Each group contains words which are close in meaning. If you do not know how the words differ from each other, look them up in a dictionary with usage examples (click here for my links page for links to some online dictionaries and thesauri). To improve your writing, you might try making a sentence with each word.
weak, feeble, fragile, flimsy, faint, wilted, sickly, exhausted, wasted, tender, delicate, frail
strong, vigorous, powerful, mighty, muscular, hardy, virile, robust, healthy, sturdy, well-built
beautiful, gorgeous, exquisite, stunning, fabulous, elegant, handsome, good-looking, fine, pretty, comely, well-proportioned, attractive, dazzling, magnificent
ugly, homely, grotesque, monstrous, horrid, frightful, coarse
straight, aligned, direct, even, unswerving, to-the-point
bent, contorted, twisted, winding, curling, convoluted, serpentine, circuitous, tortured, meandering, wandering, kinky, kinked, distorted
perfect, flawless, well-designed, shapely, well-proportioned, balanced
imperfect, flawed, poorly-designed, malformed, deformed, misshapen, unbalanced
whole, complete, integral, entire, total, full, undivided, united
partial, broken, fragmentary, divided, incomplete, unfinished, defective, insufficient, deficient, wanting
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