"Flowers for Algernon" Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. growth or development; continuous improvement
  2. 5. to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate
  3. 11. lacking in ideas or intelligence (empty brain)
  4. 12. capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial
  5. 13. to move backward; go back (bad/good/ bad again)
  6. 15. to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge
Down
  1. 1. observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself
  2. 2. to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage
  3. 4. to disintegrate or wear away
  4. 6. to make furious; enrage
  5. 7. aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings
  6. 8. a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition
  7. 9. easily fooled; innocent
  8. 10. not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive
  9. 14. showing a decline or deterioration of physical strength or mental functioning, especially short-term memory and alertness, as a result of old age or disease