Newspaper - 4/01/2017

Question 1

ostentatious

Answer 1

characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice. “books that people buy and display ostentatiously but never actually finish”

Question 2

bastion

Answer 2

1. a projecting part of a fortification built at an angle to the line of a wall, so as to allow defensive fire in several directions; “fortified with ditches and bastions”
2. an institution, place, or person strongly defending or upholding particular principles, attitudes, or activities; “In the war torn city, the church building stood out as the last bastion of faith.”

Question 3

recriminations

Answer 3

an accusation in response to one from someone else.

Question 4

Istanbul

Answer 4

A major city in Turkey that straddles the Bosphorus Straight that connects the Black Sea (east) and the Sea of Marmara (west).

Question 5

Rio de Janeiro OR Rio

Answer 5

Rio is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. It’s located on the Brazilian Coast on the South Atlantic Sea.

Question 6

Barcelona

Answer 6

Located on the North-East coast of Spain on the Balearic (Iberian) Sea, it’s where the Sagrada familia designed by Antoni Gaudí is located.

Question 7

Caracus

Answer 7

Located in mountain valley in Northern Venezuela, close to the Caribbean Sea.

Question 8

Bonaire

Answer 8

Bonaire is an island municipality of the Netherlands which lies off Venezuela’s coast in the southern Caribbean.