Crossword 1: Build Your Vocabulary
The purpose of this challenge is to build your English and Spanish vocabulary. The clues are in English to help the English learners and the crossword is solved using the Spanish words from "El banco de palabras".
-- If you need help with the clues, refer to the Word Bank in English.
-- Only use the words in "El banco de palabras".
-- One clue per member please, though you may participate every 2 hours.
Note: You do not have to do the clues in any particular sequence! Have fun!
Flashcards -- Crossword 1: Build Your Vocabulary
El banco de palabras:
¡Estas son las palabras que irán en el crucigrama!
| aficionado | confianza | rebaño |
| amenaza | estirar | romper |
| amontonarse | fragmento | tartán |
| anochecer | hacer | tímido |
| apagado | inesperado | turno |
| barrido | interruptor | vendaje |
| cofre | medir |
Word Bank
| bandage | does | timid, shy |
| chest | plaid | to measure |
| to hoard things, drift, to pile up | scrap, fragment | to smash, to break |
| dull | shift, turn | to stretch |
| dusk | swept | trust |
| flock, herd | switch (electrical) | twist (story,plot) unexpected |
| fond, | affection | threat |
| Across | Down | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. I can _____ Jill to keep a secret. | 2. to hoard things: ____ | |
| 3. Cake is to crumb as paper is to _____. | 4. The old _____ was filled with coins. | |
| 6. Day is to night as dawn is to _____. | 5. What _____ Han like to eat? | |
| 7. smash | 6. loving, liking, _____ | |
| 8. I need to _____ my legs after sitting. | 11. a dark cloud, a wet _____ | |
| 9. switch (electrical) | 12. Herd is to cattle as _____ is to sheep. | |
| 10. The story had an unusual _____. | 15. a frowning pattern, a sad _____ | |
| 13. cast, stitches, _____ | ||
| 14. shift | ||
| 16. Dark is to light as bright is to _____. | ||
| 17. Tim used a ruler to _____ his desk. | ||
| 18. Juan _____ the floor with a broom. | ||
| 19. Carl is _____ of his dog. |
24 Answers
2 down - amontonarse
**4 Down Chest - Cofre*
6 Across - anochecer (dusk)
Is that right? :D I looked at how the word was formed and noticed 'noche' in it--and, well, I suppose that's what gave it away for me. 
I also chose it since no other word seemed to correspond to a time of the day (or night), haha.
1 across - confianza ( trust )
It has been two hours for me, and I want to bump this up (
), so 8 across "I need to ____ my legs after sitting". = Estirar
13 - across( Bandage) = vendaje
17 across Medir measure
3.
across - scrap - fragmento
He oído de fragmentos de papel para notas, pero esta es la primera vez que he oído de un bloc de notas de cerámica!
I have heard of scrap paper for notes, but this is the first time I've heard of a ceramic notepad!
Por favor, corrija mi español.
Ok, I give up on everyone. 11 Down A dark cloud, a wet ____ = amenaza
14 across - turno
12 down : rebaño
6 down - aficionado ( affection )
18. Juan _____ the floor with a broom. - swept -> barrido
16 apagado subdued
15. a frowning pattern, a sad plaid (tartán)
una manta de tartán
