SAT vocabs/roots/suffix

Disorienting

confusing and making it hard to understand or find your bearings. Confusing/bewildered

tenuous

Lacking substance, wearing or not convincing

Repudiates

Refuse to accept, rejecting something as untrue

Recants

withdraws a previously held belief

innocuous

Mild, not harmful

verisimilitude

Having appearance of truth

veri-

True: verify, verdict, verisimilitude

-simil

Similar, alike: similar, simulate, assimilate

Paucity

Lack of, scarcity

pauc-

Few or little: paucity

Profusion

A lot of, abundance

Pro-

Forward, front: project, proceed

Fus-

To pour: infuse, diffusion, fuse

Buttress

To support or strengthen

reciprocate

To respond to an action by doing the same in return

Recipr-

Moving back and forth or returning in turn: reciprocal, reciprocity