Unit 34

Question 1

Florid

Answer 1

(adj) ruddy; reddish; flowery
e. g. As he grew older, the novelist eschewed the florid, ostentatious style of his youth in favor of a more direct and sparse style.

Question 2

Flourish

Answer 2

(n) an embellishment or ornamentation

e. g. The Sophists often gave interminable speeches full of rhetorical flourishes.

Question 3

Flout

Answer 3

(v) to treat scornfully

e. g. These same companies still flout basic ethical practices.

Question 4

Flux

Answer 4

(n) flowing; a continuous moving

e. g. In some cultures time is conceptualized as a flux moving in one direction.

Question 5

Foment

Answer 5

(v) to incite; arouse

e. g. The government accused the newspaper of fomenting unrest in the country.

Question 6

Forbearance

Answer 6

(n) patience
e. g. The president warned that great courage and forbearance would be required to see the war through to a successful conclusion.

Question 7

Forestall

Answer 7

(v) to prevent; delay

e. g. The government took steps to forestall an economic downturn by increasing government spending.

Question 8

Formidable

Answer 8

(adj) menacing; threatening

e. g. By the end of nineteenth century the United States had become a formidable economic and military power.

Question 9

Forswear

Answer 9

(v) renounce; repudiate (انکار کردن)

e. g. He would never forswear the religion of his people.

Question 10

Founder

Answer 10

(v) to sink; fail; collapse

e. g. The talks foundered on the issue of reform.