Across
- 5. proper, in good taste
- 8. to confirm; to back up with evidence
- 10. brilliant, giving off heat or light
- 12. to annoy thoroughly
- 15. lacking ideas or intelligence
- 17. to ridicule
- 18. overly dramatic
- 19. naturally peaceful
- 20. a wiseman, to be wise through experience and reflection
Down
- 1. highly unstable, explosive
- 2. feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense
- 3. lacking harmony or agreement
- 4. to place side by side
- 6. fertile, productive
- 7. to speed up the progress of
- 9. generous, kind
- 11. to attack with words or force
- 13. to examine very carefully
- 14. to swell, expand
- 16. intended to teach, morally instructive