Vocabulary Puzzles The Fun Way to Ace Standardized Tests

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Learning Definitions and Using Words in Context
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VALIANT
Sentence 1:
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Word:
VISCOUS
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Word:
VOCIFEROUS
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If necessary, return and complete the crossword puzzle in Step 1.
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Vocabulary Puzzles
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Puzzle 12
Step 1: Crossword Puzzle
Work on this crossword for no more than 15 minutes. If an answer does not occur to
you after you’ve given it some thought, move on. It is possible that you will not com-
plete the puzzle in the allotted time; it is not important that you do. What is important
is that you work at it conscientiously for the full 15 minutes.
Across
1. Solemn promise
4. DELICATE SKILL
7. OF RURAL LIFE OR 
SIMPLICITY
9. MISCHIEVOUS SPIRIT
10. Just in case
12. FINAL WARNING
13. SPREADING OUT OF 
CONTROL
16. “To ___, or not to...”: Hamlet
17. DEDUCE FROM FACTS
20. 1982 Spielberg alien film
22. Smoke with a brown rapper
23. WANDERER
24. AUTHORITY GRANTED 
A RULER BY AN 
OVERWHELMING VOTE
26. EASE OF SPEAKING OR 
WRITING
27. Go in quest of *; search for
Down
1. WORD FOR WORD
2. FULL OF SAD LONGING
3. DRAW OUT
5. MAGNIFICENT; SUPERB
6. PRONOUNCE CLEARLY
8. DEPENDENT; SUBJECT TO
11. Resolute*; steadfast
14. HUMOROUS OR SATIRICAL
IMITATION OF A SERIOUS
WORK
15. Voluminous*
16. NONCHALANT; COOL
18. Handle, to a CBer
19. Actress Drescher of The Nanny, or the
role she played
21. “Piggies,” in a kids’ rhyme
25. Raleigh is its capital: Abbr.
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