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