Dark Waters Movie Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 7. to throw something lightly or carelessly
  2. 8. impossible or very difficult to destroy
  3. 11. an insulting word for people from the country (with no experience of city life)who are considered to be stupid
  4. 13. to watch and check something over a period of time in order to see how it develops, so that you can make any necessary changes
  5. 14. to control an activity, process, or industry officially by using rules
  6. 15. a chemical containing fluorine commonly used in toothpaste to protect teeth from decay
  7. 17. to leave a mark that is difficult to remove on something; to be marked in this way
  8. 20. an amount of money that you have to pay, for example as a tax
  9. 22. to repeat or give a summary of what has already been said, decided, etc.
  10. 23. to keep something away, or to prevent it from entering something
  11. 25. a condition in which a part of the body has not developed in the usual way or does not have the usual shape
  12. 26. to be next to something or to have one side touching the side of something (of land or a building)
  13. 29. that cannot be proved wrong and that must therefore be accepted
  14. 33. to decide not to continue with a court case (idiom 4,1,4)
  15. 35. the grey powder that remains after something has burned
  16. 36. to catch somebody and prove they are guilty of a crime or of doing something bad (idiom 4,7)
  17. 37. to make a statement that something happened or that something is true, especially as a witness in court
  18. 40. to take milk from a cow, goat, etc.
Down
  1. 1. a small group of people who secretly work together to get power for themselves
  2. 2. to cheat somebody in order to get something, especially money, from them
  3. 3. to clean something by rubbing it hard, especially with a brush and usually with soap and water
  4. 4. a fierce written attack on someone or their work (idiom 1,7,3)
  5. 5. a substance that causes death or harm if it gets into the body
  6. 6. a short delay
  7. 9. poisonous and harmful to people, animals, or the environment
  8. 10. one of the two holes at the end of your nose
  9. 12. to try to hide evidence of something bad that you have done (idiom 5,4,6)
  10. 14. to break a promise, an agreement, etc.
  11. 16. to show or introduce a new plan, product, etc. to the public for the first time
  12. 18. to come to the point: to start talking about the most important thing (idiom 3,2,3,5)
  13. 19. a person who has been trained in the science of animal medicine, whose job is to treat animals who are sick or injured (also vet)
  14. 21. a small river or stream
  15. 24. is the state of being in a place or situation where there is no protection from something harmful or unpleasant
  16. 27. a person or organisation that is very important or successful
  17. 28. the feeling that you are going to vomit
  18. 30. a medical operation to remove a woman’s womb
  19. 31. to become white or pale by a chemical process or by the effect of light from the sun
  20. 32. to steal things from a place or region, especially in a war, using violence
  21. 34. an area of land where large amounts of waste material are buried under the earth
  22. 38. industrial or human waste that has been treated
  23. 39. to pull something or someone suddenly with a lot of force