Across
- 2. People have adapted this word making it mean more as if something or someone is lucky and not simply something happening by chance
- 4. The use of the name of one thing to represent something related to it (such as a crown to represent "king or queen" or White House or Oval Office to represent "President."
- 5. A theory that stock prices move in the same direction as the hemlines of women's dresses
- 7. In law, an offence made more serious by attendant circumstances
- 9. A personality type characterized by a strong affinity for novelty
- 12. The first country in the world to ban planned obsolescence
- 13. In a recent slang definition, it refers to a person having tastes, interests, or attitudes regarded as mainstream or conventional
- 14. The study of the origin of words and how their meanings have changed throughout history
- 15. Expressing something in a non-literal way, but represents a concept
Down
- 1. The meaning of this word has gained a positive tone recently where it is used to describe specifically good things that are extraordinary and improbable.
- 3. A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.
- 6. Informal word in the United States meaning not disconcerted; unperturbed
- 8. Intentionally slowing down the performance of certain products/features
- 10. The word originally meant something "inspiring wonder (or fear)"
- 11. The word has a more positive modern meaning indicating a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with