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47 Cards in this Set
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Facetious
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adj. Joking; not serious; humorous and playful.
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Factotum
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n. A handyman; a person who is skilled at and who can perform a wide range of jobs.
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Fancier
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n. A person who breeds animals or plants, or who otherwise has a strong interest for something.
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Farce
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n. A broad comedy; a mockery; a humorous play composed of silly events.
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Fastidious
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adj. Fussy; overly picky and particular; difficult to please.
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Fatuous
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adj. Smug, and unconsciously foolish; unreal.
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Fault
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n. A weakness; a small error; a minor offense.
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Febrile
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adj. Relating to fever.
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Feckless
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adj. Lacking purpose; not capable of having responsibility; irresponsible.
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Fecund
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adj. Fertile; producing offspring.
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Felicitous
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adj. Apt; agreeable in manner or style; marked by happiness
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Feral
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adj. Not domesticated; wild and potentially uncontrollable.
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Ferment
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v. To agitate; to become excited; to stir up.
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Ferret
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v. To discover; to make visible; to force out of hiding; to search and make known by persistent attempts.
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Festoon
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n. A garland of leaves or flowers hoisted up in a loop, suspended from two points.
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Fetid
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adj. Stinking; having a foul and offensive odor.
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Fetter
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v. To shackle; to chain; to bind.
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Fiat
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n. A command; an arbitrary order; a decree.
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Fictive
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adj. Fictional; assumed; adopted in an attempt to mislead.
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Fissure
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n. A crack; an opening; a crevice.
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Flagellate
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v. To whip as part of a religious punishment or for sexual pleasure; to whip back and forth.
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Flighty
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adj. Whimsical; capricious and frivolous; tending to change ones mind frequently.
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Florescence
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n. The condition or period of flowering.
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Flotsam
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n. Drifting wreckage; debris floating on the surface of the water.
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Fluted
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adj. Having vertical parallel grooves.
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Fodder
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n. Food for cattle, horses, pigs, etc.; feed for livestock; food given to farm animals.
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Foist
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v. To impose upon another by coercion; to palm off; to insert improperly.
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Foray
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n. A blitz raid; a quick military advance.
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Forbear
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v. To refrain from or to resist; to be patient.
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Forbearance
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n. Patience; having the willingness to wait.
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Ford
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n. A shallow place in a river which allows for easy passage; a place where a river can be crossed.
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Forestall
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v. To anticipate and to prevent by taking action ahead of time.
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Forswear
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v. To renounce seriously or under oath.
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Fracas
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v. A quarrel; a noisy fight; a commotion.
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Fractious
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adj. Complaining; bad-tempered; readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome.
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Franchise
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n. A license to sell a product in a certain area; a license to open and run a new store for an already existing chain of stores.
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Freebooter
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n. A pirate; a buccaneer; a person who goes about looking for plunder.
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Frenetic
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adj. Frantic; overly excited.
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Fresco
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n. Paining on wet plaster.
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Frieze
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n. An ornamental carving on a wall, often depicting humans, animals, gods, and their interaction; the front facade of a classical building.
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Frock
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n. A loose garment or drape, usually worn by monks and/or others of the clergy.
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Frowzy
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adj. Dirty; untidy; smelling bad.
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Fructuous
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adj. Fruitful; productive; bountiful.
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Fulminate
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v. To thunder; to explode; issue a severe denunciation.
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Fungible
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adj. Freely exchangeable; pertaining to goods that are freely interchangeable with another in satisfying an obligation.
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Fusillade
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n. A simultaneous firing of weapons; a discharge or outpouring.
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Fusty
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adj. Moldy; characterized by an unpleasant smell; musty; sickly with neglect.
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