| A | B |
|---|
| Dominican Republic | an island republic in the West Indies |
| librería | book store |
| merengue | a ballroom dance of Dominican and Haitian origin |
| pesos | a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico and the Philippines |
| bachatas | a genre of music that originated in the countryside and the rural neighborhoods |
| niños | boy children |
| dominoes | any of various games played with such pieces, usually by matching the ends of piees and laying the dominoes down in lines and angular patterns |
| empanada | a Spanish or Latin-American turnover with a flaky crust and a spicy or sweet filling |
| Puerto Plata | one of the northern provinces of the Dominican Republic |
| lagoon | an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes |
