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Storybooks Canada: 40 picture books, easiest first

1230 words, in teaching order

Words 801–900
descubrir
to discover; to reveal; to invent
Verb
tonto
stupid; silly, foolish
Adjective
burro
donkey, especially one used as a pack animal; a dunce, an idiot; a well-hung man; sawhorse; old maid (card game); burrito; Aloysia polystachya
Noun
figura
figure; charge; part, role; actor; swaggerer, show-off
Noun
misterioso
mysterious; mystery (e.g. mystery lover [in an affair], mystery man or woman [in a case or investigation]); eerie (e.g. an eerie place, an eerie air or glow, eerie music); uncanny (e.g. uncanny knowledge or ability)
Adjective
embarazado
pregnant; uncomfortable
Adjective
tímido
shy, timid, bashful, coy; diffident
Adjective
valientemente
valiantly, bravely
Adverb
familiar
relative, family member; station wagon; estate car
Noun
bebé
baby
Noun
nacer
to be born, to sprout, to begin to grow; to hatch (out); to grow; to rise, to have its source (river); to rise (sun); to have its roots; to arise; to feel a desire or an urge to do something without anyone asking you to
Verb
puja
bid; struggle
Noun
manta
blanket, cloth, cloth banner; poncho; a fish trap shaped like a blanket; manta ray
Noun
recién
recently; new-, newly, freshly; just now, recently; only, just
Adverb
gran
apocopic form of grande; great, grand
Adjective
discutir
to discuss, to argue; to talk about; to examine some subject in detail
Verb
suerte
luck, fortune; lot, fate; sort, kind, type; oracular response; stage in a bullfight; lottery ticket; a small white spot on the nails
Noun
extraño
strange, unusual, odd, weird, bizarre, uncanny, rare, peculiar, freaky, freakish, freak, curious; foreign, alien, extraneous; funny, suspicious; not belonging to, not possessed by, not property of
Adjective
consigo
with himself, herself, itself, themselves
Adverb
finalmente
lastly, finally, in the end
Adverb
tamaño
size
Noun
diferente
different
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
importar
to matter, to be important [with a ‘someone’] (often translated idiomatically with English care or mind, with subject and object reversed); to care; to import
Verb
cuánto
how much; how many
Adverb
intentar
to try, to attempt; especially: to strain or put forth effort in so doing
Verb
comportar
to involve; to tolerate; to entail; to behave, to act; to behave oneself
Verb
humano
human; humane
Adjective
frustrar
to frustrate
Verb
confusión
confusion
Noun
rabia
rage, anger; rabies
Noun
ni
Used when negating two or more elements, and not, not A or B, not A nor B, neither A nor B
Conjunction
botar
to bounce; to throw, throw away; to fire, dismiss; to buck, throw (a rider or pack) by bucking; to lie down (to assume a reclining position); to squander, to blow, to fritter away
Verb
patada
kick; electric shock; hit, dose
Noun
vergüenza
shame; embarrassment
Noun
eco
echo
Noun
acurrucar
to huddle, to curl up (because of the cold); to snuggle, to spoon; to make somebody squat; to squat
Verb
rendido
gallant; obsequious
Adjective
profundo
deep (having a bottom far from the surface or mouth); profound (displaying great insight)
Adjective
e
and
Conjunction
intranquilo
restless
Adjective
anciano
an elderly person
Noun
chispa
spark (small particle of glowing matter); spark (small burst of electrical discharge); chip; sprinkle; drunkenness, intoxication (state of being intoxicated with alcohol)
Noun
esperanza
hope, hopefulness; expectation, expectancy
Noun
sobrevivir
to survive
Verb
cima
top; peak, summit, mountaintop (top of a mountain or hill); cyme
Noun
dormido
asleep, sleeping; numb
Adjective
nube
cloud; multitude, or crowd (of people); baby's breath; marshmallow; the cloud; cataract
Noun
soñar
to dream; to knock someone out.
