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Storybooks Canada: 40 picture books, easiest first

1682 words, in teaching order

Words 901–1000
諦あきらめ
resignation; acceptance; consolation
Noun
敗はい者しゃ
loser; defeated person; the defeated
Noun
大おお騒さわぎ
clamour; clamor; uproar; tumult; furore; furor
Noun
笑わらう
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
Godan verb
くちばし
beak; bill
Noun
飲のみ込こむ
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to take in; to catch on; to learn; to engulf; to swallow up; to be filled with (people); …
Godan verb
会あう
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
Godan verb
助たすける
to save; to rescue; to spare; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to); to provide aid; to facilitate; to stimulate; …
Ichidan verb
泣なき声ごえ
cry (e.g. of a baby); sob; whine; tearful voice; weepy voice
Noun
見み渡わたす
to look out over; to survey (scene); to take an extensive view of
Godan verb
注ちゅう意い深ぶかい
attentive; cautious; careful; watchful
I-adjective
身しん体たい
body; physical system; (the) person
Noun
特とく別べつ
special; particular; extraordinary; exceptional; especial
Na-adjective
臭くさい
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; cheesy; clumsy; unskilled; (overly) gamey; …
I-adjective
臭くさい
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; hammy (acting); over-the-top; cheesy; clumsy; unskilled; (overly) gamey; …
I-adjective
ひどい
cruel; heartless; hard; harsh; severe; violent; intense; strong; heavy; extreme; …
I-adjective
味あじ
flavor; flavour; taste; charm; appeal; uniqueness; attractiveness; experience; taste (e.g. of victory); smart; …
Noun
ゲップ
belch; burp; eructation
Noun
吐はき出だす
to vomit; to spit out; to breathe out (e.g. air); to exhale; to blow out; to spew out (e.g. smoke); to belch out; to emit; to disgorge (e.g. passengers); to spend (e.g. saved money); …
Godan verb
くしゃみ
sneeze; sneezing
Noun
咳せき
cough; coughing; tussis
Noun
さらに
furthermore; again; after all; more and more; moreover; even more
Adverb
不ふ快かい
displeasure; discomfort; unpleasantness; indisposition; ailment
Noun
はう
to crawl; to creep; to go on all fours; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
Godan verb
敵てき
opponent; rival; adversary; menace; danger; threat; enemy
Noun
同どう市し
same city
Noun
ワシ
eagle (Accipitridae family)
Noun
ところ
place; spot; scene; site; address; district; area; locality; one's house; point; …
Noun
仲なか良よし
close friendship; close friend; good friend; bosom buddy; chum; pal
Noun
降おりる
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to come down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to disembark; to dismount; to step down; to retire; to give up; …
Ichidan verb
たち
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
Suffix
どの
which; what (way)
Pre-noun adjectival
飛とぶ
to fly; to soar; to jump; to leap; to spring; to bound; to hop; to spatter; to scatter; to splash; …
Godan verb
地ち
earth; ground; land; soil; place; territory; bottom (of a package, book, etc.); earth (one of the five elements)
Noun
飢き饉きん
famine; crop failure; chronic shortage (e.g. of water)
Noun
襲おそう
to attack; to assail; to make an assault; to strike; to hunt down; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit
Godan verb
クタクタ
exhausted; worn out; dead tired; battered (esp. of clothing); ragged; tattered; (boiling) to a pulp; to a mash; to a mush
Na-adjective
晩ばん
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
Noun
開あける
to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to unlock; to open (for business, etc.); to empty; to remove; to make space; to make room; to move out; to clear out; …
Ichidan verb
考かんがえ
thinking; thought; view; opinion; concept; idea; notion; imagination; intention; plan; …
Noun
思おもいつく
to think of; to hit upon; to come into one's mind; to be struck with an idea; to remember; to recall
Godan verb
抜ぬけ落おちる
to come out (e.g. hair); to fall out; to collapse (e.g. building, floor); to be left out; to be omitted
Ichidan verb
羽はね
feather; plume; down; wing; shuttlecock (in badminton)
Noun
集あつめる
to collect; to assemble; to gather
Ichidan verb
つける
to attach; to join; to connect; to add; to append; to affix; to stick; to glue; to fasten; to sew on; …
Ichidan verb
きっと
surely; undoubtedly; almost certainly; most likely (e.g. 90 percent); sternly; severely; having no slack; rigid; stiff; tight
Adverb
たやすい
easy; simple; light
I-adjective
集しゅう落らく
settlement; village; community; town; (bacterial) colony
Noun
唯ゆい一いつ
only; sole; unique
No-adjective
針はり
needle; pin; hook; stinger; thorn; hand (e.g. clock, etc.); pointer; staple (for a stapler); needlework; sewing; …
Noun
一いっ対つい
pair; couple
Noun
翼つばさ
wing
Noun
自じ身しん
(one's) self; oneself; yourself; himself; herself
Noun
飾かざり付つける
