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Chapter 8 When the Going Gets Tough

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intricate; complex. (ie. The directions were so ______ that we drove all around the city and got lost.)
difficult to comprehend. (ie. The writing on the walls of the crypt was so ______; none of the scientists understood it.)
having no useful purpose; pointless. (ie. It is _____ to try to explain the difference between right and wrong to your pet.)
to slow the progress of. (ie. The retreating army constructed barbed-wire fences and destroyed bridges to _______ the advance of the enemy.)
(adj.) relatively unknown; (v.) to conceal or make indistinct. (ie. Scott constantly makes references to _______ cult films, and no one ever gets his jokes.; The man in front of me was so tall that his head _______ my view of the movie.)
a state of uncertainty or perplexity. (ie. Ann was in a _______ because she had no soap with which to do her laundry.)

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