## Exercise VII

### Crossword

Complete the crossword, then click on "Check" to check your answer. If you are stuck, you can click on "Hint" to get a free letter. Click on a number in the grid to see the clue or clues for that number.

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### Across:

3. | A regular activity performed in exchange for payment (fee), especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.
7. | A statement about a person's qualifications, character, and dependability from a person who is in a position to recommend another or to vouch for his or her fitness, as for a job.
9. | To discharge from a position; dismiss; to deprive smb. of his/her post; to make anybody unemployed.
10. | A list of employees receiving wages or salaries, with the amounts due to each.
13. | To determine the value, significance of anything to decide if you need it or not.
14. | A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
15. | A peculiarity of behavior; an unpredictable or unaccountable act or event that can confuse anybody who is unaware of it.
16. | Inadequate for or unsuited to a particular purpose or application; not qualified

### Down:

1. | To fail to take advantage of or use for profit; lose; to use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly.
2. | A medium that can be exchanged for goods and services and is used as a measure of their values on the market, including among its forms a commodity such as gold, an officially issued coin or note, or a deposit in a checking account or other readily liquifiable account; the official currency, coins, and negotiable paper notes issued by a government.
3. | To correspond to/with smth.
4. | To engage the (regular) services of (a person) for a fee.
5. | Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that is acquired or developed through training or experience.
6. | To cause the destruction of in or as if in a collision.
8. | A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking; a task (goal) that must be achieved.
11. | To be undecided or skeptical about smth; not to be able to make a decision for any of several reasons.
12. | A recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behavior that is acquired through frequent repetition.