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Date ___________________

Choose the word that is the most nearly the same in meaning as the list of synonyms. A word should not be used more than once.

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Down 1.   token, speculation, promise, indication, prognostic, sign, token 2.   outfit, rob, dismantle, strip, deny, bare, withhold, disinherit, expropriate, dispossess, refuse, bereave, dismantle, bankrupt, bankrupt 3.   disparage, disallow, incriminate, knock 4.   confirm, promptness, establish, seal 5.   poverty, dearth, scant sufficiency, scarcity 6.   logical, sensible, odd, intellectual, positive, sound, reasonable, impair, prudent

Across 7.   mother wit, insight, feeling, foreboding 8.   ponder, hesitate, dawdle, stammer, topple, trail, scruple, waver, vacillate, wobble 9.   consume, absorb, meal, devastate, sack, gobble, ingest, devastate, pillage, despoil, swallow, ingest, eat 10.   pawn, token payment, undertaking, earnest money 11.   crown, impress, detach, broach 12.   fracture, break, blemish, cleave, fissure, breach, crack, box canyon, scale