Unit 14 Vocabulary

Synonym Crossword Puzzle

Complete the crossword, and then click on Check to check your answer. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

            1      2     
3        4               
  5                   
    6         7          
8                     
                   
                   
    9             10      
                   
                   
    11                 
               12      
   13    14        15          
                   
16           17            
                   
         18            
  19                   
        20             

Across:

4. absolve, acquit, vindicate, exculpate
7. (v.) manacle, enslave; (n.) handcuffs, bonds, irons
8. base, foundation, underpinning, support
9. seedy, shopworn, frayed, ragged, trite
11. ad-lib, wing it, extemporize, play it by ear
12. pat, superficial, unctuous
13. unite, mend fences, conciliate
16. provoke, spur, instigate, prompt, provoke
17. fiasco, disaster, calamity
18. lavish, bounteous, extravagant, plenteous
19. joine, acquire, procure
20. inpouring, inrush

Down:

1. accidental, random, slapdash
2. bloodlessness, wanness
3. very steep
5. affable, hospitable, warm, convivial
6. sap, enfeeble, enervate
10. lineage, genealogy, ancestry
14. to cut or split open; to cling to
15. ensnarl, entangle