Topic 8 Vocabulary

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