#abatimiento# depression,ásvalemañ low spirits, despondency

#abrigo# shelter, protection; overcoat, mantle, wrap

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#abrochar# to button, clasp, buckle, fasten

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#acabar# to finish, end, complete; #---- de# (_before inf._) to have just

Más vale maña que fuerza — Part 28

#acercar# to bring (carry, take) near; #--se# to approach

#acordar# to remind; #--se de# to recollect, remember

#acuerdo# agreement, accord, accordance; #de ----# harmoniously, with one accord, together

#adentro# within, inside; behind the scenes

#advertir# to give notice, advise; to take notice, observe

#afán# _m._ zeal, eagerness, anxiety, earnestness, determination

#afecto# affection, love, fondness; #-s desordenados# inordinate desires

#ahorcar# to kill by hanging, strangle to death

#alborotador, -ora# riotous, turbulent; agitator, rioter

#alegre# glad, joyous, merry, gay, cheerful

#alguno# some (one), any (one), one or the other (of two)

#allá# there, thither (_remote from speaker and hearer_)

#allí# there (_remote from speaker and hearer_)

#amontonar# to heap, pile up, accumulate; #--se# to fly into a passion

#amueblar# to furnish (a house _or_ room)

#antes# before; first, sooner, rather; #---- bien# rather; #cuanto ---- mejor# the sooner the better

#apretar# to press, compress, squeeze, pinch, clutch

#apurarse# to worry, be anxious, become nervous

#arreglar# to arrange, adjust, fix, put in order, repair

#arrimar# to place close to; #--se# to draw close to

#asistir# to attend, take part, be present; to belong

#asomarse# to appear, show, come into view

#aun, aún# yet, still, even; #aun cuando# even though, although

#avenido# agreed, matched; #mal ----# ill-matched, ill-sorted

#avergonzar# to put to shame; #--se# to be ashamed

#averiguar# to ascertain, find out; #es cosa averiguada# the fact is

#avisado# prudent, cautious, sagacious, shrewd

#azogue# _m._ mercury, quicksilver; #tener ----# to be agitated

#azote# _m._ whip, lash; beating, whipping

#bajar# to go _or_ come down, descend; to be less _or_ lower; to bow

#barajar# to shuffle (cards); #paciencia y ----# patience and perseverance

#bastante# enough, sufficient, considerable; sufficiently, considerably; quite

#bastar# to be sufficient _or_ enough, suffice; #¡basta!# enough!

#batalla# battle; #---- campal# pitched battle

#bien# well; #no ----# hardly, scarcely; #---- a ----# with a good grace, cheerfully; #hombre de ----# honest man