wretched searing amok conspire impervious

wretched

wretch·ed /ˈretʃəd, ˈretʃɪd/ adjective

someone who is wretched is very unhappy or ill, and you feel sorry for them:
- the poor, wretched girl
if you feel wretched, you feel guilty and unhappy because of something bad that you have done:
- Guy felt wretched about it now.
[only before noun] making you feel annoyed or angry:
- Where is that wretched boy?
literary extremely bad or unpleasant SYNmiserable :
- I was shocked to see their wretched living conditions.

sear·ing /ˈsɪərɪŋ $ˈsɪr- / adjective

extremely hot:
- the searing heat of the desert
searing pain is severe and feels like a burn
searing words or attitudes criticize someone or something very strongly:
- Adorno’s searing analysis of mass culture
- Emily felt a searing anger against her father.

a‧mok /əˈmɒk $ əˈmɑːk/ (also amuck) adverb

run amok
- a)to suddenly behave in a very violent and uncontrolled way:
  - Drunken troops ran amok in the town.
- b)to get out of control and cause a lot of problems:
  - an age in which global capitalism has run amok

con‧spire /kənˈspaɪə $ -ˈspaɪr/ ●○○ verb [intransitive]

to secretly plan with someone else to do something illegal → conspiracy
- conspire (with somebody) to do something
  - All six men admitted conspiring to steal cars.
- conspire against
  - There was some evidence that he had been conspiring against the government.
if events conspire to do something, they happen at the same time and make something bad happen
- conspire to do something
  - Pollution and neglect have conspired to ruin the city.
- conspire against
  - Emily felt that everything was conspiring against her.

im‧per‧vi‧ous /ɪmˈpɜːviəs $ -ɜːr-/ adjective [not before noun]

formal not affected or influenced by something and seeming not to notice it
- impervious to
  - His ego was impervious to self-doubt.
technical not allowing anything to enter or pass through:
- impervious volcanic rock
- impervious to
  - materials that are impervious to water