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Storybooks Canada: 40 picture books, easiest first

1230 words, in teaching order

Words 301–400
llave
key (to open doors); key (of musical instrument); key (in heraldry); spanner, wrench; faucet, tap, water tap, spigot; curly bracket ({ and }); switch (a device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow); lock; hold (position or grip used to control the opponent); a game where a small metal disc is thrown at a small metal structure
Noun
esperar
to hope; to expect; to wait, wait (for); to wait, to hold on (reflexive for emphatic use); to be expected
Verb
donar
to donate
Verb
cerrar
to close, to shut; to shut down, to close down; to turn off, to shut off (to rotate a tap or valve so as to interrupt the outflow of liquid or gas); to turn off (a light or electrical device); to enclose; to lock, to lock up; to seal, to close (e.g. a deal, a breach, a rift); to close up, to close off (e.g. a wound); to close, to conclude, to end; to close (itself) (e.g., a store, a door); …
Verb
nuestro
our, ours, to us; our, ours, to us (as the royal we)
Determiner
temprano
early, early on
Adverb
ladrón
thief; robber; rogue; crook; adapter (device allowing more plugs at an outlet)
Noun
niño
child, boy
Noun
abandonar
to abandon, to leave; to neglect
Verb
chica
gal, chick; A spice made from the Sobralia orchid.
Noun
joven
youth, young person, youngster
Noun
trabajar
to work; to work in, work on, to workshop (+ en); to suffer
Verb
como
as (introducing a basis of comparison or equality); as, since (being that); how (in which way); if, unless (under the condition that)
Conjunction
sirviente
servant
Noun
chico
boy; kid; guy, lad; term of address equivalent to English guys, feminine form chicas; white-nosed coati (Nasua Narica); raccoon (Procyon lotor)
Noun
vuelta
turn; return; walk; tour, trip; change (money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item); lap (one circuit around a race track, or one traversal down and then back the length of a pool); second leg, return leg (the second of the two matches or “legs” which are played between two teams in a two-legged tie)
Noun
granja
farm, grange; farm
Noun
soplar
to blow; to tattle, to snitch; to whisper; to prompt; to inspire
Verb
residuo
residue, remainder; waste, scrap
Noun
papel
paper; role
Noun
colgar
to hang; to hang up (the telephone, etc.); to upload; (+ con) to hang out with, relax with; to freeze, to hang (to come a sudden halt, stop working); to fail a class or exam; to flunk
Verb
árbol
tree (perennial woody plant); tree (any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree); tree (any structure or construct having branches representing divergence or possible choices); mast (tall, slim post or tower used to support the sails on a ship)
Noun
cerca
close, near, around, about, nearly, nigh (referring to quantity or time-related); close, near, around, nigh, at hand, close at hand, in sight (spatially); nearby, close by
Adverb
gente
people; guys, lads (used to address a group of people)
Noun
vidrio
glass (substance); window
Noun
roto
broken; corrupt, rotten; vulgar, low-class, classless; ruptured; broken, that gives or has a big advantage
Adjective
tirado
lying down, lying; easy-peasy; dirt cheap
Adjective
descuidadamente
carelessly
Adverb
secar
to dry; to dry up, run dry
Verb
contenedor
container, cargo container, shipping container; dumpster (US, Canada), skip (UK, Australia)
Noun
vacío
empty, vacant
Adjective
recorrer
to tour; to travel, to go
Verb
todo
all; every; each; every; all together
Determiner
asistir
to attend (an event); to assist
Verb
reunión
meeting, session, appointment; powwow; collection, gathering, collecting (e.g. of data, evidence, statistics, funds); reunion, get-together; assembly, rally; belay station
Noun
villa
small town; villa; settlement with a minimum of five thousand inhabitants (bigger than a town but smaller than a city) that has asked for the title officially; previously, this title was granted by the king
Noun
reunir
to gather, to collect, to bring together, to assemble, to get together, to round up, to marshal, to compile, to put together, to pull together, to draw together, to pool; to satisfy, to meet, to possess (e.g. conditions, requirements, criteria, qualifications, characteristics); to join, unite; to reunite, reconvene; to muster, to summon (e.g. the courage, determination, will, strength, energy); to raise, to muster (e.g. money, an army); to huddle; to meet, to meet up, to get together, to assemble, to convene, to rendezvous; to join; to reconvene, to reunite, to rejoin
Verb
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
necesitar
to need
Verb
junto
together; joined; next to
Adjective
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
juma
only used in se juma, third-person singular present indicative of jumarse; only used in te ... juma, syntactic variant of júmate, second-person singular imperative of jumarse
Verb
quien
who; whom; whoever; whomever; anyone who; the one who
Pronoun
sentado
seated; settled, established; sensible, solid
Adjective
tronco
trunk, log (of a tree); trunk (main channel); torso; frustum; team (of mules, etc.); guy, dude
Noun
gritar
to shout, to scream, to cry out, to call out
Verb
ayudar
to help
Verb
limpiar
to clean; to wash; to wipe; to wipe oneself
Verb
mujer
woman; wife
Noun
conmigo
with me; with myself
Adverb
cultivar
to cultivate; to grow (plants, etc.)
