300 Toefl Words 5 - Words 141-180
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| FEIGN (noun: FEINT) | To represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness. . Synonyms: dissemble, sham, dissimulate, affect
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| FELICITY (adj.: FELICITOUS) | A state of happiness - promoted felicity in the nation. Synonym: bliss
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| FERVENT | Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc.; ardent: a fervent admirer;
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| FETISH | (1) an object or bodily part whose real or fantasized presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification and that is an object of fixation. (2) An object of unreasoning devotion and worship – Photography, begun as a hobby, became a fetish.
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| FIASCO | A ludicrous and complete failure - all his glorious plans ending in a fiasco. Synonym: debacle
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| FICTITIOUS | conventionally or hypothetically assumed or accepted; Unreal; made-up - used a fictitious name to avoid being recognized. Synonym: fabricated
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| FLAGRANT | Conspicuously offensive <flagrant errors>; especially: so obviously inconsistent with what is right or proper as to appear to be a flouting of law or morality-condemned for his flagrant abuse of power. Synonyms: glaring, scandalous, notorious, conspicuous
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| FLAMBOYANT | Marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior- written in a flamboyant, style, full of highly decorative imagery. Synonyms: florid, ornate, resplendent, embellished, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, rococo. Antonym: somber
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| FLAUNT | 1. to display or obtrude oneself to public notice. 2 Display or wave boastfully - flaunted the excellent report before his delighted parents.
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| FLEETING | Passing swiftly -the fleeting hours of happiness. Synonyms: transitory, fugitive
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| FLUCTUATE | To waver from one course to another; to vary irregularly - his mood fluctuating with every hour. Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, undulate, sway
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| FRUSTRATE | To prevent (the attainment of an object); to defeat or render ineffectual - His scholastic progress was frustrated by a serious illness. Synonyms: balk, thwart, foil, baffle, obstruct, discomfit. Antonym: abet
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| GARNISH | To trim or decorate - dishes garnished attractively with greens. Synonyms: adorn, deck
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| GESTICULATE | To make gestures, or indicate feelings by. motions - gesticulated wildly to show his distress.
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| GHASTLY | 1. terrifyingly horrible to the senses 2. intensely unpleasant, disagreeable, or objectionable- a ghastly disaster which shocked the world. Synonyms: gruesome, grisly, pallid, macabre, grim, lurid
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| GREGARIOUS | Marked by or indicating a liking for companionship- gregarious sheep; that gregarious animal, man. Antonyms: lone, aloof
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| GRIMACE | A facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain - a grimace that was more expressive than words.
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| HAIL | To greet or summon by calling- The crowd hailed the returning hero. Synonyms: accost, salute
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| HARBINGER | One that presages or foreshadows what is to come- the robin, harbinger of spring. Synonyms: precursor, herald
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| HAUGHTY | Proud; looking down with contempt on others - dismissed the messenger in a haughty manner.
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| HEEDLESS | Thoughtless; taking little care - rushed into battle, heedless of the danger. Synonyms: inadvertent, rash, incautious. Antonyms: prudent, circumspect, mindful, wary
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| HEINOUS | Hatefully or shockingly evil; abominable - committed a heinous crime. Synonyms: atrocious, outrageous, monstrous, odious, nefarious, abominable
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| HIATUS | A gap or vacancy; break -left a hiatus on the page where he erased a sentence. Synonym: breach
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| HOAX | To trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous - played a hoax upon the credulous public. . Synonym: canard
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| HYPERBOLE | Extravagant exaggeration for effect - An example of hyperbole: "There are a million objections to the project.". Synonym: overstatement. Antonym: understatement
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| IGNOMINIOUS (noun: IGNOMINY) | Incurring public disgrace - suffered an ignominious descent from political power. Synonyms: infamous, degrading, opprobrious, odious. Antonyms: illustrious, renowned, preeminent
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| IMMACULATE | Having no stain or blemish; pure, containing no defect or error - an immaculate reputation. Synonyms: undefiled, unsullied, unblemished, untarnished. Antonyms: defiled, sullied, blemished
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| IMMINENT | Likely to occur soon - stood in imminent peril. Synonym: impending
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| IMMUNE (verb: IMMUNIZE) | Exempt from; protected from - immune from taxation. Synonym: unsusceptible
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| IMPALE | To pierce through with a pointed instrument - impaled a spider to the wall.
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| IMPECCABLE | Free from fault or blame - performed with impeccable skill. Synonyms: consummate, irreproachable, unerring, infallible. Antonyms: culpable, fallible
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| IMPERVIOUS | Incapable of being penetrated - a mind impervious to new ideas. Synonyms: impermeable, impenetrable. Antonyms: permeable, pervasive
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| IMPLICIT | (1) capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed- an implicit agreement. (2) Unquestioning; being without doubt or reserve - implicit confidence. Synonyms: tacit, implied. Antonym: explicit
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| IMPOSTOR (noun: IMPOSTURE) | One who pretends to be what he is not: unmasked as an impostor. Synonyms: quack, mountebank, charlatan, bogus, fraud
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| IMPROPRIETY | Improper act, manners, or expression - guilty of impropriety in public office. Synonyms: indecency, indecorum. Antonym: amenity
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| IMPUGN | To attack or criticize as false; to call in question - impugned his honesty.
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| INCARCERATE | To imprison - crushed his opponents by incarcerating them. Synonyms: intern, immure Antonyms: emancipate, enfranchise
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| INCOGNITO | With one's identity concealed - traveled incognito.
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| INCONTROVERTIBLE | Indisputable; not open to question - incontrovertible evidence. Synonyms: irrefutable, -indubitable
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| INCREMENT | The action or process of increasing especially in quantity or value; enlargement- a salary increment.
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