vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. exotic: foreign, or strikingly unusual or strange
  2. 4. formerly: previously, in an earlier period
  3. 5. detriment: injury, damage or something that causes it
  4. 7. impede: interfere with or slow down the progress
  5. 8. prophetic: foretelling or predicting future events
  6. 10. plagiarism: passing off as one's own the ideas or writings of another
  7. 11. parody: artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
  8. 12. thwart: to prevent the occurrence of
  9. 13. harmony: peaceable or friendly relations
  10. 14. impediment: something that hinders or obstructs
Down
  1. 1. ameliorate: to make or become better
  2. 3. surreptitious: done by secretive means
  3. 4. conserve: keep from waste, loss or decay
  4. 5. ignoramus: ignorant; stupid person; dunce
  5. 6. folly: foolish, lack of good sense
  6. 9. pervasive: quality or tendency to be everywhere at the same time
  7. 10. suppressed: subdued, kept from being circulated
  8. 11. timorous: shy, timid
  9. 12. spurious: not genuine; false
  10. 13. cantankerous: grumpy, disagreeable