8th Grade Short Story Vocabulary terms

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Across
  1. 3. (adv) in a clever way that is meant to trick or deceive
  2. 6. (adverb) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve
  3. 8. (adj) skillful in influencing or controlling others to your own advantage
  4. 10. (adj) enough; adequate
  5. 11. (n.) great mental suffering, distress, or pain; (v.) to be deeply tormented by pain or sorrow
  6. 13. (v) to ask for information
  7. 14. (adj.) very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot
  8. 19. (n) friendly welcome and treatment of guests
  9. 21. (adj) forgetful; unaware
  10. 22. (adj) savagely fierce, cruel, or violent
  11. 23. (adverb) barely; hardly; not quite
  12. 26. (adj) Permitting light to pass through, but not transparent
  13. 27. (v.) to dry up, wilt, sag; to cause someone to feel ashamed, humiliated, or very small
  14. 28. (adj) irritated; annoyed (v) to annoy or irritate
  15. 30. (adv) in a friendly manner
Down
  1. 1. (adj) standing out so as to be easily seen; important, well-known
  2. 2. (adj.) lower in rank or position, secondary; (n.) one who is in a lower position or under the orders of someone else; (v.) to put in a lower or secondary position
  3. 4. (noun) an improvement or correction
  4. 5. (adj) unbiased; neutral
  5. 7. (adj) unnoticed
  6. 9. (adj) shrewd or sharp
  7. 12. (v.) to make over in good form; to restore to good condition or to a former position
  8. 15. (adj) having or showing high moral standards
  9. 16. (v) formed in the mind
  10. 17. (n) Excessive self-importance; conceit
  11. 18. (adj) obvious; very clear; evident (v) display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate
  12. 20. (adj) feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with
  13. 24. (v.) to move to and fro, become unsteady; to show a lack of firmness or decision
  14. 25. (v.) to declare or state as truth, maintain or defend, put forward forcefully
  15. 29. (adj) not easily upset or excited