List 13 definitions Flashcards

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false; misleading

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fallacious

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difficult to please

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fastidious

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strong passion

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fervor

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lacking loyalty; unpredictable changeable; erratic

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fickle

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lacking firmness; soft; limp

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flaccid

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openly and obviously evil; glaring; conspicuous

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flagrant

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beginner

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fledgling

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treating a serious situation with arrogant humor or disrespect

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flippancy

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to stir into action; rouse; incite

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foment

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the ability to see ahead, anticipate, or predict

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foresight

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careful with money; thrifty

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frugal

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to explode, either with sound or anger

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fulminate

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sneaky; secretive

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furtive

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hopelessly ineffective; useless; in vain

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futile

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changed so much that the original meaning has been distorted; scrambled

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garbled

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