MEXICAN GEOGRAPHY
"V"OCABULARY
PEACH
5-SYLLABLE WORDS
KITCHEN
200

This is the capital city of Mexico.

What is Mexico City?

200

Title for the student with the highest academic ranking who delivers a speech at graduation

What is valedictorian?

200

This dairy product is often paired with peaches to describe someone with a fair complexion

What is cream?

200

Lines that go on in the same direction & never intersect are parallel, while lines that meet at a 90-degree angle are said to be this

What is perpendicular?

200

Beware the wheels designed to slice up this Italian dish--they are sharp

What is pizza?

400

The famous Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is in this mountain range.

What are the Sierra Madre Oriental? 

400

It's a household appliance, or a space devoid of matter

What is a vacuum? 

400

The mushroom kingdom is the home of this bae of Mario

Who is Princess Peach?

400

The stockpile of words that you use

What is Vocabulary? 

400

The French term for lightly browning food in fat to develop flavor before cooking it further.

What is sautéing?

600

At 95,000 square miles, its Mexico's largest state, though it bears the name of a tiny pet

What is Chihuahua?

600

Hazy or unspecific

What is vague?

600

The Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl is a college football game played in this state capital

What is Atlanta?

600

It can mean gratitude, or an increase in the value of something.

What is appreciation?

600

This type of oven uses radiant heat from above and below to cook food evenly.

What is a convection oven?

800

All topping 17,000', Mexico's 3 highest peaks are these, & it's what Popocatepetl signifies

What are volcanoes?

800

This 8-letter word is a synonym for neighborhood.

What is vicinity?

800

The name of this smooth-skinned peach begins with the favored drink of the Greek gods

What is a nectarine?

800

Extreme fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers.

What is xenophobia?

800

A spice derived from the dried stigma of a flower, often the most expensive by weight.

 What is saffron?

1000

Mexico's Baja Peninsula is separated from the nation's mainland by this body of water

What is the Gulf of California?

1000

A feeling of faintness or a whirling sensation.

What is vertigo?

1000

Daily Double. How much do you want to wager?

This term is both a job title and a sweet, peach-flavored dessert.

1000

This is a literary device where something is described as much greater or more intense than it really is.

What is exaggeration?

1000

I got a new Evergrind model of this from Insinkerator, so please don't put forks inside it

What is a garbage disposal?

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