Across
- 2. the practice of favoring one's friends, especially in political appointments
- 5. one who pretends to have knowledge in order to swindle others
- 6. favoritism to relatives
- 10. the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses
- 13. hard, severe, cruel rules
- 14. The daugther of Suyuan Woo
- 15. to drink
- 16. Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis
- 18. Wife of Rich
- 21. having a huge appetite, greedy, ravenous; excessively eager
- 22. Disloyal, treacherous, violating one's trust
- 23. the vocabulary of a person
- 26. to seize for military or official use
- 27. in a loud-voiced manner, vehemently, noisily
- 29. Direct opposite
- 30. creator of Joy Luck Club
Down
- 1. most typical example
- 3. a system in which promotion is based on individual ability or achievement
- 4. evoking a keen sense of regret or sadness
- 7. Waveryly's first husaband
- 8. an elite group of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than on class privilege or wealth
- 9. loud and noisy; compelling attention
- 11. Waverly's husband
- 12. Sweetly flowing or sounding
- 17. a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favor
- 19. Wife of Ted
- 20. an unwelcome person
- 24. Rose's husband
- 25. to knee, lie, crawl on the ground; treat someone with too much respect
- 28. funeral hymn