Across
- 1. an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet
- 2. highly involved or intricate
- 3. lacking interest or significance
- 5. overbearing pride or presumption
- 8. vanishing; fading away
- 9. to attack as false or questionable
- 10. a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own
- 11. easily done or performed
- 12. to choose, select, or pick
- 13. loathing
- 19. inclined to silence
- 21. a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term
- 22. frugal or stingy
- 23. unable to be calmed down or made peaceful
- 24. deceptive/misleading
- 25. to steal, often in a violation of trust; to commit theft
- 26. excessively smooth, suave, or smug
- 28. not direct or straightforward
- 31. very careful and exact
- 32. changeability
- 36. daily
- 37. fear of the number 13
- 41. payment
- 43. sociable
- 44. rebellion or resistance against the government
- 45. dismay, confusion
- 46. sociable
- 47. overly sweet
- 48. having a rich, smoothly flowing sound
- 49. pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook
- 51. a loud harsh or strident noise
- 53. voluntary promotion of human welfare
- 57. full of anxiety and concern
- 60. rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
- 61. to hold or express an opinion
- 62. capable of relieving pain
- 63. smallness in quantity; scarceness
- 64. very close or connected in space or time
- 66. to cause, to produce, to create
- 67. talkative
- 69. to deprive of force or strength; weaken
- 72. a secret store of valuables or money
- 73. peevish or irritable; sickeningly unpleasant
Down
- 1. enduring a very short time
- 4. beginning to exist or appear
- 5. a long, strongly expressed speech or lecture
- 6. intended to deceive
- 7. ability to use words easily, fluent
- 12. tending to argument or strife
- 14. extremely wicked
- 15. gaudy, showy, cheap
- 16. not easily excited; emotionally steady
- 17. extraordinary in a bad way
- 18. to feel or express sympathy or compassion
- 20. injurious to physical or mental health
- 27. exceeding what is sufficient or required, excess
- 28. having substance or material existence
- 29. lying on the back
- 30. fill to satisfaction
- 33. immature and overconfident; conceited
- 34. (of conflict) within a group or organization
- 35. insincere
- 38. making a show of virtue or righteousness; hypocritically moralistic or pious, self-righteous
- 39. concealed, secret, disguised
- 40. roundabout/not direct
- 42. incapable of being reformed or improved
- 47. having possibilities of future development
- 49. a sign of something about to happen
- 50. gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole
- 52. use cautiously and frugally
- 53. performed merely as a routine
- 54. upward slope
- 55. constituting a separate entity or part
- 56. grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic
- 58. a fortified place, stronghold
- 59. large in quantity or number; abundant
- 65. fill to satisfaction
- 68. failing to accomplish an intended result
- 70. deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
- 71. the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
