“Master” Words

Microsoft Word Version

 

Across

1    To make more difficult, to add confusing problems

3    To surprise or astonish

7    Folded, compressed, compact (pulled in)

9    Enough

10   Way too much!

11   To make, to supply, to offer results

13   To commit excessive activity

15   Between states

17   A scholarly book or article

20   A particular view, a side, a feature

21   A picture or drawing

23   To stretch out or reach

24   The study of the world with its peoples and places

25   To write down

29   An irregularity of the eye lens that makes it hard to focus

30   Not willing or able, reluctant

33   A single corrective lens (often worn by movie NAZI's)

34   Something incorrectly understood or accidentally done wrong

35   Not taking "NO" for an answer

36   To be adequate

38   The belief that the stars influence our lives

40   Not the original

43   To get, find, or acquire

44   To be late (especially with a bill or a library book)

45   A word part that precedes a word stem

 

Down

2    An written introduction to prepare or an inform a reader

4    To present (for purchase, trade, or as a gift)

5    Written down the wrong way

6    Simple and straightforward

8    A layer of skin

12   The art and science of drawing maps

14   To move from a higher position to a lower position, to downgrade, or reduce in rank

16   Thick headed, insensitive to entreaty (also a very pointy triangle)

18   To arrest, hold back, keep in custody

19   The state of not making up one's mind

22   Not regular, but not stopping (sporadic)

26   To cause harm or damage

27   Rule, guideline, or principle to follow

28   A word part added after a stem

31   A closing section added to a book to add more information or background, the final speech in a play

32   A little star (can mean a footnote in a school paper or a multiplication sign on a computer keyboard)

34   What a comedian stands up for.  (A speech by a lone actor on a stage: Hamlet had some famous ones.)

37   To erase or remove from a list

39   Dark, confusing, hard to understand

41   To take back, to go back on one's word

42     To disconnect or separate

 

DETAIN

INTERMITTENT

PRECEPT

OFFER

INSIST

MONOGRAPH

EPILOGUE

ASPECT

UNCOMPLICATED

NONEXTENDED

REPRODUCTION

OVERSUFFICIENT

MISTRANSCRIBE

INDISPOSED

sufficient

produce

extend

complicate

suffice

transcribe

graphic

geography

cartography

mistake

misuse

epidermis

astrology

renege

demote

interstate

prefix

suffix

obscure

astigmatism

asterisk

astound

monocle

overdo

overdue

monologue

prologue

obtuse

obtain

indecision

detach

delete