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Spanish Tales for Beginners (Hills, 1909)

3924 words, in teaching order

Words 201–300
mucho
much, a lot of; many, a lot of
Determiner
dónde
where?; in what place?; from where? whence?
Adverb
encontrar
to meet; to find, encounter, come across; to meet, bump into; to think, consider, find; to manage (to do something); to be located; to feel, be
Verb
seguir
to follow; to continue (on); to keep, to keep on (can be combined with the gerund to indicate that someone or something continues doing something); to further do something; to follow, observe, to obey (a rule, religion); to follow (to subscribe to content from an account); to remain, to stay, to still be; to ensue; to follow, to pursue, to track, to trace, to tail, to chase; to proceed; to continue, to keep up; …
Verb
valle
valley
Noun
salva
salvo, volley
Noun
ese
that
Determiner
montaña
mountain; a lot; a bunch
Noun
quizá
perhaps, maybe
Adverb
otro
other, another
Determiner
soltar
to release; to let go; to let loose (release from restraint); to give (a hit)
Verb
camino
way, route; road; path
Noun
enredar
to entangle, to tangle; to confuse; to embroil; to get tangled up, to become entangled
Verb
pierna
leg (lower limb of a human)
Noun
serpiente
snake, serpent (legless reptile of the sub-order Serpentes); a large or medium-sized snake; snake
Noun
violento
violent
Adjective
sacudido
determined; resolute
Adjective
arrojar
to throw, to hurl, to toss, to fling (cause an object to move rapidly through the air); to emit (to send out or give off); to eject, to kick out (to compel (a person or persons) to leave); to yield, to produce; to shed (light) on; to vomit; to cast (doubt on)
Verb
distancia
distance, distancy
Noun
salto
jump, leap, jumping; skip; gap; difference; dive; jump, vault; waterfall
Noun
pata
paw, foot, leg (of an animal); leg (of furniture); human leg, foot (often used in anger); footprint (often used in anger); kickstand (a levered bar that can be folded down from the frame of a bicycle or motorcycle to prop it upright when not being ridden); pocket flap; tie, draw
Noun
yo
first-person singular pronoun in the nominative case; I
Pronoun
arrastrar
to drag; to pull, to tow, to haul; to incite; to sweep away (e.g., a river); to lug, to drag along, to drag down; to crawl, to creep, to drag oneself; to grovel
Verb
venenoso
venomous, poisonous; toxic
Adjective
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
pesa
weight (object cf. peso); dumbbell; balance, scales
Noun
mucho
much, a lot, far, way, many times; very; long (a long time)
Adverb
forcejear
to struggle, grapple, wrestle
Verb
querer
to desire, to want, to want to; to love; to be fond of (usually used with people or personified objects); would you ... ?; to mean to, to try to; to love each other
Verb
morder
to bite, nip; to gnaw; to grasp, clutch; to wear away, to wear down; to corrode (i.e., acid on metal); to criticize, run down, gossip about, find fault with
Verb
muy
apocopic form of mucho; very
Adverb
feo
ugly; in poor condition; bad, gross, mean, nasty
Adjective
aplastar
to crush, smash, squash; to flatten; to squash (to put down by force or intimidation); to sit comfortably, especially by slumping down on a seat
Verb
desgarrar
to tear, to rip, to rend (to hold or restrain in two places while pulling apart); to break (someone's heart)
Verb
reptil
reptile (a cold-blooded vertebrate)
Noun
pasar
to pass, to hand, to slip; to happen; to pass, to get past, to go past, to go by, to go over, to get through; (of time) to pass; to enter a room; to go too far, exaggerate; to exceed, surpass, go over; to ripen too much, become rotten, become off (food); to pass (filter); to strain, to sieve, to sift; …
Verb
cresta
comb (of a chicken or other bird); crest (of an animal); sharp peaks (of a mountain); ridge (of a wave); Mohawk hairstyle
Noun
bajar
to go down, come down; to get off, to get down, to climb down, to step down, to get out (e.g., of/from a platform or vehicle); to descend; to go to a location that is less elevated, less inland, or more to the south; to lower, reduce, fall; to drop, lower, put down, turn down, move down (an object, the volume, etc.); to download; to download (for one's own private use); to lose (e.g., weight); to take down, bring down; …
Verb
ver
to see, to spot; to see, to look at, to view (perceive); to see, to tell, to observe; to see, to check (verify); to watch; to look, to seem; to see oneself, to picture oneself; to find oneself, to be; to see one another
Verb
correr
to run, to jog; to flow; to shoo, chase away, drive away; to throw out; to fire; to expel; to walk away; to cop out, to shirk; to elapse (time); to go around, spread (rumors); to rush; to draw (curtains); …
Verb
saltar
to jump; to skip; miss (a meal etc.); to sauté; to miss (accidentally); to break, breach (rules etc.)
