Persuasion Word Search
A free Persuasion by Jane Austen (1817) word search you can play straight in the browser. The 12-word list draws on characters, settings, and objects from the book, hidden across a 15×15 grid in every direction. Drag through the letters to mark a word off.
Written by Jane Austen · First published 1817 · Novel of Manners.
Words to find: ANNE, ELLIOT, WENTWORTH, RUSSELL, WESTON, MUSGRAVE, CLAY, DALLRYMPLE, KELLYNCH, UPPERCROSS, BATH, LYME.
Found words stay highlighted, so the grid gets easier to read as you go and the final few tend to fall quickly.
Persuasion word list, defined
- CLAY /kleɪ/ · noun
- A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth, typically a hydrous aluminum silicate, that hardens when dried or fired and is used in pottery, bricks, and sculpture; also, figuratively, the material of the human body. Related: loam, earth, mud, adobe.
- BATH /bɑːθ/ (UK); /bæθ/ (US) · noun
- A container filled with water in which a person washes their body, or the act of washing oneself in such a container. In British English it also denotes the room containing this fixture (what American English calls a bathroom). Related: wash, soak, tub.
- LYME /laɪm/ · noun
- A tick-borne bacterial disease caused by Borrelia bacteria and characterized by symptoms that may include fever, fatigue, headache, and joint or muscle pain. It is usually transmitted to humans through infected blacklegged ticks. Related: borreliosis, tick-borne borreliosis.
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