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Question 1

fabricate

Answer 1

(v.) to make up, invent (When I arrived an hour late to class, I fabricated some
excuse about my car breaking down on the way to school.)

Question 2

façade

Answer 2

1. (n.) the wall of a building (Meet me in front of the museum’s main façade.) 2.
   (n.) a deceptive appearance or attitude (Despite my smiling façade, I am feeling
   melancholy.)

Question 3

facile

Answer 3

1. (adj.) easy, requiring little effort (This game is so facile that even a four-year-
   old can master it.) 2. (adj.) superficial, achieved with minimal thought or care, insincere (The business was in such shambles that any solution seemed facile at best; nothing could really help it in the long-run.)

Question 4

fallacious

Answer 4

(adj.) incorrect, misleading (Emily offered me cigarettes on the fallacious
assumption that I smoked.)

Question 5

fastidious

Answer 5

(adj.) meticulous, demanding, having high and often unattainable standards
(Mark is so fastidious that he is never able to finish a project because it always seems imperfect to him.)

Question 6

fatuous

Answer 6

(adj.) silly, foolish (He considers himself a serious poet, but in truth, he only
writes fatuous limericks.)

Question 7

fecund

Answer 7

(adj.) fruitful, fertile (The fecund tree bore enough apples to last us through the
entire season.)

Question 8

felicitous

Answer 8

1. (adj.) well suited, apt (While his comments were idiotic and rambling, mine
   were felicitous and helpful.) 2. (adj.) delightful, pleasing (I spent a felicitous
   afternoon visiting old friends.)

Question 9

fervent

Answer 9

(adj.) ardent, passionate (The fervent protestors chained themselves to the
building and shouted all night long.)

Question 10

fetid

Answer 10

(adj.) having a foul odor (I can tell from the fetid smell in your refrigerator that
your milk has spoiled.)

Question 11

fetter

Answer 11

(v.) to chain, restrain (The dog was fettered to the parking meter.)

Question 12

fickle

Answer 12

(adj.) shifting in character, inconstant (In Greek dramas, the fickle gods help
Achilles one day, and then harm him the next.)

Question 13

fidelity

Answer 13

(n.) loyalty, devotion (Guard dogs are known for the great fidelity they show
toward their masters.)

Question 14

flaccid

Answer 14

(adj.) limp, not firm or strong (If a plant is not watered enough, its leaves
become droopy and flaccid.)

Question 15

florid

Answer 15

(adj.) flowery, ornate (The writer’s florid prose belongs on a sentimental
Hallmark card.)

Question 16

flout

Answer 16

(v.) to disregard or disobey openly (I flouted the school’s dress code by wearing a
tie-dyed tank top and a pair of cut-off jeans.)

Question 17

forbearance

Answer 17

(n.) patience, restraint, toleration (The doctor showed great forbearance in calming down the angry patient who shouted insults at him.)

Question 18

forestall

Answer 18

(v.) to prevent, thwart, delay (I forestalled the cold I was getting by taking plenty of vitamin C pills and wearing a scarf.)

Question 19

forlorn

Answer 19

(adj.) lonely, abandoned, hopeless (Even though I had the flu, my family
decided to go skiing for the weekend and leave me home alone, feeling feverish and forlorn.)

Question 20

forsake

Answer 20

(v.) to give up, renounce (My New Year’s resolution is to forsake smoking and drinking.)

Question 21

fortuitous

Answer 21

(adj.) happening by chance, often lucky or fortunate (After looking for
Manuel and not finding him at home, Harriet had a fortuitous encounter with him at the post office.)

Question 22

forum

Answer 22

(n.) a medium for lecture or discussion (Some radio talk-shows provide a good
forum for political debate.)

Question 23

foster

Answer 23

(v.) to stimulate, promote, encourage (To foster good health in the city, the mayor started a “Get out and exercise!” campaign.)

Question 24

fraught

Answer 24

(adj.) (usually used with “with”) filled or accompanied with (Her glances in his direction were fraught with meaning, though precisely what meaning remained
unclear.)

Question 25

frenetic

Answer 25

(adj.) frenzied, hectic, frantic (In the hours between night and morning, the frenetic pace of city life slows to a lull.)

Question 26

frivolous

Answer 26

(adj.) of little importance, trifling (Someday, all that anxiety about whether your zit will disappear before the prom will seem totally frivolous.)

Question 27

frugal

Answer 27

(adj.) thrifty, economical (Richard is so frugal that his diet consists almost
exclusively of catfish and chicken liver—the two most inexpensive foods in the
store.)

Question 28

furtive

Answer 28

(adj.) secretive, sly (Jane’s placement of her drugs in her sock drawer was not as furtive as she thought, as the sock drawer is the first place most parents look.)