Heath's Modern Language Series: Spanish Short Stories

Chapter 38

=agraciado,= graceful.

=agradable,= agreeable, pleasant.

=agradar,= to please.

=agradecer,= to appreciate, be thankful (for).

=agradecido,= grateful.

 

=agradecimiento,= grat.i.tude.

=agrado,= liking; =sin buscarlo halla el --,= without trying to causes pleasure; =de buen --,= with (great) pleasure.

=agravar,= to aggravate; =--se,= to grow worse.

=agravio,= grievance, affront, injury.

=agregar (ie),= to add.

=agresor, -a,= aggressor.

=agrietar,= to crack.

=agrupar(se),= to group, come (_or_ draw) together.

=agua,= _f._, water; _pl._, waters, stream; =--s vivas,= running water.

=aguachirle,= _m._, poor excuse for wine; slops.

=aguantar,= to bear, suffer.

=aguar,= to mix with water.

=aguardar,= to wait for; =-- a que,= to wait until.

=aguardiente,= _m._, brandy (_or_ any distilled liquor); =-- de cana,= rum.

=agudisimo= (_from_ =agudo=)=,= sharpest, very keen.

=agudo,= acute, sharp.

=aguileno,= aquiline.

=aguina= (_dim. of_ =agua=)=,= water.

=aguja,= needle.

=agujero,= hole; =-- de la llave,= key-hole.

=ah!= ah! oh!

=ahi,= there; =por --,= there, yonder; =-- dentro,= in there.

=ahoga.r.s.e,= to drown, be drowned; =-- de,= to be suffocated with.

=ahora,= now, now-a-days; =-- mismo,= now, at once, this very moment; =no es de --,= this is not the first time.

=ahorcar,= to hang.

=ahorrar,= to save, economize.

=ahumado,= smoked, burned, smoke-stained.

=ahuyentar,= to put to flight.

=aire,= _m._, air, wind, breeze.

=airecito= (_dim._)=,= little air.

=aislado,= isolated, lone.

=ajeno,= belonging to another; =lo --,= that which belongs to another.

=ajimez,= _m._, arched window (_with a pillar in the center_).

=al= = =a el,= (_before an inf._) on, in (_doing something_).

=ala,= wing.

=alabar,= to praise.

=alabastro,= alabaster.

=alambre,= _m._, wire.

=alameda,= (public) promenade _or_ avenue (_lined with shade trees, generally the_ =alamo=, poplar. _Hence the name. There is generally an_ =alameda= _in the Southern-Spanish and the Spanish-American cities_).

=alargar,= to hold out, reach, hand, lengthen.

=alarido,= outcry, shriek.

=alarma,= alarm.

=alarmado,= alarmed.

=alba,= _f._, dawn; =asi que el --despunto,= at day-break.

=albor,= _m._, dawning.