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:
TIRADE
Sentence 1:
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Word:
TRAUMA
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Vocabulary Puzzles
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Word:
WHIMSICAL
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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 5
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
3. Adroitly* escapes from
7. PEACEFUL; CHARMINGLY 
SIMPLE
9. Monopolize*; take more than your fair
share
11. Snow remover
13. CURE-ALL
14. “Phone home” movie alien
15. Burglarize*
17. UNDERSTOOD BY ONLY A
FEW
19. Continent where 13-Down is: Abbr.
20. Hartford is its capital: Abbr.
21. IMAGE, SOMETIMES A
SACRED* ONE
23. RETREAT TO AN EARLIER
STAGE; PROGRESS BACKWARDS
24. FORGO; AVOID
26. List of choices, as on a computer
27. “Are you a man ___ a mouse?”
28. Time between lunch and evening:
Abbr.
29. SOOTHE OR RELIEVE
Down
1. TENDING TO BELITTLE OR
FIND FAULT WITH
2. Archaic*
4. SOMETHING PASSED 
DOWN TO FOLLOWING 
GENERATIONS
5. SHOW DISRESPECT FOR
SOMETHING HOLY OR
SACRED
6. Diffident*
8. Kind of room on the Web
10. Light switch position
12. WILD AND RECKLESS
13. Country of the Incas
16. BLUNT OR ROUGH IN 
MANNER
18. HAVING A DREAMLIKE 
QUALITY
19. “Get lost!”
22. OPEN TO VIEW; NOT SECRET
25. It follows a dot in many addresses
27. The Wizard ___ Oz
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