Across
- 2. a minor character flaw
- 6. to make worse
- 8. to strive to equal or excel
- 10. one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes humans are motivated only by selfishness
- 13. decaying or decayed, especially in terms of morals
- 14. to approach and speak to someone aggressively
- 16. fraud; quack; con-man
- 17. awesome; extremely exalted; lofty; majestic
- 18. to stray from the main subject
- 19. to flood (the market) with goods so that supply exceeds demand
Down
- 1. to prove to be false
- 3. to waste
- 4. truthfulness
- 5. impossible to see through; impossible to understand
- 7. obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another agreeable
- 8. well-known and respected; standing out from all others in quality or accomplishment; outstanding
- 9. ordinary, pretty boring,
- 11. an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action
- 12. a system of social or political ideas
- 15. flimsy; extremely thin; precarious