Crossword puzzle : Advanced false friends in English

Think you know English vocabulary? Think again! This crossword challenges you with advanced false friends — words that look or sound deceptively similar across languages but carry entirely different meanings. Designed for C1 learners, this puzzle will sharpen your awareness of subtle lexical traps and help you avoid the most misleading pitfalls in sophisticated English usage.

Horizontalement

1. 1. Not correct or mistaken
2. 2. to act as if something is true
3. 5. to refuse to take notice of
4. 7. happening at some later time
5. 9. a family member by blood or marriage
6. 11. a particular time or event
7. 15. to give support or help to someone
8. 16. act of traveling from place to place
9. 17. Not true, opposite of true

Verticalement

1. 1. Question word for place
2. 1. Asking about place or location
3. 2. to keep something safe from harm
4. 3. modal showing ability or possibility
5. 3. Past form of can in reporting
6. 4. an insistent and peremptory request
7. 6. willing to give more than expected
8. 8. in reality, not as expected
9. 10. educational talk to an audience
10. 12. cloth or woven material
11. 13. Before all others in order
12. 14. Continuing up to a point in time
13. 14. Continuing until now
14. 15. In a higher position