Verb
alimento
food (solid substance that can be consumed); nourishment; alimony, maintenance
Noun
construir
to build; to construct
Verb
pozo
well (hole in the ground as a source of water or other fluids)
Noun
voz
voice; term; word
Noun
nosotros
we (masculine plural); ourselves
Pronoun
cambiar
to change, to shift, to switch, to alter; to modify; to switch, to switch up, to change, to trade, to swap (usually + de) (when implying changing from one thing to another); to replace, to change out, to swap out; to exchange, to trade in; to turn around; to swap, to trade, to switch; to move (i.e., change from one place to another)
Verb
vida
life; lifestyle; livelihood; living; liveliness; lifespan; lifetime; a term of endearment; darling, sweetheart; the game (prostitution); life (in a computer game); protagonist
Noun
desde
since (from a specified time in the past); from (a location); starting at (a quantity, such as a price)
Preposition
ese
that
Determiner
solucionar
to solve; to implement a solution
Verb
hablar
to talk; to speak; to communicate using words; to speak (a language); to talk or speak regularly with someone, sometimes online
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
nombre
name; noun
Noun
significar
to signify; to mean; to stand out; to speak out, to assert (to voice one's opinion)
Verb
bondadoso
kind, caring, bounteous
Adjective
idioma
language
Noun
despertar
to wake; to wake up; to awaken; to pique (interest, curiosity)
Verb
naranjo
orange tree; orangewood (wood of the orange tree); a rude or ignorant man
Noun
favor
favor/favour
Noun
crecer
to grow
Verb
mucho
much, a lot, far, way, many times; very; long (a long time)
Adverb
nos
first person (except in vocative, and in the oblique it requires a preposition); I (singular; compare vos); first person nominative, prepositional and vocative plural pronoun
Pronoun
naranja
orange (fruit); orange (color); a member or supporter of Ciudadanos, a Spanish political party
Noun
maduro
ripe; mature, of relatively old age (said of people)
Adjective
pasto
pasture; lawn; grass; Pashto (language)
Noun
verde
green (color/colour); green, eco-friendly; green, unripe, immature; green, inexperienced; naïve; risqué, naughty; off-color, dirty, coarse; green; unwell; sick
Adjective
tú
you (second-person singular pronoun)
Pronoun
pasar
to pass, to hand, to slip; to happen; to pass, to get past, to go past, to go by, to go over, to get through; (of time) to pass; to enter a room; to go too far, exaggerate; to exceed, surpass, go over; to ripen too much, become rotten, become off (food); to pass (filter); to strain, to sieve, to sift; …
Verb
frente
forehead, brow; front
Noun
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
silvestre
wild (untamed; not domesticated); uncultivated; rustic, rural
Adjective
seguir
to follow; to continue (on); to keep, to keep on (can be combined with the gerund to indicate that someone or something continues doing something); to further do something; to follow, observe, to obey (a rule, religion); to follow (to subscribe to content from an account); to remain, to stay, to still be; to ensue; to follow, to pursue, to track, to trace, to tail, to chase; to proceed; to continue, to keep up; …
Verb
florecer
to flower (to put forth blooms); to flourish, to prosper, to burgeon; To have carbon build up on the end.
Verb
cabello
hair (mass of hairs); hair strand
Noun
medio
half (one of two equal parts of any whole); half (any fraction with a denominator of 2); medio, half-celemin (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 2.3 L); medio (the usual container used to measure medios); medio, half-real (a former coin); medio, half-peso (a former coin); medio, half-sucre (a former coin); medio, half-balboa (a former coin); medio, half-boliviano (a former coin); medio, half-octavo (a former coin equal to ¹⁄₁₆ real); …
Noun
recinto
area, site, compound; enclosure (an area of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers); pen
Noun
rama
branch (woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing); offshoot (that which develops from something else)
Noun
bajo
under (in both literal and figurative senses)
Preposition
tu
apocopic form of tuyo, your
Determiner
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
arbusto
bush, shrub
Noun
rodear
to round up; to surround; to go around
Verb
fuerte
strong; loud; what (a/an) (intensifier, followed by a noun)
Adjective
detener
to detain; to arrest; to stop, halt, to pause; to pull over
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
entrar
to enter; to come in; to get in; to go in; to get inside; to come on in; to break in; to join; to enter; to start; to access; to log in; to fit; to step in; to input; to enter (data or information); to enter in; to enter into; to get into; to come into; to walk into; to step into; to slip into (entrar + en); to break into (entrar + en); to fit in; to fall in; to fall within (entrar + en); …
Verb
visita
visit; visitor, visitors; view; chapel at the center of a barrio
Noun
pregunta
question (sentence that asks for information)
Noun
lista
list, roll; stripe; roster
Noun