Across
- 6. – look through a text quickly to find particular details
- 7. – Strange or unusual
- 8. – the feeling that your stomach is turning over, like you are going to vomit
- 12. – main events of a story, film or novel
- 13. – Explain the main points in a few words
- 14. – making someone’s hair untidy by messing it up
- 15. – typical quality or an important part of something
Down
- 1. – old story from ancient times/ a famous person
- 2. – word or phrase with the same or similar meaning
- 3. – create a picture in your mind of someone or something
- 4. – words and phrases used not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning to create a special effect
- 5. – the original meaning of a word as explained in a dictionary
- 9. – informal word for potato
- 10. – activity that you enjoy doing
- 11. – able to speak a language easily, well and quickly
