastity |
casto/a | chaste |
los celos | jealousy |
las cerillas | matches |
colgar | to hang up |
la comisaría | precinct, police station |
la congoja | anguish |
el consuelo | consolation |
el/la cónyuge | spouse |
el costal | sack |
la culpa | fault |
desdichado/a | unhappy; unlucky |
desolado/a | devastated |
dirigirse | to head for |
divorciarse | to divorce |
la doble moral | double standard |
emborracharse | to get drunk |
el enamoramiento | crush, falling in love |
enterarse | to find out |
la entrada | (in context) ticket |
esclarecer | to solve; to clear up |
esperar un hijo | to be pregnant |
estar chiflado/a por | to have a crush on |
estirar | to stretch |
el estrago | (in context) self-ruin |
exigir | to demand |
la expectativa | expectation, hope |
extrañar | to miss |
la formalidad | formality |
la fortaleza | strength |
el fracaso | failure |
gozar | to enjoy, to take pleasure in |
identificarse con | to identify with |
inexorable | unyielding |
el infarto | heart attack |
ingenuo/a | naïve |
inhibido/a | inhibited |
la intimidad | intimacy |
lavarse | to wash (oneself) |
levarse | to get up (poetic language) |
la llamada | call |
llorar la muerte de alguien | to mourn |
la localidad | (in context) ticket |
el malabarismo | balancing act; juggling act |
maldito/a | cursed |
la masa | dough |
el matrimonio | marriage |
la mirada | gaze |
el nácar | mother-of-pearl |
la nodriza | wet nurse |
la olla | pot |
el/la partero/a | midwife |
el parto | delivery |
pasajero/a | fleeting, passing |
la pastilla | pill |
el pecho | chest |
la perdición | ruin |
permitir | to allow |
picar | to chop |
ponerse en contacto | to get in touch |
pretender | (in context) to expect |
el/la pretendiente/a | suitor |
pudrirse | to rot |
la pureza | purity |
purificarse | to purify oneself |
rabioso/a | furious |
reencontrar | to meet again |
reponer | to recover |
resignarse | to resign oneself |
el rompimiento | breakup |
el seno | breast |
significar | to mean |
sincero/a | honest, sincere |
el/la sirviente/a | servant |
sollozar | to sob |
tornarse | to become |
tragar | to swallow |
transfigurarse | to transform |
trasladarse | to move |