Flashcards: Bowyer 14
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kasielasserre1 on November 29, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 filch | to steal |
| filibuster | use of obstructive tactics in a legislative assembly, to prevent adoption of a measure |
| fission | process of splitting into two parts |
| flaccid | limp, flabby, weak |
| fledgling | young bird just learning to fly; beginner, novice |
| florid | gaudy, extremely ornate; ruddy, flushed |
| flout | to treat contemptuously, scorn |
| fodder | raw material; feed for animals |
| foible | minor weakness, character flaw |
| foil | to defeat, frusterate |
| foment | to arouse or insight |
| forbearance | patience, restraint, leaniency |
| foreboding | dark, sense of evil to come |
| forensic | relating to legal proceedings; relating to debates |
| forlorn | dreary, deserted, unhappy, hopeless, disparing |
| forswear | to reputiate, renounce, disclaim, reject |
| forte | strong point, something a person does well |
| fortuitous | happening by luck, fortunate |
| founder | to fall helplessly; sink like a boat |
| fracas | a noisy dispute |
| fractious | unruly, rebellious |
| fraught | full of, accompanied by |
| frenetic | wildly frantic, frenzied, hectic |
| frond | a leaf |
| frugal | thrifty; cheap |
| fulsome | excessive, overdone, sickenly abundant |
| funereal | mournful, appropriate to a funeral |
| furtive | secret, stealthy |
| gall | bitterness; careless nerve |
| gambol | to dance or skip around playfully |
| garner | to gather and store |
| garrulous | very talkative |
| genre | type, class, category |
| gibe | to make heckeling, teaunting remarks |
| glib | fluent in an insincere manner; off hand, casual |
| glower | to glare, stare angerly and intensely |
| gnarl | to make knotted, deform |
| gnostic | having to do with knowledge |
| goad | to proad or urge |
| grandiloquence | pampous talk, fancy but meaningless language |
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