Language Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. The original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated (9)
  2. 6. To accept as true (7)
  3. 8. To give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause (9)
  4. 11. The state of being in effect or being ___ (9)
  5. 13. A science dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement (11)
  6. 15. Standing still (10)

Down

  1. 1. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance (6)
  2. 2. To heighten or intensify (7)
  3. 3. Unlike in nature or quality or form or degree (9)
  4. 4. A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols (8)
  5. 7. To hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of (9)
  6. 8. To exercise authoritative ___ or power over (10)
  7. 9. A parallelogram with four equal sides (7)
  8. 10. A sequence of numbers or letters that opens a ___ lock (11)
  9. 12. Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world (6)
  10. 14. An act punishable by law (5)