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