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Spanish Tales for Beginners (Hills, 1909)

3924 words, in teaching order

Words 401–500
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
majestuoso
majestic, majestical, august, grand; stately, pompous
Adjective
borde
edge, border, brink, verge, rim, margin; brim, rim, lip (top edge of a vessel or container); side (of the road, highway, freeway, etc.); ledge (of a window); edging, fringe (shaping or dressing the edge of something)
Noun
hoyo
hole
Noun
asomar
to show; to peep up; to peep out; to come up; to come out; to go out; to appear; to lean out
Verb
curiosidad
curiosity
Noun
piedra
stone (hard earthen substance that can form large rocks); flint (small cylinder used to produce a spark in a lighter, etc.); hailstone (single ball of hail, or solid precipitation); crack (potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine); pumice
Noun
pegar
to stick; to match; to fit; to go with; to be strong or bright (said of the sun or light); to paste; to glue; to hit; strike; to give; dish out (a strike); to infect; pass on; infect (a disease); to do; take; have (a kind of catch-all verb for various actions); to flirt, hit on; …
Verb
herir
to wound, injure (cause physical injury and pain); to hurt, offend, wound (cause emotional pain)
Verb
oído
hearing; inner ear; ear (used to refer to the ear as an internal organ, or its function of hearing)
Noun
culpable
culpable person
Noun
corazón
heart (organ of the body); heart, emotions, kindness, spirit; the center of an object; core (of a fruit); artichoke heart; heart (a playing card of the suit hearts, corazones)
Noun
volver
to return, to revert, to get back; to come back, go back; to do again; to turn; to become, to get; to make, to drive
Verb
presentar
to present, to submit; to introduce (someone), to acquaint; to show; to show signs of; to file (a lawsuit), to lodge (an appeal, a complaint); to table (e.g., a resolution, an amendment)
Verb
pecho
thorax; chest; the front of the thorax; breast (of a woman); breast, heart; seat of the emotions, feelings, etc.; valor, strength, fortitude
Noun
compasivo
compassionate
Adjective
atender
to pay attention to (something); to attend to (something); to care for (someone, especially the ill); to comply with (some rule); to pay attention; to mind; to answer (the phone)
Verb
ruego
plea, appeal
Noun
fondo
bottom; back; fund, funding; ground (bottom of a body of water); ground, basis, foundation; opposite side or extreme (of a house, store, room, corridor, street, field, tubing, piping, etc.), respect to the talker, entrance or beginning; dip (exercise)
Noun
fosa
moat; cavity; grave; pit
Noun
inclinar
to tilt; to bow, to lean (physically); to be inclined
Verb
gozoso
pleasurable, joyful, enjoyable (causing happiness); pleased, joyous (happy)
Adjective
pensar
to think, ponder; to reflect, think through; to think of, think that (have an opinion on); to intend, to plan, to want
Verb
hermoso
gorgeous, beautiful, handsome, lovely
Adjective
piel
skin; pelt
Noun
arrancar
to pull out; to unsheathe (a sword, dagger, etc.); to rip, to tear; to start (a machine); to get going, get started; to run away
Verb
cuanto
whatever quantity, as much, however much
Pronoun
asegurar
to secure (to make fast; to close or confine effectually); to assure (to give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of); to claim, to maintain; to ensure, to guarantee (to make a pledge to someone); to make sure, to ensure (to take care that something happens); to insure (to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs); to belay
Verb
deslizar
to slide; to slip (to give discreetly); to swipe (e.g. on a screen or with a card); to glide; to slip, to slither (to move stealthily or discreetly, to move with ease)
Verb
reojo
only used in de reojo (askance, out of the corner of one's eye)
Noun
para
for, to (expressing a recipient); to, in order to, so, for (expressing the intended purpose of an action); by, due, due on, due by (expressing a deadline); for (expressing contrast from what is expected); for, to, in one's opinion, as far as one is concerned (expressing an opinion, perception or perspective); for (expressing using one's efforts for a group or an authority figure such as a sports team or a company/boss); come (used to indicate a point in time at or after which a stated event or situation occurs); toward (indicates direction); to (indicates destination)
Preposition
sí
hello? (used when answering a phone call)
Interjection
ahora
now (at the present time); just now, just a moment ago (in the past); very soon, in a moment (in the future); of nowadays, of today, latter-day; today; however, on the other hand; sometimes...other times
Adverb
entretenido
amusing, entertaining
Adjective
montar
to mount; to ride; get in/on a vehicle; to set up; to establish; to whip, beat; to hump
Verb
perruno
doglike; dog
Adjective
caballero
horseman; knight; cavalier; gentleman; cowboy
Noun
remontar
to frighten away; to overcome; to elevate; to repair; to go up (a river); (+ a) to date back (to), to go back to, to be traced back (to a point in the past); to come back, to fight back, to pull back (e.g. a goal)
Verb
matar
to kill, slay; to put out, extinguish (a flame or light); to butcher; to injure, damage; to fatigue, exhaust, tire out; to dull (render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish); to round off; to ruin; to kill (to annoy); to kill (to get mad at); …
Verb
alcance
reach, range, scope (maximum distance something can reach)
Noun
algún
apocopic form of alguno; some, any
Determiner
alcanzar
to reach; to get to to catch up; to accomplish; to achieve; to be enough; to suffice; to pass; to peak, to peak at; to get it (to receive punishment; to receive a beating)
Verb
toledo
toilet
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
don
sir, master, lord; a title of respect to a man, prefixed to first names; gentleman; gift, present; gift, talent, knack
Noun
fernando
fernet with Coca-Cola
Noun
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
cordial
cordial
Adjective
amistad
friendship
Noun
hija
daughter; female equivalent of hijo
Noun
esclavo
slave
Noun
castellano
Castilian (of, from or relating to the geographic region or former kingdom of Castile, now approximately divided into the autonomous communities of Castile and León, Castilla-La Mancha and the Community of Madrid); Spanish (of or related to Spain, particularly the Castilian or European forms of the Spanish language); Of a hue of marbleized black and white.
