Tuesday, 2/13/01--Copy Homework into assignment book. Crossword and Vocabulary due Thursday. The crossword uses this week's words, as well as those from list #13.
resilient, (resilience), graft, poised, correlate, expendable,
infinitesimal, aurora, subtle

1. The policeman refused the gangster's offer of __________ to "look the other way."
2. After his accident in the fire, he needed skin ____________(s) because of the severity of his burns.
3. Because of a trick of the light, his head seemed to have a bright orange __________ emanating from it.
4. To us the world seems so huge, but it is merely a(n) ____________ speck in the gigantic universe.
5. The joke was so __________, I had to think twice before I got it.
6. "And the caveman, please note, is not just any __________ man, no! He is an entire future nation."
7. Kids who develop the quality of ____________ are able to cope when things go bad.
8. He was a very ___________, very confident public speaker, he never got nervous in front of a crowd.
9. "Then I __________ our arrival in the Past so that we meet the monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway."
10. The hotel bed was too ____________, and I had a backache the next morning. I needed a firmer matress.

Across
3. Careful and picky.
6. Guess.
7. Barren or obvious.
10. Springy.
11. Not valuable.
13. Heavenly.
15. Glow.
16. Shocking.
Down
1. Confident and cool.
2. Bribery.
3. Disagree, decline.
4. Rude and off the topic.
5. Tiny.
8. Barely noticeable. (Although if you were 3A, you might notice.)
9. Match up.
12. Win.
14. Obsess over.