Silbar is to whistle, to make a noise with your mouth when you pucker and blow. Silbo is the noun, whistle, the actual noise. A silbato is a whistle. An instrument used to produce a whistling noise.

Averiguar is to study, analyze or ascertain. It can have a very simple meaning of to find out or can be complex like investigate.

Sangre, as you probably know, is blood. It is the noun form. The verb is sangrar, to bleed. Bleeding, the gerund, is sangrando. And the adjective bloody is sangriento.

Can you guess what adivinar means? That’s right. Adivinar means to guess. Conjetura is a conjecture. And suponer is to suppose.

Merienda is a new word that I picked up today. It means a mid-afternoon snack. Or what some people would call tea. This would be related to almuerzo which is a mid-morning snack. Sometimes almuerzo is used to mean lunch. Both can be verbs too. Merienda is the noun and merendar is the verb. Almorzar […]

A lady came to see the doctor today and complained of hinchazón in her legs. They were swollen. The verb is hincharse.

With the doctors today we dealt with a lot of numbness in hands and feet. Therefore I learned the word entumecido which is numb. To go numb, or to become numb is entumecer.