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:
SACRED
Sentence 1:
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Word:
SURREAL
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Word:
WANTON
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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 6
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. PERSON OF PROFOUND
LEARNING; SCHOLAR
6. Shout at the bullfight
7. FREE FROM BLAME
11. Film director Spike
12. Vagrant*; tramp
13. HELP SPEED THINGS ALONG
14. Snapple beverage
16. CENTRAL PART AROUND
WHICH OTHER PARTS ARE
GATHERED; CORE
18. KIND; GOOD-NATURED 
DISPOSITION
19. SHARPLY AFFECTING ONE’S
SENSE OF TASTE OR SMELL;
HOT; PEPPERY
20. OF UNMATCHING PARTS;
LACKING HARMONY
23. INAPPROPRIATE LIGHT
HUMOR
26. Pecuniary* bills
28. CRUDE; INSENSITIVE
Down
1. SERIOUS AND DIGNIFIED
2. Actor Baldwin or infielder Rodriguez
3. Informal term for a vice president
4. QUIET; NOT INCLINED TO
TALK
5. Word from a ghost
8. That lady
9. Pound: Abbr.
10. EXTREMELY HUNGRY;
ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO 
SATISFY
14. ACTING TO OVERTHROW
ONE’S GOVERNMENT OR
RULER, OR HELPING YOUR
COUNTRY’S ENEMY
15. HIGHEST POINT
17. DISTRUSTFUL OF THE TRUE
MOTIVES OF OTHERS
19. EASY TO BEND; FLEXIBLE
21. SPOKEN WITH CONFIDENCE,
BUT NOT MUCH THOUGHT
22. Residue* from burning
24. Ten ___ one odds
25. Greeting from Rocky
26. 101, in old Rome
27. “___ I was saying...”
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