Across
- 5. A state of quality that involves deep thought or concentration (reflective)
- 6. To express an idea indirectly
- 8. Provide or serve as clear evidence
- 12. Friendly conversational approach that is relaxed and unconcerned (informal)
- 15. Subject someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior
- 18. To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value it
- 19. To acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly
- 20. Feeling intense excitement and happiness
Down
- 1. To support a claim with evidence
- 2. Form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence
- 3. Cheerful and friendly or in a good mood
- 4. Implies a fair and objective perspective where one does not favor one side over another
- 7. To consider one thing to be the same as or equal to another thing
- 9. Suggests a sense of threat or danger (evil, harmful, or ominous)
- 10. To make something more clear
- 11. Aggressive, unfriendly, or antagonistic
- 13. To direct attention towards something
- 14. Showing great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or objective
- 16. Serious or grave mood that evokes feelings of sadness (gloomy)
- 17. Sadness, despair, an unavoidable disaster