| affect | (noun) the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion | - |
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| (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
| (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
| (verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
| aftereffect | (noun) any result that follows its cause after an interval | - |
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| (noun) a delayed effect of a drug or therapy | - |
| confect | (noun) a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts | Synonyms: candy |
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| (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: comfit, confection |
| (verb) make or construct | - |
| defect | (noun) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) | Synonyms: blemish, mar |
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| (noun) a failing or deficiency | Synonyms: shortcoming |
| (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: fault, flaw |
| (noun) an imperfection in a bodily system | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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| effect | (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: impression |
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| (noun) (of a law) having legal validity | Synonyms: force |
| (noun) an impression (especially one that is artificial or contrived) | - |
| (noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, essence, gist |
| (noun) a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon | Synonyms: consequence, event, issue, outcome, result, upshot |
| (noun) a symptom caused by an illness or a drug | - |
| (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| imperfect | (adjective) not perfect; defective or inadequate | - |
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| (adjective) wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings | Synonyms: fallible, frail, weak |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense |
| infect | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: taint |
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| (verb) communicate a disease to | - |
| (verb) affect in a contagious way | - |
| (verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology | - |
| perfect | (adjective) being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish | - |
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| (adjective) precisely accurate or exact | - |
| (adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers | Synonyms: arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thorough, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter |
| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense |
| (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
| pluperfect | (adjective) more than perfect | - |
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| (noun) a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past | Synonyms: past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect tense |
| prefect | (noun) a chief officer or chief magistrate | - |
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| superinfect | (verb) infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms | - |
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