GRE Vocab letters F through I
Terms
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- Facile
- easily fluent talented speaker
- Factitious
- artificial, fake
- Factotum
- handyman
- Fallow
- plowed but not sowed, uncultivated
- Fancier
- animal breeder
- FATUOUS
- foolish, inane
- Febrile
- feverish
- Fecundity
- fertility, fruitfulness
- FELICITOUS
- apt, well chosen remarks
- Felicity
- happiness, approprietness of a remark
- Fell
- cruel, deadly
- Ferment
- agitation, commotion
- Fiat
- command
- Fillial
- pertaining to a son or daughter, opposite of parental
- Firebrand
- hothead, troublemaker
- FLAG
- droop, grow feeble
- Fleece
- rob, plunder
- Floe
- mass of floating ice
- Fluted
- vertical parallel grooves
- Foil
- opposite, contrast
- FOMENT
- stir up, instigate
- Forbearance
- patience
- Forswear
- renounce, abandon
- Frieze
- ornamental band on a wall
- Fructify
- bear fruit
- Fulcrum
- support on which a lever rests
- Fulminate
- thunder, explode
- Fulsome
- disgustingly excessive
- Fusillade
- simultaneous firing or exploding
- GAINSAY
- deny
- Gambit
- opening in chess by sacrificing a piece
- Gambol
- romp, skip, playful leap
- GARRULOUS
- loquacious, wordy, talkative
- Gauche
- clumsy, coarse and uncouth
- Genuflect
- bend the knee to worship
- Germane
- pertinent, relevant to case at hand
- Germinal
- pertaining to a germ, creative
- Gourmand
- glutton who likes food and drink too much
- Gratis
- free
- Grouse
- complain, fuss
- Gustatory
- is to TASTE as visual is to sight
- Guy
- chain that steadies
- Gyroscope
- device for keeping your balance
- Hackles
- hair on back of dog's neck
- Hackneyed
- commonplace, trite
- Halcyon
- calm, peaceful
- Hale
- healthy
- Hap
- chance, luck
- HARANGUE
- passionate, vehement speech
- Headlong
- hasty, rash
- Hegemony
- dominance of one nation
- Hermetic
- sealed to be airtight
- Herpetologist
- studies reptiles
- Heterodox
- unorthodox, unconventional
- Hinterlands
- back country
- Hirsute
- hairy
- Histronic
- theatrical
- Hoary
- white with age
- Homily
- sermon, serious warning
- Hoodwink
- deceive, delude
- Hortatory
- encouraging, exhortive
- Hubris
- arrogance, excessive self conceit
- Hue and cry
- outcry
- Hummock
- small hill
- Husband
- use sparingly, conserve
- HYPERBOLE
- exaggeration, overstatement
- Ichthyology
- study of fish
- Ignoble
- not noble, unworthy
- Ignominy
- deep disgrace, shame, dishonor
- Illimitable
- infinite
- Illusive
- deceiving
- Imbroglio
- complicated, complex, painful misunderstanding
- Immolate
- offer as sacrifice
- Immure
- imprison, confine
- Impecunious
- without money
- Imperious
- domineering, haughty
- Impolitic
- unwise
- Import
- significance
- Imprecation
- curse
- Impregnable
- invulnerable
- Impuissance
- powerlessness, feebleness
- Impunity
- freedom from punishment or harm
- INCHOATE
- recently begun, rudimentary, elementary
- Incipient
- beginning, early stage
- Incommodious
- not spacious, inconvenient
- Incorporeal
- lacking material body, insubstantial
- Increment
- an increase
- Incubus
- burden, mental strain, nightmare
- Inculcate
- teach
- Indices
- signs, indications
- Indissoluble
- permanent
- Indite
- write, compose
- Inductive
- from specific to general
- Ineffable
- unutterable
- Ineluctable
- irresistible, inescapable
- Insalubrious
- unwholesome, not healthful
- INSIPID
- lacking in flavor, dull
- Insouciant
- indifferent, without concern or care
- INSULARITY
- narrowmindedness, isolation
- Insuperable
- insurmountable, unbeatable
- Intelligentsia
- intellectuals, educated elite
- Interdict
- prohibit, forbid
- Internecine
- mutually destructive
- Interpolate
- insert between
- Interregnum
- time in between reigns
- INTRASIGENCE
- refusal to compromise, stubbornness
- INURED
- accustomed, hardened
- INVECTIVE
- abuse, abusive curse
- Inveigh
- denounce, to curse
- Inveigle
- lead astray, wheedle
- Inveterate
- deep rooted, habitual
- Invidious
- designed to create ill willor envy
- Isotope
- varying form of an element
- Isthmus
- narrow neck of land
- Itinerant
- wandering, traveling