span-ch1vocab
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- la oficina
- place where clerical or business activities are conducted by several or more persons
- el despacho
- private office of a single person at home or away from home
- la direccion
- the administrative office of an institution or organization with a director
- el bufete
- lawyer's office
- la redaccion
- newspaper office
- consultorio
- place where several doctors work
- clinica
- dental office
- consulta
- physician's private office
- volver a infin.
- to do something again
- volver
- return, go back
- regresar
- return, go back
- devolver
- return something, give back, throw up
- cerrar
- close, shut, lock
- el cierre
- physical closing or shutting of something
- abrir
- to open
- la abertura
- physical opening or hole
- clausurar
- close, adjourn
- la clausura
- ceremonial closing or adjournment
- la apertura
- opening in a figurative or ceremonial sense
- acabar de infin
- to have just finishing doing something
- terminar de infin
- finish doing something
- la sala/salon
- living room, large public room
- el cuarto
- general room
- el aula
- classroom
- habitacion
- hotel use
- angosto
- narrow
- estrecho
- narrow (spain)
- el hule
- rubber, oilcloth
- la goma
- rubber band, softer rubber
- el caucho
- rubber
- de palo
- wooden, for cylindrical shapes
- la madera
- wood
- el palo
- pole, stick
- lena
- firewood
- matar
- to kill
- asesinar
- to murder, assassinate
- eliminar
- "rubbing/wiping" out
- ejecutar
- to execute, capital punishment
- rematar
- kill off
- la cuadra
- block, horse stable (spain)
- establo
- stable
- manzana
- city block
- el bloque
- block (of houses), large piece of wood, marble, etc
- el ropero
- clothes closet
- la alacena
- cupboard, pantry
- el armario
- closet (spain)
- guardarropa
- public checkroom, coatroom
- agarrar
- grasp, take
- tomar
- to take
- coger
- to take (spain), sexual implications for spanish-americans?
- amanecer
- to dawn
- anochecer
- to grow dark
- atardecer
- to draw towards evening, late in the afternoon
- ordinario
- plain, ordinary, can refer to something vulgar
- comun/corriente
- common
- colgar
- to hang
- ahorcar
- hang by the neck
- tender
- spread or stretch something out, hang clothes
- pender
- hang something that is suspended and hangs freely from a higher position