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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

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

6. 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)