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Word List 19
Fallacious - Flinch
Word | Definition |
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Fallacious | false; misleading |
Fallible | capable of making a mistake |
Fallow | plowed but not sowed; uncultivated |
Falter | to hesitate |
Fanaticism | excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause |
Fancied | imagined; unreal |
Fancier | breeder or dealer of animals |
Fanciful | whimsical; visionary |
Fanfare | call by bugles or trumpets; showy display |
Farce | broad comedy; mockery |
Fastidious | difficult to please; squeamish |
Fatalism | belief that events are determined by forces beyond one’s control |
Fathom | to comprehend; to investigate |
Fatuous | foolish; inane |
Fauna | animals of a period or region |
Fawning | courting favor by cringing and flattering |
Faze | to disconcert; to dismay |
Feasible | practical |
Febrile | feverish |
Fecundity | fertility; fruitfulness |
Feign | to pretend |
Feint | an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attac: trick |
Felicitous | apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
Felicity | happiness; appropriateness |
Fell | cruel; deadly <the newspapers told of the tragic spread of the fell disease.> |
Fell | to cut or knock down; bring down |
Felon | person convicted of a grave crime |
Feral | not domestic; wild |
Ferment | agitation; commotion |
Ferret | to drive or hunt out of hiding |
Fervent | ardent; hot |
Fervid | ardent; fervent |
Fervor | glowing ardor; intensity of feeling |
Fester | to rankle; to produce irritation or resentment |
Festive | joyous; celebratory |
Fete | to honor at a festival |
Fetid | malodorous (having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad) |
Fetter | to confine; to shackle |
Fiasco | total failure |
Fiat | command |
Fickle | changeable; faithless |
Fictitious | imaginary; false |
Fidelity | loyalty |
Figurative | not literal |
Figurine | small ornamental statuette |
Filch | to steal |
Filial | pertaining to a son or daughter |
Filibuster | to block legislation by making long speeches |
Filigree | delicate, lacelike metalwork |
Filing | particle removed by a file |
Finale | conclusion |
Finesse | delicate skill |
Finicky | too particular; fussy |
Finite | having bounds or limits; not infinite; measurable |
Firebrand | hothead; troublemaker |
Fissure | crevice |
Fitful | spasmodic; intermittent |
Flaccid | soft and limp; not firm; flabby; lacking force; weak |
Flag | to droop; to grow feeble |
Flagrant | conspicuously wicked; blatant; outrageous |
Flail | talent |
Flamboyant | ornate |
Flaunt | to display ostentatiously |
Flay | to strip off |
Fleck | to spot |
Fledgling | inexperienced |
Fleece | wood coast of a sheep |
Fleece | to rob; plunder |
Flick | light stroke as with a whip |
Flinch | to hesitate; to shrink |