virulent – adj. Definition: Extremely poisonous; hateful Example: The venom of the copperhead is virulent and can kill you within a few minutes.

Contemptuous - adj. Definition: Disrespectful; regarding someone or something as inferior. Example: Sadly, in our country’s history, white people were contemptuous toward black people and wouldn’t allow them the same rights and privileges.

enigma - noun Definition: A mystery; a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation. Example: Even though I once was a teenager, they are enigmas to me now; I sometimes cannot understand what goes through their minds.

labyrinth - noun Definition: Complicated; perplexing; a maze Example: We got lost in the haunted house; it was a complex labyrinth.

analogy - noun likeness of one thing to another, similarity Example: Graceful is to clumsy as late is to early.

Affixes Prefix: post Definition: behind, after, later, subsequent to Examples: postscript, postgraduate, postoperative Suffix: -en Definition: cause to be, become, cause to have (forms verbs); of, made of, resembling (forms adjectives) Examples: blacken, heighten (verbs); ashen, earthen, wooden (adjectives)