Across
- 2. a moderate or small amount
- 3. involving something unpleasant (often followed by with)
- 5. an inhabitant; resident
- 7. to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel
- 9. characterized by or showing servile obedience and excessive eagerness to please
- 11. enthusiasm or vigor; spirit
- 12. of pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect
- 14. having a shrill, irritating quality or character
- 17. perfect happiness; great joy
- 18. not easily controlled or directed, not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate
- 19. full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious (causing insidious harm)
- 20. not resolute; wavering; indecisive; hesitating
- 22. the money, goods, or estate that a wife brings to her husband at marriage
Down
- 1. the middle class, having conventional tastes and values and prizing respectability
- 4. hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused
- 6. to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with
- 7. ridicule; mockery
- 8. understood without being openly expressed; implied
- 10. forbidden, as by law; prohibited
- 13. a standard of judgement or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something
- 15. a trick, stratagem, or artifice
- 16. cooly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual
- 21. that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable