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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Flippancy | treating a serious situation with arrogant humor or disrespect |
| Foment | to stir into action; rouse; incite |
| Foresight | the ability to see ahead, anticipate, or predict |
| Frugal | careful with money; thrifty |
| Fulminate | to explode, either with sound or anger |
| Furtive | sneaky; secretive |
| Futile | hopelessly ineffective; useless; in vain |
| Garbled | changed so much that the original meaning has been distorted; scrambled |
| Garish | flashy; gaudy |
| Garner | collect; gather; accumulate; earn |
| Garrulous | very talkative; loquacious |
| Genial | friendly; gracious; kind |
| Germane | relevant; fitting |
| Girth | distance around something; circumference |
| Glutton | a person who consumes huge quantities of food or drink; someone with great endurance |
| Gravity | seriousness |
| Gregarious | sociable; easily making friends |
| gullible | easily deceived |
| hackneyed | unoriginal, trite |
| hamper | interfere with; hinder; impede |
| haphazard | without plan or direction |
| harangue | a long strongly expressed speech or lecture |
| harbor | to give shelter or refuge |
| hardy | bold; brave; capable of withstanding harsh conditions |
| hedge | to avoid giving a clear answer, thereby escaping responsibility or blame |
| heed | notice; pay attention to |
| heinous | shockingly evil |
| heresy | an opinion expressed in defiance of generally accepted ideas |
| hiatus | a gap or interruption in continuity; a break or pause |
| hierarchy | a group or system in which positions of power are ranked, usually from lowest to highest |
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