• Learn to recognize intensive verb forms and know what they mean.
• Learn to recognize denominative verbs and attain a general sense of their range of meanings.
• Learn the forms of nominal stems with atypical patterns of suffixival vowel gradation , such as path- “road,” puṁs- “man,” and akṣi- “eye,” and adjectives in -añc- “-facing.”

• karī barībharīti cēd diśaṁ sarīsarīti kāṁ
      sthirīcarīkarīti cēn na cañcarīkarītikām
  darīdharīti kētakaṁ varīvarīti sārasaṁ
      jarījarīti mañjarī nirītirītir īdr̥śī

  (Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja)

This is a difficult verse, but my guess is that you have to know: bees are attracted to the temporal secretions of elephants, and hence can hitch a ride on their cheeks; bees (by an implicit comparison between bees and loutish men) are also known to extract everything they want from beautiful flowers and then leave them wilted and empty.

• karin- adj. “possessing a trunk,” i.e., “elephant”
• √bhr̥ “bear, carry, be full”
• cēt indecl. particle meaning “if,” coming after the last word in the if-clause
• diś- f. “direction”
• √sr̥ “walk, wander”
• sthirī-√kr̥ “make firm or stable, stop,” (a cvi formation)
• cañcarīka- m. “bumblebee”
• rīti- f. “motion, manner”
• √dhr̥ “hold onto, have”
• kētaka- m. “pandan,” esp. its flowers
• √vr̥ “choose, seek”
• sārasa- m. “relating to a lake” (saras-), hence usually “crane,” but here probably “lotus”
• √jr̥̄ “grow old, wilt”
• mañjarī- f. a new growth of a plant (especially containing flowers, a “raceme”); probably referring to the pandan here
• īti- f. “natural disaster”
• nirīti- adj. “without a natural disaster”
• īdr̥śa- adj. “such”

• kāntō yāsyati dūradēśam iti mē cintā paraṁ jāyatē
      lōkānandakarō hi candravadanē vairāyatē candramāḥ
  kiṁ cāyaṁ vitanōti kōkilakalālāpō vilāpōdayaṁ
      prāṇān ēva haranti hanta nitarām ārāmamandānilāḥ

  (Subhāṣitaratnabhāṇḍāgāram)

• kānta- adj. “beloved”
• √yā “go”
• dūra- adj. “far”
• dēśa- m. “place”
• cintā- f. “worry”
• para- adj. “higher”
• √jan “be born”
• lōka- m. “people”
• ānandakara- adj. “delighter”
• candra- m. “moon”
• vadana- n. “face”
• vaira- n. “hostility”
• candramāḥ- m. “moonlight”
• kiṁ ca indecl. “moreover”
• vi√tan “spin out, make”
• kōkila- m. “cuckoo”
• kala- adj. “indistinct”
• ālāpa- m. “chatter, indistinct noise”
• vilāpa- m. “lament”
• udaya- m. “arising, emergence”
• prāṇa- m. “life-breath,” (in plural) “life”
• nitarām indecl. adv. “all the more”
• √hr̥ “take”
• hanta indecl. particle expressing exasperation
• ārāma- m. “garden”
• manda- adj. “gentle”
• anila- m. “breeze”

Also try out:

• Hitōpadēśaḥ 1.73
• Vairāgyaśarakam 8