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Additional hints can be found in the Global Glossary and on the following My Word! pages: Child Terms, Toy Terms, School Terms and Discipline Terms.

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October crossword puzzle

Across

1 a penalty for something, punishment
5 a child’s toy, similar to a rattle
8 punishment or reproof
11 a ball to play with
12 literally, anything having to do with school; this word becomes a noun that means teacher
14 a top or a toy that spins around (find the reference to Lavinia’s mom in Vergil who is described as a top in a simile)
15 a slave who accompanied a child to and back from school
16 children (always in the plural)
18 a hoop that a child might play with
19 an actual parent or, more generally, one’s ancestors

Down

2 the Academy, the school where Plato taught in Athens
3 games
4 literally, this word means fennel; it comes to indicate any kind of cane or stick, including those used to punish slaves and children
6 the adoption of a child
7 literally means unable to speak, comes to mean child or infant
8 a school friend, a person one goes to school with.
9 a school teacher
10 this word means punishment, but more specifically it means revenge
13 this word means impunity or that one can avoid being punished for an action
17 boy or child in general

 




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