Historic Town of Guanajuato Word Search
Free Historic Town of Guanajuato word search. We picked 12 themed words — its architecture, its landscape, and the people who built it — and laid them out on a 15×15 grid. Drag across the letters to find every word on the list.
Words to find: GUANAJUATO, SILVER, MINING, ALHONDIGA, BASILICA, TEATROJUAREZ, MUMMIES, CALLEJON, PIPILA, FUNICULAR, PINKSTONE, BAROQUE.
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Historic Town of Guanajuato word list, defined
- SILVER /ˈsɪlvər/ · noun, adjective
- A white metal, highly valued for its brightness and durability. A colour intermediate between white and grey. Related: grey, white, metallic, brass.
- MINING /ˈmaɪnɪŋ/ · noun, verb
- The extraction of minerals or other valuable materials from the earth, or the process of digging or excavating something. To obtain or extract something by searching or investigating. Related: excavation, digging, extraction, quarrying.
- BASILICA /bəˈsɪlɪkə/ · noun
- A large, important Christian church building, typically having a longitudinal nave with side aisles and often a raised apse at one end; in the Roman Catholic Church, a basilica is also an official ecclesiastical rank conferred on certain churches. Related: church, cathedral, minster, temple.
- MUMMIES /ˈmʌmɪz/ · noun
- The bodies of people or animals that have been preserved after death, often wrapped in bandages, especially those of ancient Egyptians. Plural of mummy. Related: corpses, bodies, remains, cadavers.
- FUNICULAR /fjuːˈnɪkjʊlə(r)/ · noun
- A funicular is a cable railway, especially one on a steep mountainside, in which two counterbalanced cars are connected by a cable so that as one ascends the other descends. The term also appears in a fuller form, 'funicular railway'. Related: cable railway, inclined railway, cliff railway, funicular railway.
- BAROQUE /bəˈrɒk/ (British) ; /bəˈroʊk/ (US) · adjective (also noun)
- Relating to or characteristic of the Baroque style of art, architecture, and music prevalent in Europe from the early 17th to the mid-18th century, marked by elaborate ornamentation, dramatic movement, and rich detail; by extension, extravagantly ornate, convoluted, or grotesque in style. Related: ornate, elaborate, flamboyant, florid.
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