Across
- 3. shrewdness, soundness of judgment (With remarkable sagacity, the wise old man predicted and thwarted his children’s plan to ship him off to a nursing home.)
- 5. the analogy he used was that she looked like a cow.
- 6. unclear, partially hidden (Because he was standing in the shadows, his features were obscure.)
- 10. to scold, protest (The professor railed against the injustice of the college’s tenure policy.)
- 11. to include; to cover.
- 13. Root: pass (to spread out)
- 15. Root: log (from logos, meaning word, speech, idea, reason)
- 17. displaying a lack of moral or legal restraints (Marilee has always been fascinated by the licentious private lives of politicians.)
- 18. lacking color (Dr. Van Helsing feared that Lucy’s pallid complexion was due to an unexplained loss of blood.)
- 19. comparison
Down
- 1. undisciplined, lewd, lustful (Vicky’s wanton demeanor often made the college boys next door very excited.)
- 2. heinously villainous (Although Dr. Meanman’s nefarious plot to melt the polar icecaps was terrifying, it was so impractical that nobody really worried about it.)
- 4. wanting harm to befall others (The malevolent old man sat in the park all day, tripping unsuspecting passersby with his cane.)
- 7. existing everywhere, widespread (It seems that everyone in the United States has a television. The technology is ubiquitous here.)
- 8. not inclined to talk (Though Jane never seems to stop talking, her brother is quite taciturn.)
- 9. a perplexed, unsolvable state (Carlos found himself in a quandary: should he choose mint chocolate chip or cookie dough?)
- 12. lacking liveliness, dull (The professor’s comments about the poem were surprisingly vapid and dull.)
- 14. poem encompassed all of his feelings for her.
- 16. to caution, criticize, reprove (Joe’s mother admonished him not to ruin his appetite by eating cookies before dinner.)