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82 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 esce | becoming |
| eu | good, well |
| extra | outside of, beyond |
| fab/bam | speak |
| fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy | to do, to make |
| ferv | to boil, to bubble, to burn |
| fid | faith, trust |
| flag/flam | to burn |
| fore | before |
| fort | chance |
| grand | big |
| grav/griev | heavy, serious |
| grat | pleasing |
| greg | herd |
| esoteric | hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar |
| espouse | to support; to advocate |
| ethereal | heavenly; as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether |
| exigency | an emergency; an urgency |
| existential | having to do with existence; having to do with the body of thought called existentialism, which basically holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions but is otherwise too complicated to summarize in a single sentence |
| exonerate | to free completely from blame; to exculpate |
| expatriate | to throw (someone) out of his or her native land; to move away from one's native land; to emigrate |
| expedient | providing an immediate advantage; serving one's immediate self-interest; practical |
| expedite | to speed up or ease the process of |
| explicit | clearly and directly expressed |
| extol | to praise highly; to laud |
| extraneous | unnecessary; irrelevant; extra |
| extrapolate | to project or deduce from something known; to infer |
| extricate | to free from difficulty |
| extrovert | an open, outgoing person; a person whose attention is focused on others rather than on himself or herself |
| exult | to rejoice; to celebrate |
| fabrication | a lie; something made up |
| facetious | humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous |
| facile | fluent; skillful in a superficial way; easy |
| faction | a group, usually a small part of a larger group, united around some cause; disagreement within an organization |
| farcical | absurd; ludicrous |
| fastidious | meticulous; demanding; finicky |
| fatalist | someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them |
| fatuous | foolish; silly; idiotic |
| fauna | animals |
| fecund | fertile; productive |
| felicity | happiness; skillfulness, especially at expressing things; adeptness |
| fervor | great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal |
| fetter | to restrain; to hamper |
| fidelity | faithfulness; loyalty |
| figurative | based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually used for something else; metaphorical |
| finesse | skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness |
| flagrant | glaring bad; notorious; scandalous |
| flaunt | to show off; to display ostentatiously |
| flout | to disregard something out of disrespect |
| foible | a minor character flaw |
| foment | to stir up; to instigate |
| forbear | to refrain from; to abstain |
| forego | to do without; to forbear |
| forsake | to abandon; to renounce; to relinquish |
| fortuitous | accidental; occurring by chance |
| founder | to fail; to collapse; to sink |
| fraternal | like brothers |
| frenetic | frantic; frenzied |
| frugal | economical; penny-pinching |
| furtive | secretive; sly |
| futile | useless; hopeless |
| garrulous | talkative; chatty |
| gauche | unskillful; awkward; maladroit |
| genre | a type or category, especially of art or writing |
| genteel | refined; polite; aristocratic; affecting refinement |
| gesticulate | to make gestures, especially when speaking or in place of speaking |
| glut | surplus; an overabundance |
| grandiloquent | pompous; using a lot of big, fancy words in an attempt to sound impressive |
| grandiose | absurdly exaggerated |
| gratuitous | given freely (said of something bad); unjustified; unprovoked; uncalled for |
| gravity | seriousness |
| gregarious | sociable; enjoying the company of others |
| guile | cunning; duplicity; artfulness |
| euphemism | a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one |
| evanescent | fleeting; vanishing; happening for the briefest period |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| exacting | extremely demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care |
| exalt | to raise high; to glorify |
| exasperate | to annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of |
| exemplify | to illustrate by example; to serve as a good example |
| exhaustive | thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking |
| exhort | to urge strongly; to give a serious warning to |
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