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World List 9
ELA Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Financial | Relating to finance or financiers |
| Finicky | Too particular or exacting; Fussy |
| Fireproof | Proof against or resistant to fire |
| Flabby | Limp and soft; Flaccid; Lacking force; Weak |
| Flag | To lose strength; To droop |
| Flagging | Drooping; Weakening |
| Flaggy | Lacking vigor or force |
| Flagrant | Conspicuously offensive |
| Flake | To form or break into flakes |
| Flamboyant | Too showy or ornate; Florid; Extravagant |
| Flatter | To praise somebody too much |
| Flaunt | To display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| Flaunty | Ostentatious |
| Flaw | Imperfection; Defect; To become defective |
| Flawed | Spoiled by having mistakes, weaknesses, or by being damaged |
| Fleeting | Transient; Passing swiflty |
| Flexible | Easily bent; Adjustable to change |
| Flickering | Glittery, twinkling |
| Flimsy | Thin and easily broken or damaged; Poorly made and fragile |
| Flip | To strike quickly or lightly; To move with a small quick motion; Rude; Glib; Flippant |
| Flippant | Frivolous and disrespectful; Lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| Flock | A group of certain animals, as goats or sheep, or of birds |
| Floral | Of or relating to a flora |
| Florid | Highly decorated; Showy; Rosy; Ruddy |
| Flounder | To plunge about in a stumbling manner; To struggle awkwardly to move; Flatfish |
| Flourish | To develop well and be successful; To be very active and influential |
| Flout | To mock or scoff at; Show scorn or contempt for |
| Fluctuate | To undulate as waves; To be continually changing |
| Fluctuation | Undulating, waving |
| Fluffy | Covered with fluff; Light or frivolous |
| Fluid | Capable of flowing; Subject or change or movement |
| Fluorescent | Producing light |
| Flustered | Nervous or upset |
| Foible | A small weakness; Fault |
| Foliage | Mass of leaves; Leafage |
| Folklore | The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth |
| Folly | Lack of wisdom; A foolish act or idea |
| Foodstuff | Any substance used as food |
| Forbear | To hold oneself back from especially with an effort; To control oneself when provoked |
| Forebode | To foretell; Predict |
| Foreknowledge | Knowledge of something before it happens or exists |
| Foreshadow | To represent, indicate, or typify beforehand |
| Foresight | An act or the power of foreseeing |
| Forestall | To hinder by doing something ahead of time; Prevent |
| Forested | Wooded |
| Forfeit | To lose, or be deprived of; Something one loses |
| Forlorn | Abandoned or deserted; Wretched; Miserable |
| Formalized | Give (something) legal or formal status |
| Formation | Thing that is formed; An arrangement of a group of persons in some prescribed manner or for a particular purpose |
| Formidable | Causing fear or dread; Hard to handle or overcome |
| Formidably | Strongly |
| Formulaic | Containing or made from ideas or expressions that have been used many times before and are therefore not very new or interesting |
| Forsake | To leave; Abandon; To give up; Renounce |
| Forte | Special accomplishment or strong point; Used as a direction in music |
| Forthright | Clear and honest in manner and speech |
| Fortify | To make strong |
| Fortitude | Strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain |
| Fortuitous | Happening by chance; Accidental; Lucky |
| Fossilized | Preserved to become a fossil |
| Foster | To promote the growth or development of something; to give parental care to |
| Foul | Full of dirt or mud; Stinking; Loathsome; Very wicked; To soil; Defile; An infraction of the rules, as of a game or sport |
| Founder | To sink; To collapse; Fail |
| Fractious | Peevish; Irritable |
| Fragile | Brittle; Crisp; Friable |
| Fragment | Small part or piece; An incomplete or isolated portion |
| Fragmentary | Consisting or fragments |
| Frail | Fragile; Delicate; Slender and delicate |
| Frantic | Wild with anger; Frenzied |
| Fraternity | A group of people with the same beliefs, interests, work, etc. |
| Fraud | Deceit; Trickery; Impostor; Cheat |
| Fraudulent | Acting with fraud; Deceitful |
| Fraught | Filled; Charged; Loaded |
| Fray | A noisy quarrel or fight; To become worn ragged or raveled by rubbing |
| Frenetic | Frantic; Frenzied |
| Frequency | Rate of occurrence or repetition of something |
| Fret | To irritate; Annoy; An agitation of mind |
| Friend | One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group , cause, or movemeht |
| Frigid | Very cold; Lacking in warmth and life |
| Frisky | Playful; Frolicsome; Merry |
| Frivolity | A frivolous act or thing |
| Frivolous | Marked by unbecoming levity |
| Frugal | Careful and thrifty |
