Across
- 2. adj. experiencing worry, unease, or nervousness, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome.
- 4. n. a strong desire to do or to achieve something, typically requiring determination and hard work.
- 7. v. remove or take out, especially by effort or force.
- 10. adj. (of a person) working in a well-organized and competent way.
- 11. v./n. be filled with wonder or astonishment/a wonderful or astonishing person or thing.
- 14. adj. cease to support or look after (someone); desert.
- 16. adj. certain to happen; unavoidable.
- 17. v. prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.
- 18. v. have a commanding influence on; exercise control over.
- 21. n. a stupid or careless mistake.
- 22. adj. having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.
- 23. v. represent (something) as being larger, better, or worse than it really is.
- 24. v. handle or control (a tool, mechanism, etc.), typically in a skillful manner.
- 28. adj. having the right to do or obtain something; satisfying the appropriate conditions.
- 29. adj. recognizably different in nature from something else of a similar type.
Down
- 1. v. make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
- 3. adj. extremely large or great, especially in scale or degree.
- 5. v. frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants.
- 6. v. gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of
- 8. n. a result or effect of an action or condition.
- 9. adj. feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with.
- 12. adj. giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive.
- 13. n. the quality of transparency or purity.
- 15. adj. existing or available in large quantities; plentiful.
- 17. n. wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available or contributed for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
- 19. n. a load, typically a heavy one.
- 20. n. disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated.
- 25. v. stick fast to (a surface or substance).
- 26. adj. (of something provided or available) lacking in quantity or quality.
- 27. v. make or become less.
