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An Elementary Spanish Reader (Harrison, 1912)

1267 words, in teaching order

Words 501–600
esconder
to hide
Verb
dueño
owner, proprietor, landlord; master
Noun
prisa
hurry, rush, urgency
Noun
doscientos
two hundred
Numeric
quinientos
five hundred
Numeric
confesar
to confess, to come clean about; to confess, to come clean; to hear confession
Verb
robar
to rob; to steal; to draw (e.g., a card from an opponent in a game); to kidnap, abduct
Verb
desgraciado
unfortunate
Adjective
valer
to be worth; to be useful or valid; to be well, healthy; to be strong; (+ de) to make use of; to take care of oneself, to manage (on one's own); to not care (used with some nouns)
Verb
mí
me; (declined form of yo used as the object of a preposition)
Pronoun
dejar
to leave (to place); to leave, to keep (to allow to continue); to leave (to cause, result in); to let, allow; to let go, put down (to release from one's grasp); to drop off; to leave, to abandon, to dump; to give up, to lay off, to kick (colloquial); to set, to put, to make (in certain phrases); to cut out (stop); …
Verb
desesperado
desperate (filled with despair); hopeless (destitute of hope)
Adjective
aunque
though, although, even though, albeit; even if, irrespective of (followed by subjunctive verb form)
Conjunction
cárcel
prison
Noun
pagar
to pay; to be worthwhile, to have a pay off
Verb
semana
week (7 days)
Noun
amigo
friend; penis
Noun
mal
apocopic form of malo bad; evil; amiss, awry, off, wrong
Adjective
barato
cheap; inexpensive; sold at a low price
Adjective
ah
ah (expression of relief, realization, awe); ah (expression of woe, grief)
Interjection
ladrón
thief; robber; rogue; crook; adapter (device allowing more plugs at an outlet)
Noun
infame
awful, dreadful; infamous, vile, wicked
Adjective
médico
medical
Adjective
tunante
loafing; tricky, deceptive; villainous
Adjective
raro
rare; strange, odd
Adjective
medicina
medicine
Noun
cosa
thing (object, concept); thing (living being)
Noun
remozar
to rejuvenate, make young; to make seem or feel younger; to renovate
Verb
pueblo
town, village; the common people, the working classes; population, people; nation
Noun
número
number (counting); musical number; number; spectacle; man, soldier
Noun
pedir
to ask for something; to request someone else to do something; to order something; to order; to call, call in (e.g. to call for help, to call for backup, to call in a favor); to plead
Verb
precioso
precious; gorgeous; cute
Adjective
beneficio
benefit; profit
Noun
cada
each; every
Determiner
escriba
scribe
Noun
cédula
licence, identity document, ID; warrant, option; official document, documentation, certificate
Noun
nombre
name; noun
Noun
edad
age; time since an event; age (period of time)
Noun
setenta
seventy
Numeric
ochenta
eighty
Numeric
noventa
ninety
Numeric
exactamente
exactly
Adverb
lamentar
to lament, to regret; to mourn (often followed by la muerte de or la pérdida de)
Verb
bruja
witch, sorceress (woman who practices witchcraft); specifically, a Wiccan; crone, hag (ugly, evil-looking, or frightening old woman); owl (bird of prey of the order Strigiformes); northern potoo (Nyctibius jamaicensis); knifetooth dogfish (shark species Scymnodon ringens)
Noun
envidioso
envious
Adjective
escribir
to write (to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate); to write (to) someone (a letter, etc.); to write someone something; to write (to be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.)); to write (to be an author); to type (on a phone or computer keyboard); to text; to chat regularly with someone on social media
Verb
porqué
a reason (e.g. the reason why something happens)
Noun
circunstancia
circumstance
Noun
quemada
burnt side of a mountain; burn; deceit; fraud; beating; bashing
Noun
porción
portion; part (fraction of a whole)
Noun
ceniza
ash (solid remains of a fire); ashes (solid remains of a human or animal cadaver after cremation)
Noun
pasmar
to amaze, to surprise
Verb
promesa
promise
Noun
quemado
burnt; burned out; annoyed; old-fashioned, obsolete
Adjective
correctamente
correctly
Adverb
quitar
to remove, to take away, to take down, to take off, to pull off, to pull out, to clear, to clear away, to strip, to strip away; to get rid of; to get off; to deprive of, to take away from (uses indirect object); to take off, to remove, to disrobe, to doff (as clothes or accoutrements); to be removed; to get rid of (something belonging to oneself); to quit, give up (smoking etc); to move away, to get out of the way; to take (e.g. a photograph)
Verb
ejemplo
example; instance
Noun
cincuenta
fifty
Numeric
sesenta
sixty (the cardinal number occurring after fifty-nine and before sixty-one, represented in Roman numerals as LX and in Arabic numerals as 60)
Numeric
treinta
thirty
Numeric
cinco
five
Numeric
picarón
naughty, feisty
Adjective
anterior
anterior (in time), previous, earlier, former, past; anterior (in space)
