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Spanish Tales for Beginners (Hills, 1909)

3924 words, in teaching order

Words 801–900
pobreza
poverty
Noun
honradez
honesty, integrity, trustworthiness
Noun
familia
family (group of people related to each other); family (grouping of things possessing common characteristics); relative, relation (member of one's family)
Noun
componer
to compose (write music); to compose, make up; to repair, fix; to consist
Verb
mismo
same; identical; one and the same; indicates that the two compared noun clauses both represent the one thing; similar; alike; practically identical; indicates that the two compared noun clauses have one or more matching qualities; self; emphasizes the identity or singularity of the modified noun phrase; own; emphasizes the owner or the exclusivity of ownership in a noun phrase with a possessive pronoun
Adjective
doce
twelve
Numeric
conducir
to drive; to conduct
Verb
rebaño
flock; flock, herd (livestock); flock, herd (conformist)
Noun
vaca
cow (adult female of the species Bos taurus); beef; leather; cow (woman considered unpleasant, particularly one considered fat); collection
Noun
débil
weak
Adjective
enfermizo
sickly; unhealthy
Adjective
nacimiento
birth (the act of being born); birth, beginning, start; crib, nativity scene
Noun
edad
age; time since an event; age (period of time)
Noun
agobiar
to overwhelm, to anguish; to annoy, to bother; to tire, fatigue; to bow
Verb
trabajar
to work; to work in, work on, to workshop (+ en); to suffer
Verb
leche
milk; cum, semen
Noun
sombra
shadow (a dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object); shade (darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked); shade, shadow (a small degree); ghost, shade, phantom; shade (a color obtained by adding black)
Noun
jamás
never; ever
Adverb
solo
sole; one; only; single (unique); lonely, lonesome; alone, by oneself; automatic; self-, by itself
Adjective
pieza
piece, part; room; ordinary
Noun
lavar
to wash; to wipe, clear (disgrace, doubt, etc.); to wash oneself; to wash a body part of oneself (e.g. hands, hair, etc.)
Verb
ropa
garment, clothing, clothes, robes
Noun
rico
rich (having a lot of money and possessions); luxurious; tasty, yummy; hot, sexy
Adjective
arrendador
tenant, lessee; lessor
Noun
labrar
to work; to carve, to craft; to plough
Verb
pacer
to graze, to pasture; to put out to pasture; to eat away, to nibble, to gnaw
Verb
vecino
neighbour (a person living on adjacent or nearby land); a resident or inhabitant of an area, especially of a neighborhood or a village; freeman, person of relatively high status associated with a place
Noun
gran
apocopic form of grande; great, grand
Adjective
trabajo
work, job; work; school assignment, often a presentation
Noun
paja
straw (dried stalk of a cereal plant); straw (dried stalks considered collectively); drinking straw; wank, jerk off, handjob, masturbation; lie, falsehood; very good, great, excellent; laziness, tiredness, fatigue; effort, a task, for example, that requires a lot of energy to complete.
Noun
apoyar
to lean, to rest, to lie or lay; to support, to get behind (to back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid); to support (to keep from falling); to lean, to rest, to be supported; to lean on, to rely on; to be based, to be founded
Verb
muleta
crutch; muleta (red flag used by bullfighters)
Noun
rama
branch (woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing); offshoot (that which develops from something else)
Noun
sauce
willow
Noun
estrecho
narrow; tight; close, kin; close, intimate, strong; prudish, uptight, strict
Adjective
oscuro
dark (lacking light); dark (deep in hue); obscure, unclear; incomprehensible; suspicious
Adjective
sacrificar
to sacrifice; to put down, euthanize (an animal)
Verb
hora
hour (a time period of sixty minutes); time (the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device); high time (usually with "ya"); hour, period (of class); appointment (e.g. with the doctor)
Noun
tarea
task; homework
Noun
rudo
rude, rough, crude, rugged
Adjective
despótico
despotic
Adjective
ocupar
to occupy (to take or use space); to occupy (to fill or hold a position); to occupy, to take up (time or space); to occupy, to reside in; to employ (to hire to work for a job); to use; to need; to look after (to watch or protect a person); to take on (a responsibility)
Verb
instante
instant, moment
Noun
enseñar
to teach; to show
Verb
desdichado
unhappy, unfortunate
Adjective
verdura
vegetable; greenness, verdancy
Noun
prado
meadow
Noun
follaje
foliage
Noun
pueblo
town, village; the common people, the working classes; population, people; nation
Noun
traer
to bring (in the sense of transport, for differences with llevar and examples see that entry); to bring about, cause, occasion; to make (cause to be in or have a certain condition or state); to wear; to bring forward, advance, adduce; to make, compel, oblige; to persuade; to have, carry (in a publication, in stock); to include (have as a component, part, accessory or ingredient); In dialectal usage, the preterite and imperfect subjunctive may be conjugated as in classical Spanish (truje, etc., and trujera, etc., respectively). This may occur in Chilean dialects.
