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Ready to put your emotional vocabulary to the test? This crossword challenges you to explore the rich and nuanced language English offers for expressing complex feelings, from subtle unease to profound inner conflict. Whether you’re describing ambivalence, yearning, or existential dread, these clues will push your C1 lexical range to its limits. Good luck!
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Clues
Across
- 1. Later in time than another event
- 3. Before all others in order
- 7. Angry and resentful feeling
- 9. Feeling deep regret for past actions
- 10. Anxiety or fear about future events
- 12. Excitement about a future event
- 14. Feeling buried under too much emotion
- 16. Mixed pleasure and sadness together
- 17. In front or forward
Down
- 2. To believe or consider something
- 4. The number 3
- 5. Calm and peaceful emotional state
- 6. Past form of can used in backshift
- 8. Feeling of isolation and solitude
- 11. Feeling anxious or uncomfortable
- 13. In that place
- 15. Question word for place
Answers
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Across
- 1. Later in time than another event → after
- 3. Before all others in order → first
- 7. Angry and resentful feeling → bitter
- 9. Feeling deep regret for past actions → remorseful
- 10. Anxiety or fear about future events → apprehension
- 12. Excitement about a future event → anticipation
- 14. Feeling buried under too much emotion → overwhelmed
- 16. Mixed pleasure and sadness together → bittersweet
- 17. In front or forward → ahead
Down
- 2. To believe or consider something → think
- 4. The number 3 → three
- 5. Calm and peaceful emotional state → serene
- 6. Past form of can used in backshift → could
- 8. Feeling of isolation and solitude → loneliness
- 11. Feeling anxious or uncomfortable → uneasy
- 13. In that place → there
- 15. Question word for place → where
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