Across
- 3. become progressively worse
- 8. involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering
- 9. helping to develop or improve something
- 12. (having a great deal of money or wealth
- 14. empty boasting
- 15. a constructed language
- 16. united and working together effectively
- 17. ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one doesn't necessarily agree with
- 20. a wine steward
- 22. diligent; attentive to detail
- 23. art of asking for information
Down
- 1. the circumstances in which something exists or occurs; time, place, occasion
- 2. behaving, done, or made in a cautious or secretive way
- 4. the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
- 5. most noticeable or important
- 6. to uphold as true, right, just, or reasonable
- 7. a wonderful or astonishing person or thing
- 9. able to reasonably trust or believe
- 10. extreme greed for wealth or material gain
- 11. expressing of feeling extreme happiness or peace
- 13. relating to or resembling a farce because of absurd or ridiculous aspects
- 18. self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation
- 19. bad tempered or irritable
- 21. presenting another person’s ideas, information, expressions, or entire work as one’s own