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You need more skill to be able to use a chainsaw.
- the skill (not "la habilidad"), the expertise (not "el expertise")
- the chainsaw

Te hace falta más pericia para poder usar una motosierra.
- la pericia (2)
- la motosierra

the medical tests
- the test (the skill, the expertise)

las pericias médicas
- la pericia

She thought of all the possibilities under the sun alt: in the book
lit: posibilites had and to have

Ella pensó en todas las posibilidades habidas y por haber.

asphyxiating
the asphyxiation
to asphyxiate

asfixiante
la asfixia
asfixiar(se)

the blood alcohol level

la alcoholemia

to lose consciousness (2)
- the consciousness (the knowledge)
alt: - the consciousness (the conscience, the awareness)

perder el conocimiento
perder la conciencia
- el conocimiento
- la conciencia <- may be spelled "consciencia"

The cartel was in collusion with almost all branches of the Mexican government.
lit: was colluded
(to colude)

El cártel estaba coludido con casi todas las ramas del gobierno mexicano.
(coludir)

The account was almost five pages long.
lit: had a length
- the length (not "la longitud") (the extension, the area)

El relato tenía una extensión de casi cinco páginas.
- la extensión

I looked out the window.
- to look, as in to check (to appear)

Me asomé por la ventana.
- asomarse

After that he dove into the pool.
- to dive

Después de eso se zambulló en la piscina.
- zambullirse
preterite: se zambulló, se zambulleron
pres participle: zambullendo

Maria undertook a trip around the world in pursuit of her personal happiness.
- in pursuit of

María emprendió un viaje alrededor del mundo en pos de su felicidad personal.
- en pos de
(emprender)

without having to greet them one by one
- one by one

sin tener que saludarlos de a uno
- de a uno

They must be 24 or 25 years old but they look older.
- older (not "mayor") (bigger)

Deben tener 24 o 25 años pero parecen más grandes.
- más grande

Carlos asked them, casually
- casual (2)

les preguntó Carlos, de forma casual
- casual (L.A.), desenfadado/a

The chance meeting with the CEO of the company was very timely.
- chance (casual - L.A.)
- opportune, timely

El encuentro casual con el director de la empresa fue muy oportuno.
- casual
- oportuno/a (2)

Until the heart attack got him
- to get (to grab)

Hasta que le agarró el ataque al corazón.
- agarrar

This is the height of madness.
- the height

Esto es el colmo de la locura.
- el colmo

That would really be the last straw.
lit: would be the limit
- the limit (the height)

Eso sí sería el colmo.
- el colmo

Its consequences are reverberating in the lives of millions of people.
- to reverberate
- the reverberation

Sus consecuencias reverberan en la vida de millones de personas.
- reverberar
- la reverberación

a coastal community
- coastal

una comunidad costera
- costero/a

the neglect of infrastructure after years of instability
- the neglect (the carelesness, the oversight i.e., mistake)

el descuido de la infraestructura tras años de inestabilidad
- el descuido

accused and convicted
- convicted (not "condenado")
- the convict
(to condemn, to convict)

acusado y convicto
- convicto/a
- el convicto, la convicta
(condenar)

the swelling
(swollen) (to inflate)

la hinchazón
(hinchado/a) (hinchar, inflar)

You look young for your age.

Te ves joven para tu edad.

the server (the young boy, the young girl - old-fashioned)

el mozo, la moza (el Cono Sur)

I need a glass of something to warm me up.
lit: to enter into heat

Necesito una copa de algo para entrar en calor.

it's no big deal. (similar to "no es para tanto")

tampoco es para tanto

the red wine

el vino tinto

a sensual pleasure
- sensual
- the sensuality

un placer sensual
- sensual
- la sensualidad

the middle-class sensuality
- burgeois, middle-class
- the bourgeoisie, the middle class (not "la clase media")

la sensualidad burguesa
- burgués, burguesa (2)
- la burguesía (2)

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