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Across
  1. 6. a word that refers to a person (such as doctor), a place (such as Paris) or a thing, a quality or an activity (such as plant)
  2. 8. a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning, such as un- in unhappy
  3. 12. a word that expresses an action (such as eat), or a state (such as exist)
  4. 13. the situation in which something happens and that helps you to understand it
  5. 14. to form a new word by combining two separate words with different meanings e.g. brunch (breakfast + lunch)
  6. 15. (of language) suitable for normal conversation and writing to friends rather than for serious speech and letters
  7. 17. to invent a new word or phrase that other people then begin to use
  8. 18. the language of ancient Rome and the official language of its empire
Down
  1. 1. a short form of a word
  2. 2. a word from another language used in its original form
  3. 3. a word or phrase used to describe somebody/something else, in a way that is different from its normal use, in order to show that the two things have the same qualities and to make the description more powerful, for example She has a heart of stone; the use of such words and phrases
  4. 4. a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to make another word, such as -ly in quickly
  5. 5. a way of speaking or writing that makes something sound better, more exciting, more dangerous, etc. than it really is
  6. 7. all the words that a person knows or uses
  7. 9. a word that describes a person or thing, for example big
  8. 10. a word formed from the first letters of the words that make up the name of something, for example ‘AIDS’ is an acronym for ‘acquired immune deficiency syndrome’
  9. 11. the last part of a word, that is added to a main part
  10. 16. a noun, an adjective or a verb made of two or more words or parts of words, written as one or more words, or joined by a hyphen