Across
- 2. able to get and retain ideas or information
- 5. offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness
- 7. to work on
- 8. without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
- 9. to avoid, shun, keep away from
- 10. the state of being proper, appropriateness
- 14. to move in waves or with a wavelike motion
- 18. a manner of expression; wordiness
- 19. lacking in spirit or strength; ineffective, weak
- 20. to work on excessively; to trash soundly
- 22. capable of being held or defended
- 25. a move that involved risk or sacrifice to gain advantage
- 26. to confront in a challenging way
- 27. swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
- 28. dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity and precision
Down
- 1. to establish by evidence, prove
- 3. done or acting in a shift or underhanded way
- 4. to imitate with intent of quality or surpassing the model
- 6. theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
- 9. to remove from a grave; to bring to light
- 10. expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
- 11. stimulating to the taste of mind; spicy, pungent
- 12. to romp or prance around exuberantly
- 13. hackneyed, trite, commonplace
- 15. very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
- 16. to display clearly; to make evidence, to provoke
- 17. relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
- 21. wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards
- 23. intensely eager
- 24. to condemn, expressing strong disapproval