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.) |