SAT Vocab - F

fabrication

a life; something made up

facetious

humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous

facile

fluent; skillful in a superficial way; easy

faction

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 (//flora)

fecund

fertile; produdctive

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 restrain 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