Verb
enfermo
sick, ill; degenerate
Adjective
desaparecer
to disappear, to go missing, to vanish, to be gone; to drop off (e.g. the map, the face of the earth); to go away, to fade, to wear off, to subside; to make disappear
Verb
apretadamente
tightly; compactly
Adverb
convivir
to cohabit, to live together
Verb
lentamente
slowly
Adverb
instalar
to install; to settle, to ensconce; to be installed
Verb
canción
song
Noun
edad
age; time since an event; age (period of time)
Noun
terreno
land, ground; grounds (plural); pitch
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
final
end (the terminal point of something in space or time); final (the last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined)
Noun
vista
sight, vision, eyesight (the ability to see); sight (the act of seeing or witnessing); appearance, look (the way something looks); view (the range of vision); view (something to look at, such as scenery); view; foresight (the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future); hearing (a legal procedure done before a judge)
Noun
talentoso
talented
Adjective
ejemplo
example; instance
Noun
miembro
member (one who belongs to a group); limb (a major appendage of a person or animal); penis
Noun
asunto
matter, issue, business; affair (a romantic relationship)
Noun
simplemente
simply
Adverb
canto
singing; song; chant; edge; corner, especially the intersection of two streets; side; thickness; a piece of stone; canthus
Noun
especialmente
specially; especially
Adverb
relajar
to relax, to loosen; to soothe (e.g., the body, one's skin); to loosen up, to ease up, to ease, to lighten, (e.g., a restriction, the mood); to relax, to unwind, to chill, to chill out, to wind down, to kick back, to sit back, to loosen up, to decompress
Verb
asentir
to nod (to incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement); to agree, to consent
Verb
callar
to calm; to be silent, to shut up; to keep silent; to hush, to become silent; to hush, to make silent; to not mention
Verb
cuál
which one, what, which
Pronoun
enterar
to inform; to find out, to learn, to come to know, to hear; To reach (an amount)
Verb
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
desestimar
to reject
Verb
ciego
blind; very drunk; plastered
Adjective
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
tranquilizar
to calm, to calm down, to tranquilize; to sedate, to tranquilize; to calm down, to tranquilize
Verb
parar
to stop, halt; to stand up; to put something in a vertical position; to put someone in a vertical position; to get up (from bed); to become erect (in the sense of upright); (of one's penis) to become erect; see pararlas; to tend to do or to be (followed by a gerund)
Verb
ventana
window (opening for light and air); window frame; window (area on a computer screen); small gap or opening; forest clearing; nostril
Noun
trabajador
worker; Wren-like rushbird (Phleocryptes melanops)
Noun
tarea
task; homework
Noun
consolar
to console
Verb
jefe
chief; president; head; leader of a business, political party, or other organization; boss; supervisor; manager; colonel; major; rank between captain and general; chief; boss; dad, father
Noun
prisa
hurry, rush, urgency
Noun
alguien
someone, somebody; anyone, anybody
Pronoun
camilla
stretcher, gurney
Noun
apalear
to hit with a spade; to beat up; thrash
Verb
recompensa
reward, recompense; bounty; recompense, indemnification (act of compensation)
Noun
hospital
hospital
Noun
recuperar
to recover; to recuperate
Verb
ciudad
city
Noun
parada
stop (the act of stopping); station (a location where things stop); (football) stop, (baseball) catch
Noun
autobús
bus, coach
Noun
sobrecargado
overloaded
Adjective
aun
even (implying an extreme example in the case mentioned); still, yet
Adverb
pregonero
divulging; proclaiming
Adjective
anunciar
to announce, to herald, to proclaim; to annunciate; to advertise; to bode, approach, impend, be imminent (indicate by signs, as future events); to announce oneself
Verb
oeste
west
Noun
ése
that one; the former; dude, guy, pal, man, buddy; (sometimes) asshole
Pronoun