Across
- 4. extremely self-centered with an exaggerated sense of self-importance : marked by or characteristic of excessive admiration of or infatuation with oneself : displaying or marked by excessive concern with one's own physical appearance
- 6. a storehouse for threshed grain
- 8. A servile and submissive follower
- 12. a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme
- 13. Barren and empty of inhabitants; Feeling abandoned and alone; To destroy or devastate; To abandon or leave alone
- 16. to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots
- 19. To submissively seek favor with someone, to brownnose or suck up
- 21. To lie or mislead
- 23. To make calm or quiet; To soothe or subdue
- 25. easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered
Down
- 1. struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset
- 2. terrifyingly horrible to the senses : intensely unpleasant, disagreeable, or objectionable
- 3. A business partner, associate; To bring into close connection with
- 5. A false and hateful accusation intending to harm one's reputation
- 7. To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible
- 9. A new convert; also, a beginner
- 10. To steal something in small quantities
- 11. To rebuke or scold severely and at length
- 14. Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous; Intentionally obvious
- 15. To waste time and be slow; To loiter
- 17. Fatal injury or ruin
- 18. a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety : a sudden feeling of usually disturbing emotion (such as doubt or fear)
- 20. Capable of making a mistake; Imperfect and errant
- 22. a harsh satire usually directed against an individual
- 24. to cheat out of something valuable : to obtain (something) by defrauding someone