Vocab Unit 7 Flashcards

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Famished

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Extremely hungry

Starved

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Fallow

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Cultivated land that isn’t seeding for one or more growing seasons; undeveloped but potentially useful; left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season

Dormant

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Fastidious

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Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; having complicated nutritional requirements, especially growing in special artificial cultures

Meticulous

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Fathom

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Understanding and comprehension, unit of length equal to six cubic feet, to penetrate the meaning or nature of

Grasp

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Fertile

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Capable of reproducing; marked by great fruitfulness; bearing in abundance, especially offspring intellectually productive

Bountiful

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Fidelity

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The quality of being faithful

Devotion

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Flourish

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To grow stronger, move or swing back and forth, gain in wealth

Prosper

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7
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Foible

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A behavioral attribute that is distinct and peculiar to an individual

Mannerism

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Foster

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Help develop and grow

Promote

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9
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Fraudulent

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Intend to deceive

Deceitful

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Frugal

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Avoiding waste; spendthrift

Conserving

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Fruitful

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Production or conductive to producing in abundance; productive of profit

Beneficial

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Fruitless

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Unproductive of success

Gainless

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Furtive

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Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; secret and sly or sordid

Secretive

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Futile

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Producing no result or effect; unproductive of success

Pointless

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Garner

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(Verb) store grain; assemble or get together; acquire or deserve by one’s efforts or actions
(Noun) storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed

Accumulate

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Gaudy

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Marked by conspicuous display, tastelessly showy

Flaunting

17
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Generic

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(Noun) any product that can be sold without a brand name
(Adj) applicable to an entire class or group

Common

18
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Genre

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A class of art having a characteristic form or technique; a kind of literary or artistic work

Category

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Germane

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Relevant or appropriate

Applicable