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