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This term refers to a word that sounds like another but has a different meaning, such as "Flower" and "Flour."
What is a homophone?
This 3-letter abbreviation of "suspicious" is used to describe someone acting "shady" or untrustworthy.
What is sus?
This Mexican painter is world-renowned for her surrealist self-portraits and her "Blue House" in Coyoacán.
Who is Frida Khalo?
A program that replicates itself and damages computer systems
What is a virus
This 17th-century English physicist is credited with the laws of motion and the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This verb means to delay or postpone action; in Spanish, "posponer” or "dejar para mañana."
What is procrastination
This 4-letter acronym is used to describe someone who is the undisputed best in their field, like Pelé or Michael Jordan.
What is GOAT? (Greatest Of All Times)
This 19th-century conflict, resulted in the loss of over half of Mexico's national territory.
What is the Mexican-American War?
This Google tool, similar to Microsoft Word, allows multiple people to edit the same document in real-time.
What is Google Docs?
This French term, often used in English, describes the feeling that you have already experienced a present situation.
What is Déjà vu?
This is the formal English verb that is often used when discovering a mistake or a new fact.
What is to find out (or perceive)?
This 3-letter word is used to describe a party or event that is incredibly exciting, fun, or "on fire."
What is Lit?
This Colombian author and Nobel laureate, who lived and died in Mexico City.
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This popular game-based learning platform uses colorful shapes as a quiz to students in class.
What is Kahoot?
In English literature, this word refers to a 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme, famously used by Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
In an exam this word describes a person that would not tell you off for cheating.
What is trustworthy?
This adjective describes someone who stays perfectly calm, cool, and indifferent, even in stressful situations.
What is nonchalant?
This musical term describes a play in which the characters sing all or most of their lines, accompanied by an orchestra.
What is an opera?
This is the specific term for a fraudulent email designed to trick you into revealing your bank password or personal data.
What is phishing?
This is the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature and pressure.
What is mercury?
When someone has a clear pronunciation of what they say.
What is to articulate?
A slang word that the Mexican president (Claudia Sheinbaum) has often said.
What is 67 (pronounced six seven)?
This geological theory, which revolutionized earth science in the 1960s, describes the large-scale motion of the seven primary segments of the Earth's lithosphere as they glide over the mantle.
What is Plate Tectonics?
This security measure requires a user to provide two different factors to verify themselves, such as a password and a code sent to a phone.
What is Two-Factor Authentication? (or 2FA)
A word that refers to a "hidden" or "secondary" meaning within a title or a conversation.
What is subtext?