Across
- 1. admonish, berate, castigate, chide
- 4. alleviate, assuage, blunt, lessen
- 6. generous, benevolent, charitable, compassionate
- 9. exacting, formal, rigid, stringent
- 10. brave, courageous, formidable, valiant
- 11. accessible, defenseless, exposed, liable
- 12. boorish, churlish, rude, vulgar
- 13. fearless, indomitable, redoubtable, tenacious, vigorous
- 14. cheapen, demoralize, dishonor, humiliate
- 16. ceremonious, conscionable, formalistic, meticulous
- 19. blab, boast, drivel, prattle
Down
- 2. desecrate, loot, pilfer, ransack
- 3. ambitious, pompous, flamboyant, grand
- 5. ashen, deathlike, ghostly, haggard
- 7. trivial, negligible, worthless, insignificant
- 8. defile, pervert, pillage, ravage
- 10. indemnity, redress, refund, reimbursement
- 15. agitate, disturb, perplex, discombobulate
- 17. contrive, devise, fabricate, invent
- 18. breach, crime, infringement, transgression