8th Grade Spelling Bee Words

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Across
  1. 3. Causing fear, dread, or apprehension
  2. 4. an advanced stage of social development; culture, sophistication
  3. 8. something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, esp. a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time
  4. 9. a mixture of such substances with gravel, crushed rock, or the like, used for paving.
  5. 10. a concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel
  6. 12. anything that is regarded as a world in miniature human beings, humanity, society, or the like, viewed as an epitome or miniature of the world or universe
  7. 15. Characterized by fiction; imaginary
  8. 19. a chronological record of events; a history
  9. 21. the act of divesting, the state of being divested
  10. 24. A person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people
  11. 25. a frozen dessert of ice cream, syrup, fruit, and other flavorings served in a tall glass
  12. 26. to give consent, approval, or adherence; agree; assent
  13. 27. the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant; also : the expression so substituted
  14. 28. to bring about (a result) by effort; to bring to completion
  15. 30. attract strongly as with a magnet, to hypnotize
  16. 38. Uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.
  17. 39. Nearly correct or exact
  18. 41. Operated, moved or effected by means of water
  19. 42. to make worse or more severe; to annoy; irritate
  20. 43. a graduation ceremony
  21. 44. a warlike or aggressively hostile nature, condition, or attitude
Down
  1. 1. a brief essay, usually on a subject of current interest; a thin booklet with a paper cover
  2. 2. excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please
  3. 5. vanishing; fading away; fleeting.
  4. 6. Able or acting to deter
  5. 7. Required by or as if by law
  6. 11. composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind
  7. 13. to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
  8. 14. Always attempting to do the right thing
  9. 16. work with others
  10. 17. a person not native to or naturalized in the country under consideration; alien
  11. 18. great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause
  12. 20. a group of attendants, associates or followers
  13. 22. to show to be false; contradict
  14. 23. a vegetable with a head of white, fleshy flower clusters.
  15. 29. outwardly appearing as such; professed; pretended
  16. 31. Asserting, resulting from, or characterized by belief in the equality of all people
  17. 32. to make more certain; confirm
  18. 33. of, in, or produced by the air, inhabiting or frequenting the air.
  19. 34. the way someone or something looks
  20. 35. sociable; liking to be with other people
  21. 36. characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, esp. for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious
  22. 37. intended for instruction; instructive inclined to teach or lecture others too much
  23. 40. to counteract the activity or effect of; make ineffective