24 6 Flashcards

(50 cards)

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fabrication

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something made up

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facetious

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not serious; clumsily humorous

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facile

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skillful in a superficial way; easy

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faction

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a group usually a small part of a larger group united around some cause; disagreement within an organization

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5
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farcical

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absurd; ludicrous

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fastidious

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meticulous; demanding

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fatalist

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someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them

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fatuous

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foolish; silly; idiotic ;

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fauna

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animals ; flora animal

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fecund

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Adj fertile; productive

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felicity

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N happiness; skillfulness especially at expressing things; adeptness

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fervor

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N great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal ardor

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fetter

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V to restrain; to hamper

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fidelity

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N faithfulness; loyalty

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figurative

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Adj based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually for something else; metaphorical

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finesse

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impressive skill

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flagrant

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Adj glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous

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flaunt

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V show off; to display ostentatiously

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flout

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V to disregard something out of disrespect

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20
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foible

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N a minor character flaw

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foment

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V to stir up; to instigate

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forbear

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v to refrain from ; to abstain

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forgo

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v to do without ; to forbear

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forsake

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v to abandon ; to renounce ; to relinquish

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fortuitous
a accidental ; occurring by chance
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founder
v to fail ; to collapse ; to sink
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fraternal
a like brothers
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frenetic
a frantic ; frenzied
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frugal
a economical ; penny-pinching
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furtive
a secretive ; sly
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futile
a useless ; hopeless ;
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garrulous
a talkative; chatty
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genre
n a type or category especially of art or writing
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genteel
a refined ; polite ; aristocratic ; affecting refinement
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gesticulate
v to make gestures especially when speaking or in place of speaking
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glut
n surplus ; an overabundance
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grandiloquent
a pompous ; using a lot of big fancy words in an attempt to sound impressive
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grandiose
a absurdly exaggerated
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gratuitous
a given freely said of something bad ; unjustified ; unprovoked ; uncalled for
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gravity
n seriousness
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gregarious
a sociable ; enjoying the company of others
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guile
n cunning ; duplicity ; artfulness
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hackneyed
a overused ; trite ; stale
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hapless
a unlucky unlucky
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harbinger
n a forerunner ; a signal of ;
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hedonism
n the pursuit of pleasure as a way of life
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hegemony
n leadership especially of one nation over another
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heresy
n any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs
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hermetic
a impervious to external influence ; airtight
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heyday
n golden age ; prime prime