| 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 |
