Crossword 3: 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 1-2 hours.
-- Feel free to post a sentence and/or picture!
Note: You do not have to do the clues in any particular sequence! Have fun!
Flashcards -- Crossword 3: Build Your Vocabulary
El banco de palabras:
¡Estas son las palabras que irán en el crucigrama!
| bolso | enojado | malo | prohibición |
| brecha | entristecerse | mismos | rata |
| chorro | estela | nido | savia |
| dátil | etiqueta | pagina | tambor |
| deleite | fanático | plataforma | tasa |
| dividido | guarida | polvo | timbre |
| encaje | jaula |
Word Bank
| bad | drum | mad | same |
| bag | dust | nest | sap |
| ban | fan | pad | tag |
| bell | gap | page | wake |
| cage | hung | rat | zest |
| date | jet | rate | |
| den | lace | sad |
| Across | Down | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. angry and irritated | 2. it was a _____ jury | |
| 4. delight or pleasure | 3. it's a fruit | |
| 8. from 1920 until 1933 there was a ____ on alcohol | 5. label | |
| 10. an animal ____; or it can surround a lift | 6. to become sad, to sadden | |
| 11. of poor quality | 7. dirt on furniture | |
| 12. _____ of birds or bandits | 8. platform for helicopters | |
| 13. _____ of return | 9. the Yellow ____(s) | |
| 15. the _____ of a ship | 14. lair of an animal | |
| 16. the _____ between rich and poor | 18. musical instrument | |
| 17. rapid stream of liquid or gas | 20. handbag | |
| 19. sports enthusiast | 21. pointed snout and long tail | |
| 22. twins are the ____ in many ways | ||
| 23. a fine, open fabric | ||
| 24. fluid in a plant | ||
| 25. near a door or on a bicycle handlebar |
26 Answers
20 down bolso 8. from 1920 until 1933 there was a prohibicion on alcohol 24. across savia
10 across: jaula = cage
jaula de grillos = madhouse
6 down - entristecerse - to sadden
Cuando no puedo ayudar mis amigos lo me entristezco.
When I cannot help my friends it saddens me.
8 down - plataforma - platform for a helicopter.
His platform was unacceptable to the delegates.
Su plataforma era inaceptable para los delegados.
1 across - enojado ( angry and irritated )
24 across. fluid in a plant - savia
El hombre ha usado la savia del árbol de caucho sudamericano desde antes de que Cristóbal Colón cruzara el Atlántico
People have used the sap of the South American rubber tree since before Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic.
18 Down : Musical instrument = tambor. Sí ,él toca el tambor cómo fue golpeando un hijastro pelirrojo. Yes,he played the drum like he was beating a red-headed stepchild.
23 across: encaje A fine, open fabric
22 across twins are the mismos in many ways
21 down - rata ( rat )
2 down dividido
United we stand, divided we fall!
Unidos permanecemos, divididos caemos!
(I couldn't help myself. So I quoted from history. Forgive me, please?)
number 8. across - from 1920 until 1933 there was a ____ on alcohol.
prohibicíon - ban
25 across - timbre - doorbell or bell - near a door or on a bicycle handlebar.
I rang the doorbell for what seemed forever, but nobody answered.
Sonó el timbre para lo que parecía para siempre, pero nadie respondió.
7 down: Polvo = dust . Tengo que quitar el polvo alrededor aquí .I have to dust around here.
3. it's a fruit - dátil - date
