Antigone Word Search

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (8)
  2. 7. A period of sleeplessness (5)
  3. 9. To place under suspicion or cast doubt upon (6)
  4. 11. In a pithy ___ manner (13)
  5. 12. Mentally or physically infirm with age (6)
  6. 14. The backward jerk of a gun when it is fired (plural) (7)
  7. 15. Gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease (5)
  8. 16. To be greater in scope or size than some standard (plural) (10)

Down

  1. 1. Righteousness by virtue of being pious (5)
  2. 2. Having the nature of or resulting from ___ (9)
  3. 3. To fill to satisfaction (5)
  4. 5. The act of pausing uncertainly (5)
  5. 6. An intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge (13)
  6. 8. The trait of being rude and impertinent (9)
  7. 10. Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity (6)
  8. 13. An instance of driving away or warding off (7)