Vocabulary Puzzle: FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. Using vocabulary words from The Great Gatsby and the list from your Interactive Reader workbook, fill out this puzzle. The puzzle is only to help you find the correct answers but you need to write the answers next to
Across
- 2. helpful or advantageous; favorable
- 4. one who lends money, at interest, especially at an unusually or unlawfully high rate
- 6. something justly deserved; taking revenge or correcting a wrong
- 7. warmly and pleasantly cheerful; being warmly friendly
- 9. to walk or stroll with leisure
- 12. believing the worst about human nature; distrusting, criticizing, or mocking the motives of others; pessimistic; glass is half-empty mentality
- 14. lacking in amount, quantity; meager; not adequate
- 17. to occur; to happen; to take place
- 18. to beg urgently
- 20. gloomy; sad
- 21. disorder; confusion
- 22. liveliness; energy (physical and/or mental); full of spirit; vigor
Down
- 1. to pass through; seep into; to saturate; to spread
- 3. display meant to impress others; boastful showiness
- 5. formal, serious, and dignified; lacking humor
- 8. the face or front of a building; 2. A showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant; a front
- 10. immoderate desire for wealth; greed
- 11. full of wishful yearning or longing, usually with sadness
- 13. an indirect hint or suggestion about a person or thing, usually of an insulting or offensive nature
- 15. lacking energy or sluggish; deficient in alertness or activity
- 16. showing gloomy irritation or ill humor usually manifested by a glum silence
- 19. to damage, ruin, or deface; to make imperfect