Vocabulary Building Crossword Puzzle Set 19

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Across
  1. 3. a cure or handling of an illness or ailment (e.g. Since I was camping in the woods, I found a ______ for my stomachache by eating part of a ginger plant on the side of the trail.)
  2. 5. nervous; worried or overly anxious (e.g. I always feel ______ when I am in a dark building alone.)
  3. 9. the story of an individual's life written by that individual (e.g. To learn about the deceased celebrity, you should read the ______ he wrote about his life.)
  4. 10. appearing to be impressive but not really possible or practical (e.g. The idea of throwing a party on top of the swimming pool seemed quite ______ to everyone in the room.)
Down
  1. 1. an object that acts as a shield (e.g. Vaccines act as a ______ against many childhood diseases.)
  2. 2. a relationship between two distinct organisms in which one of the things obtains a benefit of some sort and the other organism neither gains nor loses anything (e.g. A remora attaching itself to a shark for transportation purposes is a prime example of ______.)
  3. 4. lack of balance or being out of proportion (e.g. An ______ of the number of men and women in Alaska makes it extremely difficult for a man to find a wife.)
  4. 6. to exploit or draw from a source (e.g. The miners were looking to ______ into a gold reserve in the mine and extract it all for personal gain.)
  5. 7. getting pleasure from secretly watching other people taking their clothes off or having sex (e.g. Arrested for videoing women without their consent, the ______ neighbor is being held on a fifty-thousand dollar bond.)
  6. 8. the quality of appearing rudely blunt and brief (e.g. Behavior specialists assist schools by lessening the ______ from the troubled students.)