Untitled Flashcards Set

1. La Guerra Fría = the Cold War
2. La Bahía de los Cochinos = the Bay of Pigs
3. La crisis de los misiles = the missle crisis
4. el golpe de estado = the coup d'état
5. derrocar = to overthrow
6. los rebeldes = the rebels
7. el gobierno = the government
8. un enfrentamiento = a confrontation
9. la amistad = the friendship
10. hundirse = to sink   La madre de Malú dice: Este país se hunde, mi amor. 

11. disolver = to dissolve: disuelto
12. envolver = to wrap up: envuelto
13.  exponer = to expose, exhibit: expuesto
14.  freír = to fry: frito 
15.  imprimir = to print: impreso
16. resolver = to resolve: resuelto
17.  prever = to foresee, to predict: previsto
18.  contradecir: to contradict: contradicho
19. pudrir = to rot: podrido 
20. deshacer = to undo, to break, decompose: deshecho 

21. el analfabetismo = illiteracy
22. la tasa de mortalidad infantil = infant mortality rate
23. los escapados de casa, los fugitivos = runaways (Malú y Jorgito)
24. El faro / el farolero = the lighthouse / keeper
25. un extranjero = alguien de otro país
26. Mandón/a = bossy (Jorge le acusa a Malú de ser mandona.)
27. Un enano cabezón = (Malú le acusa a Jorge de ser esto.)
28. la patria = homeland 
29. Los varones = males (El padre de Jorge dice: Los varones juegan con los varones.)
30. el alcalde / la alcaldesa = the mayor 

 tuvo = she got / received       

tenía = to be in possession of

supo = found out                     

sabía = to have knowledge of 

quiso cantarla = he tried to sing  it     

    quería cantarla = he wanted to sing it

no quiso cantarla = he refused to sing it     

no quería cantarla = he didn't want to sing it

conocí a ...= I met   

conocía a = I was familiar with

nosotros pudimos terminarlo = We were able to finish (and did)

Podíamos terminarlo = We had the ability to finish (maybe we did, maybe we didn't)

nosotros no pudimos terminarlo = We were unable to finish (we tried)

No podíamos terminarlo = We didn't have the ability to (no info as to whether we tried or not)