COLLEGE ETYMOLOGY
SILENT LETTER WORDS
ALL ABOUT APRIL
PARTY IN THE USA
DON QUIXOTE
100

This word for a type of degree originally referred to a young knight of low rank


A BACHELOR 

100

If you're in the red you're in this not where you want to be financially


DEBT 

100

It was created as an environmental teach-in & first celebrated on April 22 1970


EARTH DAY 

100

In 2000 Ralph Nader received nearly 3 million presidential votes for this colorful party


THE GREEN PARTY 

100

As a knight-errant Don Quixote attacks what he says are giants but in fact are these


WINDMILLS 

200

This oral lesson is from the Latin for to read


A LECTURE 

200

Ships usually drop this when they want to stay in place


ANCHOR 

200

Often in April Passover is celebrated with this meal at which the haggadah is read


SEDER 

200

Historians paired this word with Republican in the name of an 18th & 19th century American party


DEMOCRATIC 

200

Idioms abound in Don Quixote like The haves & the have nots & the rich being born with one of these in his mouth


A SILVER SPOON

300

Sooner or later you'll have to declare one of these from a Latin word meaning greater


MAJOR 

300

Beating Shoplifters & Cold War Roma won the 2018 award in this Oscar category


FOREIGN FILM

300

For Easter weekend I'll bake you some of these 3-word treats


HOT CROSS BUNS 

300

Due to the participation of Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt this incumbent president finished third in 1912


WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT 

300

Dreaming the impossible dream this Broadway show about Don Quixote won the 1966 Tony Award for Best Musical


MAN LA MANCHA 

400

Often applied to courses it's from the Latin for before & need


A PREREQUISITE 

400

Claymores & scimitars are types of these


SWORDS 

400

The 25th of April Bridge spans the Tagus River in this Iberian capital


LISBON

400

In 2016 this party got Gary Johnson on ballots in all 50 states the first time for a third party since 1996


LIBERTARIAN 

400

In Don Quixote this squire tells his donkey Dapple With bread all sorrows are less


SANCHO PANZA


500

This word for a class of student derives from a word for a fallacious argument


SOPHOMORE 

500

From the Latin for body the Marines are a formidable one


CORPS 

500

The daisy is one special flower for those born in April; another is this sweet one seen here


A SWEET PEA 

500

The Objectivist Party seeks to promote the political philosophy of this female novelist who died in 1982


AYN RAND 

500

Don Quixote dedicates his deeds of valor to Aldonza a peasant girl he calls this


DULCINEA 

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