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An Elementary Spanish Reader (Harrison, 1912)

1267 words, in teaching order

Words 801–900
orden
order (command); order (request for some product or service or that which is requested); order (law); order (decoration); order; order (arrangement, sequence, organization); orderliness; good behavior; order (highest exponent)
Noun
alcaide
commander of the defense of a castle; administrator of royal property; warden; administrator of a prison
Noun
resistencia
resistance; resistor (component that implements electrical resistance); endurance, stamina; endurance, resilience; strength (of a material)
Noun
fuga
escape, flight; leak; fugue
Noun
rendir
to conquer; to tire, exhaust; to yield, pay, submit, pass down; to take a test or an exam; to vomit; to make headway; to surrender, give in, give up; to be paid (homage or tribute)
Verb
sonreír
to smile
Verb
diente
tooth; tooth, cog (sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement); clove (of garlic)
Noun
blanco
white; white (of light skin); argent
Adjective
replicar
to replicate; to answer, reply, retort, rejoin
Verb
ponderado
esteemed, highly respected; weighted
Adjective
alarma
alarm (a summons to arms); alarm (a sound intended to give notice of approaching danger); alarm (a mechanical device for rousing attention); alarm (sudden surprise with fear of danger)
Noun
preciso
precise; necessary
Adjective
nos
first person (except in vocative, and in the oblique it requires a preposition); I (singular; compare vos); first person nominative, prepositional and vocative plural pronoun
Pronoun
acompañar
to accompany, to go with, to join, to tag along; to chaperone
Verb
fijar
to fix, fasten, set, establish, determine; to determine, ascertain; to pin; to notice; To cheat on (a test)
Verb
rescate
rescue; ransom; bail-out, bail out
Noun
dudar
to doubt
Verb
ma
mum; mom
Noun
preferir
to prefer; to rather (be or do)
Verb
canjear
to exchange, swap; to redeem, cash
Verb
suyo
his, hers, its, to her; theirs, their, to them; yours, your, to you
Determiner
prisionero
prisoner
Noun
nuestro
our, ours, to us; our, ours, to us (as the royal we)
Determiner
resignar
to relinquish; to resign oneself to
Verb
frecuentar
to frequent
Verb
sendos
each, each one, both
Determiner
extraviar
to mislay; to lead astray; to go astray, to get lost
Verb
centro
center; center, moderate tendencies or ideas; middle; core, heart; city center, downtown; cross (a pass in which the ball travels from by one touchline across the pitch)
Noun
amigablemente
amicably
Adverb
ocasión
occasion
Noun
solo
sole; one; only; single (unique); lonely, lonesome; alone, by oneself; automatic; self-, by itself
Adjective
adelante
forward (toward the front); forward (into the future)
Adverb
caminar
to walk; to stroll; to travel, to trek; to go on; to wade (in or through a body of water)
Verb
aprisa
quickly
Adverb
atrás
behind; back in time, ago
Adverb
pie
foot (a part of the body); English or American foot (a unit of length equal to 30.48 cm); pie, a Spanish foot (a former unit of length equivalent to about 27.9 cm); foot (a part of a poetic line); foot, base; footer (the bottom of a page or design); pie
Noun
barranco
gully, gulch, ravine, barranca
Noun
favorable
favorable
Adjective
tirar
to drop intentionally; to throw, to toss; to throw out, to toss, to dump; to shoot; to launch; to take (a photograph); to print; to skip (e.g. a rock or stone); to knock over; to knock down; to roll (dice); to go somewhere, head somewhere; …
Verb
caudillo
military leader, caudillo; warlord
Noun
árabe
Arabic
Adjective
sujetar
to steady, hold, secure, attach, fasten; to subject
Verb
amordazar
to gag; to muzzle
Verb
obligar
to force, to compel, to make (someone do something); to oblige, to obligate, to bind; to be bound, to be obliged, to be obligated; to force oneself or make oneself (do something); to commit oneself
Verb
empuñar
to clutch, grasp or brandish by the handle, to take up; to wield; to obtain
Verb
puñal
dagger; a gay man; faggot
Noun
mover
