Vocabulary Review from Word Smart 6 Edition

A collection of vocabulary terms and definitions covering words starting with 'F' from the Word Smart study materials.

Fabrication

A lie; 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; like a mockery or a ridiculous satire.

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; often used in the phrase flora and fauna to describe plants and animals of a region.

Flora

Plants.

Fecund

Fertile; productive.

Felicity

Happiness; skillfulness, especially at expressing things; adeptness.

Fervor

Great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal.

Fetter

To restrain; to hamper; literally a chain attached to the foot.

Fidelity

Faithfulness; loyalty.

Figurative

Based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually used for something else; metaphorical.

Literal

A statement in which every word means exactly what it says.

Finesse

Skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness.

Flagrant

Glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous.

Flaunt

To 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.

Forebear

An ancestor.

Forego

To do without; to forbear.

Forsake

To abandon; to renounce; to relinquish.

Fortuitous

Accidental; occurring by chance.

Founder

To fail; to collapse; to sink.

Flounder

To move clumsily or in confusion.

Fraternal

Like brothers.

Frenetic

Frantic; frenzied.

Frugal

Economical; penny-pinching.

Furtive

Secretive; sly.

Futile

Useless; hopeless.