Across
- 2. damage the reputation of
- 3. openness and honesty in expression; frankness
- 6. publicly declare as wrong or evil
- 9. persuade with persistent coaxing or flattery
- 10. roomy; spacious
- 11. charm or enchant, sometimes deceptively
- 13. intimidated or apprehensive
- 15. fail to give a true in impression of; to disguise or contradict
- 16. existing as idea but not as concrete thing
- 17. difficult and obscure
- 18. having a harmful or destructive effect
- 19. a harsh discordant mixture of sounds
Down
- 1. moral or cultural decline
- 4. accept reluctantly but without protest
- 5. enthusiastically, publicly praise
- 7. award granted as special honor for merit
- 8. humbled respect
- 12. hostile and aggressive
- 14. surrender
- 15. obvious, boring, and unoriginal