Verbs in Simple Present

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Job or effort to get something done (4)
  2. 4. A state of inaction (4)
  3. 5. To enter or assume a certain state or condition (6)
  4. 8. The fact of being aware of information that is ___ to few people (4)
  5. 9. The act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining (4)
  6. 11. To make sense of a language (10)
  7. 13. To bestow a quality on (4)
  8. 14. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something (3)

Down

  1. 1. To fail to keep or to maintain (4)
  2. 3. A crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other (5)
  3. 5. To accept as true (7)
  4. 6. Free from dirt (5)
  5. 7. To assemble without order or sense (7)
  6. 10. The act of ___ something (5)
  7. 12. To move through water (4)
  8. 13. A narrative song with a recurrent refrain (3)