Vocabulary

• mauve


  color malva
• Busker


  artista callejero
• obliging


  willing or eager to help
• your bread and butter


  a job or activity that provides you with the money you need to live.
• high-flier


  someone who has a lot of ability and a strong wish to be successful and is therefore expected to achieve a lot.
• someone who does something very often and cannot stop doing it

  inveterate
• very tired or lacking energy and enthusiasm

  weary
• the long, thick hair that grows along the top of a horse's neck or around the face and neck of a lion

  mane
• a sea fish with a flat, circular body, or its flesh eaten as food

  plaice
• large in amount

  hefty
• an uncomfortable feeling when you doubt if you are doing the right thing

  qualm
• to have a lot of influence or power over other people

  wield
• to (cause an egg to) break in order to allow a young animal to come out

  hatch
• (of wind, rain, etc.) to hit something repeatedly and with great force:

  buffet
• treatment in which someone is punished or judged less strongly or severely than would be expected

  leniency
• the feeling of being unhappy, disappointed, or without hope

  dejection
• perfect happiness

  bliss
• a strong, often sudden, feeling that something is extremely unpleasant

  revulsion
• to feel extremely worried or frightened about something that is going to happen or that might happen

  dread
• the quality of being boring for a long time

  tedium
• behaving in a calm manner, often in a way that suggests you are not interested or do not care

  nonchalant
• a length of rope, hair, or wire, arranged into a series of circles, one above or outside the other

  coil
• something such as heat or smoke in the air that makes it less clear, so that it is difficult to see well

  haze
• something that is extremely complicated and difficult to deal with and makes any progress almost impossible

  morass
• cordero

  mutton
• a piece of food made into a disc shape that is then cooked

  patty
• coriander


  cilantro
• palate


  paladar
• to get something from something else

  derive
• one of two or more long, sharp points on an object, especially a fork

  prong
• burguesía

  bourgeoisie
• female-like behaviour

  effeminacy
• pick up

  scoop
• completely developed and ready to be collected or eaten

  ripe
• having a pleasant sweet taste or containing a lot of juice

  luscious
• giving or expressing pleasure through the physical senses, rather than pleasing the mind or the intelligence

  sensuous
• looking or tasting extremely good, and giving great pleasure

  delectable
• used to describe food or a food flavour that is not very strong

  mild
• good enough to eat or drink

  palatable
• no longer new or fresh, usually as a result of being kept for too long

  stale