2024-2025 Vocabulary Words

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Across
  1. 1. Any of the thousands of small planets with orbits usually between those of Mars and Jupiter
  2. 4. Careful and organized study or gathering of information about a specific topic
  3. 7. To respond, to speak back
  4. 10. Happening slowly or by small steps; changes made step by step or over time; moving little by little.
  5. 13. Strictness; harshness, challenge or difficulty; severity; legal exactness
  6. 15. Hydroelectric power; a type of power that comes from water
  7. 16. A person trained to make rocket flights in outer space
  8. 17. Usefulness, the trait of being useful.
  9. 20. Great suffering.
  10. 22. Longing for a past time, positive memories.
  11. 25. An observable event, usually something that is uncommon or significant.
  12. 29. To let something be known or uncovered, usually something that was once a secret.
  13. 30. Judging people before knowing them; a judgement made about a person, group, idea, or thing based on previous beliefs, experiences, and assumptions.
  14. 32. Sweat, the scientific word for sweat.
  15. 33. Hardened and unfeeling; toughened
  16. 35. To recognize the difference between things
  17. 36. Resistance to or protection from disease or poison; freedom or exemption from a rule or law.
  18. 38. Reasons for acting, why someone does something
  19. 39. Piece, part of a larger whole, usually broken off from a larger thing
  20. 41. Of the stars or a star; like a star, as in shape; by or as by a star performer; excellent; outstanding
  21. 42. Refusal to buy from or trade with a company, group, or country
  22. 43. Greater in importance or rank; greater in size, amount, number, or extent
  23. 45. Build-up, a large amount of something gathered together
  24. 50. The cause of something, where something comes from, an origin point
  25. 51. To remove water from (a compound, substance, body tissues, etc.); dry
  26. 55. Alike
  27. 57. To give slight preference towards one side over another, usually based on prejudice.
  28. 59. To make impure or unclean through contact or exposure; to pollute
  29. 61. Small and unimportant
  30. 64. An action or remark that causes outrage or offense
  31. 66. Empty, unoccupied
  32. 69. Based, established, when something was created
  33. 70. The fear of water
  34. 71. Maddening, making someone angry
  35. 73. A solemn promise; a promise made to a religion, belief, or god; a promise of loyalty
  36. 74. Curious, the trait of asking a lot of questions or seeking answers.
  37. 75. Characterized by refined taste and manners; have a good education
Down
  1. 1. A sickness, illness, or other physical health problem
  2. 2. To choke, to cover completely
  3. 3. Beloved; a term of endearment towards someone cared about
  4. 5. A long narrow passage between rooms; hall
  5. 6. Full or risk; dangerous; perilous; has the potential for great harm.
  6. 8. Cruelly and without reason, careless in actions
  7. 9. Sleeping or inactive
  8. 11. Between or among the stars
  9. 12. Assemble or travel in a flock or crowd
  10. 13. Completely or totally
  11. 14. Wild, violent anger; an avenging spirit; extreme fierceness or violence.
  12. 18. Line of thought or conversation that travels away from the topic at hand
  13. 19. To move upward
  14. 20. Pants (usually in British English), jeans
  15. 21. A group of stars in the sky, usually named after some object, animal, or mythological being that it supposedly resembles or suggests
  16. 23. Undermining, to try to destroy someone's authority or position
  17. 24. To pull apart, or take apart; to strip or remove all outside coverings.
  18. 26. Faithfulness, dependability, loyalty
  19. 27. A part or division of a book, newspaper, city, etc.
  20. 28. Change, make adjustments to
  21. 31. Border or trimming around or on something; a border; something that surrounds another thing.
  22. 34. A system of methods, theories, based on the assumption that the positions of the moon, sun, and stars affect human affairs and that one can foretell the future by studying the stars.
  23. 37. An idea that is assumed using evidence, something that is assumed about a situation based on prior knowledge.
  24. 40. To rule or control; to direct or manage with authority
  25. 44. In spite of
  26. 46. To climb clumsily; to pull yourself up awkwardly.
  27. 47. The state of being absorbed into something, to be dissolved into a larger thing.
  28. 48. Not usual or ordinary; singular; peculiar; strange
  29. 49. Wrongdoer, the person who committed a crime
  30. 52. Portion of time, often indefinite, characterized by certain events, processes, conditions, etc.; stage: a period of change, the present period
  31. 53. To move downward
  32. 54. Risky, a gamble; potentially dangerous
  33. 56. To hold back
  34. 58. A light or fire used as a signal to guide or warn; a marker or indicator; a tall tower for a signal, like a lighthouse
  35. 60. To put together, usually many different pieces being put together; to gather together as a group.
  36. 62. Results from an action or event.
  37. 63. Duty under the law or from personal feelings; a promise to do something; a legally binding agreement.
  38. 65. Refused to allow; an order not to do something; refusal to enter a place or area.
  39. 67. To go or put on board a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft; to set out or start (usually a journey).
  40. 68. A tank, usually with glass sides, or a pool, bowl, etc. for keeping live water animals and water plants
  41. 72. To show differences when comparing others