vocabulary
Across
- 3. lack of knowledge or information.
- 4. teasing and contemptuous language or behavior directed at a particular person or thing.
- 5. grasp or seize (something) tightly or eagerly.
- 7. stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action, despite attempts to persuade one to do so.
- 10. a stupid or careless mistake.
- 12. the practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedience.
- 14. try hard to do or achieve something.
- 15. escape or avoid, especially by cleverness or trickery.
- 19. unexpectedly experience or be faced with (something difficult or hostile).
- 20. feeling or characterized by great anger.
Down
- 1. very angry; enraged.
- 2. of a child) having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
- 6. unable to speak distinctly or express oneself clearly.
- 8. look thoughtfully for a long time at.
- 9. lack of courage or confidence.
- 11. take or follow as a model.
- 13. assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering.
- 16. of uncertain, indefinite, or unclear character or meaning.
- 17. having had all moisture removed; dried out.
- 18. expressing disapproval or disappointment.