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Spanish Difficult Review Quiz - Vocabulary - Look: More Vegetables! (Questions)

In this Spanish Difficult Review quiz you will be looking at some healthy foods, i.e., vegetables. We’re pretty certain that just above everyone has heard their mother say: Eat your vegetables. For some people, that command is an awful chore. However, vegetables are essential for eating a healthy diet.

Did you know that people who eat lots of vegetables and fruits have a much lower risk of getting cancer? In fact, eating lots of vegetables helps you to fight all kinds of diseases and bacteria that can make you very ill. I know you’re probably thinking that what does this have to do with learning Spanish – well – people all over the world need to eat vegetables and luckily for you, you will be able to name many different kinds of vegetables in two different languages!

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You should already know the Spanish names of several vegetables but now it is time to learn a few more. Maybe just learning the Spanish names will help to strengthen you mind! Well – maybe…. So let’s take a look at some vegetables.

VEGETABLES

ENGLISH	SPANISH
beet	remolacha [f]
Brussels sprout	col de Bruselas [f]
cabbage	repollo [m]
chard	acelga [f]
chicory	achicoria [f]
chickpea	garbanzo [m]
endive	endivia [f]
lentil	lenteja [f] (note that the J sounds like an H)
okra	quingombó [m]
radish	rábano [m]
rhubarb	ruibarbo [m]
shallot	chalote [m]
soybean	semilla de soja [f]
squash	cucurbitácea [f]
string beans	habas verdes [f]
tapioca	tapioca [f]
turnip	nabo [m]
watercress	berro [m]
yam	batata [f]
zucchini	calabacín [m]

There are some really long words in this list so take some time to really become familiar with them, their pronunciations and how they are spelled. When you have finished studying them, move on to the quiz sentences. Each sentence has an all capitalized vegetable. Your task is to locate the Spanish translation of the capitalized vegetable.

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The first time I ate OKRA was in Mississippi.

[ ]	chalote
[ ]	quingombó
[ ]	nabo
[ ]	achicoria

Daddy loves grandmother’s RHUBARB pie.

[ ]	ruibarbo
[ ]	garbanzo
[ ]	rábano
[ ]	remolacha

Do you ever put WATERCRESS in your salads?

[ ]	semilla de soja
[ ]	calabacín
[ ]	col de Bruselas
[ ]	berro

I planted some SQUASH in my garden this year.

[ ]	lenteja
[ ]	achicoria
[ ]	cucurbitácea
[ ]	calabacín

My brother is allergic to RADISHES.

[ ]	rábanos
[ ]	acelgas
[ ]	nabos
[ ]	garbanzos

She bought six cans of STRING BEANS.

[ ]	tapiocas
[ ]	habas verdes
[ ]	endivias
[ ]	semilla de soja

Have you ever had SOYBEAN milk?

[ ]	calabacín
[ ]	chalote
[ ]	semilla de soja
[ ]	remolacha

Jimmy thought that the Brussel sprouts looked like little cabbages.

[ ]	garbanzo
[ ]	repollo
[ ]	cucurbitácea
[ ]	col de Bruselas

Grandfather loves to have his BEETS pickled.

[ ]	remolachas
[ ]	berros
[ ]	nabos
[ ]	acelgas

10.

LENTILS are legumes. They look like dried split peas, although they are not as sweet.

[ ]	calabacines
[ ]	lentejas
[ ]	chalotes
[ ]	cucurbitáceas

Spanish Difficult Review Quiz - Vocabulary - Look: More Vegetables! (Answers)

The first time I ate OKRA was in Mississippi.

[ ]	chalote
[x]	quingombó
[ ]	nabo
[ ]	achicoria

The Spanish name of okra is quingomobó.

Daddy loves grandmother’s RHUBARB pie.

[x]	ruibarbo
[ ]	garbanzo
[ ]	rábano
[ ]	remolacha

The Spanish word for rhubarb is ruibarbo.

Do you ever put WATERCRESS in your salads?

[ ]	semilla de soja
[ ]	calabacín
[ ]	col de Bruselas
[x]	berro

The Spanish word for watercress is berro.

I planted some SQUASH in my garden this year.

[ ]	lenteja
[ ]	achicoria
[x]	cucurbitácea
[ ]	calabacín

The Spanish word for squash is cucurbitácea.

My brother is allergic to RADISHES.

[x]	rábanos
[ ]	acelgas
[ ]	nabos
[ ]	garbanzos

The Spanish word for radishes is rábanos.

She bought six cans of STRING BEANS.

[ ]	tapiocas
[x]	habas verdes
[ ]	endivias
[ ]	semilla de soja

The Spanish word for string beans is habas verdes.

Have you ever had SOYBEAN milk?

[ ]	calabacín
[ ]	chalote
[x]	semilla de soja
[ ]	remolacha

The Spanish word for soybean is semilla de soja.

Jimmy thought that the Brussel sprouts looked like little cabbages.

[ ]	garbanzo
[ ]	repollo
[ ]	cucurbitácea
[x]	col de Bruselas

The Spanish words for Brussel sprouts are col de Bruselas.

Grandfather loves to have his BEETS pickled.

[x]	remolachas
[ ]	berros
[ ]	nabos
[ ]	acelgas

The Spanish word for beets is remolachas.

10.

LENTILS are legumes. They look like dried split peas, although they are not as sweet.

[ ]	calabacines
[x]	lentejas
[ ]	chalotes
[ ]	cucurbitáceas

The Spanish word for lentils is lentejas.