G and F words
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talstarrr144 on January 10, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Factious | adj. dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) |
| Factitious | adj. not produced by natural forces |
| fastidious | adj. giving careful attention to detail; hard to pleasel excessively concerned with cleanliness; having complicated nutritional requirements (esp growing only in special artificial cultures) |
| Fatuous | adj. devoid of intelligence |
| feckless | adj. generally incompetent and ineffectual; not fit to assume responsibility |
| fervor | n feelings of great warmth and intensity; the state of being emotionally arouse and worked up |
| flagrant | adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible |
| formidable | adj. inspiring fear, extremely impressive in strength or excellence |
| fortuitous | adj. occurring by happy chance; having no cause |
| fractious | adj. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; stubbornly resistant to authority or control; easily irritated or annoyed (zooey) |
| furtive | adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; secret and sly |
| fusty | adj. old-fashioned and out of date; stale and unclean smelling |
| fecundity | n. the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination; the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth; the state of being fertile, capable of producing offsping (scarlotte) |
| galvanize | vt stimulate (muscles) by administering a shock; cover with zinc, to stimulate |
| garner | vt, n a storehouse for threshed grain or animal feed; store grian, assemble or get together, acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions |
| gauche | adj. lacking social polish (alexa) |
| glossolalia | n. repetitive nonmeningful speech (especially associated with a trance state or religious fervor) (Sara and Scarlotte) |
| gossamer | adj. characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; so thin as to transmit lihgt, a gauze favric with an extremely fine texture; filaments from a web that was spun by a spider |
| gratuitous | adj. without cause; unnecessary and unwarranted; costing nothing |
| guile | n. the use of tricks to decieve someone (usually to extract money from them); the quality of being crafty, shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception |
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