Across
- 1. responsibility for a fault or wrong
- 4. to improve, make better
- 6. no make a violent attack in words
- 8. pompous, overblown; big words, small ideas
- 10. foolish, aimless talk; nonsense
- 11. to think or believe without evidence
- 14. to cause or bring about suddenly
- 16. exaggeration
Down
- 2. belonging by nature; inherent
- 3. lack of energy
- 5. condensed account; representing a larger reality
- 7. strict, severe
- 9. spread through; penetrate
- 12. violate, trespass
- 13. poise, self-assurance
- 15. without experience, sophistication