word study q3
Across
- 2. paralysis of all four limbs; tetraplegia.
- 7. not able to occur, exist, or be done.
- 9. a group of four people playing music or singing together.
- 10. forbidden by law, rules, or custom.
- 12. all existing matter and space considered as a whole; the cosmos. The universe is believed to be at least 10 billion light years in diameter and contains a vast number of galaxies; it has been expanding since its creation in the Big Bang about 13 billion years ago.
- 13. a Nordic skiing event in which the competitors combine cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
- 14. continuously multiplying by five.
- 15. not connected with or relevant to something.
- 16. manage (something) badly or wrongly.
- 17. an eight-line section in a poem, song or psalm. The most notable example is found in Psalm 119 In the French renaissance the octonaire became a form of moralizing chanson. It can also mean of 8th rank or order.
Down
- 1. (in surveying) the tracing and measurement of a series or network of triangles in order to determine the distances and relative positions of points spread over a territory or region, especially by measuring the length of one side of each triangle and deducing its angles and the length of the other two sides by observation from this baseline.
- 3. a metric unit of length, equal to one tenth of a meter.
- 4. not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
- 5. a continuing sound, especially of a person's voice, that is unchanging in pitch and without intonation.
- 6. a metric unit of length, equal to one hundredth of a meter.
- 8. not known or familiar.
- 10. in a state of mind which prevents normal perception, behavior, or social interaction; seriously mentally ill.
- 11. a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable.