Unit 14 Crossword
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Down:
1) Winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious
Syn- Circuitous, Serpentine, labyrinthine 2) To scold sharply
Syn- Chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand 3) To beg earnestly and humbly
Syn- Plead, petition, implore, entreat4) Willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
Syn- Agreeable, Compliant, Docile 5) Showing unusually early development (especially in tablets and mental capacity)
Syn- forward, gifted, advanced 6) Large-scale slaughter or loss of life
Syn- Butchery, bloodbath, massacre7) A weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc)
Syn- Affliction, malady, defect 8) A rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation
Syn- Yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon 12) Coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
Syn- Incidental, extrinsic 15) Stubborn, Unyielding
Syn- Obstinate, adamant |
Across:
3) An excess or overindulgence, as n eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything excess
Syn- (n.) excess, guilt; (v.) cloy, satiate 5) A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent
Syn- Hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley 8) Too ready to believe, easily deceived
Syn- Gullible 9) Lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile
Syn- Vapid, insipid, puerile, childish 10) Delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
Syn- Brutal, Vicious, inhuman, fiendish 11) To use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
Syn- exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt 13) To expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely
Syn- Elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam 14) Self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages;saying much in few words
Syn- Aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic 16) Swollen, bloated, filled to excess; over decorated or excessive in language
Syn- Inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown 17) The beginning,start, earliest stage of some process institution etc.
Syn- Commencement, Inauguration, outset |
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