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Storybooks Canada: 40 picture books, easiest first

1230 words, in teaching order

Words 201–300
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
ojo
eye; keyhole; caution
Noun
oído
hearing; inner ear; ear (used to refer to the ear as an internal organ, or its function of hearing)
Noun
brazo
arm; branch, limb (of a tree)
Noun
amoroso
amorous; loving; tender
Adjective
abrazar
to hug, to embrace (a person, an animal); to embrace; to adopt (a religion or way of life); to hug, to embrace, to cuddle, to hold (each other, one another)
Verb
quema
fire; flame; burning
Noun
cocina
kitchen; stove, cooker, range; cuisine; back seats of a bus
Noun
calentar
to heat, to warm up (cause an increase in temperature); to turn on (arouse sexually); to warm up (prepare for a physical activity)
Verb
iluminar
to illuminate
Verb
maravilloso
wonderful, marvelous
Adjective
poderoso
powerful
Adjective
rob
fruit syrup
Noun
elefante
elephant
Noun
ir
to go (away from speaker and listener); to be suitable or apt for its purpose, to match or suit well (of clothing); to head towards or lead to a place away from the speaker; to extend in time or space, from one point to another; to play; to approach or consider (something) from a specific angle, or to direct attention towards a particular goal; denotes an ongoing action with a sense of progression or movement through space or time; to go on (doing something), to carry on, to keep on; an action or process is beginning to occur or unfold; to grow (dark), get (cloudy); used ironically with certain adjectives or passive participles; used with the past participle of reflexive verbs to indicate being in a state caused by the verb; …
Verb
beber
to drink; to drink alcohol; to draw from (to be inspired by)
Verb
jirafa
giraffe; boom microphone
Noun
tres
three
Numeric
búfalo
buffalo (Old World bovine); buffalo, the American bison
Noun
cuatro
four
Numeric
pájaro
bird, especially a perching bird; homosexual; penis; person of questionable or shady character, or involved in dubious affairs
Noun
también
also, too, as well; so
Adverb
cinco
five
Numeric
impala
impala
Noun
seis
six
Numeric
jabalí
wild boar; peccary, javelina; warthog (ellipsis of jabalí verrugoso)
Noun
caminar
to walk; to stroll; to travel, to trek; to go on; to wade (in or through a body of water)
Verb
hacia
toward, towards; around, about (indicating time)
Preposition
siete
seven
Numeric
cebra
zebra (african animal)
Noun
ocho
eight (8)
Numeric
rana
frog
Noun
nueve
nine
Numeric
pez
fish (especially if alive or not intended for consumption); idiot, dimwit; pitch, tar
Noun
nadando
naiant
Adjective
león
lion; antlion; a brave person; cougar, puma, mountain lion; a person connected with Athletic Bilbao, a Spanish football team from the city of Bilbao
Noun
rugir
to roar; to bellow; to rumble
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
miedo
fear
Noun
hombre
man, (adult male human); man, (all humans collectively); mankind, humankind; man, (individual of the species Homo sapiens, the genus Homo, or the subtribe Hominina); husband; top; ombre (Spanish card game)
Noun
alto
tall; high; loud; upper, top; senior (rank)
Adjective
su
apocopic form of suyo; used to express an approximate number: about, approximately
Determiner
azadón
hoe; a selfish, self-centered person; an egotist
Noun
demasiado
too much, excessively, far too much, overmuch (modifying a verb); too, far too, way too, much too, overly, all too excessively (modifying an adjective or other adverb); a lot, an awful lot, a whole lot, a great deal
Adverb
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
baja
casualty, loss; drop, fall, reduction; sick leave (absence for illness); withdrawal, retirement
Noun
bicicleta
bicycle, pushbike, cycle; step over, pedalada (a dribbling move, or feint, in football (soccer), used to fool a defensive player into thinking the offensive player, in possession of the ball, is going to move in a direction he does not intend to move in); bicycle; diarrhea
Noun
palo
stake, stick, wood; suit; hit, blow, strike (especially, with a stick); blow; mast (a tall, slim post or tower used to support the sails on a ship); post; goalpost; woodwork; execution by hanging or beheading; style (of flamenco); tree; shot (a small serving of alcoholic spirits); …
Noun
marco
frame; framework; marco, Spanish mark (a traditional unit of weight, equivalent to about 230 g); mark (other similar half-pound weights in other measurement systems); mark (a former German currency); markka (a former Finnish currency)
Noun
largo
long (having much distance from one terminating point to another); long, lengthy, extended, prolonged, protracted, (having great duration); long, long-running (seemingly lasting a lot of time); good (slightly larger than the given amount); (used with words for "ball" or "pass") long, high-distance
Adjective
comprar
to buy (to obtain in exchange of money or goods); to buy out
Verb
sentar
to seat; to set, to establish, to lay; to sit down, have a seat; to settle down; to assert; to suit, to fit; to sit well; to report; to leave a mark on (the skin)
Verb
silla
chair; saddle
Noun
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
tenedor
fork; bearer; holder
Noun
vivir
to live; to be alive; to make a living, to live on; to live in, reside, inhabit; to experience, to live through
Verb
bosque
forest
Noun
año
year; age
Noun
bueno
good (of good quality); good (at/with something); good (in a good state); good (morally); to treat well, be good to; healthy, good; (of food) tasty, yummy, good (tasting good); not sick; hot, sexy
Adjective
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
viaje
voyage; journey, trip; A state of hallucination or altered consciousness caused by a narcotic drug.; a lot, loads
Noun
taxi
taxi
Noun
finalizar
to finalize, finish; to end
Verb
chofer
chauffeur; driver
Noun
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
pagar
to pay; to be worthwhile, to have a pay off
Verb
pasaje
passing, crossing; ticket, fare (for travel); all passengers on a plane or boat; alleyway (narrow street); excerpt, passage; strait
Noun
porque
because
Conjunction
cantidad
amount; quantity; figure; plenty; shedload
Noun
exacto
exact
Adjective
punto
point (specific spot, location, or place); point (unit of scoring); point (full stop or period); point (decimal mark); stitch (single pass of a needle in sewing or surgery suture); bombshell (great surprise or shock); punto, Spanish point (traditional small unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm)
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
sin
without
Preposition
nada
nothing, zero, zilch, not...anything
Pronoun
enojar
to anger; to become angry
Verb
cambio
change, shift; change (money given back); gear (of a motor vehicle); exchange rate
Noun
deber
to owe; must, need to, have to (indicates an obligation or requirement); must (used to indicate that something is likely); should (indicating opinion or expectation); should have; will need to; to be due to, to be attributable to, to be the result of, to be caused by
Verb
esto
substitutes a noun one can't remember or can't remember the name of
Pronoun
hoy
today, tonight (on the current day)
Adverb
carro
cart; car, automobile (used especially in Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico); a bus or minivan used on public transportation to carry passengers from one part of a city to another (while it has the same meaning as 'auto', 'carro' is preferred when referring to public transportation automobiles); train car; cocaine paste; carriage
Noun
adentro
inside (especially implying a motion into)
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
huir
to flee, to run away; to escape; to avoid
Verb
sonido
sound, noise; tone
Noun
ella
she, her (used subjectively and after prepositions); it (used subjectively and after prepositions to refer to feminine nouns)
Pronoun
arrestado
arrested
Adjective
molestar
to bother, to disturb, to trouble, to impose, to inconvenience, to burden; to annoy, to tease, to pester, to bug, to hassle; to upset, to discomfort; to mind (uses indirect object); to intrude; to get upset; to bother
Verb
acerca
adjacent; only used in acerca de (“about; concerning”)
Adverb
incluso
even; including
Adverb
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
tiempo
time; a while, period of time, long time, length of time, indeterminate amount of time; tense; weather (the short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc)
Noun
cruzar
to cross (including of legs); to exchange (words); to fold (arms); to crossbreed
Verb
calle
street; lane (in a pool or racetrack, but not a highway)
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
completo
full, complete; completed
Adjective
decisión
decision
Noun
pueblo
town, village; the common people, the working classes; population, people; nation
Noun
problema
problem, issue, challenge (a difficulty or obstacle that has to be dealt with); trouble (in the singular or in the plural); question, dilemma, conundrum; condition (illness)
Noun
fila
line, row, rank, file; queue (British), line (US); rank
Noun
recolectar
to collect, amass
Verb