Vocabulary
Across
- 2. a small overnight bag for short trips
- 4. a man who courts a woman
- 5. sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
- 8. a hot, smoldering fragment of wood left from a fire
- 10. pulled or drawn tight
- 12. grievously affected especially by disease
- 13. reflecting a lack of pity or compassion
- 15. a minor short-term fight
- 17. recovery or preservation from loss or danger
- 18. a loud, harsh, or strident noise
- 20. a lavish public entertainment or celebration
- 23. anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness
- 24. influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering
- 25. unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound
- 27. stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- 28. small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- 30. compound leaf of a fern or palm or cycad
- 32. any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- 35. become smaller or lose substance
- 36. joyful and proud especially because of
- 37. come into rough contact with while moving
Down
- 1. restore to good health or strength
- 3. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- 6. fortitude and determination
- 7. anything that covers
- 9. a blessing or ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection
- 11. old and twisted and covered in lines
- 14. draw back, as with fear or pain
- 16. a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
- 18. the trait of judging wisely and objectively
- 19. thick expensive material with a raised pattern
- 21. a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet
- 22. be nosey
- 26. an acute, febrile, highly contagious viral disease
- 27. intermittently stopping and starting
- 29. lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- 31. move from one place to another by lifting
- 33. move abruptly
- 34. a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade