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1: exercise
• bleak
2: tiny pieces of stone covering deserts, beaches, riverbeds
• workout
3: shortened form of a word
• conscience
4: landscape or situation lacking anything pleasant or beautiful; ugly
• deteriorate
5: adjective for a person with a strange, or frightening personality or appearance
• drag
6: reveal information to public; leave something uncovered, unprotected
• expose
7: pull something or somebody over the ground or floor
• habitation
8: mixture of earth and water
• harsh
9: official position in an organized hierarchy or an ordered list
• isolated
10: permission to enter a certain area or use a particular resource
• monstrous
11: place where humans live; act of living in such a place
• mud
12: part of mind that judges a person’s own behavior, and creates failings of guilt
• abbreviation
13: furniture, often on wall, holding such things as clothes, guns, etc
• persistent
14: medical operation that involves cutting open patient’s body
• promote
15: far away from other people or places, not connected
• rack
16: adjective; of climate: difficult to survive in; of person: rough, cruel
• rank
17: raise someone to a higher level in organization (business, military, etc)
• sand
18: doing or saying the same thing over and over
• sticky
19: get worse
• surgery
20: substance that adheres to things; glue, adhesive tape, jam etc