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An Elementary Spanish Reader (Harrison, 1912)

1267 words, in teaching order

Words 701–800
plano
plane (flat surface extending infinitely in all directions); level; shot; plan (of a building); street plan, map of a city
Noun
comunicar
to communicate; to connect
Verb
conocimiento
knowledge; awareness (state of knowing something); consciousness (state of having cognition and sensation)
Noun
habitación
room (separate part of a building); bedroom (room with a bed for sleeping); habitation (the act of inhabiting); habitat (place where an organism occurs)
Noun
riqueza
wealth, affluence, richness; riches; richness (i.e. quality of being extremely abundant or having high intrinsic value); resource (raw material used to achieve an objective)
Noun
criar
to rear or raise (e.g., a child); to grow up
Verb
pilar
pillar, pier, mainstay; prop (the player who is next to the hooker in a scrum)
Noun
formar
to form, to create; to train, to educate; to make up, to constitute; to line up (to get in a line)
Verb
cornisa
cornice; crown molding; top of a pedestal cornice on a building or room
Noun
busto
bust
Noun
efigie
effigy
Noun
erección
erection; erection (of a building)
Noun
honrar
to honor
Verb
metamorfosis
metamorphosis
Noun
picapedrero
stonecutter
Noun
roca
rock; synonym of incoherencia
Noun
trabajo
work, job; work; school assignment, often a presentation
Noun
largo
length; pitch
Noun
penoso
tough, difficult; painful; awful, pitiful; timid, easily embarrassed
Adjective
mezquino
miserly, mean, stingy; petty, small-minded
Adjective
salario
wage, wages, salary; income
Noun
suspirar
to sigh
Verb
tristemente
sadly
Adverb
rudo
rude, rough, crude, rugged
Adjective
tarea
task; homework
Noun
tumbado
fallen down; lying down
Adjective
lecho
bed; bed (garden plot); riverbed (path where a river runs); stratum (layer of sedimentary rock); litter (material used for animals)
Noun
proveer
to provide, purvey, supply, equip, furnish; to stock; to decide, resolve, settle; to bestow, give, grant; to appoint; to decide, give a decision
Verb
cortina
curtain; bit of enclosed land
Noun
mosquito
mosquito; gnat; trimmer
Noun
ángel
angel (an incorporeal and sometimes divine messenger from a deity); angel (one of the lowest order of such beings, below virtues); angel (a person having the qualities attributed to angels, such as purity or selflessness)
Noun
descender
to descend
Verb
deseo
desire, wish
Noun
reposar
to repose, to rest
Verb
país
country (the territory of a nation); country, land (a set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits)
Noun
carroza
carriage; state carriage; hearse (vehicle for taking dead body to grave); old person, old fogey
Noun
preceder
to precede
Verb
lujoso
luxurious
Adjective
rodear
to round up; to surround; to go around
Verb
servidor
server; yours truly; muggins; urinal
Noun
sostener
to hold, to hold up, to prop up, to sustain, to underpin (physically); to sustain, to support, to keep (i.e. to give continuity to); to support, to uphold, to hold, to sustain, to contend, to maintain, to argue, to claim, to underpin, to defend
Verb
sombrilla
sunshade; parasol
Noun
entristecido
melancholy; depressing
Adjective
espectáculo
show, performance (play, dance, some act or series of acts of public entertainment, often live); spectacle, show
Noun
pasear
to stroll, to saunter, to promenade; to walk, to take a walk; to ride, to go for a ride (e.g. on an animal, in a car, in a hot air balloon); to walk (e.g. a dog); to take a walk; to loiter; to stroll
Verb
brillar
to shine; to glow; to sparkle, glisten, glitter, twinkle
Verb
rayo
beam, ray (wave of energy); a bolt of lightning
Noun
hierba
grass (plant of the family Poaceae or plant that resembles grasses); herb (plant used to flavour food); herb (plant used in medicine); marijuana
Noun
abrasar
to burn; to parch; to squander or waste money
Verb
astro
cosmic body, celestial body; star (famous person)
Noun
transformar
to transform
Verb
derramar
to spill, to leak; to shed (blood, sweat, tears, etc.); to pour out (e.g., love, wrath, blessings, one's heart)
Verb
brotar
to bud or sprout, to spring, spring up
Verb
sudor
sweat
Noun
rostro
face (the front part of the head)
Noun
nube
cloud; multitude, or crowd (of people); baby's breath; marshmallow; the cloud; cataract
Noun
elevar
to elevate; to raise; lift up; to raise (a number) (to a power)
Verb
aire
air (the substance constituting earth's atmosphere); air (the open space above the ground); air; wind; air (a feeling or sense); resemblance (to another person); air (pretension; snobbishness); air (a sense of poise, graciousness, or quality); A type of muscle pain.; solenodon
Noun
tapa
lid, cap (the top or cover of a container); the bottom of a shoe's heel; cover (the front and back of a book); sluicegate; flank (a cut of meat from the flank of a cow); tapa, appetizer (small portion of food); dough for making empanadas; salted slices of dried or cured meat in Filipino cuisine (usually beef)
Noun
luz
light; lumen; brightness, intelligence; focus, point of view, understanding; electric power; span
Noun
irritar
to irritate; to excite
Verb
menospreciar
to belittle, to disparage, to despise, scorn, to look down on, to demean; to underestimate, to undervalue, to downplay
Verb
convertir
to turn into, to cause to become; to become, to turn into
Verb
sombra
shadow (a dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object); shade (darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked); shade, shadow (a small degree); ghost, shade, phantom; shade (a color obtained by adding black)
Noun
reverdecer
to become green again, go green again; to revive, reanimate
Verb
flanco
flank
Noun
torrente
torrent; stream; flood
Noun
inundar
to flood, to inundate
Verb
valle
valley
Noun
devastar
to devastate
Verb
mies
cereal seed (for making bread); seed, grain harvest time
Noun
ahogar
to drown (kill by immersion in water); to stifle; to suffocate (suffer or die from severely reduced oxygen); to drown (be suffocated in water)
Verb
bestia
beast; animal; brute (person who acts stupidly)
Noun
contra
against, versus
Preposition
pesar
grief, regret, chagrin
Noun
embestir
to charge; to attack, especially to ram (up against); to pound (sexually penetrate vigorously)
Verb
oleaje
surf
Noun
poderoso
powerful
Adjective
ardor
ardor/ardour; fervor, heat; passion; burning (feeling); eagerness
Noun
violencia
violence; act of violence
Noun
conmover
to affect, move, touch
Verb
obrero
worker
Noun
golpear
to hit, to knock, to tap
Verb
martillo
hammer (a tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding); malleus; auction house; hammer
Noun
tanto
so much; as much; that much; so many, as many, that many
Determiner
trabajar
to work; to work in, work on, to workshop (+ en); to suffer
Verb
rudamente
tactlessly
Adverb
dama
lady, dame; a female member of the court of honor at a quinceañera; queen; king
Noun
finca
real estate (typically rural and surrounding land but also urban); farm
Noun
cabra
female goat; goat (unknown gender); girl
Noun
noviembre
November
Noun
avisar
to tell, tip off, notify, inform; to warn; to ask for the services of (a professional)
Verb
colono
colonist, settler; farmer that normally lives and works on the same land
Noun
abandonar
to abandon, to leave; to neglect
Verb
invasión
invasion; trespass
Noun
moro
a Moor (member of the Islamic people of Arab or Amazigh origin who ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula and parts of North Africa between the 8th and 15th centuries); a Moroccan; an Arab; a Muslim, usually from the Maghreb; one of the Moro Muslims of the Philippines (especially from the Bangsamoro region of Mindanao)
Noun
sin
without
Preposition
montar
to mount; to ride; get in/on a vehicle; to set up; to establish; to whip, beat; to hump
Verb
suceso
event, happening; outcome, result; success
Noun
cántaro
jug, jar; amphora
Noun