8th ELA

2. a period of ten years.
5. a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
7. the literal or primary meaning of a word
8. a long or arduous search for something.
9. a condition of the skin in which it becomes red, swollen, and sore, sometimes with small blisters, resulting from direct irritation of the skin by an external agent or an allergic reaction to it.
10. the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders.
12. something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
13. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition

1. relating to or denoting a system of numbers and arithmetic based on the number ten, tenth parts, and powers of ten.
3. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
4. an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
6. an athletic event taking place over two days, in which each competitor takes part in the same prescribed ten events
11. insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations.
12. a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority.