List Of Word F

Question 0

Facetious ( fuh SEE shus)

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Adjective
Humorous ; not serious ; clumsily humorous
David was sent to the principal’s office for making a facetious remark about the intelligence of the French teacher.

Question 1

Fabrication ( FAB ruh kay shun)

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Noun

A lie; something made up

Question 2

Facile ( FAS il)

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Adjective
Fluent ; skillful in a superficial way ; easy
Paola’s poems were facile rather than truly accomplished.

Question 3

Faction ( FAK shun)

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Noun
A group, usually a small part of a larger group, United around some cause ; disagreement within an organization
The faculty was relatively happy, but there was a faction that called for higher pay

Question 4

Farcical ( FARS i Kul)

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Adjective
Absurd ; ludicrous
The serious play quickly turned farcical when the leading man’s belt broke and his pants fell to his ankles

Question 5

Fastidious ( fa STID ee us)

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Adjective
Meticulous; demanding ; finicky
Jeb was so fastidious in his work habits that he needed neither a wastebasket nor an eraser

Question 6

Fatalist ( FAYT uh list)

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Noun
Someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them
A fatalist is someone who believes that fate determines everything

Question 7

Fatuous ( FACH oo us

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Adjective
Foolish ; silly ; idiotic
Pauline is so pretty that her suitors are often driven to fatuous acts of devotion . They are infatuated with her

Question 8

Fauna ( FAW nuh)

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Noun

Animals

Question 9

Fecund ( FEE kund)

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Adjective
Fertile ; productive
The fecund mother rabbit gave birth to hundreds of babies.

Question 10

Felicity ( fuh LIS uh tee)

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Noun

Happiness m, skillfulness, especially at expressing things; adeptness

Question 11

Fervor ( FUR vur)

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Noun
Great warmth or earnestness , ardor ; zeal
Fervor for the game

Question 12

Fetter ( FET ur)

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Verb
To restrain; to hamper
In his pursuit of the Nobel Prize for Physics, Professor Jenkins was fettered by his near total ignorant of the subject

Question 13

Fidelity ( fuh DEL uh tee)

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Noun

Faithfulness; loyalty

Question 14

Figurative ( FIG yur uh tiv)

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Adjective

Based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms used for something else ; metaphorical

Question 15

Finesse ( fi NES)

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Noun
Skillful maneuvering; subtlety ; craftiness
The boxer moved with such finesse that his opponent never knew what hit him

Question 16

Flagrant ( FLAY grunt)

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Adjective
Glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous
Flagrant spelling mistake

Question 17

Flaunt ( flawnt)

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Verb
To show off; to display ostentatiously
The brand new millionaire annoyed all his friends by driving around his old neighborhood to flaunt his new rolls Royce

Question 18

Flout ( flowt)

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V
To disregard something out of disrespect
A driver flouts the traffic laws by driving through red lights and knocking down pedestrians

Question 19

Foible ( FOY bul)

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Noun
A minor character flaw
Patti’s foible included a tendency to prefer dogs to people

Question 20

Foment ( foh MENT)

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V
To stir up; to instigate
The bad news from abroad fomented pessimism among professional investors

Question 21

Forebear ( for BAYR)

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Verb
To refrain from; to abstain
George forbid to punch me in the nose, even though I had told him that I thought he was a sniveling idiot.
A forebear - sometimes also spelled forbear is an ancestor

Question 22

Forgo ( for GOH)

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V
To do without; to forebear
Can be spelled forgo

Question 23

Forsake ( for SAYK)

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Verb
To abandon ; to renounce ; to relinquish
We urged Buddy to forsake his life with the alien beings and return to his job at the drugstore.

Question 24

Fortuitous (for TOO uh tus)

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Adjective
Accidental; occurring by chance
The object was so perfectly formed that its creation could not have been fortuitous
Fortuitous is often misused to mean lucky or serendipitous. Don’t make that same mistake. It means merely accidental.

Question 25

Founder ( FOWN dur)

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Verb
To fail; to collapse; to sink
The candidate’s campaign for the presidency foundered when it was revealed that he had once been married to a drug addict.
Don’t confuse this word with flounder; which means to move clumsily or in confusion

Question 26

Fraternal ( fur TUR nul)

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Adjective
Like brothers
The fraternal feelings of the group were strengthened by the monthly fishing trips that were planned.

Question 27

Frenetic ( fruh NET ik)

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Adjective
Frantic; frenzied
There was a lot of frenetic activity in the office, but nothing ever seemed to get accomplished

Question 28

Frugal ( FROO gul)

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Adjective
Economical ; penny pinching
Zahra is frugal.

Question 29

Furtive ( FUR tiv)

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Adjective
Secretive ; sly
Cal wiggled his ears while the countess was talking to him in a furtive attempt to catch our attention

Question 30

Futile ( FYOOT ul)

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Adjective

Useless; hopeless