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Vocab Chapter 5
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11/30/2004
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Term
Acabar
 Definition
To run out, use up completely
Term
La alfabetización
 Definition
Literacy
Term
El analfabetismo
 Definition
illiteracy
Term
Analfabeto/a
 Definition
Illiterate
Term
La apatía
 Definition
Apathy
Term
El arquitecto/ la arquitecta
 Definition
arquitect
Term
El barrio bajo el suburbio
 Definition
Slum
Term
La basura
 Definition
Trash
Term
el bosque lluvioso
 Definition
rainforest
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el campesino
 Definition
farm worker. peasant
Term
conservar
 Definition
to save, conserve
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construir
 Definition
to build
Term
el consumismo
 Definition
consumerism
Term
La contaminacion del aire
 Definition
pollution
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el crecimiento
 Definition
growth
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El daño
 Definition
harm
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La deforestación
 Definition
deforestation
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El delito
 Definition
crime
Term
Los derechos humanos
 Definition
human rights
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la desigualidad
 Definition
inequality
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La desnutrición
 Definition
malnutrition
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desnutrido
 Definition
to destroy
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destruir
 Definition
to destroy
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Diseñar
 Definition
to design
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El diseño
 Definition
design
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el edificio
 Definition
building
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La energía
 Definition
energy
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la escasez
 Definition
lack, shortage
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La fábrica
 Definition
factory
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La finca
 Definition
farm
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La frontera
 Definition
the border
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En vías de desarrollo
 Definition
to develop
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desarrollar
 Definition
to develop
Term
Globalización
 Definition
globalization
Term
el gobierno
 Definition
government
Term
la guerra
 Definition
war
Term
el hambre
 Definition
hunger
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la huelga
 Definition
strike
Term
instruido/a
 Definition
well-educated
Term
la lucha
 Definition
fight
Term
el medio ambiente
 Definition
environment
Term
La modernización
 Definition
modernization
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El narcotráfico
 Definition
Drug traffic
Term
la naturaleza
 Definition
nature
Term
plantar
 Definition
to plant
Term
plantear
 Definition
to pose, present (a problem)
Term
La población
 Definition
population
Term
La despoblación rural
 Definition
movement away from the countryside
Term
Sobrepoblación
 Definition
overpopulation
Term
la pobreza
 Definition
poverty
Term
el porvenir
 Definition
future
Term
la prensa
 Definition
the press
Term
proteger
 Definition
protect
Term
puro/a
 Definition
pure
Term
el rascasielos
 Definition
skyscraper
Term
reciclar
 Definition
to recycle
Term
el reciclaje
 Definition
recycling
Term
los recursos (naturales)
 Definition
natural resources
Term
la riqueza
 Definition
the riches
Term
el agotamiento de los recursos naturales
 Definition
the exhaustion/consumtion of natural resources
Term
resolver(ue)
 Definition
to solve, resolve
Term
salvar
 Definition
save
Term
sobrevivir
 Definition
survive
Term
La tecnología
 Definition
technology
Term
tener en cuenta
 Definition
to take into account, to keep in mind
Term
el transorte público
 Definition
public trasportation
Term
urbanizar
 Definition
to urbanize
Term
el urbanismo
 Definition
urban development, city planing
Term
el/la urbanista
 Definition
developer, city planer
Term
La urbanización
 Definition
migration into the cities; subdivison or residential area
Term
el vecindario
 Definition
neighborhood
Term
la violencia
 Definition
violence
Term
la vivienda
 Definition
housing, dwelling place
Term
El Sida
 Definition
AIDS
Term
La esperanza
 Definition
hope
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