F-G Flashcards
forbear
can you forbear from drinking? refrain from, abstain from, desist from, keep from, restrain oneself from, stop oneself from, hold back from, withhold from; resist the temptation to (be); eschew, avoid, decline to (be). ANTONYMS persist.
fore
adjective [ attrib. ]
situated or placed in front: the fore and hind pairs of wings.
noun
the front part of something, esp. a ship.
forensic
scientific tests or techniques used in connection with the detection of crime.
foreshadow
those things that foreshadow war are sadly upon us: signal, indicate, signify, mean, be a sign of, suggest, herald, be a harbinger of, warn of, portend, prefigure, presage, promise, point to, anticipate; informal spell; literary forebode, foretoken, betoken, adumbrate; archaic foreshow.
formidable
intimidating, forbidding, daunting, disturbing, alarming, frightening, disquieting, brooding, awesome, fearsome, ominous, foreboding, sinister, menacing, threatening, dangerous. ANTONYMS pleasant-looking, comforting.
foster
1 he fostered the arts: encourage, promote, further, stimulate, advance, forward, cultivate, nurture, strengthen, enrich; help, aid, abet, assist, contribute to, support, back, be a patron of. ANTONYMS neglect, suppress.
2 they started fostering children: bring up, rear, raise, care for, take care of, look after, nurture, provide for; mother, parent.
fresco
a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries.
• this method of painting, used in Roman times and by the great masters of the Italian Renaissance including Giotto, Masaccio, and Michelangelo.
fritter
he frittered away his inheritance: squander, waste, misuse, misspend, dissipate; overspend, spend like water, be prodigal with, run through, get through; informal blow, splurge, pour/throw down the drain. ANTONYMS save.
fulsome
adjective
1 complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree: they are almost embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation.
2 of large size or quantity; generous or abundant: a fulsome harvest.
fume
noun (fumes)
1 a fire giving off toxic fumes: smoke, vapor, gas, effluvium; exhaust; pollution.
2 stale wine fumes: smell, odor, stink, reek, stench, fetor, funk; literary miasma.
verb
1 fragments of lava were fuming and sizzling: emit smoke, emit gas, smoke; archaic reek.
2 Elsa was still fuming at his arrogance: be furious, be enraged, be very angry, seethe, be livid, be incensed, boil, be beside oneself, spit; rage, rant and rave; informal be hot under the collar, foam at the mouth, see red.
fumigate
the prisoners’ quarters are fumigated once a month: disinfect, purify, sterilize, sanitize, decontaminate, cleanse, clean out. ANTONYMS soil.
furtive
they met in seedy dives to craft their furtive plans: secretive, secret, surreptitious, clandestine, hidden, covert, conspiratorial, cloak-and-dagger, backroom, backstairs, sly, sneaky, under-the-table;
gabble
talk rapidly and unintelligibly; utter meaningless sounds: he gabbled on in a panicky way until he was dismissed.
noun
rapid, unintelligible talk.
gadfly
a fly that bites livestock, esp. a horsefly, warble fly, or botfly.
• an annoying person, esp. one who provokes others into action by criticism.
garble
the message was garbled in transmission: mix up, muddle, jumble, confuse, obscure, distort, scramble; misstate, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, mistranslate, misinterpret, misconstrue, twist.
garner
Edward garnered ideas from his travels: gather, collect, accumulate, amass, assemble, reap.
garrulous
a garrulous old man: talkative, loquacious, voluble, verbose, chatty, chattering, gossipy;
gasconade
extravagant boasting.
gawky
how can you convince a fourteen-year-old boy that he will not always be so gawky? awkward, ungainly, gangling, maladroit, clumsy, klutzy, inelegant, uncoordinated, graceless, ungraceful; unconfident, unsophisticated. ANTONYMS graceful.
