Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. Pointless, useless.
  2. 6. To pretend to have qualities, beliefs, or feelings, that a person doesn't really have.
  3. 8. “Many in the zoo industry will ______ at this statement and point to numerous improvements in the zoo field,” (Laidlaw 992).
  4. 10. Based on (concerning with) or verifiable by observation or experience.
  5. 12. Barren lacking vitality.
  6. 13. Antonym: Cheerful.
  7. 16. A lack of.
  8. 18. Officially recognized as meeting the requirements, as of academic excellence.
  9. 19. Synonym: Duplicate.
  10. 21. “So long as wild animals are kept in captivity, they ought to be treated ____,” (Laidlaw 991).
  11. 22. Synonym: To save.
  12. 24. Is the raising of farm animals and plants.
  13. 25. Synonym: abuse.
Down
  1. 1. Antonym: To flourish.
  2. 2. A critical observation.
  3. 3. Synonym: substitute.
  4. 5. The breeding of specimens of a plant or animal by natural processes from the parent stock.
  5. 7. Doing what you are required or expected to do.
  6. 9. A word or phrase popular at a particular time.
  7. 11. Originating in or characteristic of a distant or foreign country.
  8. 14. “ . . .groups of black bears begging for marshmallows as they sit in _______ moats of excrement-filled water . . .” (Laidlaw 992).
  9. 15. Antonym: diurnal.
  10. 17. Antonym: Praise.
  11. 20. An item or share of something is shared with a persian or group of people.
  12. 23. Synonym: To deceive.