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Fallow |
Uncultivated, not in use |
Don't let your minds lie fallow even if you are out of school |
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Fawn |
Show affection; try to win over by flattery |
V |
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Fecund |
Fruitful |
Adj |
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Felicitous |
Appropriate, well suited; pleasant |
Adj |
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Fervid |
Very hot |
Adj |
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Flout |
Disobey |
He flouts the curfew, staying out late till midnight |
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Fluke |
Luck |
N |
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Forage |
Search, hunt |
Racoons forage for food from our trashcan |
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Ford |
Shallow water, to cross shallow water |
N, v |
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Fortuitous |
Lucky |
Adj |
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Fulminate |
Attack verbally |
V |
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Furtive |
Secretive |
He had to be furtive about eating junkfood at night |
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Garner |
Gather, collect |
He garnered all the evidece he can find (V) |
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Gestation |
Pregnancy |
N |
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Glacial |
Cold |
Adj |
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Glower |
To glare |
His girlfriend glowered at her bf for being late |
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Gouge |
Digging tool, digging, overcharge |
N, v |
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Graft |
Join different parts together; getting money illegally |
The chapters were so different that it seemed like it was grafted V, n |
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Grandiloquent |
Bombastic |
Adj |
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Grandstand |
Act to impress |
A lot of candidates grandstand tp get votes |
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Grating |
Irritating; harsh sound |
Adj |
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Grouse |
Complain |
Everyone was annoyed with her grousing |
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Grovel |
Kneel |
He was groveling, asking his boss not to fire him |
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Hand-wringing |
Grasping hand in distress; debate |
N |
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Hapless |
Unlucky |
Adj |
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Harrow |
Cause distress; farming tool |
N, v |
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Hedge |
Changing one's mind, surround |
V |
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Hegemony |
Domination, authority, supremacy; influence by a country |
N |
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Hew |
Chop; shape with cutting tool |
He had to hew his own way through thr brush |
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Hoary |
Very old, gray |
Dad I've heard your hoaru old college story many times |
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Homage |
Honor |
N |
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Hoodwink |
Trick, deceive |
V |
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Hotly |
Intense, fiery |
They disputed in a hotly manner |
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Husband |
돈관리 |
V |
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Idyllic (idyll) |
Happy, peaceful |
Adj, n |
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Ignoble |
Not noble, low moral, shameful |
Adj |
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Imbue |
Saturate; influence |
His poems are are imbued with a sense of longing for his home |
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Impasse |
Dead-end |
N |
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Imperious |
Bossy |
Adj |
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Impervious |
Impenetrable; cant be harmed or disturbed |
She was impervious to insults, not caring what people said |
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Impetuous |
Impulsive; violent |
Adj |
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Impious |
Not religious |
Adj |
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Implacable |
Unstoppable; not able to please |
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Imprecation |
Curse |
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Impugn |
To question truth |
V |
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Impute |
Assign; blame |
V |
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Incarnadine |
Blood red |
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Inconstancy |
State of changing |
Inconstancy of this love broke her heart |
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Inculcate |
Instill by teaching persistently |
Parents spend yeartd trying go inculcate proper manner into their kids |
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Indefatigable |
Not becoming tired |
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