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Fawn-Furtive
Question | Answer |
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fawn | to flatter or praise excessively; adulate |
feckless | ineffectual; irresponsible; incompetent |
felicitous | apt; suitably expressed; well chosen; appropriate |
fervent | greatly emotional or zealous; ardent |
fetid | stinking; smelly; malodorous |
fetter | to shackle; to put in chains; restrain |
filibuster | intentional obstruction, especially using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action; delay, impediment, hindrance |
filigree | an ornamental work, especially of delicate, lace-like patterns; ornamentation |
florid | flowery; ornate; ruddy |
flout | to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention; defy |
foment | to incite; to rouse; instigate |
forbearance | patience; willingness to wait; tolerance |
forestall | to hinder; to avert; prevent |
forswear | to renounce; repudiate; disavow |
fortuitous | happening by fortunate accident or chance |
founder | to sink; to fail completely; stumble |
fracas | noisy quarrel; brawl; donnybrook |
fractious | quarrelsome; unruly; irritable |
frieze | a semi-sculptural, raised-surface strip of ornamental facade on a building; decorative band |
furtive | marked by stealth; covert; surrepitious; shifty |