Across
- 2. exotic: foreign, or strikingly unusual or strange
- 4. formerly: previously, in an earlier period
- 5. detriment: injury, damage or something that causes it
- 7. impede: interfere with or slow down the progress
- 8. prophetic: foretelling or predicting future events
- 10. plagiarism: passing off as one's own the ideas or writings of another
- 11. parody: artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
- 12. thwart: to prevent the occurrence of
- 13. harmony: peaceable or friendly relations
- 14. impediment: something that hinders or obstructs
Down
- 1. ameliorate: to make or become better
- 3. surreptitious: done by secretive means
- 4. conserve: keep from waste, loss or decay
- 5. ignoramus: ignorant; stupid person; dunce
- 6. folly: foolish, lack of good sense
- 9. pervasive: quality or tendency to be everywhere at the same time
- 10. suppressed: subdued, kept from being circulated
- 11. timorous: shy, timid
- 12. spurious: not genuine; false
- 13. cantankerous: grumpy, disagreeable