GRE Vocab List 20
Terms
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- flippant
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not too serious
a flippant remark - flit
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fly; dart about
a bee flitting from flower to flower - floe
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mass of floating ice
the ship navigated through ice floes
ice floes FLOW!!! - florid
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ruddy; reddish
a florid complexion - flotsam
- drifting wreckage
- flout
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reject; mock
flout the law by selling to minors - fluted
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having parallel grooves
fluted columns - fodder
- coarse food for cattle
- foil
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NOUN: contrast
Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's foil - foist
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impose on
foist your crummy furniture on me - foment
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stir up; instigate
accused of fomenting civil unrest - foolhardy
- rash
- foppish
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vain about dress and appearance
the foppish manner of the young men of the clubs - foray
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raid
a midnight foray against the enemy - forbearance
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patience
use forbearance in dealing with him - ford
- place where a river can be crossed on foot
- forebears
- ancestors
- forestall
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prevent by taking action in advance
preempt
forestall the reelection - forensic
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suitable to debate or courts of law
the lawyer acted forensically - forswear
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renounce; abandon
forswear your religion - fortuitous
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accidental; by chance
we won by a fortuitous rebound - founder
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fail completely; sink
the Titanic foundered - fractious
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unruly
fractious opposition party - franchise
- the right granted by authority; the right to vote; the right to sell a product in a territory
- fraught
-
filled
fraught with danger - fray
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brawl
in the thick of the fray - fresco
- painting on plaster
- frieze
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ornamental band on a wall
the frieze of a church - fritter
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waste
VERB
he frittered away his time with AIM - frolicsome
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prankish; gay
frolicsome puppy - frond
- fern, palm leaf
- fructify
- to bear fruit
- frustrate
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thwart; defeat
the ruler's plans were frustrated - fugitive
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ADJ
fleeting or transitory
the fugitive nature of life - fulsome
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disgustingly excessive
he paid fulsome tribute to his secretary - functionary
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official
a capitol hill functionary - funereal
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sad or solemn
FUNERAL - furor
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frenzy; excitement
the story caused a furor in the city - furtive
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stealthy; sneaky
furtive plans to steal the jewel - fusillade
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simultaneous outburst (of missles, questions, drum beats)
fusillade of missles