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1. One that depresses or restrains; a dulling or deadening influence
2. A state or scene of noisy uproar and confusion
4. Favors shown to relatives and friends
7. To brag greatly
10. A sudden downfall; collapse or failure
12. Having a feeling of ill-will; bitter hostility
14. After Consuela failed her vocabulary test, her mother disowned her, ___ the day she decided to have a child.
15. To discourage; to keep someone from doing something
17. to attempt to equal or surpass; especially through imitation; to copy
19. Showing lack of interest
23. To gain possession of; to acquire; get
24. To regret, be sorry for
25. To decrease gradually
26. To be agitated, as by rage; to churn and foam as if boiling

1. Hardship, restraint, confinement
3. Shrek ___ to multiple fairy tales.
5. The division of something into parts
6. An extremely large number
8. To give up doing; to surrender, give in
9. Hard to understand
11. Violent, unbounded, unrestrained
13. To carry on despite hardships; to put up with
15. Entirely without; lacking
16. Capable of being touched of felt
18. There is one particular food that I ___: fried okra!
20. To consist of; to include, to contain, to be made up of
21. Distant, reserved in manner; uninvolved
22. The first thing Elizabeth noticed when she walked up the sidewalk to her house was that the curtains were ____, as if someone had been watching her from the window.