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You have almost completed the challenge of increasing verbal fluency in Spanish by learning 22 words every two days. Congratulations! Here you are the vocabulary template corresponding to days 29 and 30, which are days 241 and 242 of the year. The same ones in which the Catholic Monarchs recognized and promoted the University of Mallorca. (August 30, 1483), in which Thomas Edison presented his first telephone device (August 30, 1879), in which the Spanish poet Manuel Machado (August 29, 1874), Vladimir Romanoff, Grand Duke of Russia, (August 30, 1917) and the American singer Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958) were born and in which the actor Lee Marvin (August 29, 1987), the Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfuz (August 30, 2006) and the Spanish designer Manuel Pertegaz (August 30, 2014) died.
1.- optativo/s (optional) = optional, which is not mandatory
2.- convulso/s (convulsed) = excited, convulsed
3.- espiar (to spy) = to get secret information from a state or company
4.- investigación/-ciones la, las (investigation, research) = inquiry to discover something
5.- salpicar (to sprinkle) = wetting someone or something with a liquid that has spread
6.- forja/s la, las (forge) = place where the metal is worked
7.- deterioro/s el, los (deterioration) = wear and worsening of something
8.- dilema/s el, los (dilemma) = disjunctive, choice between two possible solutions
9.- encontronazo/s el, los (crash, collision) = unexpected encounter. Also crash or fight
10.- memoria/s la, las (memory) = facultad para retener y recordar hechos del pasado
11.- plato/s el, los (plate) = ability to retain and remember past events
12.- gusto/s el, los (taste) = taste of something
13.- allanar (to level) = put something flat, to flatten
14.- techo/s el, los (ceiling, roof) = top of a building
15.- paradójico/s (paradoxical) = that contains a paradox, which is contradictory from a logical point of view
16.- infinito/s (infinite) = that has no end
17.- sostenibilidad la (sustainability) = that is sustainable, that can be maintained without exhausting resources
18.- frontera/s la, las (frontier, border) = limit of a state
19.- campechanía/s la, las (good nature, cheerfulness) = cordial treatment
20.- impecable/s (impeccable) = perfect, without flaws
21.- difícil/es (difficult) = difficult
22.- peculiaridad/es las, las (peculiarity) = which is unique and characteristic of something or someone
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Bibliography: Diccionario de la RAE