Across
- 2. feeling or appearing casually calm, relaxed, and unbothered.
- 3. a person who falsely claims to possess special knowledge, skills, or qualifications.
- 4. an argument, reason, or point that is clear, logical, and thoroughly convincing.
- 6. to speed up a process, accelerate progress, or make an action happen more quickly.
- 8. someone who is friendly, good-natured, and easy to talk to.
- 10. a subtle or slight degree of difference in meaning, feeling, sound, or appearance.
- 11. to make something bad—such as pain, stress, or a difficult problem—less severe, intense, or easier to endure.
- 12. something that is complete, comprehensive, and thorough.
Down
- 1. something that is extremely complex, intricate, or tangled, making it unnecessarily difficult to follow.
- 5. something that is irrelevant, comes from the outside, or is not essential to the core subject.
- 7. vague, unclear, or ill-defined.
- 9. to combine, merge, or unite two or more things—such as businesses, organizations, or ideas—into a single, unified whole.