Across
- 4. (adj) - A person placed at a high or powerful level; held in high regard
- 8. (adj) - Fluent and persuasive in speech or expression; convincing and pleasant to listen to
- 9. (n) - Sly or cunning intelligence
- 12. (adj) - Describes something that cannot be disproved or refuted
- 13. (adj) - Unconventional and slightly strange
- 14. (v) - to obstruct progress; to block
- 17. (n) - The specialized language or vocabulary of a particular profession, trade, or hobby
- 19. (v) - to treat with contempt; to dismiss haughtily. To reject due to unworthiness.
- 20. (n) - The condition of being inequivalent or unequal in age, measure, or extent.
- 21. (v) - To make public something that was once secret
- 22. (N) - Speculation based on inconclusive data / evidence that is not complete. A best guess.
Down
- 1. (n) - A false or misleading appearance; a contrived surface meant to deceive
- 2. (adj) - incapable of making a mistake. Something that is regarded as beyond error
- 3. (n) - Hatred; ill will; intense hostility
- 5. (v) - To strive, match, or better by means of imitation. Using another's’ actions as a model for future success or mastery
- 6. (v) - Closed within; imprisoned
- 7. (n) - A single or repeated design, pattern, or color
- 10. (v) - To bring out, to evoke or stimulate as to yield a response
- 11. (Adj) - Damaging or harmful in effect.
- 15. (N) - Openness or honesty. Someone who speaks without lies or half truths.
- 16. (adj) - Suggested of guilty nervousness
- 18. (v) - to punish or scold severely in hopes that by doing so, new behavior will result