Suffixes

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Entailing great loss or sacrifice (6)
  2. 6. Moving through water using your arms and legs (8)
  3. 7. In a dim indistinct manner (5)
  4. 9. To move forward by leaps and bounds (6)
  5. 11. Disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock (6)
  6. 12. To cause to separate and go in different directions (9)
  7. 13. A division of some larger or more complex organization (plural) (8)

Down

  1. 2. For the most time (7)
  2. 3. The process of shedding tears (6)
  3. 4. To move very fast (6)
  4. 5. Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail (plural) (5)
  5. 6. Rushing about hastily in an undignified way (plural) (8)
  6. 8. The act of contacting one thing with another (7)
  7. 10. To accompany or escort (6)