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GRE Words #4
"F", "G", and "H" Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Facetious (adj) | playful; humorous |
| Fallacy (noun) | an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
| Fatuous (adj) | silly, inanely foolish |
| Fawn (verb) | to flatter or praise excessively |
| Fell (verb) | to cause to fall by striking |
| Fell (adj) | inhumanly cruel |
| Fervent (adj) | greatly emotional or zealous |
| Filibuster (noun) | intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
| Flag (verb) | to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
| Flip (adj) | sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark |
| Flout (verb) | to show contempt for, as in a rule or convention |
| Ford (verb) | to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
| Fortuitous (adj) | happening by accident or chance |
| Fractious (adj) | quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable |
| Fulminate (verb) | to loudly attack or denounce |
| Furtive (adj) | marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
| Facilitate (verb) | to make less difficult |
| Factotum (noun) | a person who does all sorts of work; handy man |
| Fallacious (adj) | based on a false idea or fact; misleading |
| Fallow (adj) | plowed but not sowed; uncultivated |
| Fauna (noun) | animals of a period or region |
| Fawning (adj) | seeking favor by flattering |
| Felicitous (adj) | suitably expressed; appropriate; well chosen |
| Feral (adj) | existing in a wild or untamed state |
| Fervor (noun) | worth and intensity of emotion |
| Fetid (adj) | having a bad smell |
| Fetter (verb) | to bind; confine |
| Fetter (noun) | something that restricts or restrains |
| Fettered (adj) | bound or confined |
| Fiat (noun) | arbitrary order; authorization |
| Fidelity (noun) | loyalty; exact correspondence |
| Finesse (verb) | to handle with deceptive or evasive strategy; to use finesse, that is, refinement in performance |
| Fissure (noun) | crevice |
| Fledgling (noun) | beginner; novice |
| Flora (noun) | plants of a region or era |
| Florid (adj) | ruddy; reddish; flowery |
| Flourish (noun) | an embellishment or ornamentation |
| Flourish (verb) | to grow vigorously, or to thrive |
| Flux (noun) | flowing; a continuous moving |
| Foment (verb) | to incite; arouse |
| Forbearance (noun) | patience |
| Forestall (verb) | to prevent; delay |
| Formidable (adj) | menacing; threatening |
| Forswear (verb) | renounce; repudiate |
| Founder (verb) | to sink; fail; collapse |
| Fracas (noun) | a loud quarrel; brawl |
| Fresco (noun) | a painting done on plaster |
| Frieze (noun) | ornamental band on a wall |
| Froward (adj) | stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient |
| Frugality (noun) | thrift |
| Fulsome (adj) | so excessive as to be disgusting |
| Fusion (adj) | union; synthesis |
| Futile (adj) | ineffective; useless; fruitless |
| Gainsay (verb) | to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose |
| Garrulous (adj) | pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
| Germane (adj) | relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
| Glib (adj) | marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
| Grandiloquence (noun) | pompous speech or expression |
| Gregarious (adj) | sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
| Grouse (verb) | to complain or grumble |
| Guy (noun) | a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy |
| Gambol (verb) | to frolic; leap playfully |
| Gauche (adj) | coarse and uncouth; clumsy |
| Geniality (noun) | cheerfulness; kindliness; sociability |
| Gerrymander (verb) | to divide an area into voting districts in a way that favors a political party |
| Goad (verb) | to prod; urge on |
| Gossamer (adj) | sheer; light and delicate, like cobwebs |
| Gouge (verb) | to tear out; scoop out; overcharge |
| Grandiloquent (adj) | pompous; bombastic |
| Guileless (adj) | free of cunning or deceit; artless |
| Guile (noun) | deception or trickery |
| Guise (noun) | outward appearance; false appearance; pretense |
| Gullible (adj) | easily deceived |
| Gustatory (adj) | affecting the sense of taste |
| Hackneyed (adj) | rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
| Halcyon (adj) | calm and peaceful |
| Harangue (verb/noun) | to deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long pompous speech |
| Hedonism (noun) | devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses |
| Hegemony (noun) | the constant dominance of one state or ideology over others |
| Heretical (adj) | violating accepted dogma or convention |
| Heterodox (adj) | unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic |
| Hubris (noun) | overbearing presumption or pride; arrogance |
| Hyperbole (noun) | an exaggerated statement; often used as a figure of speech |
| Hallowed (adj) | holy; sacred |
| Harrowing (adj) | extremely distressing; terrifying |
| Herbivorous (adj) | relating to a herbivore; an animal that feeds mainly on plants |
| Hermetic (adj) | tightly sealed; magical |
| Hieroglyphics (noun) | a system of writing in which pictorial symbols represent meaning of sounds; writing or symbols that are difficult to decipher; the symbols used in advanced mathematics |
| Hirsute (adj) | covered with hair |
| Histrionic (adj) | relating to exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect; theatrical arts or performance |
| Histrionics (noun) | emotional behavior done for effect |
| Homeostasis (noun) | automatic maintenance by an organism of normal temperature, chemical balance, etc within itself |
| Homily (noun) | sermon; tedious moralizing lecture; platitude |
| Homogeneous (adj) | composed of identical parts; uniform in composition |
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