Vocabulary Puzzles The Fun Way to Ace Standardized Tests

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Learning Definitions and Using Words in Context
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Word:
VERBATIM
Sentence 1:
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Word:
VOLUMINOUS
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Word:
WISTFUL
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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 13
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. AMULET SUPPOSEDLY 
POSSESSING OCCULT POWERS
5. Pen filler
7. WORDY
9. TRACT OF LAND
10. HOLD BACK; HINDER
15. Star Wars princess
16. ABUNDANTLY PROVIDED
(WITH)
17. A ___ of Two Cities
18. SEND AWAY TO ANOTHER
COUNTRY
19. Hawaiian dance
22. Surgery reminder
23. LUCKY
24. Shakespeare’s ___ You Like It
25. SPOTLESSLY CLEAN
27. Temporary craze; vogue*
28. Peruse*
Down
1. Golf gadget
2. INTRICATE MAZE
3. “Titanic” distress signal
4. ___ Dame University
6. START (A FIRE)
7. Vitality
8. “Phone home” alien
11. TEMPORARY INACTIVITY OR
SUSPENSION
12. COPYING OR VIRTUALLY
COPYING SOMEONE ELSE’S
WORK
13. DESERVING ESTEEM; PRAISE-
WORTHY
14. VAGUE, INDISTINCT
20. LEAVE SECRETLY, SO AS TO
AVOID CAPTURE
21. INTOLERANT PERSON
23. QUICK, SUDDEN ATTACK
24. Help; succor*
26. TV hospital show
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