Brasilia Word Search
Brasilia, as a word search. 12 words drawn from its architecture, its landscape, and the people who built it sit hidden in a 15×15 letter grid, running in every direction. Drag across a word to claim it, and clear the board to finish.
Words to find: BRASILIA, CONCRETO, GLASS, STEEL, MARBLE, GRANITE, MODERNIST, BRUTALIST, CERRADO, PARANOA, PLANOPILOTO, SUPERQUADRA.
There is no timer pressure: take as long as you like, and spend a hint if a word will not surface.
Brasilia word list, defined
- GLASS /ɡlɑːs/ · noun, verb
- A transparent and brittle material used for making windows, drinking vessels, and other objects. To see or perceive something clearly. Related: vitreous, transparent, crystal, pane.
- STEEL /ˈstiːl/ · noun
- A hard, silver-white, ductile, and malleable alloy of iron and carbon, widely used for making tools, machinery, and building materials. Related: iron, metal, alloy, steel alloy.
- MARBLE /ˈmɑrbəl/ · noun
- A small, rounded mass of metamorphic rock, typically composed of calcium carbonate, often used in sculpture and architecture. A game played on a board with pieces made of this material. Related: stone, rock, agate, onyx.
- GRANITE /ˈɡrænɪt/ · noun
- A coarse-grained, light-colored, and extremely hard igneous rock, composed primarily of quartz and feldspar. Related: rock, stone, marble, limestone.
- MODERNIST /ˈmɑːdənɪst/ · adjective
- A person who advocates or practices modernism, especially in the arts. A person who favors or advocates for modern or contemporary ideas, values, or practices. Related: contemporary, innovative, progressive, radical.
- BRUTALIST /ˈbruː.təl.ɪst/ · noun & adjective
- A brutalist is an adherent or practitioner of Brutalism, especially in architecture; as an adjective, brutalist describes the stark, blocky, exposed-concrete style of Brutalist architecture or, more broadly, anything severe and unadorned in a similarly uncompromising way.
- CERRADO /səˈrɑːdəʊ/ · noun
- A vast tropical savanna ecoregion of central Brazil, characterized by scattered drought-resistant trees and shrubs over grassland. Also used more generally to refer to this type of vegetation formation. Related: savanna, grassland, bushveld, woodland.
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