Vocabulary Activity#10

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime (8)
  2. 5. The state of inactivity following an interruption (6)
  3. 8. A print made by an impression of the ridges in the skin of a ___ (11)
  4. 10. To recognize as being (8)
  5. 11. An unpleasant or disastrous destiny (4)
  6. 12. A police officer who investigates crimes (9)
  7. 15. An outward semblance that misrepresents the true nature of something (8)

Down

  1. 1. An act punishable by law (5)
  2. 2. The act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in (10)
  3. 3. A thief who enters a building with intent to steal (7)
  4. 6. A spectator who can describe what happened (10)
  5. 7. Impossible or nearly impossible to see (9)
  6. 9. A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms (7)
  7. 13. A set of rules or principles or laws (4)
  8. 14. Evidence that helps to solve a problem (4)