Enlightenment Vocabulary
Across
- 3. a mischievous and often poor and raggedly clothed youngster
- 8. a fundamental change in political organization; especially the overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed
- 9. the actions or practice of suppressing or deleting as objectionable
- 11. a person who reigns over a kingdom or empire; such as a sovereign ruler
- 13. lacking something needed or desirable; especially : suffering extreme poverty
- 15. to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use
- 16. a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position
- 17. marked by baseness or grossness; vile, wretched, dirty, filthy
- 19. a philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism
- 22. one exercising power tyrannically : a person exercising absolute power in a brutal or oppressive way
- 23. to bring into agreement; to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned
- 24. ardent, passionate
Down
- 1. feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression
- 2. disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief
- 4. displaying great diversity or variety; versatile
- 5. marked by forbearance or endurance; acceptance
- 6. of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior; ethical
- 7. having or showing shrewdness and an ability to notice and understand things clearly : mentally sharp or clever
- 10. the act or state of being of being unable or unwilling to endure something; or the act or state of being of being unwilling to grant or share social, political, or professional right
- 11. formal emancipation from slavery
- 12. to amend or improve by change of form or removal of faults or abuses; to put or change into an improved form or condition
- 14. the quality or state of being marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty
- 18. to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power
- 20. to establish by legal and authoritative act; especially to make into law
- 21. a systematic exposition or argument in writing including a methodical discussion of the facts and principles involved and conclusions reached