Enhance your vocabulary with this easy college-level crossword focusing on adjectives describing records and extremes. Perfect for students exploring descriptive language about superlatives and comparisons.
Esoteric Adjectives and Cryptic Nuances is a hard crossword puzzle with 16 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Esoteric Adjectives and Cryptic Nuances
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- 1. Darkly mournful, like a Victorian funeral dirge
- 2. Smoothly flowing, sweetly musical to the ear
- 3. Habitually penniless, from Latin roots of poverty
- 4. Hidden knowledge only few understand, deeply abstruse
- 5. Marked by diligent perseverance, meticulously careful
- 6. Optimistically red or hopeful despite adversity
- 11. Existence like a mythical hybrid creature, fancifully unreal
- 15. Marked by betrayal or faithlessness, in espionage terms
- 16. Excessive in quantity, medically describing fullness
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- 7. Glowing brightly as if heated white by intense light
- 8. Using few words, tersely succinct like a Spartan
- 9. Subtly treacherous, advancing with harmful intent
- 10. Rendered obscure as if in a linguistic fog
- 12. Dark and gloomy, like a shadowed Gothic cathedral
- 13. Given to harsh condemnation and bitter invective
- 14. Of doubtful authenticity, akin to spurious ancient texts
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