Across
- 3. certain to happen and impossible to avoid or prevent
- 4. wood that is processed for construction or the living trees in a forest suitable for that use
- 5. the state or act of having the minimum amount of food, money, and basic resources needed to stay alive
- 7. bound by a legal contract to work for another person or business for a set period of time
- 9. originating or occurring naturally in a particular place or describing the earliest known inhabitants of a region
- 14. more than enough
- 15. a good reason explanation or defense for an action belief or decision
- 16. a country or area controlled politically by a more powerful country that is often far away
- 18. of relating to or bordering on the sea
- 19. producing a lot of money
- 21. an economic system developed to unify and increase the power especially the monetary wealth of a nation through a favorable balance of trade
Down
- 1. to make or become smaller, fewer, or less in size, importance, or intensity
- 2. a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can dock safely away from rough seas and strong winds
- 6. likely to cause disagreement, argument, or controversy
- 8. the act of taking property, land, or a home away from someone, or the state of having those things stripped away
- 10. natural dye made from the leaves of plants
- 11. a hard, black or brownish-black sedimentary rock made of carbon that is burned as a fuel to create heat or electricity
- 12. a large-scale agricultural estate or farm that specializes in growing cash crops
- 13. a heavy, magnetic, silvery-white metallic element (symbol Fe) used widely in construction, tools, and manufacturing steel
- 17. necessary or extremely important
- 20. in a harmful negative or unfavorable way