The root word fic meaning âmakeâ is a very productive root in English and you should make yourself comfortable with it. purification: process of âmakingâ pure certification: act of âmakingâ sure
bent 1. (bÄnt) v. Past tense and past participle of bend1. adj. 1. Altered from an originally straight or even condition: picked up pieces of bent wire. 2. Determined to take a course of action: I was bent on going to the concert.
bent (comparative benter or more bent, superlative bentest or most bent) ( 1 Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented. ( 2 derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Homosexual. 3  Determined or insistent. He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.  Of a person, leading a life of crime.