Across
- 3. sociable-likes company
- 5. deserving praise & commendation
- 8. quick to fight or argue; belligerent
- 9. leave the main subject temporarily
- 11. initial stage-beginning to happen or develop
- 13. heavily coined word or expression
- 15. not openly acknowledged
- 17. overly concerned with the minute details
- 18. lacking interest-dull; repetitive
Down
- 1. great care & perseverance; careful attention
- 2. express sympathy or pity
- 4. showing deep & solemn respect
- 6. boredom-listlessness from lack of excitement
- 7. something that protrudes from something else; swelling
- 8. understand or implied without being stated
- 9. a scarcity or lack of something
- 10. unstable, explosive, shifts unpredictably
- 12. change to a solid state; clot
- 14. take back a former opinion or belief
- 16. repulsive & unpleasant