ela story vocab
Across
- 3. express opposition through actions or words
- 7. be in an agitated emotional state
- 8. defend, explain, or make excuses for by reasoning
- 10. a group of people who differ from a larger group
- 11. a poor densely populated city district
- 12. give a solemn statement in a court of law
- 13. carefully thought out in advance
- 14. discriminatory on the basis of skin color
- 15. an aggressive and violent young criminal
- 16. feeling or showing extreme anger
- 17. someone who sees an event and reports what happened
- 18. argue or speak in justification
Down
- 1. judgment involved in the assignment of reward and punishment
- 2. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
- 4. burdened psychologically or mentally
- 5. ace in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promise
- 6. and image of one presents to the world
- 8. a state of disorder involving group violence
- 9. the trait of extreme cruelty
- 14. action taken in return for an injury to offense