to decorate; to display
Ichidan verb
借かりる
to borrow; to rent; to hire; to make use of (another's help, wisdom, etc.); to obtain; to receive; to use (for another purpose); to put to a different use
Ichidan verb
飽あきる
to get tired of; to tire of; to lose interest in; to grow weary of; to get fed up with; to get sick of; to become bored with; to become sated; to become satiated; to have one's fill
Ichidan verb
戸と棚だな
cupboard; locker; closet; wardrobe; cabinet
Noun
ひな
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
Noun
台だい所どころ
kitchen; financial situation; finances
Noun
一いっ方ぽう
one (esp. of two); the other; one way; the other way; one direction; the other direction; one side; the other side; one party; the other party; …
Noun
同おなじく
in the same way; like; likewise; similarly
Adverb
こしらえる
to make; to manufacture; to fabricate; to build; to construct; to prepare; to get ready; to make (in advance); to dress (oneself in); to dress up (in); …
Ichidan verb
貸かす
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out
Godan verb
なくす
to lose (something); to get rid of; to eliminate; to remove; to eradicate; to abolish
Godan verb
至いたる
to arrive at (e.g. a decision); to reach (a stage); to attain; to lead to (a place); to get to; in the extreme case of
Godan verb
さて
well; now; then
Conjunction
最さい後ご
end; conclusion; last; final; latest; most recent; once ...; the moment ... (, that's it); if ... occurs (, ... will follow); do ..., and it's all over; …
Noun
返かえす
to return (something); to restore; to put back; to turn over; to turn upside down; to overturn; to pay back; to retaliate; to reciprocate; to respond (with); …
Godan verb
行いく
to go; to move (towards); to head (towards); to leave (for); to move through; to travel across; to walk along (e.g. a road); to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to turn out; …
Godan verb
砂すな地じ
sandy soil; sandy place
Noun
午ご後ご
afternoon; p.m.
Noun
緩ゆるむ
to become loose; to slacken (e.g. rope); to become less tense; to relax; to let one's guard down; to slacken (e.g. coldness, supervision); to become lax; to become softer (e.g. ground, facial expression); (of ice) to partially melt; to decrease (e.g. speed); …
Godan verb
直なおす
to repair; to mend; to fix; to correct (a mistake, bad habit, etc.); to put right; to restore; to straighten (e.g. a tie); to tidy up (one's hair, make-up, etc.); to revive (one's spirits); to change; …
Godan verb
庭にわ
garden; yard; courtyard; field (of action); area
Noun
見み当あたる
to be found
Godan verb
くださる
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour; to favor
Godan verb
見みつかる
to be found; to be discovered
Godan verb
お前まえ
you; before (a god, nobleman, etc.); in front of
Pronoun
いただく
to receive; to get; to accept; to take; to buy; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head); to have (on top); …
Godan verb
砂すな
sand; grit; fine gravel
Noun
かく
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
Godan verb
下か降こう
descent; fall; drop; decline; downturn; subsidence
Noun
持もち去さる
to take away; to carry away
Godan verb
見みかける
to (happen to) see; to notice; to catch sight of
Ichidan verb
影かげ
shadow; silhouette; figure; shape; reflection; image; ominous sign; light (stars, moon); trace; shadow (of one's former self); …
Noun
映うつる
to be reflected; to harmonize with (harmonise); to come out (photo); to be projected; to be displayed (on a screen)
Godan verb
度たび
time (three times, each time, etc.); times
Noun
さあ
come (on); come now; come along; here; all right; right; okay; now; here goes; well; …
Interjection
荒あら野の
wasteland; wilderness; deserted land; prairie; vast plain; wilds; desert; wild land
Noun
抜ぬける
to come out; to fall out; to be omitted; to be missing; to escape; to come loose; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); …
Ichidan verb
用よう心じん
care; precaution; guarding; caution
Noun
間ま抜ぬけ
stupid; foolish; idiotic; inane; fool; idiot; blockhead; half-wit
Na-adjective
ロバ
donkey; ass
Noun
不ふ思し議ぎ
wonderful; marvelous; strange; incredible; amazing; curious; miraculous; mysterious; strangely enough; oddly enough; …
Na-adjective
見みつける
to find; to discover; to come across; to spot; to catch (someone doing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
Ichidan verb
近ちかづく
to approach; to draw near; to get close; to get acquainted with; to get closer to; to get to know
Godan verb
妊にん婦ぷ
pregnant woman
Noun
気きがつく
to notice; to realize; to realise; to become aware (of); to perceive; to sense; to suspect; to be attentive; to be scrupulous; to be observant; …
Expression
恥はずかしい
embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; humiliated; shy; disgraceful; shameful
I-adjective
勇ゆう気き
courage; bravery; valour; valor; nerve; boldness
Noun