Progreso

[ praw-gre-saw ]

/ prɔˈgrɛ sɔ /

a city in NW Honduras.

QUIZZES

It’d be a real faux pas to miss this quiz on the words from August 3–9, 2020!

Question 1 of 7

What does “vacillate” mean?

Raquel lives in a modest brick house in Progreso, Texas, a border town less than 40 miles from Matamoros.
Mexico’s Murderous SWAT Teams|Jason McGahan|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We were now but waiting for notice of a vessel sailing from Progreso for Coatzacoalcos.
In Indian Mexico (1908)|Frederick Starr
Ostwald's new chemical nomenclature began in the May, 1910, number of Progreso.
Major Prophets of To-Day|Edwin E. Slosson
Progreso and Mérida were visited, and our work was done upon the Mayas living near the town of Tekax.
In Indian Mexico (1908)|Frederick Starr

We found the carnival at Progreso more natural and unpretentious, but also far more lively and amusing, than anything in Mérida.
In Indian Mexico (1908)|Frederick Starr
That the Progreso birds were actually beginning a trans-Gulf flight seems inevitable.
A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds.|George H. Lowery.