Across
- 2. humiliating and miserable; contemptible
- 3. an opinion formed from inconclusive evidence; a guess; to conclude from insufficient evidence
- 4. capable of returning to the original shape after being bent or stretched; buoyant; recovering quickly from illness, change or misfortune
- 5. to recover health after illness
- 6. to develop gradually; to change from a simpler to a more complex form of animal or plant life
- 10. conversation; formal discussion of a subject in speech or writing; to talk; to discuss formally in speech or writing
- 13. a collection of unrelated things
- 15. widely occurring or in general use
- 16. swiftness; quickness; speed
- 17. forerunner
- 19. jumping from one thing to another; rambling; haphazard or random
- 20. to use to one's own advantage
- 22. conspicuous; striking; projecting up or out
Down
- 1. to cause faster movement; to go faster
- 7. heroic courage; bravery
- 8. to attack violently; to assault; to attack with words; to ridicule or criticize harshly
- 9. to agree; to cooperate; to coincide; to happen simultaneously
- 11. to meet with; to run into; to bring upon oneself
- 12. help in time of distress; to render help to
- 14. a word or phrase sometimes inserted between other words often expressing emotion; a word not linked grammatically to other words in a sentence
- 18. to rejoice greatly; to be triumphant
- 21. speaking in a steady, easy flow of words; talkative; glib