Across
- 3. To take a ______ means to have a serious, bad effect on someone or something : to cause harm or damage
- 5. The place that has the highest level of an activity
- 6. Happening now
- 10. The study of how disease spreads and can be controlled
- 12. Morally bad : not ethical
- 14. To give someone a vaccine, usually by injection, to prevent them from getting a disease:
- 15. Easily hurt or harmed physically, mentally, or emotionally
- 16. Going full steam ahead means working with as much speed or energy as possible
Down
- 1. A small or short experience of something that will not be fully experienced until later
- 2. To defeat (someone) completely in a war, battle, etc.
- 4. A _______ bearer is a person who carries a ceremonial torch
- 7. An experience that is very unpleasant or difficult — usually singular
- 8. A person who is the leader of the government of a state, province, etc.
- 9. To have _____ of it means to refuse to accept, agree with, or support something
- 11. To suddenly increase to an unusually high level
- 13. A situation or occurrence in which something (such as a system or organization) suddenly fails : a complete failure or breakdown