Vocabulary - escalate, magnitude, anguish, cult, sinuous, suppress, exuberant, indulge, luminous, manifest, haphazard
  1. Our previous president didn't understand the ____________ of the problem of global warming.
  2. Recent studies have concluded that cough _________________(ants) don't really work.
  3. The people of the Community think they have created a utopia, but to us it looks more like some sort of __________.
  4. On the last day of school, the kids ran ____________(ly) through the halls screaming happily.
  5. Her approach to teaching was rather _________________; a little of this, a little of that, and not much organization.
  6. Grandparents like to _______________ their grandkids, spoling them with candy and suchlike.
  7.  Just for a minute, the ghost of Colonel Saunders ___________(ed) itself at the top of the stairs. Then it was gone.
  8. After the second offense the punishment _____________(s) from a chastisement to use of the discipline wand.
  9. The candle inside the pumpkin made it ______________.
  10. The people of the Community have never experienced real pain or ____________.
  11. The road wound ______________(ly) through the rainforest, with twists and turns everywhere.

 

Across 
3. The size or importance of something. (M)
7. To end or stop or hold back. (S)
8. Extreme suffering or pain. (A)
9. Increase or make more severe. (E)
10. To allow a special pleasure.  (I)

Down 
1. A small, extreme religious group.  (C)
2. Snaky or winding. (S)
4. Lively, happy, energetic. (E)
5. Random, scattered. (H)
6. Filled with light, glowing. (L)

One word not used: To show clearly (M)