Spanish

Question 1

Temblor

Answer 1

An earthquake

Question 2

Alamo

Answer 2

Special cottonwood tree in mexico

Question 3

jai alai

Answer 3

a game like pelota played with large curved wicker baskets.
“jai alai players”

Question 4

Bolero

Answer 4

1. a Spanish dance in simple triple time.

Question 5

Bonanza

Answer 5

a situation or event that creates a sudden increase in wealth, good fortune, or profits.
“a bonanza year for the computer

Question 6

Disembogue

Answer 6

(The flow of something (usually a body of water)

Question 7

Ranchero

Answer 7

a person who farms or works on a ranch, especially in the southwestern US and Mexico.

Question 8

barrio

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

Naranjilla

Answer 9

A fruit that looks like an orange but tastes exactly like a tomato came from the word Naranja

Question 10

cultivation

Answer 10

noun: cultivation; plural noun: cultivations
1. the action of cultivating land, or the state of being cultivated.
“the cultivation of crops”

2. the process of trying to acquire or develop a quality or skill.
   “the cultivation of good staff–management relations”

Question 11

Cypress

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

Tomentose

Answer 12

: covered with densely matted woolly hairs a tomentose leaf.

Question 13

Ahuehuete

Answer 13

: a Mexican cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) of great girth. Mexican most famous tree

Question 14

Monetary

Answer 14

relating to money or currency.

Question 15

Bongo

Answer 15

either of a pair of small, long-bodied drums typically held between the knees and played with the fingers. DRUM

Question 16

Basque

Answer 16

Fast speed music

Question 17

zortzico

Answer 17

: a Basque song or dance in ⁵/₈ time and dotted rhythm.

Question 18

Fiesta

Answer 18

Festival

Question 19

Bolivar

Answer 19

the basic monetary unit of Venezuela, equal to 100 centimos.

Question 20

Legislature

Answer 20

the legislative body of a country or state.
“the Nevada state legislature passed a law to prohibit dumping of nuclear waste”

Question 21

eradicated

Answer 21

(of a tree or plant) depicted with the roots exposed

Question 22

Varsity

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Satsuma

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

Vengeance

Answer 24

punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
“voters are ready to wreak vengeance on all politicians”

Question 25

betrothal

Answer 25

formal engagement to be married; engagement.

Question 26

basilica

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

pasilla

Answer 27

: a slender long usually dried chili pepper that is blackish brown when dried.

Question 28

siesta

Answer 28

When it’s hot and nobody has work they take a afternoon nap which is a siesta

Question 29

Venezuela

Answer 29

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.