Across
- 1. having a lofty, generous, and courageous spirit
- 4. confirmation
- 5. overly attentive, like sycophant, servile
- 6. devotion to the truth
- 8. an increase in number, multiplication
- 9. a likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship
- 10. irritable, easily angered, cranky, cross
- 13. secret, clandestine, stealthy
- 14. irreverent, profane
- 15. a support or prop
- 16. not essential or vital
- 18. using a minimum; concise to the point of seeming rude
- 19. obvious exaggeration
- 20. exalted, noble, uplifting
- 22. based on observation or experiment and not on theory
- 23. enthusiasm, fervor
Down
- 2. indisputable
- 3. of the same kind
- 7. careful to consider consequences, cautious, prudent
- 9. to give in, comply
- 11. ruling oppressively and absolutely; tyrannical
- 12. very principled, very careful and conscientious
- 16. very thin (usually as a result of starvation), wasting away
- 17. to use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value
- 21. inactive, plowed but not sowed