Vocabulary Puzzles The Fun Way to Ace Standardized Tests

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Vocabulary Puzzles
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VIGILANT
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If necessary, return and complete the crossword puzzle in Step 1.
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Part 1 


Learning Definitions and Using Words in Context
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Vocabulary Puzzles
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Puzzle 3
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. SEPARATIONS IN A GROUP,
ESPECIALLY DUE TO A 
DISAGREEMENT
5. Gratuity*
6. Arbiter* in boxing matches
9. Majestic* mountain in Europe
11. Blunder*
14. GRUESOME; HORRIBLE
15. STRONGLY AFFECTING ONE’S
EMOTIONS
16. Wedding promise: 2 words
18. Only one of the Seven Dwarfs who
wears spectacles
20. SHOWING GREAT INTENSITY
OF SPIRIT; PASSIONATE;
HEATED
21. Stomach muscles, for short
23. DECEIVE; TRICK
25. Exist
26. Grandiloquent* speaker
29. Roman emperor with a fiddle
30. PLEASANT MEANS OF 
AMUSEMENT OR 
RECREATION
32. LESSEN; REDUCE
Down
1. NOT GENUINE OR 
AUTHENTIC; COUNTERFEIT
2. Abbreviation before a man’s name
3. Symbol of authenticity*
4. INCLINED TO SEEK REVENGE
5. TREMBLING FEAR
7. Winter ailment
8. UNEXPECTED GAIN OR GOOD
FORTUNE
10. WISE IN PRACTICAL MATTERS;
SENSIBLE
12. Fishing need
13. DISPARAGING* HINT OR
IMPLICATION ABOUT SOME-
ONE OR SOMETHING
17. SHAKE OR WAVE, AS A
WEAPON
19. “___ your mark, get set, go!”
22. World War I spy Mata ___
24. TV medical show
25. Protuberance* in the road
27. Stop sign color
28. Actor Selleck
30. Greek letter used in algebra
31. Shakespeare’s ___ You Like It
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