Words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. To reflect deeply on a subject (8)
  2. 7. A state of acute pain (9)
  3. 8. A very small quantity of something (5)
  4. 10. The act of taking something from someone unlawfully (5)
  5. 12. A specific piece of work required to be done as a duty or for a specific fee (4)
  6. 13. A relatively small granular particle of a substance (5)
  7. 14. To decide by reasoning (8)
  8. 15. A smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster (5)

Down

  1. 1. The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state (6)
  2. 2. A diagram or picture illustrating textual material (3)
  3. 3. A person who lives near another (8)
  4. 5. The part of a golf course bordering the fairway where the grass is not cut short (5)
  5. 6. The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists (9)
  6. 9. An angry disturbance (6)
  7. 11. To bring an ___ against (6)
  8. 16. English essayist (4)