Across
- 6. put to use; make a great effort at a mental or physical task
- 7. feel bitterness or slight anger at a circumstance, action, or person
- 10. increasing gradually by regular degrees or additions
- 13. 1. Show or prove to be right or reasonable 2. Be a good reason for
- 14. not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully
- 15. closely connected or appropriate to the matter at hand (antonym: irrelevant)
- 16. state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully
- 18. to be or get in the way of; prevent; hinder
- 19. formal and dignified; serious
- 20. existing or available in large quantities
Down
- 1. following continuously; in unbroken or logical consequence
- 2. extremely obvious or conspicuous
- 3. a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior
- 4. no longer produced or used; out of date
- 5. competent or skilled in doing or using something
- 8. regard as probable; expect or predict
- 9. the ability to understand something immediately, a ‘gut feeling’
- 11. evenly spaced; always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
- 12. 1. cause (something) to occur in a particular way; be the decisive factor in 2. Ascertain or establish exactly, typically as a result of research or calculation
- 17. decrease in size, number, or range