Here are the answers to fill in your "Night of the Twisters" vocabulary crossword puzzle.
Across
3.
ASPHYXIATE (to suffer from lack of oxygen)
5.
COLOSSAL (extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity)
8.
METEOROLOGIST (person who studies the earth's atmosphere)
9.
SLEET (precipitation in the form of irregular pellets of ice)
12.
MERCHANDISE (manufactured goods bought and sold in any business)
15.
TIMPANI (a drum consisting of a hollow hemisphere)
16.
AUTHENTIC (genuine or real)
17.
MALEVOLENT (wicked or cruel)
18.
BEACON (a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire)
19.
HONORABLENESS (the state or quality of being worthy of honor)
20.
PROBABILITY (a strong likelihood or chance of something)
Down
1.
DEBRIS (broken bits and pieces of anything that is demolished)
2.
JOLT (to shake or tremble suddenly and violently)
4.
DISGUST (to affect with disgust)
6.
GRUFF (husky vocal tone)
7.
CONTOUR (the outline or general shape of something)
10.
CHORTLE (to chuckle gleefully)
11.
VICINITY (the area or region near or about a place)
13.
ANGUISH (deep or intense sorrow or distress)
14.
REBUKE (reprimand harshly)
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