Adjective
comparar
to compare
Verb
mío
mine; of mine
Pronoun
ayer
yesterday
Adverb
despachar
to complete, conclude; to send or ship; to attend to, serve (a client); to dismiss; to finish off; to kill off
Verb
suponer
to suppose, to surmise, to assume, to guess, to imagine, to figure, to say, to take it; to presume, to expect; to pose (e.g. a risk, a threat, a danger); to mean, to imply, to represent; to involve, to entail; to hypothesize
Verb
príncipe
prince; sovereign, ruler
Noun
jalma
saddlecloth, soft saddle
Noun
ignorante
ignorant
Adjective
cortar
to cut; to cut off, cut out, cut through, cut down, cut up, to nip; to chop, chop up, chop off; to slice, to slit; to mow; to slash, to hack; to carve, to engrave; to hang up, to terminate a telephone call; to stop an action; to shut off; …
Verb
leña
firewood, wood (pieces of wood gathered to burn as fuel); kindling
Noun
cambiar
to change, to shift, to switch, to alter; to modify; to switch, to switch up, to change, to trade, to swap (usually + de) (when implying changing from one thing to another); to replace, to change out, to swap out; to exchange, to trade in; to turn around; to swap, to trade, to switch; to move (i.e., change from one place to another)
Verb
comida
food; lunch; dinner; cunnilingus
Noun
tronco
trunk, log (of a tree); trunk (main channel); torso; frustum; team (of mules, etc.); guy, dude
Noun
árbol
tree (perennial woody plant); tree (any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree); tree (any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices); mast (tall, slim post or tower used to support the sails on a ship)
Noun
lamento
lament; plaint; wail, wailing
Noun
adentro
inside (especially implying a motion into)
Adverb
negro
black (the color perceived in the absence of light); a black person; a person of black African descent; a member of any typically dark-skinned people; ghost writer
Noun
feo
ugly; in poor condition; bad, gross, mean, nasty
Adjective
herido
hurt, injured
Adjective
excusar
to excuse
Verb
perdonar
to pardon, excuse, forgive
Verb
mantener
to keep; to maintain, to support; to sustain, to preserve, to retain, to uphold; to maintain, continue, to keep up; to stay, to remain; to maintain, to keep, to stay, to remain; to stand, to hold, to remain, to continue (e.g. hold firm, stand strong, stand together, stand on one's feet); to stick to (e.g. stick to one's guns); to be maintained, to be retained, to be sustained
Verb
ocho
eight (8)
Numeric
contestación
an answer, reply; a dispute; a legal plea
Noun
cargar
to load (to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage)); to load (to fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition); to load (to insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc); to load (to load a software into the primary memory); to carry (to lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting); to charge (to replenish energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery) by use of an electrical device plugged into a power outlet); to annoy, pester; to blitz; to break, destroy, ruin; to take down, kill
Verb
burro
donkey, especially one used as a pack animal; a dunce, an idiot; a well-hung man; sawhorse; old maid (card game); burrito; Aloysia polystachya
Noun
explicar
to explain; to explain oneself
Verb
caso
case (situation or fact); case (instance of a medical condition); case; occasion
Noun
consentir
to consent; to endure; to pamper, indulge, spoil
Verb
salvar
to save; to rescue; to salvage; to cover (a distance)
Verb
moneda
coin (piece of currency in the shape of a disc); currency (money)
Noun
medalla
medal
Noun
vestido
dress
Noun
familia
family (group of people related to each other); family (grouping of things possessing common characteristics); relative, relation (member of one's family)
Noun
contento
content; happy, glad; pleased, chuffed (British); satisfied
Adjective
cabo
end, edge, extremity (furthest or terminal point of something); end, finish, conclusion (terminal point of something in time); stub, butt, stump (something blunted, stunted, burnt to a stub, or cut short); cable, rope (strong rope or chain, especially used to moor or anchor a ship); cape, headland (piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into a sea or lake); accessories, knick-knacks, odds and ends (small trinket of minor value); corporal (non-commissioned officer army rank with NATO code OR-4); sergeant (highest rank of noncommissioned officer)
Noun
hacha
axe, hatchet (tool for felling trees or chopping wood); ace, wizard (someone who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field); a kind of torch or large candle (often with four sticks); a kind of wick or fuse (often made with esparto grass and tar), which does not go out easily in the wind; bundle of straw tied up like a strip and often used to help cover huts or other field constructions
Noun