PMP Complete Spanish Grammar - 4.2

agregar

to add

[To add you must aggregate.]

apagar

to put out (a light)

[To extinguish a flame you have to pacify or calm the burning. You could put it in a Petrie dish in some agar.]

cargar

to load

[Load up the car with cargo before the car go far.]

castigar

to punish

[Castigation with whips is to punish severely.]

entregar

to hand over

[Hand over the books from the entrepôt so they can be integrated with the library.]

jugar

to play (a game or sport)

lanzar

to throw

[Throw the lance during the revolution but don’t throw the tzar.]

negar

to deny

[To deny means to negate.]

pagar

to pay

pegar

to glue; to hit

[You have to glue the peg before you insert it into the wood. Then hit the peg on the head.]

atacar

to attack

[The dog attacks and bites at a car as it drives by.]

buscar

to look for

[Buskers are looking for a handout.]

chocar

to crash

[If I have to much chocolate, I will shake, choke and then crash.]

colocar

to place

[You need to collocate the books to place them on the right shelves in the library.]

complicar

to complicate

[New models of cars can be so complicated.]

explicar

to explain

[No explication needed. Stop trying to explain it to me.]

pescar

to fish

[I’m trying to catch a big fish, and a pesky little one keeps nibbling at my bait.]

practicar

to practice

[Practicing driving is very practical thing to do in a car.]

sacar

to take out

[Take out the kitchen trash. And that sack too.]

tocar

to touch; to play (music, an instrument)

[Touch your foot to the floor while playing an instrument to be your own metronome: toc, toc, toc.]

abrazar

to hug

[To hug is to embrace. A bra is a chest brace, which is bizarre.]

alcanzar

to reach

[Doctor Al, I hope the cancer hasn’t reached my organs.]

almorzar

to eat, have lunch

[Al, morsels for lunch, just a quick bite.]

cruzar

to cross

[To cruise the town means to cross from one side to the other. Just don’t let the cop in his cruiser get you.]

empezar

to begin

[To begin to use a Pez dispenser, you have to load it (emPez).

gozar

to enjoy

[He enjoys pleasures. He goes at it. He’s a goes’er.]

rezar

to pray

[Native Americans recite a prayer on the Rez.]

tranquilizar

to calm down; reassure; take a tranquilizer

tropezar

to trip

[Don’t trip over your bizarre cliches and tropes.]