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Oryx and Crake
- Also — in some corner of himself he could not quite acknowledge — for his real, strange, insufficient, miserable mother.†
p. 67.7 *insufficient = 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.
- He wanted to be himself, alone, unique, self-created and self-sufficient.†
p. 176.2sufficient = adequate (enough -- often without being more than is needed)