Kaplan's Vocab F
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- farcical
- absurd, ludicrous
- feign
- to pretend, give a false impression; to invent falsely
- fetid
- foul-smelling, putrid
- filch
- to steal
- flagrant
- outrageous, shameless
- flora
- plants
- foible
- minor weakness or character flaw
- forensic
- relating to legal proceedings; relating to debates
- forgo
- to go without, refrain from
- forsake
- to abandon, withdraw from
- forte
- strong point, something a person does well
- foundation
- groundwork, support; institution
- frank
- honest and straightforward
- frenzied
- feverishly fast, hectic, and confused
- frivolous
- petty, trivial; flippant, silly
- frond
- leaf
- fulsome
- sickeningly excessive; repulsive
- facade
- face, front, mask, superficial appearance
- facility
- aptitude, ease in doing something
- fastidious
- careful with details
- faze
- to bother, upset, or disconcert
- feisty
- excitable, easily drawn into quarrels
- fetter
- to bind, chain, confine
- filibuster
- use of obstructive tactics in a legislative assembly to prevent adoption of a measure
- flamboyant
- flasy, garish; exciting, dazzling
- florid
- gaudy, extremely ornate; ruddy, flushed
- foil (v)
- to defeat, frustrate
- foreclose
- to rule out; to seize debtor's property for lack of payments
- fathom (v)
- to measure the depth of, gauge
- feasible
- possible, capable of being done
- fiasco
- disaster, utter failure
- finicky
- fussy, difficult to please
- flammable
- combustible, being easily burned
- flounder
- to falter, waver; to muddle, struggle
- foliate
- to grow, sprout leaves
- forswear
- to repudiate, renounce, disclaim, reject
- fortuitous
- happening by luck, fortunate
- founder (v)
- to fall helplessly; sink
- fractious
- unruly, rebellious
- fragmentation
- division, separation into parts, disorganization
- fraud
- deception, hoax
- fraudulent
- deceitful, dishonest, unethical
- fraught
- full of, accompanined by
- frenetic
- wildly frantic, frenzied, hectic
- feckless
- ineffective, careless, irresponsible
- felicitous
- suitable, appropriate; well-spoken
- flaunt
- to show off
- flout
- to treat contemptuously, scorn
- foment
- to arouse or incite
- fictive
- fictional, imaginary
- fission
- process of splitting into two parts
- fabricate
- to make or devise; construct
- facile
- very easy
- fallacious
- wrong, unsound, illogical
- fatuous
- stupid; foolishly self-satisfied
- ford (v)
- to cross a body of water at a shallow place
- forestall
- to prevent, delay; anticipate
- forlorn
- dreary, deserted; unhappy; hopeless, despairing
- foster
- to nourish, cultivate, promote
- fracas
- noisy dispute
- fabricated
- constructed, invented; faked, falsified
- facilitate
- to aid, assist
- fallow
- uncultivated, unused
- fault
- break in a rock formation; mistake or error
- fecund
- fertile, fruitful, productive
- fell (v)
- to chop, cut down
- fidelity
- loyalty
- fitful
- intermittent, irregular
- fledgling
- young bird just learning to fly; beginner, novice
- fluctuate
- to alternate, waver
- forbearance
- patience, restraint, leniency
- foreboding
- dark sense of evil to come
- forethought
- anticipation, foresight
- formulate
- to conceive, devise; to draft, plan; to express, state
- fanaticism
- extreme devotion to a cause
- fawn (v)
- to flatter excessively, seek the favor of
- federation
- union of organizations; union of several states, each of which retains local power
- fervid
- passionate, intense, zealous
- flaccid
- limp, flabby, weak
- fodder
- raw material; feed for animals
- funereal
- mournful, appropriate to a funeral
- furtive
- secret, stealthy
- fusion
- process of merging things into one