| Frugality | Prudence in avoiding waste |
| Fruitlessly | Unproductively |
| Frustrate | To baffle; Defeat |
| Fulsome | Disgustingly insincere; Full; Ample; Abundant |
| Fumigate | To expose to the action of fumes in order to disinfect kill the vermin |
| Function | To serve, Operate; Professional or official position |
| Fundamental | Of or forming the basis or foundation of something; Essential |
| Furtive | Done or acting in a stealthy manner; Sneaky |
| Fuse | To reduce to a liquid or plastic state by heat; Combine; Become blended or joined |
| Fused | Joined or blended to form a single entity; (Of a circuit or electrical appliance) provided with a fuse |
| Fusion | A union by or as if by melting; Union of atomic nuclear |
| Fussy | Overly exacting and hard to please |
| Futile | Completely ineffective; Occupied with trifles |
| Gain | Profit, the act or process of gaining |
| Gainsay | To deny |
| Galaxy | An assemblage of brilliant or notable persons |
| Gall | Hatred; Bitter feeling |
| Gallant | Brave and noble; Polite and attentive to women |
| Galvanize | To stimulate; To plate meta with zinc, originally by galvanic action; To apply an electric current to |
| Garbel | To alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or change the meaning |
| Garish | Too bright or gaudy; Tastelessly showy |
| Garrulous | Loquacious; Talkative |
| Gaudy | Bright and showy |
| Gene | Unit in a chromosome which controls heredity |
| Generalize | To draw a general conclusion from particular examples |
| Generate | To bring into being; To originate or produce |
| Generation | A group of individuals born and living at about the same time; Single stage in the development of a type of product; Production |
| Generic | Of or characteristic of a genus |
| Generosity | Willingness to share; Unselfishness |
| Generous | Liberal in giving; Marked by abundance or ample proportions |
| Genetic | Having to do with genetic; Of the genesis |
| Genial | Cheerful, friendly, and amiable |
| Genre | A king of works of literature, arts, etc. |
| Genus | Division of animals or plants, below a family and above species |
| Geomagnetic | Of or relating to terrestrial magnetism |
| Germinate | To sprout or cause to sprout; To start developing or growing |
| Gibe | To jeer or taunt; Scoff |
| Giddy | Not serious; Frivolous |
| Glacial | Of the Ice Age; Very cold |
| Glamorous | Full of glamour; Fascinating; Alluring |
| Glance | To take a quick look at |
| Glandular | Of, relating to, or involving glands, gland cells, or their products |
| Glaze | To apply a glaze to; To give a smooth glossy surface |
| Gloat | To gaze or think with exultation, or malicious pleasure |
| Gloom | Darkness; Dimness; Obscurity; Deep Sadness or hopelessness |
| Glossary | A list of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translations |
| Glossy | Having a smooth, shiny appearance |
| Glucose | A form of sugar |
| Glutinous | Gluey; Sticky |
| Gluttonous | Very greedy for food |
| Gorgeous | Brilliantly showy; Splendid |
| Gospel | Any doctrine or rule widely or ardently maintained |
| Gouge | To scoop out; To cheat out of money; A semicircular chisel |
| Graft | To cause a scion to unite with a stock; To be or become joined; To get by graft |
| Grain | Small hard seeds of food plants; Tiny hard bit |
| Grandeur | Splendor; Magnificence |
| Grandiloquence | A lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| Grandiose | Impressive because of uncommon largeness; Characterized by affectation or exaggeration |
| Graphic | Of graphs; Vivid |
| Grateful | Expressing gratitude; Appreciative |
| Gratify | To give pleasure or satisfaction |
| Grating | Harsh and rasping; Irritating or annoying |
| Gratuitous | Without cause or justification; Free |
| Grave | Serious |
| Gravitational | Of or relating to gravitational force |
| Gravity | Solemnity or sedateness; Seriousness |
| Graze | To feed on growing grass; To put livestock to eat grass. |
| Gregarious | Living in herds or flocks; Sociable |
| Grief | Deep or violent sorrow |
| Grieve | To cause great sorrow to somebody |
| Grim | Appearing stern; Forbidding |
| Grind | To crush into bits or fine particles; long, difficult, tedious task |
| Gripping | Holding the interest strongly |
| Grope | To feel or search about blindly |
| Groundless | Having no ground or foundation |
| Grudge | To be reluctant to give or admit; To feel resentful about something |
| Grumble | To utter or mumble in discontent |
| Guile | Deceit; Cunning |
| Guilt | Crime; Sin; A painful feeling of self-reproach |
| Gullible | Easily cheated or deceived; Credulous |
| Gush | To pour out; Spout; To talk effusively; A sudden copious outflow |
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