Across
- 6. belittle or degrade
- 8. no longer existing or functioning
- 9. mystery or riddle
- 10. a servile flatterer
- 12. to destroy
- 15. difficult to understand
- 16. keenness in observing and understanding
- 19. generous or forgiving
- 23. get rid of: abolish
- 24. certain, not to be doubted or denied
- 26. a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
- 28. trickery
- 30. to replace
- 31. to mock contemptuously
- 33. intended to be understood by a small group
- 34. a new convert, beginner, novice
- 35. to praise highly
- 37. easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
- 39. degraded; base, contemptible; cringing, servile, complete and unrelieved
- 40. to remove objectionable content before publication
Down
- 1. a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
- 2. group of attendants
- 3. monarch
- 4. seeking to promote the welfare of others
- 5. full or praise
- 7. isolated
- 11. to urge with repeated coaxing
- 13. the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; something that is fair; the money value of a property above and beyond any mortgage or other claim
- 14. selflessness
- 17. to thwart
- 18. stopping and beginning again, sporadic
- 20. characteristic peculiar to an individual
- 21. to squash
- 22. fawning and servile
- 25. clumsy social error
- 27. to mutually take or give
- 29. someone or something that is abandoned or neglected
- 32. identifying with another’s situation
- 36. adhering to the traditional
- 38. prominent