Verb
álamo
white poplar (tree and wood)
Noun
colocar
to place; to put; to get in; to take drugs; to intoxicate (stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol)
Verb
cuidado
care (close attention; concern); care (maintenance, upkeep); care (the treatment of those in need)
Noun
lecho
bed; bed (garden plot); riverbed (path where a river runs); stratum (layer of sedimentary rock); litter (material used for animals)
Noun
través
bend, turn
Noun
alegremente
happily, merrily
Adverb
domingo
Sunday
Noun
obtener
to obtain
Verb
permiso
permission; license; leave (absence from work)
Noun
labrador
farmer, husbandman; worker, laborer
Noun
servir
to serve (to be a servant or worker; to render service); to serve (to be a servant for; to work for); to be of use, to be good for; to serve (to usefully take the place of something else); to serve (to be in military service); to serve (to set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten); to serve (to lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton, etc.); to help oneself to (to take freely)
Verb
pastora
dough; cash
Noun
casualidad
chance, coincidence, happenstance, fluke, accident
Noun
raíz
root; root vegetable; root (of a tooth, a nail, etc); root; origin
Noun
humilde
humble; low, lower (class)
Adjective
presente
present (appearing); this
Adjective
plantar
to plant (put a plant or seeds into the ground); to plant, place (an object in the ground); to place, put; to stand up (not go to an agreed arrangement); to smack, whack; to peck (kiss); to put oneself, to settle; to stick to (an idea); to stick (not take any more cards)
Verb
maceta
flowerpot
Noun
viejo
old (having existed for a long time); old (having lived for many years); old (former, previous); stale (no longer novel or interesting)
Adjective
llenar
to fill something up; to fill out or complete a form; to complete a group; to become full; to gorge, to chow down; to smear, soil, stain (something or someone); to become smeared, dirty, stained.; to bother, to tire
Verb
regar
to irrigate; to water; to scatter; to hose, to wash down; to ruin; to err, to mess up
Verb
prosperar
to prosper, to thrive, to flourish; to boom (e.g., business)
Verb
planta
plant (an organism of the kingdom Plantae, and now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism); plant (factory); floor, level (of a high building); sole; sole (bottom of a shoe or boot)
Noun
adornar
to adorn, to ornament, to decorate, to garnish, to embellish, to dress, to bedeck, to deck; to trim (e.g. a Christmas tree); to cheat on someone; to buy off; to bribe
Verb
hoja
leaf (usually green and flat organ that is the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants); petal (often brightly coloured component of the corolla of a flower); blade (narrow leaf of a grass or cereal); pad (floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant); sheet, leaf (piece of paper, usually rectangular); page (one of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book); form (blank document or template to be filled in by the user); foil; blade (sharp cutting edge of a knife, sword, etc.); pane (individual sheet of glass in a window); …
Noun
cuidado
answerable; accountable; responsible
Adjective
doliente
aching, hurting; sorrowful; grieving
Adjective
constituir
to constitute
Verb
sino
but (rather) (after a negative clause); except, apart from; only, solely (in a negative clause)
Conjunction
universo
universe
Noun
entero
whole; entire; intact, unbroken
Adjective
enfermo
sick person, patient; degenerate
Noun
representar
to represent; to make up, constitute, account for
Verb
río
river
Noun
mientras
while, whilst, as (at the same time as); as long as, so long as (expressing a condition); however much, however many, “the..., the...” (constructing parallel comparatives); while, whereas (indicating difference)
Conjunction
angosto
narrow
Adjective
cada
each; every
Determiner
despedir
to dismiss; to fire from a job; to say goodbye (to someone)
Verb
adorno
decoration, adornment, ornament
Noun
mártir
martyr
Noun
predestinado
predestined; doomed
Adjective
fiebre
fever
Noun
acostar
to lay; to put to bed; to land, put in, berth; to arrive at the coast; to go to bed, to lie down; to sleep with
Verb
malo
bad (of bad quality); bad (at/with something); bad (in a bad state); bad (morally), evil, mean; to treat badly, be mean/cruel to; harmful, bad; (of food) tasting bad; (of food) bad, spoiled, rotten; sick, ill
Adjective
cubrir
to cover; to cover, to mount; to cover oneself
Verb
verde
green (color/colour); green, eco-friendly; green, unripe, immature; green, inexperienced; naïve; risqué, naughty; off-color, dirty, coarse; green; unwell; sick
Adjective
avisado
warned or informed
Adjective
lloroso
weeping; mournful, sad; watery
Adjective
afligir
to afflict
Verb
almohada
pillow (soft cushion used to support the head)
Noun