Vocabulary: "Excerpt from 'Our America'"
Across
- 3. a person who is overly concerned with minor details and rules
- 5. an ornamental shoulder piece on an item of clothing, on a military uniform
- 8. a man devoted to personal appearance
- 12. a complex system of beliefs
- 13. feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment
- 16. a person of mixed race, especially of Indigenous and Spanish or Portuguese descent
- 18. the system of dividing society into hereditary classes
- 21. disagreeing or lacking in harmony
- 24. having elements of great variety
- 25. a small village located East of the capital city in Cuba
Down
- 1. a slender candle
- 2. a member of the South American Indian people living in Peru before the Spanish conquest
- 4. a city-state that existed between 1920 and 1939, in Gdańsk, Poland
- 5. noble or lofty
- 6. characterized by strong and conflicting emotions
- 7. a person who lives in or is from the United States
- 9. the first principles of a subject
- 10. Our Lady of Guadalupe, the mother of Jesus according to many religious texts
- 11. the use of many words where fewer words would do, to be evasive or vague
- 14. relating to an authority that has total power and often uses that power in cruel unfair ways
- 15. the chief civil officers in ancient Greece
- 17. one’s native country or homeland
- 19. a person born in Spanish America, but of European ancestry
- 20. a term meaning “peasant farmer” in Spanish-speaking regions
- 22. a necktie
- 23. a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and a leader in the Mex. War of Independence