English 9 Vocab Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant
  2. 4. Learned, polished, scholarly
  3. 6. Offensive in speech or gesture
  4. 8. Directly frank without hesitation (frank = open, honest, candid)
  5. 10. Unimaginative and dull; Narrowly or stodgily (very old-fashioned) or often very ostentatiously learned
  6. 11. Indifferent due to lack of energy or concern
  7. 13. Scornful, feeling or belief that something or someone is worthless or despicable
  8. 14. Odd, strange, fantastic; fun
  9. 19. Full of sorrow or sadness; sad in an exaggerated or insincere manner
  10. 21. Rude or impolite; showing disregard for people
  11. 23. Optimistic and cheerful
  12. 26. Characterized by strong feelings of what is right and what is wrong; can be narrow sense of morality (comes off as judgmental)
  13. 27. Having or showing a lack of respect for something or someone that is usually treated with respect; satiric
  14. 28. Not interesting or exciting; dull or boring
  15. 29. Annoyed or worried
  16. 30. Marked by usage of words that mean the opposite of what you really think/feel in order to be funny or deceptive/manipulative
Down
  1. 1. Expressing feelings of gratitude, approval, or pleasure in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner
  2. 2. studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue
  3. 5. Displaying knowledge or wealth that is meant to attract attention, admiration, or envy
  4. 7. Speaker or author attempts to educate or instruct the reader
  5. 9. Questioning the basic sincerity and goodness of people
  6. 12. Very confident and daring, perhaps recklessly so; Original and bold; Contemptuous of law, religion, or decorum
  7. 15. Mournful; marked by regret
  8. 16. Slightly sarcastic in a humorous way; clever with a bit of irony
  9. 17. Painfully affecting the feelings; emotionally cutting piercing, touching; Designed to make an impression
  10. 18. With fearful apprehension
  11. 20. An unbiased view; able to leave personal judgments aside
  12. 22. Intense use of sarcasm; stinging or biting
  13. 24. Ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach
  14. 25. Scornfully and bitterly sarcastic