Across
- 1. to criticize harshly; scold, reprimand
- 5. to do something with uncertainty; hesitantly
- 6. to make better; improve
- 7. able to be touched, or obvious and noticeable; perceptible, detectable
- 12. the quality of being honest and fair; virtue, reliability
- 13. an opinion or view strongly held by an individual; belief
- 18. a natural ability to do or learn something; talent, knack
- 19. in an angry or sulky way, especially about not getting one’s way; irritably
Down
- 2. the process of gaining or learning something; gain
- 3. laughed; chuckled
- 4. the size or importance of something; significance, consequence
- 5. an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; violation, offense
- 8. strange or funny because something happened in the opposite way to what is expected
- 9. very demanding with attention to detail; rigid, strict
- 10. to avoid something by going around it; circumvent
- 11. arouse the curiosity or interest of; fascinated, immersed
- 14. acted in a way that limited or restrained something; invaded, encroached
- 15. very necessary and important; essential, vital
- 16. a delay that keeps something bad from happening; pause, suspension
- 17. doing something in a very exact way; carefully, scrupulously