Spanish Easy Review Quiz - Vocabulary - Adding to the Color Palette (Answers)
This Spanish Easy Review vocabulary quiz will cover a wider range of colors to add to your Spanish color palette vocabulary. If you have not already done so, you might want to check out the Spanish Easy Review quiz titled A Rainbow of Colors as it contains a listing of the more common colors. However, the world is filled with a plethora of many colors beyond the basic common ones so let’s stretch beyond the common with the following list.
Some of these will take a bit of practice saying over and over again before they feel natural to you. Remember that whenever a vowel has an accent mark, that vowel gets a stronger sound to it.
[readmore]When you have said each word several times, and learned how to spell each word, move onto the quiz section.
| English | Spanish | Pronounced (Phonetically) As: |
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| amber | ámbar | ărm-băr |
| auburn | caoba | că-ō-bă |
| blond | rubio | rū-bē-ō |
| brunette | morena | mō-rā-nă |
| fuchsia | fucsia | foo-sē-ă |
| lavender | lavanda | lă-văn-dă |
| maroon | granate | gră-nă-tā |
| mauve | malva | măl-vă |
| midnight blue | negro azulado | nā-grō ă-zū-lă-dō |
| peach | melocotón | mā-lō-cō-tōn |
| periwinkle | bígaro | bē-gă-rō |
| turquoise | turquesa | tore-kāy-să |
Below are ten sentences with a color word capitalized. See if you can find the Spanish or English counterpart to the capitalized color.
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The Spanish word for the color auburn is caoba.
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The Spanish word for the color peach is melocotón.
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The Spanish word for the color periwinkle is bígaro.
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The Spanish word granate means maroon.
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The Spanish word rubio means blond.
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The Spanish word for the color mauve is malva.
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The Spanish word for the color brunette is morena.
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The Spanish word lavanda means lavender.
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The Spanish word negro azulado means midnight blue.
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The Spanish word for the color turquoise is turquesa.
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