Unit 3-4 Chapters 5-8 Crossword
Across
- 3. describes people who say little or writers who write minimally
- 7. an intruder or meddler
- 9. threatening
- 12. irrelevant or unimportant or "coming from the outside"
- 15. a negative forecast of the future
- 16. describes something about to occur (+/-)
- 18. a social outcast, a person not accepted in his or her society
- 20. something going to happen—"hanging" over you
- 22. resembling a swine or a pig either physically or behaviorally
- 23. a forewarning, ominous feeling, or prediction (negative connotation)
Down
- 1. precision of wording—usually in writing
- 2. brief and to the point in speaking or writing
- 4. people or things that are native to a region
- 5. word style that is both brief and forceful—in writing or speaking, succinct
- 6. having the characteristics of a wolf
- 8. concise speaking or writing
- 10. talking little and only grudgingly
- 11. relevant, suitable, or closely connected
- 13. bear-like
- 14. or or relating to the characteristics of cows, oxen, or buffaloes;
- 17. having to do with the characteristics of horses, asses, or zebras
- 18. something that seems a sign of threats in the future or the quality of being pompous
- 19. threatening or menacing foreshadowing of the future
- 21. "stuck into" the nature of a thing, integral to its nature