Across
- 2. drive, force, or urge (someone)to do something
- 5. renounce one's throne; to fail to fulfil a duty
- 6. deny any responsibility or support for
- 7. accept something reluctantly but without protest
- 9. relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor
- 11. morally correct behavior or thinking; righteousness
- 17. based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system; autocratic and unrestrained in use of power
- 18. the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way
- 19. cruel and oppressive government or rule
Down
- 1. take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force
- 3. reveal the presence off (a quality or feeling)
- 4. more important than anything else; supreme
- 8. truthful and straightforward; frank
- 10. impose a tax or fee; enlist a soldier
- 12. the leaving of one's own country in order to settle permanently in another
- 13. generosity or forgiveness, especially toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself
- 14. absence of objection rather than genuine approval; toleration
- 15. he holding of an office; a period for which an office is held
- 16. deceitfulness; untrustworthiness
- 20. set or declare (someone) free from blame. guilt, or responsibility
