Across
- 2. adj. someone is more interested in reading and studying than in sports or other activities.
- 6. n. an act of deliberately hurting someone in order to force them to tell you something, to punish them, or to be cruel
- 8. n. a feeling of shame and great embarrassment, because you have been make t look stupid or weak.
- 10. adv. expecting that bad things will happen in the future. opposite of optimistic
- 14. n. a legal arrangement by which you borrow money from a bank in order to buy a house, and pay back the money over a period of years
- 15. adj. unwillingly to change ideas or behaviours, in a way that seems unreasonable
- 16. adv. involving a big increase or decrease
- 17. n. a short period of time between lessons at school when children can go out and play.
Down
- 1. adv. someone do sth without letting people know who they are
- 2. v. to have a lot of particular thing, be filled with
- 3. n. the written form of speech, play, film, etc
- 4. kaleidoscope n. a patten, situation, or scene that is always changing and has many details or bright colours
- 5. adj. arranged for the present time only and likely to be changed in the future
- 6. n. the time when day is just starting to become dark
- 7. v. take from someone or sth when they have no right to do this. take the place of
- 9. captive n. kept in prison or in a place that you are not allowed to leave.
- 11. adj. similar, especially in the way they look
- 12. v. generate, cause, lead to, give rise to
- 13. adj. powerful and effective. ~ and primitive force
- 15. v.done or said without any preparation or planing
