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GRE Words #4

"F", "G", and "H" Words

QuestionAnswer
Facetious (adj) playful; humorous
Fallacy (noun) an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
Fatuous (adj) silly, inanely foolish
Fawn (verb) to flatter or praise excessively
Fell (verb) to cause to fall by striking
Fell (adj) inhumanly cruel
Fervent (adj) greatly emotional or zealous
Filibuster (noun) intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action
Flag (verb) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
Flip (adj) sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
Flout (verb) to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention
Ford (verb) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
Fortuitous (adj) happening by accident or chance
Fractious (adj) quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
Fulminate (verb) to loudly attack or denounce
Furtive (adj) marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
Facilitate (verb) to make less difficult
Factotum (noun) a person who does all sorts of work; handy man
Fallacious (adj) based on a false idea or fact; misleading
Fallow (adj) plowed but not sowed; uncultivated
Fauna (noun) animals of a period or region
Fawning (adj) seeking favor by flattering
Felicitous (adj) suitably expressed; appropriate; well chosen
Feral (adj) existing in a wild or untamed state
Fervor (noun) worth and intensity of emotion
Fetid (adj) having a bad smell
Fetter (verb) to bind; confine
Fetter (noun) something that restricts or restrains
Fettered (adj) bound or confined
Fiat (noun) arbitrary order; authorization
Fidelity (noun) loyalty; exact correspondence
Finesse (verb) to handle with deceptive or evasive strategy; to use finesse, that is, refinement in performance
Fissure (noun) crevice
Fledgling (noun) beginner; novice
Flora (noun) plants of a region or era
Florid (adj) ruddy; reddish; flowery
Flourish (noun) an embellishment or ornamentation
Flourish (verb) to grow vigorously, or to thrive
Flux (noun) flowing; a continuous moving
Foment (verb) to incite; arouse
Forbearance (noun) patience
Forestall (verb) to prevent; delay
Formidable (adj) menacing; threatening
Forswear (verb) renounce; repudiate
Founder (verb) to sink; fail; collapse
Fracas (noun) a loud quarrel; brawl
Fresco (noun) a painting done on plaster
Frieze (noun) ornamental band on a wall
Froward (adj) stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient
Frugality (noun) thrift
Fulsome (adj) so excessive as to be disgusting
Fusion (adj) union; synthesis
Futile (adj) ineffective; useless; fruitless
Gainsay (verb) to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
Garrulous (adj) pointlessly talkative; talking too much
Germane (adj) relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
Glib (adj) marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
Grandiloquence (noun) pompous speech or expression
Gregarious (adj) sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people
Grouse (verb) to complain or grumble
Guy (noun) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy
Gambol (verb) to frolic; leap playfully
Gauche (adj) coarse and uncouth; clumsy
Geniality (noun) cheerfulness; kindliness; sociability
Gerrymander (verb) to divide an area into voting districts in a way that favors a political party
Goad (verb) to prod; urge on
Gossamer (adj) sheer; light and delicate, like cobwebs
Gouge (verb) to tear out; scoop out; overcharge
Grandiloquent (adj) pompous; bombastic
Guileless (adj) free of cunning or deceit; artless
Guile (noun) deception or trickery
Guise (noun) outward appearance; false appearance; pretense
Gullible (adj) easily deceived
Gustatory (adj) affecting the sense of taste
Hackneyed (adj) rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
Halcyon (adj) calm and peaceful
Harangue (verb/noun) to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long pompous speech
Hedonism (noun) devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses
Hegemony (noun) the constant dominance of one state or ideology over others
Heretical (adj) violating accepted dogma or convention
Heterodox (adj) unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
Hubris (noun) overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance
Hyperbole (noun) an exaggerated statement; often used as a figure of speech
Hallowed (adj) holy; sacred
Harrowing (adj) extremely distressing; terrifying
Herbivorous (adj) relating to a herbivore; an animal that feeds mainly on plants
Hermetic (adj) tightly sealed; magical
Hieroglyphics (noun) a system of writing in which pictorial symbols represent meaning of sounds; writing or symbols that are difficult to decipher; the symbols used in advanced mathematics
Hirsute (adj) covered with hair
Histrionic (adj) relating to exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect; theatrical arts or performance
Histrionics (noun) emotional behavior done for effect
Homeostasis (noun) automatic maintenance by an organism of normal temperature, chemical balance, etc within itself
Homily (noun) sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; platitude
Homogeneous (adj) composed of identical parts; uniform in composition
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