Vocabulary Building Blocks: (8 Down) recti- (COMBINING FORM, PREFIX) Derived from the Latin rectus straight. In the English language rectilinear is defined as: Pertaining to, consisting of, moving in, or bounded by a straight line or lines; straight. The word rectangle is defined as: A parallelogram with all its angles right angles. The word rectangle is derived from two Latin words: rectus straight plus angulus angle.

Did You Know? (10 Down) Olympiad (NOUN) 1. The modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country. Synonym: Olympic Games, Olympics. 2. One of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC, the year the first official list of the winners of the Olympic Games was recorded. For example, the time period between the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece, and the 2008 Summer Olympics held in Beijing, China would be one Olympiad; and the time between the 2000 Summer Games held in Sydney, Australia and the 2008 games in Beijing would be two Olympiads.