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WS lists 40-45
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| exigency | an emergency; an urgency |
| exigent | urgent |
| existential | having to do with existence; having to do with the body o f thought called existentialism, which basc holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions but is otherwise too complicated to summarize in a single sentence |
| exonerate | to free completely from blane; to exculpate; to acquit |
| expatriate | to throw someone out of his or her native land; to move away from one's native land; to emigrate |
| repatriate | to return to one's native citizenship |
| expedient | providing an immediate advantage; serving one's immediate self-interest; practical |
| expediency | practicality, esp cuited to a paritcular goal |
| expedite | to speed up or ease the progress of |
| explicit | clearly and directly expressed |
| implicit | indirectly expressed or implied |
| extol | to praise highly; to laud |
| extraneous | unnecessary; irrelevant; extra |
| extrapolate | to project to deduce from something known; to infer.. a scientist uses the facts he has to project to facts outside |
| interpolate | try to fill the gaps within data |
| extricate | to free from difficulty; disentangle |
| inextricable | somehting thats permanently stuck |
| extrovert | an open, outgoing person; a person whose attention is focused on others rather than on himself or herself |
| introvert | a person whose attention is directed inward and who is concerned with little outside himslef |
| exult | to rejoice; to celebrate |
| fabrication | a lie; something made up |
| facetious | humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous |
| facile | fluent; easy; skillful in a superficial way |
| faction | a group with a cause, usually a small part of a larger group, united around some cause; disagreement within an organization |
| farcical | absurb; ludicrous |
| farce | a mockery or ridiculous satire |
| fastidious | meticulous; demanding; finicky |
| fatalist | someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them. ONE WHO BELIEVES THAT FATE DETERMINES ALL. |
| fatuous | foolish; silly; idiotic |
| fauna | animals |
| flora | plants |
| fecund | fertile; productive |
| fecundity | state of being fertile |
| felicity | happiness; skillfulness, esp at expressing things; adeptness |
| fervor | great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal |
| fetter | to restrain; to hamper |
| unfetter | to be unrestrained, free of hindrances; unchained |
| fidelity | faithfulness; loyalty |
| figurative | based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually used for something else; metaphorical |
| finesse | skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness |
| flagrant | glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous |
| flaunt | to show off; to display ostentatiously. to flaunt success is to make certain everyone knows that youre successful |
| flout | to disregard something out of disrespect. to flout success is to be scornful of success or to act as though it means nothing at all |
| foible | a minor character flaw |
| foment | to stir up; to instigate |
| forbear | to refrain from; to abstain |
| abstain | to refrain from |
| forgo | to do without; to forbear. i had to forgo the chocolate |
| fortuitous | accidental; occuring by change |
| founder | to fail; to collapse; to sink |
| flounder | to move clumsily or in confusion |
| fraternal | like brothers |
| frenetic | frantic; frenzied |
| frugal | economical; penny-pinching |
| furtive | secretive; sly |
| futile | useless; hopoeless |
| forebear | ancestor |
| forsake | to abandon; to renounce; to relinquish |
| garrulous | talkative; chatty |
| genre | type or category, esp of art/writing |
| genteel | refined; polite; aristocratic; affecting refinement |
| gentility | The quality of being well-mannered; refinement |
| gesticulate | to make gestures, esp when speaking or in place of speaking |
| glut | surplus, an overabundance |
| grandiloquent | pompous, using a lot of big fancy words in an attempt to sound impressive |
| grandiose | absurdly exaggerated |
| gratuitous | given freely (said of something bad); unjustified; unprovoked; uncalled for. AKA NOT A NICE THING... DIFF FROM GRATUITY |
| gratuity | a tip. its a nice thing |
| gravity | seriousness |
| gregarious | socialable; enjoying the company of others |
| guile | cunning; duplicity; artfulness |
| guileless | innocent, naive, artless |
| beguile | to decieve but in a charmingand not always bad way |
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