Across
- 5. Length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial
- 6. An object in motion that stays in that motion, unless changed by an outside force
- 8. Keeping secret because if you told anyone it wouldn't be approved of
- 10. A strict, bossy, or belligerent old woman
- 11. To deny any responsibility or accountability for
- 15. To treat a serious matter with humor, lack of respect regarding a serious manner
- 16. To change direction suddenly
- 17. to be overly theatric or to exaggerate something
- 19. Grouchy, hard to please
- 21. to show excess admiration or devotion, to flatter someone
- 23. Conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies
- 24. To intensify, increase, or further improve the quality of something
Down
- 1. to cancel or postpone someone's punishment, usually death
- 2. to refuse to accept or recognize
- 3. showing no sign of feeling, emotion, or pain
- 4. A person or mental process that is intelligently, analytical, or clear thinking
- 7. When someone in a family is murdered, the family of the murdered person seeks vengeance/revenge on the murderer or the murderer's family
- 9. Using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning, instinctive
- 11. A process of managing relations with a potentially hostile country in order to preserve peace while maintaining our vital interests
- 12. To declare to be evil or detestable
- 13. an architectural style in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries
- 14. Felt as if in the internal organs in the main parts of your body, as in a gut feeling
- 18. A strict disciplinarian, especially someone who is or was in the military
- 20. great wealth or luxuriousness, often characterized by lavishness and abundance of material possessions
- 22. To twist or rotate around a vertical axis or to temporarily deviate from a straight course