Across
- 3. a hazardous event that causes unacceptably large numbers of fatalities and/or overwhelming property damage
- 7. the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances.
- 10. a noun or a noun phrase that sits next to another noun to rename it or to describe it in another way
- 11. a group of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a member of a complex or compound sentence
- 13. a word that describes what the subject of a sentence is doing
- 14. to + verb AND is used as noun, adjective, or adverb
- 15. words used to link nouns, pronouns, or phrases to other words within a sentence.
- 16. a reflection on the past by the story's narrator when he was only ten years old.
- 17. an exchange of diverging or opposite views
- 19. a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it
- 20. all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation
- 21. a word that can modify or describe a verb, adjective, another adverb, or entire sentence
Down
- 1. a word derived from a verb that can be used as an adjective or to form certain verb tenses
- 2. words and phrases that connect dependent clauses to independent clauses
- 4. a response to an event in which someone else experienced loss but you did not
- 5. a month where we pay tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society
- 6. a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story
- 8. a novel published in 1918 by American writer Willa Cather
- 9. a word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea
- 12. a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country
- 18. verb in its present participle form that acts as a noun in a sentence