Across
- 4. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.
- 6. a body of people (typically twelve in number) sworn to give a verdict in a legal case on the basis of evidence submitted to them in court.
- 9. (of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.
- 11. an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image.
- 12. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
- 13. combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke.
- 14. having made a firm decision and being resolved not to change it.
- 16. the belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
Down
- 1. preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
- 2. a person who practices or studies law; an attorney or a counselor.
- 3. an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is generally larger than a village and smaller than a city.
- 5. the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
- 7. behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
- 8. a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
- 9. to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive.
- 10. casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.
- 15. a long-tailed songbird with grayish plumage, found mainly in tropical America and noted for its mimicry of the calls and songs of other birds.