Vocabulary: "Excerpt from 'Our America'"

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