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Polygons’ Vocabulary Criss Cross
Across
Down
1. A real stick-in-the-mud (to an old fogey) OR a rhombus with 4 right angles
5. A pirate’s lament when his parrot flies away OR a closed plane figure formed by 3 or more
segments intersecting only at their endpoints
6. The parallel sides of a trapezoid
7. The guys that fix ‘vers’ OR the common endpoint of two sides of a polygon
9. What happens to ocean-side decks during hurricanes OR a 10 sided polygon
13. You know what these are – between your body and your feet OR the nonparallel sides of a
trapezoid
15. A trapezoid with congruent legs
18. A pirate’s lament when his regular parrot flies away OR a polygon that is both equilateral and
equiangular
2. A quadrilateral with 4 right angles
3. Degenerate angles? Maybe OR 2 consecutive angles whose common side is a base
4. The feeling you have after encountering a con-man OR the opposite of concave
8. A quadrilateral with 4 congruent sides
10. A quadrilateral with 2 pairs of parallel sides
11. A football play where the ball is passed to the side 4 times OR a 4 sided polygon
12. A fraudulent check cashing scheme OR a quadrilateral with exactly 2 pair of congruent consecutive
sides
14. Homer Simpson’s exclamation of surprise when he realized what happened to his deck during the
tornado OR a 12 sided polygon
16. A polygon with a cave? describes a polygon where at least one diagonal contains exterior points
17. A segment connecting any two non-consecutive vertices of a polygon
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Vocab for Polygon Criss Cross Generation
IsoscelesTrapezoid - A trapezoid with congruent legs
RegularPolygon - A pirate’s lament when his regular parrot flies away OR a polygon that is both equilateral and equiangular
Decagon - What happened to ocean-side decks during Hurricane Katrina OR a 10 sided polygon
Dodecagon - An exclamation of surprise when you realize what happened to your deck during Hurricane Katrina OR a 12 sided polygon
Vertex - The guys that fix vers OR the common endpoint of two sides of a polygon
Diagonal - A segment connecting any two non-consecutive vertices of a polygon
Convex - The feeling you have after encountering a con-man OR the opposite of concave
Rectangle - A quadrilateral with 4 right angles
Rhombus - A quadrilateral with 4 congruent sides
Square - A real stick-in-the-mud to an old fogey OR a rhombus with 4 right angles
Kite - A fraudulent check cashing scheme OR a quadrilateral with exactly 2 pair of congruent consecutive sides
Legs - You know what these are – between your body and your feet OR the nonparallel sides of a trapezoid
Bases - The parallel sides of a trapezoid
Baseangles - Degenerate angles? Maybe OR 2 consecutive angles whose common side is a base
Polygon - A pirate’s lament when his parrot flies away OR a closed plane figure formed by 3 or more segments intersecting only at their endpoints
Quadrilateral - A football play where the ball is passed to the side 4 times OR a 4 sided polygon
Concave - A polygon with a cave? describes a polygon where at least one diagonal contains exterior points
Parallelogram - a quadrilateral with 2 pairs of parallel sides