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 burgdorferi, characterized by fever, headache, and a distinctive rash. Related: tick-borne disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, tick fever.
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