High School Vocabulary 4

High School Vocabulary Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.
Your words are; boisterous, formidable, maneuver, rainforest, filibuster, photosynthesis, boycott, gargoyle, metaphor, random, gerrymander, plagiarize, camouflage, guerilla, mosaic. recede, hemoglobin, plasma
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Across:

1. The process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy source. Most forms of photosynthesis release oxygen as a byproduct.
3. rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy
5. to go or move away; retreat; go to or toward a more distant point; withdraw.
6. causing fear, apprehension, or dread
7. A dense evergreen forest with an annual rainfall of at least 406 centimeters (160 inches). Rainforests are often, but not always, located in tropical regions.
8. a grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal.
9. Having no specific pattern, purpose, or objective
11. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison
12. the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
13. a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
15. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority.

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1. to take and use ideas, passages, etc., from (another's work)
2. the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells that gives them their red color
3. preventing dealings with, as a means of intimidation or coercion
4. to manipulate or manage with skill or adroitness
8. A member of an irregular, usually indigenous military or paramilitary unit operating in small bands in occupied territory to harass and undermine the enemy
10. U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
14. the act, means, or result of obscuring things to deceive an enemy