Unit 1 Vocabulary

Synonym Crossword Puzzle

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

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2. guarded, wary, prudent, careful
3. surrender, give up, abandon
4. predicament, quandry, perplexing problem
6. To make susceptible
7. rambling, verbose, prolix
8. to seize, take over, expropriate, requisition
9. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk, heavy, unwieldy, ponderous
11. rift, rupture, gap
12. warn, caution, scold mildly
13. bogus, counterfeit, false
15. retrieve, reclaim, rescue, recover
16. unchecked, unrestrained, uncontrolled
17. confusion, disorder
18. stalemate, impasse, standstill

1. inflexible, closeminded, obstinate, stubborn
5. expunge, obliterate, erase, to wipe out
6. recurring, enduring
10. fitful; excitable; convulsive
11. robber, bandit, outlaw
14. rubble, wreckage