Context Clues and Tuck Chapters 1-5
Across
- 2. to irritate greatly
- 4. easily provoked to anger; very irritable
- 5. a wooden puppet that moves with strings
- 11. angry
- 12. burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical
- 14. practicing self-denial
- 15. cheerful; lively; self-confident
- 17. a frame from which convicted people were hanged
- 19. to be excessively modest; to put oneself down
- 21. to suddenly change thoughts or actions
- 22. side by side
- 24. an ugly facial expression that indicates disapproval, pain, etc.
Down
- 1. sad or mournful
- 3. conducted in secret
- 6. to lessen grief, sorrow, or disappointment; to comfort
- 7. an animal in the cattle family (cow, bison)
- 8. deficient in quality or quantity; scant
- 9. dreary; lonely; forsaken
- 10. to be irritated; annoyed
- 13. hasty and without attention to detail
- 16. widespread
- 18. very sad; depressed
- 19. standing still; not moving
- 20. to go at a slow, steady pace; stroll
- 23. expressing sorrow or regret