to move (to cause to change place or posture); to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather); to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes); to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging); to move to, to cause to; to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail); to move (to change place or posture); to shift; to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel); to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner); …
Verb
mato
bushes
Noun
necesitar
to need
Verb
mordaza
gag; clamp (tool)
Noun
enemigo
foe; enemy
Noun
fiar
to guarantee; to sell on credit; to give credit; to put on the slate; to entrust; to confide; (+ de) to trust
Verb
suyo
his, hers, its; theirs; yours
Pronoun
perfecto
perfect
Adjective
efecto
effect
Noun
árabe
Arab; Arabic (Semitic language)
Noun
jefe
chief; president; head; leader of a business, political party, or other organization; boss; supervisor; manager; colonel; major; rank between captain and general; chief; boss; dad, father
Noun
escondite
hiding place; hide and seek; hideout, lair
Noun
supremo
supreme
Adjective
estado
country, land (any broad area or territory); state (a province, particularly a fairly autonomous one within a federation); state, status (a condition); estado, Spanish fathom (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 167 cm)
Noun
peligro
danger, peril
Noun
inminente
imminent
Adjective
cuartel
quarters (military lodging); barracks; military headquarters; quarter; mercy (as in, "to give quarter")
Noun
mirada
look, glance
Noun
esperanza
hope, hopefulness; expectation, expectancy
Noun
interpretar
to interpret, explain, decipher; to interpret, translate (orally); to act a part; to perform
Verb
paso
step, footstep; pace (rough distance of a brisk stride); paso, Spanish pace (a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 1.4 m); step (in a set of instructions); way, passage; pitch (of a helix or screw thread); pass, col; float (in religious parades, carried on the backs of a group of people called costaleros)
Noun
inmóvil
motionless, immobile, unmoving, still, stationary, static; frozen (in reference to a person or creature); becalmed (e.g. a becalmed ship); immovable, unmoved (less common meaning)
Adjective
galope
gallop, the fastest gait of a horse
Noun
escuadrón
squadron
Noun
sitio
site, place; taxi stand; ranch; vacant lot; siege
Noun
conde
count, earl (nobility); countess in the feminine sense
Noun
sorprender
to surprise
Verb
derrotar
to defeat
Verb
ocurrir
to happen, to occur; to come up with
Verb
rigor
rigour
Noun
honor
honor
Noun
campo
countryside, country; field (large open area); pitch, (US) field (field on which soccer, rugby or field hockey is played); course; field (domain of knowledge or practice); camp; field
Noun
batalla
battle
Noun
confirmación
confirmation
Noun
alora
then, in that moment
Adverb
herir
to wound, injure (cause physical injury and pain); to hurt, offend, wound (cause emotional pain)
Verb
lanzar
to throw; to launch; to pitch; to release (a product, etc.); to emit, let out, utter
Verb
atigrado
brindled; tabby
Adjective
fuerte
strong; loud; what (a/an) (intensifier, followed by a noun)
Adjective
tigre
tiger; jaguar; angry or fierce person; an energic or expert male lover; toilet, WC
Noun
acariciar
to caress; to fondle; to stroke; to pet
Verb
bruto
ignorant, stupid; uncouth, clumsy; gross (total, excluding deductions)
Adjective
leal
adhering to the rules of propriety, fair, honest, loyal, true
Adjective
escena
scene; stage; cutscene
Noun
igualmente
equally; likewise
Adverb
e
and
Conjunction
inflamar
to inflame; to ignite
Verb
sentimiento
feeling
Noun
libre
free (not imprisoned or enslaved); free (unconstrained); free (without obligations); free (that can be unattached to another morpheme); free (without; not containing)
Adjective
añadir
to augment; to add; to append; to annex
Verb
intransitable
impassable
Adjective
hospitalidad
hospitality
Noun
legua
legua, Spanish league (a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 4.2 km); mile (any great distance)
Noun
río
river
Noun