Flowers for Algernon Vocab
Across
- 2. mental activities a person is not aware of
- 3. Showing the characteristics of old age
- 7. to smile in an affected or conceited manner
- 8. Inability to read or write
- 9. An inner drive or impulse that causes one to act
- 11. An unproved theory
- 13. Prove (an argument or statement) to be false by argument or evidence
- 17. Looking into one's own mind or feelings
- 20. A psychological test involving inkblots that the subject describes
- 21. Inward looking; thoughtful
- 26. Intelligence quotient. A way of measuring human intelligence
- 28. a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption on which others are based or from which others are derived
- 31. diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength
- 32. The functioning of parts in cooperation and normal sequence
- 33. Backward movement, to go back
- 34. loss of memory sometimes including the memory of personal identity due to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness or sometimes induced by anesthesia
- 35. To make or become worse
Down
- 1. Awareness of one's thoughts
- 4. Easily excitable; likely to become impatient, angry, or disturbed
- 5. Fit, suitable, having relevance
- 6. Science dealing with the mind and with mental and emotional problems
- 7. A number of symptoms occurring together and characterizing a specific disease or condition
- 10. Conceal or hide
- 12. A strong sense of being less able to do something
- 14. Vacancy of mind : the state or fact of being temporarily or characteristically free of ideas, reflections, cares : mental emptiness or inactivity
- 15. To cut apart piece by piece, as a body for purpose of study
- 16. Formal written request
- 18. Someone who takes advantage of a situation
- 19. To hasten the ordinary progress or the development of
- 22. That can be understood; definite; objective
- 23. Lack of firmness or determination
- 24. Doctors who operate on the nervous system, including the brain and spine
- 25. The desire to work hard and achieve a goal
- 27. Isolated on an island without means of escape
- 29. To make furious : ENRAGE, MADDEN
- 30. To shrink away or cringe, usually in abject fear of something menacing or domineering and sometimes from cold