Verb
sobre
over, above, on, upon, atop; about
Preposition
esfuerzo
effort, endeavor
Noun
alguno
someone; some, some people; one (thing); a few
Pronoun
pequeño
small; little
Adjective
robusto
robust, sturdy, rugged (evincing strength; firmly built); stout, stocky, hardy; strapping
Adjective
quién
who?, whom?; (with “de”) whose?; if only; I wish
Pronoun
acaso
even; perhaps
Adverb
zorro
fox (carnivore); opossum; skunk; fox (sly or cunning person); jack (device used to raise and temporarily support a heavy object); beacon
Noun
valgo
valgus (abnormally turned outward, especially of the foot)
Adjective
tanto
so much; so many
Pronoun
travesura
mischief; caper; prank; misadventure
Noun
entrar
to enter; to come in; to get in; to go in; to get inside; to come on in; to break in; to join; to enter; to start; to access; to log in; to fit; to step in; to input; to enter (data or information); to enter in; to enter into; to get into; to come into; to walk into; to step into; to slip into (entrar + en); to break into (entrar + en); to fit in; to fall in; to fall within (entrar + en); …
Verb
corral
corral, enclosure
Noun
gallina
hen; chicken (coward); Club Atlético River Plate fan
Noun
aprovechar
to make use of, to make the most of, to get the most out of; to take advantage of, to leverage; to be useful, to profit (someone); to improve
Verb
conocer
to know (a person or a place), to be familiar with, to be acquainted with; to meet; to get to know, become acquainted (with); to see, to visit, to explore (i.e., to get to know a place for the first time); to hear, to know (implies hearing for the first time); to discover, to get to or come to know, to learn about, to find out; to know, to have known; to know oneself; to conceptualize or conceive; to know, have sex with.
Verb
pues
so, then; in that case; because, since
Conjunction
conmigo
with me; with myself
Adverb
penetrar
to penetrate
Verb
bosque
forest
Noun
esto
substitutes a noun one can't remember or can't remember the name of
Pronoun
mono
monkey; any monkey-looking animal; boiler suit, coveralls, overall, onesie (a one-piece suit combining trousers and jacket, worn for heavy or hot manual labour); jumpsuit, overalls (a one-piece item of clothing originally by parachutists); jumpsuit (a female one-piece item of clothing); tracksuit, joggers (garment consisting of a top and trousers for sports and casual wear); vagina, vulva; doll, puppet; doodle; cartoon; …
Noun
subir
to go up or come up; to raise; to climb; to upload
Verb
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
desde
since (from a specified time in the past); from (a location); starting at (a quantity, such as a price)
Preposition
arriba
above, over; up; uphill; upstream; upstairs
Adverb
gesto
gesture; expression
Noun
burlesco
teasing, mocking
Adjective
dueño
owner, proprietor, landlord; master
Noun
ése
that one; the former; dude, guy, pal, man, buddy; (sometimes) asshole
Pronoun
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
hermano
brother; sibling; bro, dude (friendly term of address for a male of similar age.)
Noun
o
or; either … or
Conjunction
primo
first; prime
Adjective
adelante
forward (toward the front); forward (into the future)
Adverb
buscar
to seek, search for, look for, try to find, to scour; to look up (in a search engine, dictionary, etc.); to fetch, get, pick up; to bring on (oneself), to ask for
Verb
entendimiento
understanding
Noun
rastrero
low, cowardly, ignominious; despicable
Adjective
figura
figure; charge; part, role; actor; swaggerer, show-off
Noun
quien
who; whom; whoever; whomever; anyone who; the one who
Pronoun
comer
to eat; to have lunch; to eat away, corrode; to capture a piece; to have sexual intercourse (because of similarity to coger); translated with "not care"
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
desafiar
to challenge (in a competition); to defy, to challenge (e.g. parents, a leader, the status quo); to brave; to call out (i.e. to criticize or expose)
Verb
valiente
brave, courageous, fearless; valiant, gallant, doughty; gritty, plucky, gutsy, spunky
Adjective
ladrar
to bark
Verb
furioso
furious, raging; relentless
Adjective
hablar
to talk; to speak; to communicate using words; to speak (a language); to talk or speak regularly with someone, sometimes online
Verb
mal
badly, poorly, ill; awry, amiss, wrong, wrongly; hard (functions as an adverb in Spanish but translates as an adjective in English); Used as an intensifier, very; yes
Adverb
bárbaro
barbarian
Noun
salvaje
wild, savage (untamed, not domesticated); savage, feral, uncivilized (said of a person)
Adjective
buen
apocopic form of bueno (“good, fine”)
Adjective
noble
noble
Adjective
compañero
companion (someone with whom one spends time or keeps company); mate, colleague; (with a qualifier) fellow X, classmate, coworker, etc. (someone with whom something is shared); fellow member of a political group; comrade; teammate (one who is on the same team); mate, partner (matching item in a set); partner, significant other (especially not a spouse); companion (a thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person); friendly term of address; friend, buddy
Noun
parte
part; section; portion; share; piece; bit; cut; proportion; place; somewhere; side; party (e.g. a third party, state party, to be party to); behalf; stint (i.e. allotted portion of work); message; report; dispatch; traffic ticket; sticker
Noun
pan
bread (food made by baking cereal dough); bun (such as the kind used on a hamburger or hot dog); money, dough; work, job
Noun
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
cama
bed
Noun
ofender
to offend; to take umbrage, take offense
Verb
lucha
fight, fighting, fray; struggle, battle (in the figurative sense), strife, striving; wrestling; control, enforcement, fight (e.g. disease control, tobacco control, drug control)
Noun