English 9 Fall Vocabulary Review 1

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Across
  1. 2. Antonyms: trudge; plod
  2. 4. Literary Connection: "“Gather spirit early, / and so __________ power, / and so become invulnerable” (Tao te Ching 71).
  3. 6. Synonyms: arcane; inaccessible
  4. 7. Literary Connection: "Cartesian __________, the division of spirit or mind from the material body and world, existed long before Christianity or Descartes" (Tao te Ching n.95).
  5. 8. Etymology: a region in Greece, near Sparta, where citizens were notably not talkative
  6. 11. Literary Connection: “It was a __________ object of mystery, which I soon investigated, and found more interesting inside than out” (Tao te Ching ix).
  7. 13. Etymology: combination of Latin root words for "great" and "spirit"
  8. 14. Etymology: the Latin root sapere, "to taste" + prefix for "not"
  9. 15. Synonyms: nonviolence; civil disobedience
  10. 16. Denotation: a statement that does not follow logically from the previous comment
  11. 17. Denotation: As a noun, a type of herb; as a verb, to regret
  12. 19. Antonyms: democracy; sovereignty
Down
  1. 1. Synonyms: Undermining; transgressive
  2. 3. Denotation: to represent or spell the letters of one language into another language
  3. 5. Antonyms: ordinary; normal
  4. 9. Denotation: first letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  5. 10. Antonyms: rubble; dilapidation
  6. 12. Denotation: a peculiarity of constitution or temperament
  7. 15. Synonyms: dichotomy; contradiction
  8. 18. Denotation: overly committed to a set of beliefs or opinions