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WS quick quiz 41-45
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| exigency | an emergency; an urgency |
| existential | having to do with existence; having to do with the body of thought called existentialism, which basically holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions but is otherwise too complicated to summarize in a single sentence |
| exonerate | V to free completely from blame; to exculpate |
| expatriate | to throw (someone) out of his or her native land; to move away from ones native land; to emigrate |
| expedient | Adj providing an immediate advantage; serving ones immediate self-interest; practical |
| expedite | V to speed up or ease the progress of |
| explicit | Adj clearly and directly expressed |
| extol | V to praise highly; to laud |
| extraneous | Adj unnecessary; irrelevant; extra |
| extrapolate | V to protect or deduce from something known; to infer |
| extricate | V to free from difficulty |
| extrovert | N an open, outgoing person; a person whose attention is focused on others rather than on himself or herself |
| exult | V to rejoice; to celebrate |
| fabrication | N a lie; something made up |
| facetious | humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous |
| facile | a group, usually a small part of a larger group, united around some cause; disagreement within an organization |
| farcical | absurd; ludicrous |
| fastidious | meticulous; demanding; finicky |
| fatalist | someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them |
| fatuous | foolish; silly; idiotic |
| fauna | animals |
| fecund | fertile; productive |
| felicity | happiness; skillfulness, especially at expressing things; adeptness |
| fervor | great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal |
| fetter | to restrain; to hamper |
| fidelity | faithfulness; loyalty |
| figurative | based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually for something else; metaphorical |
| finesse | skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness |
| flagrant | glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous |
| flaunt | show off; to display ostentatiously |
| flout | to disregard something out of disrespect |
| foible | a minor character flaw |
| foment | to stir up; to instigate |
| forbear | to refrain from ; to abstain |
| forgo | to do without ; to forbear |
| forsake | to abandon ; to renounce ; to relinquish |
| fortuitous | accidental ; occurring by chance |
| founder | to fail ; to collapse ; to sink |
| fraternal | like brothers |
| frenetic | frantic ; frenzied |
| frugal | economical ; penny-pinching |
| furtive | secretive ; sly |
| futile | useless ; hopeless |
| garrulous | talkative; chatty |
| genre | a type or category, especially of art or writing |
| genteel | refined ; polite ; aristocratic ; affecting refinement |
| gesticulate | to make gestures, especially 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 |
| gravity | seriousness |
| gregarious | sociable ; enjoying the company of others |
| guile | cunning ; duplicity ; artfulness |
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