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Spanish Tales for Beginners (Hills, 1909)

3924 words, in teaching order

Words 301–400
escudo
shield; emblem; coat of arms, escutcheon; any of several, mostly historical, currencies including the escudo, écu, and the scudo
Noun
parir
to give birth; to think up; imagine; to explain
Verb
contar
to count; to tally; to tell (a story); narrate; to be (a certain number of years of age); to rely; to have available
Verb
amigo
friend; penis
Noun
nada
nothing, zero, zilch, not...anything
Pronoun
gallinero
henhouse, chicken coop; kip (very untidy house or room); nosebleed section; madhouse, bedlam, noisy gathering (a chaotic, uproarious, noisy place); one who treats in hens
Noun
refunfuñar
to grumble; to blather, mumble (speak gibberish)
Verb
águila
eagle; crack; whizz; shrewd person
Noun
real
true friend, best friend; real (unit of currency); a quarter of a peseta
Noun
llegar
to arrive, get (to); to get up to, to go up to, to reach (+ a or + hasta); to be sufficient; to be enough; to manage (be successful)
Verb
picacho
peak; summit
Noun
tomar
to take (put under one's physical or mental control, often in one's hands); to draw from, take, derive; to grip, grasp, grab; to select, choose; to seize, capture; to take (a path, etc); to take (use as a means of transportation (when one isn't the driver)); to take, consume, drink (mostly used with drinks and medication); used in tomar el sol; to take (regard in a specified way); …
Verb
discusión
discussion; argument; disagreement
Noun
callar
to calm; to be silent, to shut up; to keep silent; to hush, to become silent; to hush, to make silent; to not mention
Verb
ruin
contemptible, mean, heartless; mean, stingy; wild; unruly; rachitic
Adjective
mirar
to look at (to try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes); to watch (to look at, view, or observe for a period of time); to watch (to mind, attend, or guard); to consider, think over (to think about seriously); look (with adjectives); used for emphasis; look; to seek, look for (to try to find); to look (to try to see something, to pay attention with one’s eyes); to face, overlook (to be oriented towards a certain direction or thing); to look at oneself
Verb
cosa
thing (object, concept); thing (living being)
Noun
volar
to fly, to fly away; to fly (on an airplane); to blow up; to anger, to exasperate, to infuriate; to rouse; to make fly out; to get carried away, to go too far; to release (a hunting falcon); to raise to the top of the line (e.g., a letter or number); to flutter, to hover; …
Verb
jaula
cage; crate
Noun
misterioso
mysterious; mystery (e.g. mystery lover [in an affair], mystery man or woman [in a case or investigation]); eerie (e.g. an eerie place, an eerie air or glow, eerie music); uncanny (e.g. uncanny knowledge or ability)
Adjective
ave
bird; fowl, poultry; high-speed train
Noun
alto
tall; high; loud; upper, top; senior (rank)
Adjective
cómo
how?
Adverb
llamar
to summon, to call; to call (on the telephone); to knock (on a door); to ring (a doorbell); to refer to, to call; to appeal; to attract; to be called
Verb
pensamiento
thought; thinking; pansy (flower)
Noun
tampoco
neither; nor; also not; either (as well, with implied negative)
Adverb
pensativo
pensive
Adjective
desprecio
scorn, contempt
Noun
envidia
envy
Noun
burla
mockery, taunt, ridicule; prank
Noun
imitar
to imitate, to mimic, to ape, to copy, to copycat, to impersonate, to simulate
Verb
perro
dog (the species Canis familiaris (sometimes designated Canis lupus familiaris), domesticated for thousands of years and of highly variable appearance because of human breeding); clothes peg, clothespin; asshole (despicable person); lazy person
Noun
defender
to defend, to protect, to hold down; to stand up for, to stick up for; to uphold; to prohibit; to claim; to fight back; to defend oneself, to protect oneself; to stand up for oneself, to stick up for oneself; to fend off; to get by
Verb
respetar
to respect
Verb
mostrar
to show (have somebody see something); to demonstrate or display
Verb
temor
fear; dread; awe; apprehension; trepidation
Noun
voluntad
will, wish, want, desire; willpower
Noun
resolver
to resolve, sort out, settle, address, tackle, overcome, iron out; to solve, figure out, work out, crack; to decide; to meet (e.g. demands, needs, requirements)
Verb
domar
to tame
Verb
valeroso
brave
Adjective
creación
creation; invention
Noun
vacilar
to hesitate, waver, dither (UK), vacillate; to enjoy; to spy on; to banter, kid, tease, rib, trick; to play a joke on, to pull someone's leg; to saunter; to go out; to loiter; to have a superficial love relationship or fling; to do it; to be appealing
Verb
existir
to exist
Verb
nuestro
our, ours, to us; our, ours, to us (as the royal we)
Determiner
soberano
sovereign
Noun
cobardemente
cowardly
Adverb
ante
in front of, before; against, compared to
Preposition
burlar
to outwit, to outsmart, to circumvent, to trick, to deceive; to circumvent, to evade, to cheat; to make fun of, to poke fun at, to mock, to ridicule, to jeer (+ de); to taunt, to tease (often uses de); to scoff, to scoff at (+ de); to deceive oneself (+ de)
Verb
día
day (any period of 24 hours); day (a period from midnight to the following midnight); day (rotational period of a planet); day (the part of a day period which one spends at work, school, etc.); day, daytime (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset); An observance or celebration lasting for a day, such as an annual holiday.
