Across
- 5. to start a fire; ignite; arouse
- 7. extreme wickedness
- 10. to calm; pacify
- 12. a break or vacation
- 13. someone who consumes too much food or drinks
- 14. to attack with words or force
- 15. fertile; productive
- 17. eager to fight
- 18. naturally peaceful
- 21. intended to teach; morally instructive
- 22. to swell; to extend
- 23. a wise man; to be wise through experience and reflection
- 25. to publicly brag
- 26. everyday speech; slang
- 29. brilliant; giving off heat or light
- 30. to create; to cause
- 33. to annoy thoroughly
- 35. feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense
- 36. to praise highly
- 37. to examine very carefully
- 38. to speed up the progress of
- 39. to slow or impeded the progress of
Down
- 1. to ridicule
- 2. to erase; to rub out
- 3. abundant; plentiful
- 4. to intensify; improve
- 6. lacking harmony or agreement
- 8. to place side by side
- 9. muscular strength
- 11. lacking ideas or intelligence
- 14. a person who is skillful with his hands
- 16. to confirm; back up with evidence
- 19. proper; in good taste
- 20. to destroy completely
- 24. to describe accurately
- 27. grumbling; grumpy
- 28. generous; kind
- 31. dark; unknown; hard to understand
- 32. overly dramatic
- 34. highly unstable; explosive