- Admitir la derrota: Concede defeat
- Amañar una elección: To rig or fix an election.
- Candidato: Candidate
- Centro de votación: Polling place
- El colegio electoral: Electoral college
- El conteo: Counting of the votes
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Category Archives: Vocabulary
Sleepy Words
- El/la Insomne: insomniac
- Insomnio: Imsomnia Tener insomnio is to have it.
- Noctambúlo/a: Night owl
- No pegar el ojo en toda la noche: To not sleep a wink.
- Pasar la noche en vela: To not sleep
- Sonámbulo: Sleepwalker…….Caminar
The Costa Rican way of saying a Volkswagen bug
Vocho: A VW (Volkswagen) bug or beetle
Enroscarse: To go to bed or be in bed. It literally means to curl up. Acostarse is the correct Spanish verb for going to bed. Acostar can also mean to murder someone.
Fachento/a: A person who is a sloppy dresser
Fiesta, veo, fiesta sapeo: This is a new expression and has to do with stemming the spread
When a frog grows hair
- Achantado/a: lazy. Perezoso/a is a synonym.
- Acois: Slang for “here.” Aquí and acá are the more common Spanish words for “here.”
- Agarrar
To Misbehave
- Cachorros: are puppies but can also mean small children.
- Chapear: to cut overgrown vegetation like charral
- Charrral: a lot or piece of land that is overgrown with vegetation
- Un crack: is a very good soccer player
- Coco: can mean coconut
