A spicy green pepper found in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisines.
What is a jalapeño
100
Mainly spoken in New England and New Orleans, this European language is considered the most romantic among Romance languages.
What is French
100
This field of science comes from Greek meaning "study of life.”
What is biology
100
A word used to describe action
What is a verb
100
One of the most widely used alphabets used in such languages as Russian, Ukrainian, and Serbian.
What is Cyrillic
200
Often defined as a destitute area whose population primarily consists of Hispanic immigrants in the United States, its name comes from the Spanish word for neighborhood.
What is a barrio
200
The most spoken language in the United States with a Cyrillic alphabet, this language is spoken by nearly 1 million immigrants in mostly New York and southern Florida.
What is Russian
200
This shape comes from the Greek word for "ten."
What is a decagon
200
The term referring to the arrangement of sentences
What is syntax
200
This is the alphabet the Torah is written in, as well as the script that Yiddish and Aramaic are written.
What is Hebrew
300
A domesticated South American camelid prized for its wool and is only found in the Andes mountains.
What is a llama
300
The most spoken Native American language in the United States, this language is mainly spoken in the Southwest (specifically Arizona).
What is Navajo
300
This dinosaur is named in Greek for its appearance, literally translated as "wing finger."
What is a pterodactyl
300
The punctuation mark indicating separation in a sentence, typically between two main clauses.
What is a semicolon
300
The Devanagari Script is a language commonly used among languages in India, including this most widely-spoken one.
What is Hindi
400
This fortified made from white grapes (primarily the Palomino grape) in Andalucía, Spain is an anglicization of the town it comes from.
What is sherry
400
The most spoken Asian language in the United States after Chinese languages, this language belonging to the Austronesian family is closer to Hawaiian than to Mandarin.
What is Tagalog (Filipino)
400
This Greek word meaning "praise" is used in English as a synonym for "congratulations."
What is kudos
400
The study of meaning of words or phrases in a language or the meaning of words and phrases in a particular context
What are semantics
400
This language's alphabet, also referred to as Hangul, uses a system that separates words into syllables rather than letters, and is used in only one language spoken in East Asia.
What is Korean
500
This word that has been used as a nickname for prison since the early 20th century comes from the Spanish word meaning to judge.
What is a hoosegow
500
This language spoken by over 230,000 people in mostly southern California is spoken in the Caucasus region and is the only Indo-European language spoken there.
What is Armenian
500
This term referring to a free instrumental composition that is emotional or exuberant in character comes from the Greek "to sew songs together."
What is a rhapsody
500
The formation of a word made by imitating its sound
What is onomatopoeia
500
The Ge'ez Script is a traditional alphabet used by the Ethiopian Orthodox church and is currently used as the alphabet for this language, Ethiopia's most widely-spoken.