A | B |
INTRICATE | having many parts arranged in a complicated way;complex |
SUFFICE | to be good enough |
DEGENERATE | to worsen; deteriorate |
SANCTUARY | a place of safety, protection, or relief |
INTERCEDE | to make a request or plead on behalf of someone else |
VULNERABLE | open to damage or attack; susceptible |
IMPLAUSIBLE | difficult to believe; unlikely |
SINISTER | evil;wicked |
SCRUTINY | close inspection; careful examination |
INCOHERENT | unable to speak in an orderly, logical way |
QUALM | an uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is |
GARBLE | to mix up or confuse (as a story or message); scramble |
GLOAT | to feel or express delight or self-satisfaction, often spitefully |
BLIGHT | something that weakens, damages, or destroys |
PLAGIARISM | using someone else's writings or ideas as one's own |
CONTRIVE | to plan cleverly; think up |
RETALIATE | to return an injury for an injury; pay back |
BLATANT | very obvious, often offensively so |
IMMACULATE | perfectly clean |
GAUNT | thin and bony |
FLEX, FLECT | bend |
SEMI- | partly; half |
BIO- | life;of living things |
PATER, PATRI- | father |
-ATE | cause to become |
-WARD | in the direction of; toward |
CLAIM, CLAM | call;cry out |
FORC, FORT | strong |
HUM | person, having to do with people |
FIN | end |