Challenging Verbs

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Across
  1. 3. to be or become successful, especially financially
  2. 5. to continue to have; to keep in existence, or not allow to become less
  3. 8. to try to do something, especially something difficult
  4. 9. to accept that you will reduce your demands or change your opinion in order to reach an agreement with someone
  5. 11. to have as a plan or purpose
  6. 14. to prepare land and grow crops on it, or to grow a particular crop
  7. 15. to show or make something clear
  8. 17. to interest or attract someone
  9. 18. to establish something such as a belief so firmly that it is not likely to change
  10. 19. to have or own something, or to have a particular quality
  11. 20. to be extremely good at something
  12. 22. to appear by coming out of something or out from behind something
  13. 23. to feel sorry about a situation, especially something sad or wrong or a mistake that you have made
  14. 25. to add to something in order to make it bigger or longer
  15. 26. to protect yourself, or another person or thing, from bad weather, danger, or attack
  16. 27. to give all of something, especially your time, effort, or love, or yourself, to something you believe in or to a person
Down
  1. 1. to increase, or to increase something, very much in number
  2. 2. to control or influence something directly, or to decide what will happen
  3. 3. to show that you disagree with something by standing somewhere
  4. 4. to put someone or something at risk or in danger of being harmed, damaged, or destroyed
  5. 5. to show or experience great surprise or admiration
  6. 6. to show the meaning or truth of something more clearly, especially by giving examples
  7. 7. to gradually become less, worse, or lower
  8. 10. to know someone or something because you have seen or heard him or her or experienced it before
  9. 12. to communicate an idea or feeling without saying it directly
  10. 13. to cause something to exist
  11. 16. to make something pure or improve something, especially by removing unwanted material
  12. 20. to guess or calculate the cost, size, value, etc. of something
  13. 21. to admit that you have done something wrong or something that you feel guilty or bad about
  14. 24. to express a thought, feeling, or idea so that it is understood by other people