| Term | Definition |
| acusado | accused |
| la declaración | statement |
| el delito | crime |
| derogar | to abolish |
| el desaparecido | missing person |
| el duelo | duel |
| el enfrentamiento | confrontation |
| la herencia | inheritance |
| la impunidad | impunity |
| el juez | judge |
| juzgado | tried |
| llevar a cabo | to carry out |
| merecer | to deserve |
| la nuca | nape |
| otorgar | to grant |
| el rencor | resentment |
| requisar | to confiscate |
| la azotea | flat roof |
| batirse en duelo | to fight a duel |
| el castigo | punishment |
| el culpable | guilty one |
| disparar | to shoot |
| exiliado | exiled |
| el exilio | exile |
| impune | unpunished |
| interrumpir | to stop |
| el juzgado | courthouse |
| presenciar | to witness |
| la rabia | anger; rage |
| retar a duelo | to challenge to a duel |
| la venganza | revenge |
| vengar | to avenge |
| veredicto | verdict |
| el alcohol | alcohol |
| el tabaco | tabaco |
| los cigarrillos | cigarettes |
| los puros | cigars |
| la marihuana | marijuana |
| la cocaina | cocaine |
| la heroina | heroin |
| el drogadicto | drugaddict |
| la adicción | addiction |
| consumir drogas/drogarse | to take drugs |
| la legalización/legalizar | legalization/to legalize |
| el narcotraficante | drug dealer |
| traficar con drogas | to deal drugs |
| el cartel | drug cartel |
| el delito | misdemeanor, felona |
| una pandilla | gang |
| el castigo | punishment |
| la cárcel | jail |
| fármacos | prescription drugs |
| el crimen | crime |
| metanfetamina | methamphetamine |
| cristal | crystal meth |
| espeed | speed |
| éxtasis | extasy |
| agradecer | to be thankful |
| bienes | possessions |
| capricho | whim |
| entierra | grave, buriel |
| fingir | to pretend |
| inversión | investment |
| legar | to leave (in a will) |
| mibiliario | furniture |
| registrar | to search |
| soportar | to put up with |
| tacaño | stingy |
| testamento | will |
| a solas | alone |
| la acuarela | watercolor |
| ajeno | foreign |
| la caza | hunting |
| el criado | maid |
| desvanecerse | to vanish, to disappear |
| disecado | taxidermied |
| en metálico | cash |
| enterrar | to bury |
| el fajo (de billetes) | wad (of bills) |
| la manía | obsession |
| mezquino | mean |
| rentable | profitable |
| el reproche | reproah |
| retorcido | twisted, devious |
| la yaya | grandmother |
| alabar | to praise |
| asombrado | astonished |
| el ataúd | coffin |
| avaricioso | greedy |
| el cadáver | corpse |
| criarse | to bring up, to be raised by |
| fallecer | to die, to expire |
| el recuerd | memory |
| repartir | to distribute, to hand out |
| susurrar | to whisper |
| el velatorio | chapel of vigil |