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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 fitful | not regular, spamodic, intermittent |
| fortuitous | happening by chance |
| formidable | hard to overcome, to be dreaded |
| fallacy | illogical reasoning, false idea |
| fervor | intense heat, intense emotions |
| fastidious | difficult to please |
| flagrant | conspiciously bad, glaringly offensive |
| fledgling | baby bird, newly developed or little known |
| facilitate | to make easier, assist |
| forlorn | deserted, left alone, unhappy |
| furtive | Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief. |
| galvanize | to stimulate to action; to startle |
| garbled | mixed up; jumbled; distorted; V. garble: mix up or distort (a message) to such an extent as to make misleading or unintelligible |
| garner | to gather and save; to store up |
| garrulous | loquacious; wordy; talkative |
| gratuitous | given freely; unearned; unwarranted |
| guile | deceit; duplicity; wiliness; cunning |
| hackneyed | commonplace; trite; used too often |
| gullible | easily deceived |
| haphazard | random; by chance; happening in an unplanned manner; Ex. haphazard growth of the town |
| expunge | verb, to mark for deletion by dots |
| expedite | verb, to speed up |
| extol | verb, to praise highly, glorify, honor, to laud |
| euphemism | noun, sounding good, The substitution of mild or pleasant expression for one offensive of unpleasant |
| esoteric | adjective, designed to be understood only by the specially initiated |
| eulogy | noun, a speech in praise of a person or thing that is deceased |
| expedient | adjective, to be prepared, to extricate, advantageous |
| exacerbate | verb, to make more violent or severe, to irritate, make worse |
| exemplary | adjective, serving to warn, or a commendable warning |
| evanescent | adjective, tending to vanish like vapor, gradually disappearing, fleeding |
| ephemeral | lasting for only a short time. (adj) |
| equanimity | eveness of temper (noun) |
| equivocate | to use double meanings in order to mislead; to be shifty; to quibble (ver) |
| engender | to cause, produce, bring into being (verb) |
| emulate | to try to equal or go beyond (verb) |
| enervate | to weaken, lessen the stregnth of (verb) |
| embroil | to involve in a quarrel (verb) |
| enigma | a puzzle, baffling (noun) |
| enhance | to add to make greater in value (verb) |
| embellish | to decorate, to elaborate upon (verb) |
| dogmatic | positive and emphatic in asserting opinions |
| dormant | lying asleep; in a state of rest |
| duplicity | deceitfulness |
| ebb | to decline |
| eclectic | consisting of selections from various sources |
| efface | to wipe out; to erase |
| effervescent | lively; givig off bubbles |
| egregious | extraordinarily bad; terrible |
| elucidate | to make clear |
| elusive | hard to grasp; baffling |
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