Topic 8 Crossword
Across
- 2. focused on or gathered in
- 6. to eliminate
- 7. something unreal or misleading
- 11. according to moral law
- 12. making small loans to people who start their own businesses
- 13. to thrive
- 14. a group of merchants or craftsmen working in the same line of business
- 18. in Hinduism, the effect of a person’s actions in this and in previous lives
- 19. a willingness to respect different beliefs and customs
- 21. the belief that one not hurt any living thing
- 22. peaceful protest against laws considered unjust
- 25. in Hinduism, one supreme cosmic consciousness, spiritual force, or god
- 26. government rules that set limits or standards for businesses
- 27. a system in which power is divided among central, regional, and local governments
- 29. the business practice of sending many computer related tasks to workers outside the company
- 30. to strain through overuse
- 32. a person who tries to achieve spiritual purity through self-denial
- 34. to slow or block the movement of something
- 35. thinker or teacher
- 37. in buddhism, a being who has gained enlightenment and, out of passion, tries to help others
- 40. in hinduism, liberation from reincarnation
- 42. to calm or clear the mind, often by focusing on a single object
- 43. to split or divide
- 44. a collection of hundreds of sacred hymns composed by the aryans of ancient india
- 45. unfair treatment
Down
- 1. seasonal winds in South and Southeast asia
- 2. to make up
- 3. membership in a community that gives a person civil and political rights and obligations
- 4. member of the lowest indian caste groups made up of people who did jobs no one else wanted to do
- 5. the unfair treatment of people based on their gender
- 8. the rebirth of a soul in a new body
- 9. religious community
- 10. result
- 15. in hinduism, a person’s duty or what is right for him or her
- 16. the position of a country not allying itself with either of the superpowers during the Cold War
- 17. in buddhism, a state of perfect wisdom, free of suffering
- 20. something that provides information about something unknown
- 23. relating to the whole universe
- 24. forerunner or past relative; what a later thing or person is descended from
- 28. few and scattered
- 31. fixed social class into which a person is born
- 33. the physical features of an area
- 36. someone who tries to convert others to a particular religion
- 38. superior by a large margin
- 39. an area of north India that is home to many sikhs
- 41. in Buddhism, a state of blissful peace without desire or suffering