All 6 Uses of
sufficient
in
Hunger Games Book #3 (Mockingjay)
- Over the past seventy-five years, they've learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with no help from anyone.†
Chpt 2 *sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)
- Will that be sufficient?†
Chpt 3
- I've been sufficient, if not dazzling.†
Chpt 12
- Unlike 13, the Capitol is not in a position to reinvent itself and become self-sufficient.†
Chpt 16
- Of course, that's insufficient.†
Chpt 26insufficient = not adequate (not enough)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insufficient means not and reverses the meaning of sufficient. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- However, the suffering in the districts has been so extreme that these measures appear insufficient to the victims.†
Chpt 26