Across
- 5. continuing for a very long time
- 10. having the ability to think of new activities or ideas and make them work
- 12. thinking a lot about something, especially because you are worried or sad
- 13. deliberately not becoming involved in something
- 16. formal calmness in the way that you react to things, which means that you do not become upset or annoyed
- 17. consisting of many different parts and often difficult to understand
- 18. having social problems, such as a lack of money or education, which make it difficult for you to succeed
- 21. to pretend to have a particular feeling or to be ill, asleep etc
- 23. a group of people who have the same position in society
- 24. imagine a particular situation or to think about something in a particular way
- 25. unfriendly
Down
- 1. giving someone or something a lot of love and attention
- 2. literary to do something to hurt or punish someone because they have harmed or offended you
- 3. very difficult and tiring
- 4. worried about something
- 6. someone who is irreverent does not show respect for organizations, customs, beliefs etc that most other people respect – often used to show approval
- 7. to correct something that is wrong or unfair
- 8. the money that is obtained from doing something or selling something
- 9. to praise someone in order to please them or get something from them, even though you do not mean it
- 10. to develop and change gradually over a long period of time
- 11. someone who has no home and travels from place to place
- 14. unable to see
- 15. tending to do things very quickly, without thinking carefully first, or showing this quality
- 19. something that is ambiguous is unclear, confusing, or not certain, especially because it can be understood in more than one way
- 20. one of several parts of someone’s character, a situation etc
- 22. a feeling that you cannot trust someone → mistrust