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Spanish Tales for Beginners (Hills, 1909)

3924 words, in teaching order

Words 501–600
cuyo
whose
Determiner
pérdida
loss; leak
Noun
antes
earlier; before; sooner; previously; formerly; beforehand (at an earlier time); soon (in certain phrases); ahead (temporally), ahead of (when followed by de); once, formerly (in the past); first (before a condition is fulfilled); rather, sooner (used to specify a preference)
Adverb
musulmán
Muslim
Adjective
creer
to believe; to think, to believe, to reckon, to be of the opinion; to give credence to; to think one is something
Verb
obligado
obliged, obligated; committed; coerced, forced
Adjective
audacia
audacity, boldness, daring
Noun
compadecer
to feel sorry (for); to pity; to sympathise with
Verb
pedir
to ask for something; to request someone else to do something; to order something; to order; to call, call in (e.g. to call for help, to call for backup, to call in a favor); to plead
Verb
libertad
liberty, freedom; latitude, leeway
Noun
crimen
crime; violent crime
Noun
profeta
prophet
Noun
mandar
to send; to order; to lead, be in charge, command; to enjoin; to lead
Verb
ocultar
to hide, to conceal; to obscure; to hide; to be hidden
Verb
complacencia
satisfaction
Noun
alma
soul; web (strip of material between flanges)
Noun
airado
angry, irate
Adjective
semblante
countenance; appearance
Noun
amenazador
threatening (presenting a threat)
Adjective
apartar
to separate, to divide; to set aside; to avert (e.g., one's eyes, one's gaze); to desist
Verb
falso
false; untrue; fake; counterfeit
Adjective
creyente
believing; religious, pious, devout
Adjective
lengua
tongue (organ); language (a body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication); Spanish (subject taught in schools)
Noun
cortado
choppy, disconnected; chopped; adjusted, proportioned; thickened, coagulated; shy; divided into two equal parts horizontally, per fess
Adjective
llama
flame; llama (camelid mammal)
Noun
tal
such
Adjective
pena
punishment, sentence; pity (sympathy); used in dar pena; sorrow; embarrassment; trouble; bellyache
Noun
abogar
to advocate; to defend in court
Verb
e
and
Conjunction
verdugo
executioner, hangman (official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal); tyrant; puntilla (small dagger for administering the coup de grâce to the bull)
Noun
entregar
to deliver, to hand over, to hand off; to submit; to turn in (e.g. homework), hand in; to surrender (oneself)
Verb
demandar
to insist, ask (for something), request; to sue, file suit, implead; to take charge (of something)
Verb
perdón
pardon; mercy
Noun
arrasar
to level, to smooth; to raze, to destroy; to annihilate, to devastate, to ravage, to exterminate; to triumph, to crush, to sweep (to be phenomenally successful)
Verb
lágrima
tear, teardrop
Noun
estrechar
to narrow (make narrower); to strengthen (relations, etc.); to shake (hands)
Verb
contra
against, versus
Preposition
perdonar
to pardon, excuse, forgive
Verb
guardar
to save (to store for future use); to save (to write a file to disk or other storage medium); to keep; to order; to clean; to put away
Verb
mío
mine; of mine
Pronoun
aún
still, yet; even (implying an extreme example in the case mentioned)
Adverb
entonces
then, next, thereupon, at that time, at that point; then, therefore, so, thus; in that case
Adverb
misericordia
misericord; mercy
Noun
santo
holy, godly
Adjective
escribir
to write (to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate); to write (to) someone (a letter, etc.); to write someone something; to write (to be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.)); to write (to be an author); to type (on a phone or computer keyboard); to text; to chat regularly with someone on social media
Verb
exterminar
to exterminate
Verb
infiel
unfaithful
Adjective
cantar
to sing; to stink
Verb
pájaro
bird, especially a perching bird; homosexual; penis; person of questionable or shady character, or involved in dubious affairs
Noun
azul
blue
Adjective
cielo
sky; heaven
Noun
sol
sun; sunlight; sunny side (of a place); daylight (the time between sunrise and sunset); sol (a unit of currency, currently used in Peru); sol (a musical note); sol (a colloid suspension of a solid in a liquid)
Noun
dorado
golden
Adjective
flor
flower (structure in angiosperms); bloom, blossom (an expanded bud); prime, pick; virginity; compliment, flattery; A globular buildup of carbon on the end of a wick.; showerhead; Something excellent, magnificent, beautiful; gay man; end of a split end
Noun
aura
aura; the turkey vulture and related species in the genus Cathartes, carrion-eating birds native to the Americas
Noun
perfume
perfume
Noun
triste
sad, saddened, blue, gloomy, unhappy, joyless, triste; As a temporary state.; As a trait.; dismal, dreary, glum, miserable, melancholic; sorrowful, mournful; forlorn; upsetting, saddening; dull
Adjective
ventana
window (opening for light and air); window frame; window (area on a computer screen); small gap or opening; forest clearing; nostril
Noun
distraer
to entertain, distract; to get distracted, amuse oneself, have fun
Verb
melancolía
melancholy
Noun
bello
beautiful, fair; lovely (wonderful)
Adjective
resistir
to tolerate, to put up with, to bear, to handle, to stand; to fight off, to survive, to defend oneself (from); to resist
Verb
encanto
charm, captivation; spell, enchantment; apparition, otherworldly entity; sweetie, doll; good looks
Noun
oloroso
odorous; sweet (having a pleasant smell)
Adjective
enramada
intertwined branches; shelter made with tree branches
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
compasión
compassion; sympathy
Noun
forma
shape; form; figure; way; manner; basis; method; form (“sheet to fill out”)
Noun
mariposa
butterfly; male homosexual; butterfly stroke; creeping beggarweed (Desmodium incanum); white ginger (Hedychium coronarium); butterflies (physical sensation in one's stomach)
Noun
encantar
to charm, to enchant; to please, to delight; to bewitch
Verb
pos
only used in en pos de (“in pursuit of”)
Noun
ella
she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions); it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
Pronoun
tropezar
to trip, stumble, bump into; to get tripped up; to meet (someone) by chance; to run into
Verb
recio
tough, robust, strong, vigorous, solidly-built; loud; Rhaetian, Raetic
Adjective
muro
wall; wall (on Facebook)
Noun
enamorar
to enamor; to fall in love
Verb
tras
after, following, in the wake of; upon; behind (on the far side of); beyond; after (in pursuit of)
Preposition
lamento
lament; plaint; wail, wailing
Noun
recordar
to remember, to recollect; to remember; to recall, remind of; to remind; to wake up
Verb
caridad
charity
Noun
fortalecer
to fortify, strengthen
Verb
iluminar
to illuminate
Verb
vianda
food, viands (items of food served as a meal); takeaway meal; meals on wheels (food delivered to the homes of those unable to cook)
Noun
oro
gold.; or; A suit in a Spanish deck of cards.; A card from this suit.
Noun
seducir
to seduce
Verb
carcelero
jail, prison
Adjective
alimentar
to feed (give food to eat); to feed into, reinforce.
Verb
recatar
to hide; to retaste
Verb
falda
skirt; woman; bit of skirt (woman as an object of desire); brisket (a cut of meat); mountainside
Noun
vestido
dress
Noun
calle
street; lane (in a pool or racetrack, but not a highway)
Noun
rosal
rosebush
Noun
haz
bundle; beam; face; façade
Noun
temprano
early, early on
Adverb
luz
light; lumen; brightness, intelligence; focus, point of view, understanding; electric power; span
Noun
poner
to put, to place (cause to assume a specified position); to write; to type (with a keyboard, etc.), (with a dative object) to send; to attach, to assign (also in an abstract sense); to give, to provide; (transitive) to put (cause to assume a specified state), (reflexive) to become, to get, to put oneself in a specified state; to pay (attention); to prepare; to turn on, activate (an appliance, light, a mechanism, a functionality etc.).; to play, put on (a recording, a song, a video etc.), put, display (an image); …
Verb
colorado
colored; red; risqué, indecent
Adjective
rosa
rose (flower); pink (color/colour); rose
Noun
mecer
to rock (movement), cradle; to put off something in a deceitful way
Verb
venir
Senses relating to literal movement.; to come (move closer to some location (most often closer to the speaker), by default the speaker's location); to arrive; Figurative senses.; to come from, originate; to come (happen); to come (appear); to come (to have some characteristic or quality) (with an adjective or prepositional phrase); to receive something, get something; to get (something felt in one's body or perceived in one's mind, a feeling, an illness, pain, an urge, an idea, etc.); …
Verb