Noun
memoria
memory (the ability of the brain to record information); memory (a specific thing that is remembered); report, document; memory (the part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data)
Noun
respeto
respect
Noun
experiencia
experience; expertise
Noun
chocho
lupin beans, lupin fruit; cinnamon sweet; cunt; drug addict; Nicaraguan; pill; roid, anabolic steroid
Noun
año
year; age
Noun
apagar
to extinguish (a flame, fire), to douse; to satisfy; quench, slake (thirst, etc.); to shut off, to turn off, to switch off, to shut down, to power off; to put out, to stub out (e.g., cigarette); to blow out (e.g., a candle), to snuff or snuff out (e.g., a torch); to fade; to wane; to go out, be extinguished
Verb
gastar
to spend (money, time, resources); to wear, wear out (deteriorate by using); to use up, to expend, to consume (energy, water etc.); to play, pull (pranks); to have or wear; to waste (e.g. gas, money, energy, one's breath)
Verb
fuerza
force; strength
Noun
decidir
to decide, to make up one's mind, to determine, to choose to; to decide on; to rule
Verb
combatir
to combat or fight
Verb
caminar
to walk; to stroll; to travel, to trek; to go on; to wade (in or through a body of water)
Verb
delante
in front of, before (spatially); forward, forwards (with hacia preceding it); ahead (with por preceding it)
Adverb
allí
there (away from the speaker and the listener)
Adverb
caballo
horse; knight; heroin; ox (strong clumsy person); master, hotshot
Noun
arco
bow (weapon); bow (rod for an instrument); arc; arch; goal (structure)
Noun
flecha
arrow (projectile, symbol)
Noun
aquél
that one (often with the meaning of "over there", sometimes contrasted with ése); the former; anyone/anything
Pronoun
cruzar
to cross (including of legs); to exchange (words); to fold (arms); to crossbreed
Verb
lejos
far, far away
Adverb
grande
big, large; great, grand; aged, old
Adjective
cuatro
four
Numeric
merecer
to deserve; to have sex, used especially when talking about a nubile girl
Verb
sorna
sarcasm, irony; sarcastic tone; slowness
Noun
manera
way; manner; method; style
Noun
saber
to know, to understand (a fact); to know how to do something; to find out, to learn; to taste (i.e. have a flavour); to realize, to know (i.e. recognize); to tell, to know (i.e. to discern or distinguish if something is the case); to figure out; to hear from; to hear of, to hear about; to learn, to find out, to know; …
Verb
avanzar
to advance (to make (something) happen at an earlier time or date); to advance (to move forwards)
Verb
disparar
to shoot, to fire (e.g. a weapon, a rocket); to rise, to go up, to skyrocket; to go off, to be suddenly jolted into action
Verb
retirar
to remove; to withdraw; to retreat, to withdraw; to retire
Verb
acometida
rush (sudden forward motion)
Noun
evolución
evolution; development
Noun
atraer
to attract, to lure
Verb
hacia
toward, towards; around, about (indicating time)
Preposition
matorral
brush, scrub (wild vegetation); thicket, copse
Noun
faltar
to be lacking, to lack, to not have (of a quality or circumstance); to be lacking, to lack, to not have (of a person); to remain; to be absent, to be missing; to miss
Verb
tierra
Earth (planet of the Solar System in which all of humanity resides); land, ground (Earth surface not covered by oceans or other bodies of water); earth, soil (the unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth); land, terrain (an area of land or the particular features of it); land, terrain (reserved for growing crops); homeland (one's country of birth); land, country, nation, territory (country or region); ground, earth (connection electrically to the earth on equipment); earth (one of the four or five classical elements)
Noun
caer
to fall (to move to a lower position due to gravity); to fall (to come down, to drop, to descend); to fall down, to collapse (to fall to the ground); to fall out (to come out of something by falling); to fall into, to fall for; to be ensnared by; to fall into (to enter a negative state); to fall, to collapse (to be overthrown or defeated); to get (to understand); to be granted, awarded, or given (potentially by chance); to fall under (to belong to for purposes of categorization); …
Verb
foso
ditch, trench; moat, fosse; trap
Noun
profundo
deep (having a bottom far from the surface or mouth); profound (displaying great insight)
Adjective
sentir
to feel; to regret, feel or be sorry; to hear; to feel (an emotion/state of being)
Verb
ligadura
ligature; knot; tying; slur
Noun
mano
hand; front foot; round; hand; coat, lick; skill, talent; mano (a stone resembling a rolling pin, used to grind maize or other grain on a metate); A group of people united for a job; buddy, friend, bro, homie
Noun
trampa
trap, snare; cheating, cheat (violation of rules to gain an advantage); trapdoor (hinged or sliding door set into a floor)
Noun
perder
to lose; to lose someone (experience the death of someone); to get lost; to go missing; to lose one's way; to get lost, to go away; to waste; to miss, to miss out on; to lose, to be defeated; to be losing; to trail; to be down
Verb
bregar
to toil, struggle; to fight; to deal with
Verb
murmurar
to murmur, to mutter; to murmur; to gossip
Verb
roncar
to snore
Verb
voz
voice; term; word
Noun
razón
reason; reasoning; correctness, rectitude, a point; ratio; rate
Noun
tarde
late (after a specified deadline); late in the day
Adverb
disponer
to prepare, arrange; to order, decide, stipulate; to have at one's disposal, to have available, to make use of, to have; to prepare to, be about to
Verb
dignidad
dignity
Noun