Vocabulary

3. violently hostile or aggressive in temperament
4. play round with, to try out different methods or different things, before deciding which one to choose
8. look into, to examine the facts about a problem or situation
10. marked by desire to investigate and learn
12. the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association
14. someone or something that is not included in a rule, group, or list or that does not behave in the expected way
15. to meet as an adversary or enemy
16. the act or fact of accomplishing something

1. a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin
2. to ascertain the heaviness of by or as if by a balance
3. omission of occurrence or performance
5. a person who is one of the first people to do something
6. to keep something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from decaying or being damaged or
7. to exert an animating, enlivening, or exalting influence on
9. in, become shorter because of the changing season
11. making you feel excited
13. of no use; not working or not achieving what is needed