Vocabulary List Words
Across
- 3. Giving off light without heat
- 9. Untrue or wrong information
- 12. Although some critics think the author had a political ____ in her last novel, she insists that there was no secret purpose.
- 14. Excellent; above all others
- 15. Occurring at the time of most influence
- 18. To support for an extended period of time.
- 19. To reject by declaration
Down
- 1. To get in the way of; to hinder
- 2. Unutterable; indescribable
- 4. To make clear by explaining
- 5. The light of inner peace seemed to ____ the monk's face as he spoke to us. (fill in the blank)
- 6. To call on for support
- 7. A formal or authoritative statement
- 8. Careful; mindful of rules and consequences
- 10. Unskilled; clumsy
- 11. Hateful or spiteful
- 13. To use up; to waste
- 15. Were the monsters only a ____ of a feverish brain, or did they really exist? (fill in the blank)
- 16. Skilled; expert at
- 17. Stubbornly persistent; determined