Whiteboard Words through 10/07/2022
Across
- 1. the Protestant theological system of John Calvin and his successors
- 5. outstandingly bad; shocking
- 8. a conversation; a gathering for discussion
- 9. comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness.
- 12. unnecessary or superfluous
- 14. intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction
- 16. a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound
- 19. betrayal of trust; deceptive action or nature; perfidy
- 20. experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
- 22. a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
- 23. relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance
- 24. These poets wrote about topics that transcended physical matter or the laws of nature
- 26. a deceptive or pretended blow, thrust, or other movement; a fake
- 28. Latin: seize the day!(two words)
- 31. the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
- 32. acting with or showing care and thought for the future
- 34. dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent
- 36. deceitfulness; double-dealing.
- 38. a style or movement in the arts that broke with classical and traditional forms
- 39. assign degrees of urgency to (as in wounded or ill patients)
- 40. equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as
Down
- 2. not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something; out of place
- 3. next to last
- 4. poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter (two words)
- 6. supposed but not necessarily real or true; theoretical
- 7. a remnant of something that was once much larger; remaining; surviving; residual
- 10. an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (as in NASA)
- 11. made weak or feeble
- 13. a word expressing contempt or disapproval.
- 15. feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment
- 17. relating to the viscera; relating to feelings rather than intellect; one’s “gut” feelings
- 18. the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax; apogee
- 21. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
- 25. giving or intended as a remedy or cure.
- 27. great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective
- 29. understood or implied without being stated
- 30. concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty
- 33. an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect
- 35. enthusiastic or passionate
- 37. being a grave or serious matter; self-consciously solemn or important
- 41. gruesome, grisly; having to do with death and injury