With simplex words things can not be broken down further into smaller meaningful parts. While with complex the word can be broken down into smaller parts. So a simplex word only has one constituent and a complex has more than one. For the words provided it can go either way as the five words have the unit word ‘for’ and the second part as a meaningful word. So I would say the words are complex as I can see ‘for’ being its own separate meaning pre word. Now I do not know what ‘for’ would possibly mean but it makes sense on the surface. But since I do not know what it means I can see it also being simplex. As even though they all have the same ‘for’ unit word it could just be a  coincidence and simply mean nothing more to it. But since i think i need to choose either simplex or complex id be leaning more for complex as it seems like the more upfront gut choice.

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