SAT- F Flashcards

(79 cards)

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Fabricated

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constructed, invented

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Facade

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front, superficial appearance

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Facetious

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witty, humorous

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Facile

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easily accomplished, seeming to lack sincerity or depth, arrived at without due effort

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Factual

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real

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Fallacious

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tending to deceive or mislead, based on a fallacy

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Fallow

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uncultivated, unused

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Falsify

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misrepresent, state untruthfully

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Fanatical

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acting excesssively enthusiastic, filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion

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Fanfare

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a showy public display

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Fastidious

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careful with details

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Fathom

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penetrate the meaning of

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Fatuous

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stupid, foolishly self-satisfied

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Favoritism

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partiality to one side

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Fawn

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to grovel

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Febrile

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feverish, marked by intense emotion or activity

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Feckless

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ineffective, worthless

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Fecund

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fertile, fruitful, productive

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Feign

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to pretend, to give a false appearance of

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Felicitous

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suitable, appropriate, well spoken

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Feral

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suggestive of a wild beast, not domesticated

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Fertile

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highly productive, prolific

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Fervid

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passionate, intense, zealous

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Fetid

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foul-smelling, putrid

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Fetter
to bind, chain, confine
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Fickle
erratically unstable about affections
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Fictive
fictional, relating to imaginative creation
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Fidelity
loyalty, faithfulness
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Figurative
symbolic
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Filibuster
to use obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speech making, in order to delay something
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Finite
having bounds
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Firebrand
one who stirs up trouble
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Fission
process of splitting into two parts
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Fitful
intermittent, lacking steadiness, characterized by irregular bursts of activity
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Flabbergast
astound
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Flaccid
limp, flabby, weak
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Flag
to decline in vigor, strength, or interest
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Flagrant
outrageous, shameless
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Flank
to put on the sides of
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Flaunt
to show off
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Flaw
imperfection, defect
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Flee
run away from
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Flippancy
casualness, inappropriate pertness
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Flippant
marked by disrespectful lighthearted-ness or casualness
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Florid
gaudy, extremely ornate, ruddy, flushed
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Flourish
prosper, thrive
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Flout
to scorn, to disregard with contempt
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Fodder
raw material, as for artistic creation, readily abundant ideas or images
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Foible
minor weakness or character flaw
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Foil
something used to contrast withs omething else
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Foment
abet
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Forbearance
patience, restraint, leniency
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Ford
to cross a body of water by wading
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Forego
to precede, to go ahead of
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Foreshadow
to indicate beforehand
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Forge
to advance gradually but steadily
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Forgery
something counterfeit or fraudulent, pertaining to a document
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Forgo
to do without, to abstain from
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Forlorn
dreary, deserted, unhappy
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Formidable
fearsome, daunting, tending to inspire awe or wonder
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Forswear
to repudiate, renounce, disclaim, reject
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Forte
strong point, something a person does well
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Fortitude
strength of mind that allows one to encounter adversity with courage
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Fortuitous
by chance, especially by favorable chance
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Forum
public place for discussion, a public discussion
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Founder
to fall helplessly, to sink
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Fracas
noisy dispute
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Fractious
unruly, rebellious
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Fraud
deception, hoax
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Frenetic
frantic, frenzied
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Frivolous
pretty, trivial
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Frolicsome
frisky, playful
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Frugal
thrifty, cheap
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Frugality
tending to be thrifty or cheap
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Fulsome
abundant, flatttering in an insincere way
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Fundamental
basic, essential
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Furlough
a leave of absence, especially granted to soldier or a prisoner
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Furtive
sly, with hidden motives
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Futile
useless, hopeless