Adjective
nazareno
Nazarene; native or inhabitant of the city of Dos Hermanas, Seville, Andalusia, Spain (usually male); the grape hyacinth
Noun
amar
to love, have great affection for, care about; to wish
Verb
dios
god
Noun
esposa
wife; handcuff
Noun
también
also, too, as well; so
Adverb
nunca
never; ever
Adverb
huérfano
orphan
Noun
madre
mother; mother (source or origin); mother (nun); riverbed; dregs (of a drink); thing
Noun
concebir
to conceive, imagine; to understand; to conceive, become pregnant
Verb
maría
magpie (bird); Former coin of Spain in the 17th century, equivalent to 12 reales de vellón; Marie biscuit; doss subject (UK); gut course (US, in college); housewife; uncultured woman; Indian immigrant from the countryside to Mexico City
Noun
inmortal
immortal (not susceptible to death); immortal (never to be forgotten)
Adjective
crecer
to grow
Verb
hermosura
beauty (someone who is beautiful); beauty (the quality of being attractive or pleasing)
Noun
virtud
virtue
Noun
envidiar
to envy
Verb
dicho
said
Determiner
confín
limit; boundary
Noun
jardín
garden; rabbit hole; a time-consuming, hard to abandon tangent or detour
Noun
rodear
to round up; to surround; to go around
Verb
palacio
palace; mansion
Noun
lóbrego
dark; sad; gloomy
Adjective
mazmorra
dungeon
Noun
donde
where, in what place; whence
Adverb
gemir
to wail; to moan, to groan
Verb
hambriento
very hungry, famished; hungry
Adjective
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
cadena
chain (series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal); necklace (article of jewelry that is worn around the neck); network (group of affiliated television stations); channel (specific radio frequency or band of frequencies); string (ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity)
Noun
cautivo
captive
Noun
cristiano
Christian (member of the Christian religion); guy (person)
Noun
suceder
to happen, to befall, to occur; to succeed to, to follow; to succeed, to triumph
Verb
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
princesa
princess
Noun
mora
a mulberry, a mulberry fruit; a blackberry; a berry; default (failure to meet an obligation on time); mora (unit of syllable weight)
Noun
tornar
to return; to come back; to go back; to put back; to change; to (do) again; to revive (to recover from a state of unconsciousness); to become (e.g. change in a characteristic, nature of something or status)
Verb
lleno
full
Adjective
tristeza
sadness, gloom, sorrow, gloominess, unhappiness, misery; tristeza (plant disease)
Noun
segundo
second (after the first)
Adjective
puerta
door (portal of entry into a building); gate (doorlike structure outside a house); gate (passageway in an airport); doorway, doorstep, gateway; goal (area into which players attempt to put an object)
Noun
arrodillar
to make someone kneel; to kneel down
Verb
muchedumbre
crowd; multitude
Noun
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
prisión
prison (a place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government)
Noun
bendecir
to bless
Verb
niña
girl, female equivalent of niño; pupil (of eye); maiden (virgin)
Noun
ojo
eye; keyhole; caution
Noun
además
in addition, moreover, furthermore, further, also, additionally; as well, also, not to mention (when in the middle of a sentence or toward the end)
Adverb
imagen
image
Noun
dulce
sweet (having a pleasant taste, especially induced by sugar); sweet (having a pleasant disposition); fresh (without salt)
Adjective