Spanish Flashcards
Temblor
An earthquake
Alamo
Special cottonwood tree in mexico
jai alai
a game like pelota played with large curved wicker baskets.
“jai alai players”
Bolero
- a Spanish dance in simple triple time.
Bonanza
a situation or event that creates a sudden increase in wealth, good fortune, or profits.
“a bonanza year for the computer
Disembogue
(The flow of something (usually a body of water)
Ranchero
a person who farms or works on a ranch, especially in the southwestern US and Mexico.
barrio
a district of a town in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries.
(in the US) the Spanish-speaking quarter of a town or city, especially one with a high poverty level.
Naranjilla
A fruit that looks like an orange but tastes exactly like a tomato came from the word Naranja
cultivation
noun: cultivation; plural noun: cultivations
1. the action of cultivating land, or the state of being cultivated.
“the cultivation of crops”
- the process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill.
“the cultivation of good staff–management relations”
Cypress
an evergreen coniferous tree with small rounded woody cones and flattened shoots bearing small scale-like leaves.
a cypress tree, or branches from it, as a symbol of mourning.
used in names of coniferous trees of other families that resemble the cypress, e.g., bald cypress.
Tomentose
: covered with densely matted woolly hairs a tomentose leaf.
Ahuehuete
: a Mexican cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) of great girth. Mexican most famous tree
Monetary
relating to money or currency.
Bongo
either of a pair of small, long-bodied drums typically held between the knees and played with the fingers. DRUM
Basque
Fast speed music
zortzico
: a Basque song or dance in ⁵/₈ time and dotted rhythm.
Fiesta
Festival
Bolivar
the basic monetary unit of Venezuela, equal to 100 centimos.
Legislature
the legislative body of a country or state.
“the Nevada state legislature passed a law to prohibit dumping of nuclear waste”
eradicated
(of a tree or plant) depicted with the roots exposed
Varsity
NORTH AMERICAN
the principal team representing a high school or college in a sport or other competition.
“Miller promoted him to the varsity for his sophomore season”
DATED•BRITISH
university.
“he had his hair cut as soon as he got back from varsity”
BRITISH
(especially of a sporting event or team) relating to a university, especially Oxford or Cambridge.
modifier noun: varsity
“a varsity match
Satsuma
noun
noun: satsuma; plural noun: satsumas; noun: Satsuma ware
1.
a tangerine of a hardy loose-skinned variety, originally grown in Japan.
2.
Japanese pottery from Satsuma, ranging from simple 17th-century earthenware to later work made for export to Europe, often elaborately painted, with a crackled cream-colored glaze.
Vengeance
punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
“voters are ready to wreak vengeance on all politicians”
betrothal
formal engagement to be married; engagement.
basilica
a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome as a court of law or for public assemblies.
a building similar to a Roman basilica, used as a Christian church.
the name given to certain churches granted special privileges by the Pope.
pasilla
: a slender long usually dried chili pepper that is blackish brown when dried.
siesta
When it’s hot and nobody has work they take a afternoon nap which is a siesta
Venezuela
The stilt houses in the area of Lake Maracaibo reminded the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, of the city of Venice, Italy, so he named the region Veneziola, or “Little Venice”. The Spanish version of Veneziola is Venezuela.
