Words ending in -ism

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural (9)
  2. 7. Doctrine that the useful is the good (14)
  3. 8. The business of providing services to ___ (7)
  4. 9. The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (10)
  5. 11. Division of a group into opposing factions (6)
  6. 12. A political theory advocating state ownership of industry (9)
  7. 13. A polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces and whose lateral faces are parallelograms (5)
  8. 14. The atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction (9)

Down

  1. 1. A 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe (14)
  2. 2. A non-doctrinal religion that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity (12)
  3. 3. A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (7)
  4. 5. A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership (9)
  5. 6. A religion represented by the many groups that profess various forms of the ___ doctrine (8)
  6. 8. An obvious truth (6)
  7. 9. The doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value (10)
  8. 10. A revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake (8)