Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Crossword Puzzle No. 1

Review the items posted and try to solve the following crossword!
In this way you could memorize the words easier and improve your vocabulary in leisure time!



Across
1. The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive
expression for one that may offend or suggest
something unpleasant
3. Intended only for a particular group
5. The inner, usually woody, layer of the pericarp
of a fruit, such as the stone of a cherry or peach
7. One cut off from his/her normal socioeconomic
class
12. Minute organisms that float in the surface film
of water
13. One roaming about in search of amusement or
social activity
14. Desolate; forsaken
15. Of or related to a prophet or a prophecy
17. Having a strong pleasant flavor
19. Esoteric doctrine or mysterious art
21. Good fortune
23. Extremely cold; icy
24. Animal worship
25. The use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
26. Munificence
27. Left by its mother and reared by hand (e.g. a
cade lamb)

Down
2. Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a
boring manner
4. One that serves as a model or example
5. Native to a particular region
6. "Any of a family of large baleen whales having
the skin of the throat marked with deep longitudinal
furrows
8. Mental or physical weariness or fatigue
9. Someone who destroys religious images or
opposes their veneration
10. Soul; spirit
11. Variant of cabala
16. Relating to or concerned with concrete or
unique
18. The arch of the sky; the heavens
20. To refuse abruptly
22. A liturgical prayer consisting of a series of
petitions recited by a leader alternating