Crossword: Build Your Vocabulary - Compound Words 5
In English, words, particularly adjectives and nouns, are combined into compound structures in a variety of ways. One common pattern is to join two words such as fire and fly, into one word: firefly.
There are three forms of compound words. This challenge focus's on the the closed form, fire + fly = firefly.
There is only one sure way to know how to spell compounds in English: use an authoritative dictionary.
Flashcards: Crossword: Build Your Vocabulary - Compound Words 5
Guidelines:
-- Use only the words in the the Word Bank to form the compound word in English.
-- Create 26 English compound words, (you may find more than I did) and then translate the compound word into Spanish.
-- Indicate where the Spanish word will be used in the crossword puzzle.
-- One clue per member please, though you may participate every 1 - 2 hours.
-- Feel free to use sentences and/or pictures.
-- Note: You do not have to do the clues in any particular sequence!
-- Several of the words in the Word Bank are used more than once.
Word Bank
| back | banks | body | burger | by | corn | east | ham | ||||||||
| head | her | hold | honey | horse | house | it | keeper | ||||||||
| lime | luke | maker | moon | more | near | no | north | ||||||||
| over | pace | pan | person | pop | quarters | river | sand | ||||||||
| sauce | sea | self | shore | side | south | spokes | stone | ||||||||
| storm | thunder | warm | west |
| Created English Compound Word | Spanish Translation | Created English Compound Word | Spanish Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. on horseback | a caballo | 2. household | la casa familiar |
| 3. thunderstorm | tormenta | 4. hamburger | hamburguesa |
| 5. nobody | nadie | 6. nearby | cercano |
| 7. housekeeper | la ama de llaves | 8. saucepan | cacerola |
| 9. riverbanks (riversides works, too) | las orillas | 10. limestone | la piedra caliza |
| 11. itself | sí mismo | 12. spokesperson | portavoz |
| 13. pacemaker | el marcapasos | 14. furthermore | además |
| 15. riverside | ribereño | 16. headquarters | la sede |
| 17. popcorn | las palomitas de maiz | 18. herself | ella misma |
| 19. lukewarm | tibia | 20. honeymoon | la luna de miel |
| 21. sandstone | arenisca | 22. seashore | orilla del mar |
| 23. southeast | sudeste | 24. northwest | noroeste |
| 25. southwest | suroeste | 26. northeast | noreste |
| Across | Down | |
|---|---|---|
| 2. A microwave is a ----- appliance. (3 Words) | 1. it swells up and bursts open (4 Words) | |
| 8. The -----has onion and double cheese. | 3. a deep cooking pan | |
| 9. The ----- cleaned the house. (4 Words) | 4. ----- cliffs (3 Words) | |
| 10. The office is in the ----- corner of the building. | 5. heavy rain, hail, and lightning | |
| 11. She did all the work -----. (2 Words) | 6. the banks of a river (2 Words) | |
| 13. device that stimulates the heart (2 Words) | 7. A favorite ----- spot is Hawaii. (4 Words) | |
| 16. The police ----- is adjacent to the bank. (2 Words) | 12. They traveled -----. | |
| 17. rock consisting of quartz grains | 14. Take a journey on -----. (2 Words) | |
| 18. Plant the flowers in the ----- end of the garden. | 15. the land between high and low tide (3 Words) | |
| 21. person who lives by a river | 18. history repeats ----- (2 Words) | |
| 23. furthermore | 19. It's a few miles ----- of here. | |
| 24. chosen to speak on behalf of others | 20. close at hand, close by | |
| 25. ----- water | 22. ----- was at home. |
