that happens to me all the time. I find Connections very frustrating, because I find connections that they don't agree with, and don't understand the connections they chose.

Spoiler Alert:

The answers are all bugs, with a random letter at the beginning. Weak. They sometimes do that, where the answer isn't words that have a connected meaning, but words that all share the same pattern of letters, like sports teams without the final letter, like REDs, or types of drinks with an extra letter at the end, like TEAm

Connections drive me crazy some days.

sMITE, sTICK, pANT, bLOUSE

All words are an insect with a letter on the beginning making it a new word.

Aaah . . . thank you!