Across
- 3. Paying too much attention to rules or small details
- 7. Not interesting or exciting
- 8. Friendly and enjoying being with other people
- 9. Easy to understand or recognize
- 11. A figurative use of a word in one where it does not have its normal or basic meaning. ( “a mountain of debt”)
- 14. A rambling speech or writing is very long and doesn’t seem to have any clear organization or purpose
- 16. Produced or existing in large quantities
- 18. Language or words used in mainly informal conversations rather that in writing or formal speech
- 21. Ordinary and uninteresting and without any imagination
- 23. Happy, or behaving in a way that shows you are happy
- 24. Containing long words that sound important but have no real meaning
- 26. A picturesque place is pretty and in an old fashioned way
- 28. About or relating to science or using its methods
- 32. Measuring a long distance from one end to the other
- 33. Good at finding ways to deal with problems effectively
- 37. Friendly but quite polite and friendly
- 38. Difficult to understand
- 39. Polite in a formal but not very friendly way
- 42. Friendly and easy to like
- 43. Attractive in a sexual way
- 45. Straightforward, talking about important things first
- 46. Containing new and interesting ideas
- 50. Representing a particular idea or quality
- 53. Having a lot of experience of life and good judgement of socially important things such as art, fashion etc.
- 56. Having a lot of knowledge because you have read and studied a lot
- 57. Not very long in length or far distance
- 58. Extremely happy and excited
- 59. Making you have strong feelings of sadness and sympathy
- 61. Full of interesting or important facts, events or ideas
- 62. Beautiful, attractive and graceful
- 63. Not exact
- 64. Able to make people do or believe something
- 66. Boring, now new and insincere
- 67. Definite and specific
- 69. Idiomatic language is typical of the way people usually talk and write
- 70. Jerky movements are rough, with many starts and stops
- 71. Intelligent, polite and interested in art, literature, music
- 72. Relating to literature
- 73. Not exact
Down
- 1. Behaving or speaking in a way that is correct for the social situation
- 2. A new word or expression, or a new word with a new meaning
- 4. Related to a particular subject or profession
- 5. Not behaving politely in social situations; not showing good judgement about what is beautiful or suitable
- 6. Strange or difficult to explain or understand
- 10. Friendly and easy to talk to
- 12. Not real, not made of natural things; not sincere
- 13. Extremely clever
- 15. Ugly in a strange frightening, shocking way
- 17. Recurring with measures regularity
- 19. Friendly, welcoming and generous to visitors
- 20. Available in large quantities
- 22. Not difficult or complicated
- 25. Not likely to upset or embarrass other people
- 27. Wrong according to the rules of grammer
- 29. Polite and showing respect for other people
- 30. Implying something additional
- 31. Happy and enjoying yourself
- 34. Something which makes you unhappy
- 35. Expressing opinions strongly and clearly
- 36. If something is very urgent, it is very important and needs to be dealt with immediately
- 40. Making you feel sad
- 41. Embarrassing, not relaxed, difficult to deal with or use or not suitable
- 43. Very informal language that uses new or rude words instead of the usual words for something
- 44. Polite, confident and relaxed sometimes in an insincere way
- 47. Containing a wise idea
- 48. Confused and not expressing ideas clearly
- 49. Boring and always the same
- 51. Fair and sensible, including a good mixture of things
- 52. Short and clear, without using too many words
- 54. Stopped in the middle of a conversation, speech, action etc.
- 55. Correct in every detail
- 59. Precise information, details are exact, clear, and correct
- 60. Behaving in a polite, kind and generous way, esp. to people of a lower rank
- 65. Connected with feeling such as anger, pity, sadness, etc.
- 68. Happening or done without delay
- 70. Friendly and happy