Across
- 2. Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action. Unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment.
- 5. Suggesting the horror of death and decay. Suggesting an unhealthy mental state. Cause by or altered by or manifesting disease.
- 6. Elaborately or excessively ornamented. Inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life.
- 12. A health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs. A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.
- 19. A person who tells a story or gives an account of something.
- 20. In fiction, it is a scene that takes place before the story begins. These interrupt the chronological order of the main narrative to take a reader back in time to the past events in a character’s life.
- 21. Lacking in sophistication or worldliness. Someone who shows childlike innocence, trust, and openness.
- 23. Make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation. Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance.
- 26. An indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments. Sometimes this is used to build suspense.
- 29. Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals, a car, etc.).
- 30. The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- 32. A fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.
- 33. Characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty. Marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior.
- 34. The use of words or images to symbolize specific concepts, people, objects, or events. These are figurative or implied representations of something else.
- 35. Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
Down
- 1. Continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
- 3. A strong feeling of embarrassment. An instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect.
- 4. Recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like. Elastic; rebounding readily.
- 7. Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
- 8. A performance using gestures and body movements without words. Act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only.
- 9. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
- 10. Plausible but false. Intended to deceive. Born out of wedlock.
- 11. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness. Lacking strength or vigor.
- 13. Anger produced by some annoying irritation. The psychological state of being irritated or annoyed. A source of anxiety or unhappiness.
- 14. A deliberately fabricated account of something. A literary work based on imagination rather than on fact.
- 15. A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group.
- 16. An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. An indirect or passing reference.
- 17. To provide physical relief, as from pain. To satisfy thirst. To cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of.
- 18. Grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred. Characterized by poor behavior and cursing.
- 22. Something that is inferred. Example: Being a good student, for instance, is an _________ of attending classes, learning the material, and keeping up with assignments. An old-fashioned definition of _________ is a set of limitations that restrict the ways property can be bequeathed to heirs.
- 24. A journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment.
- 25. The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work.
- 27. To write carelessly.
- 28. A natural inclination. An inclination to do something. A disposition to behave in a certain way.
- 31. In a manner that reveals little emotion or sensibility; not easily excited.