Vocabulary Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A newspaper that is published every day (5)
  2. 4. The prevailing psychological state (7)
  3. 5. The time of day immediately following sunset (8)
  4. 6. No longer in existence (7)
  5. 7. The line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet (7)
  6. 10. A message received and understood (11)
  7. 13. The first light of day (7)
  8. 14. A location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival (6)
  9. 15. The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon (6)

Down

  1. 2. A workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made (8)
  2. 3. The quality of being luminous (10)
  3. 8. The remains of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated (plural) (7)
  4. 9. Relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail (plural) (7)
  5. 11. The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates (5)
  6. 12. The regions to the north of the ___ Circle centered on the North Pole (6)