English 9 Vocabulary Review 4

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Across
  1. 4. "so, but by Art Divine and not by fire, / a ___________ pitch boiled in the fosse below / and coated all the bank with gluey mire" (Inferno 1054).
  2. 6. Antonyms: contemporary, recent, modern-day.
  3. 7. Used one way, a form of religious prayer or service; used another, a long list or series.
  4. 9. Synonyms: declining, backsliding, reversing.
  5. 11. "With this brief ___________ I made my crew / so eager for the voyage I could hardly / have held them back from it when I was through" (Inferno 1079).
  6. 12. Related to a mythological figure coopted by greeting card companies for Valentine's Day, this word actually has a negative connotation and means greediness.
  7. 15. Etymologically linked to the first human in the Abrahamic tradition, meaning solid or inflexible as stone from the earth.
  8. 17. Etymologically linked to a delicious Mediterranean food that is cooked by spinning meat on a spit next to a heat source.
  9. 18. More commonly encountered in its opposite form with the "in-" prefix, having to do with foresight or good fortune.
Down
  1. 1. What Job never does despite the terrible things that God allows to happen to him.
  2. 2. No offense to southpaws, but this word derives from the PIE root for "right-handed" and means skillful or nimble.
  3. 3. "As a ___________ chews crusts——so the one sinner / sank his teeth into the other's nape / at the base of the skull, gnawing his loathsome dinner" (Inferno 1103).
  4. 5. A servile self-seeking flatterer.
  5. 6. A bit of a mistranslation in our edition of Inferno, this word is more appropriately to those on Mt. Purgatory seeking to expunge their sins.
  6. 8. Antonyms: modesty, humility, self-deprecation.
  7. 10. As a noun, something that binds; as a verb, to bind.
  8. 13. Synonyms: peaceful, tranquil, pastoral.
  9. 14. Etymology combines Greek words for "all" and "demon," referring to something noisily chaotic.
  10. 16. "so depthless-deep and ___________ and dim / that stare as I might into its frightful pit / it gave me back no feature and no bottom" (Inferno 1007).
  11. 19. Word derived from a body of water in the afterlife, meaning murkily dark.