Across
- 4. cheerful; optimistic
- 6. to renounce, repudiate under oath; to avoid, shun
- 7. a poison that can harm an organism
- 8. act in an excessively subservient manner
- 12. lacking ideas or intelligence
- 13. (adj.) not having or using, lacking
- 15. to seize and hold a position by force or without right
- 17. The study of energy transformations that occur in a collection of matter.
- 18. careless or irresponsible
- 19. A pyramid shaped temple tower
- 20. a model; an example
- 22. without interest; dull
- 23. (adj.) intense, forceful, powerful
- 24. to waver; to sway indecisively
Down
- 1. to divide an area into voting districts in a way that favors a political party
- 2. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.
- 3. (v.) to get rid of something unwanted, delete; to sift through to obtain what is desirable; to remove the chaff from the wheat by blowing air on it; to blow on, fan
- 5. moderate in appetite
- 9. to combine with oxygen; to rust
- 10. person who worked for women's right to vote
- 11. a dictionary; a specialized vocabulary used in a particular field or place
- 14. A distant galaxy with a black hole at its center
- 16. (adj.) Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
- 21. An owner and cultivator of a small farm.
- 23. whirlpool, center of turbulence