Across
- 2. My favorite types of animals at the zoo are ____ like the kangaroo: I think it’s adorable how the young animals cuddle in their mothers’ pouches.
- 6. Growing up, the biggest climate issue was the hole in the _____ layer, which everyone worried could cause anything from breathing issues to climate change.
- 7. My best friend has sadly become a ______, draining my energy, eating my lunch, and even copying all my homework.
- 10. When I saw ____ growing on my tree, I worried that the tree might be plagued with a disease.
- 12. Suzanne was called to the counselling office after her teacher read her ____ short story that broke almost every written and unwritten standard of propriety: the counsellors and teachers wanted to make sure it was truly a work of fiction and not a reflection of her true thoughts.
- 13. While my dog is a(n) ____, eating both veggies and meat, she prefers meat, only eating vegetables as a last resort, despite the vet’s recommendations that she needs to lose weight.
- 16. To me, Santa is the quintessential example of a ____ man: he is jolly, usually portrayed as laughing, and loves to spread cheer.
- 17. My favorite film is from the 1980s and features David Bowie as a goblin king who traps a baby in the center of a ____ in an effort to hide the child from his determined sister.
- 19. Even though I speak and write fluently in English, I never knew what a ____ is until I took French and had to learn that grammatical constructions actually have names.
- 21. *I tried hard not to ____ my sister’s secret, but when my mom started talking about summer plans, I couldn’t help but blurt out that she had secretly planned a wedding for June.
- 22. I’m saving up for a telescope that I can hook up to my camera and photograph the various ____ that are visible in the darkened night sky.
- 23. * Every time he hears thunder, my dog _____ in the corner, trembling.
Down
- 1. While my family thinks my new baby brother is adorable, I think he is a _____--always crying, fussing, and demanding attention and time. I can’t wait until he grows up.
- 2. The lawyer’s son was really good at talking his way out of trouble, but even he could not find a way to _____ out of trouble after he crashed his parents’ car.
- 3. Many teenagers become _____ over the summer, rising after noon and staying up in to the dark hours of morning.
- 4. I am known by my friends for my ____ nature: I am a man of few words and only speak when I have something very important to say.
- 5. When my foreign exchange partner visited from Europe, I had to calculate miles to kilometers for her; otherwise, she had trouble understanding how far away things actually were.
- 8. ____ is a plant tissue whose cells have porous openings to conduct food from the leaves to other parts of the plant.
- 9. The sun shining through the stain glass window created a ____ of light on the floor below: the small squares of color created a kaleidoscope of images.
- 11. *The best way to delay a quiz or a test is to ask the teacher several _____ questions to get her off-topic and thus run out of time for the assessment!
- 14. * I had to be careful not to ____ too loudly over my Christmas present of a long-desired puppy, since my sad brother did not receive his dream gift, a sports car.
- 15. My favorite topic in biology is to look at how common elements such as having red hair are often the result of a slight genetic ____.
- 18. Many people think a _____ is a measurement of time, but it’s actually a measurement of distance used to measure how far away objects are in outer space.
- 20. Example: School is a prison.