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Word List F
SAT words that begin with the letter "F"
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English
11th Grade
12/21/2011

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Term

fabricate

When Michael couldn't remove the stain from the fabric, he ate it and fabricated a story that aliens stole it.

Definition
to invent or make up something (often in order to decieve)
Term

facet

"Face it! One of the facets of being a jeweler is sometimes selling flawed facets!"

Definition
side or aspect; face of something (like gemstones)
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facetious

She's so facetious that you should not take what she says at face value.

Definition
joking or jesting
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fallacious

They used to castigate people who made fallacious statements. (Well, that was a long time ago.)

Definition
false; wrong; incorrect
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fastidious

The fastidious Enron accountant admonished his employees, "Be careful! Don't shred too fast, idiots."

Definition
careful about details; impossible to satisfy
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fatuous

Eating 30 pounds of chocolate a day is a fatuous idea.

Definition
inane; foolish; fatheaded
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fawning

The hunter who killed Bambi's mother should have come back and made a fawning plea for forgiveness.

Definition
groveling; overly admiring
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feasible

Homer's idea of opening a hair salon for bald people was not feasible - who would pay the $30 fee? D'oh!

Definition
workable; plausible; possible
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fecund

"Feh! Couldn't you do wihtout all the smelly manure?" Slick asked Farmer Brown. "No, we need it to make the soil fecund."

Definition
fertile
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fervor

I will fight a ferocious ferret and get its fur for you if it will prove the fervor of my love for you.

Definition
passion
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fetid

I am proud to have fetid feet that smell of feta cheese.

Definition
smelly
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fictitious

Books of fiction have fictitious plots.

 

Definition
false; not genuine
Term

filch

Since they had zilch, they decided to filch.

Definition
to steal
Term

flagrant

After the protesters flagrantly burned the Stars and Stripes, the mayor began a flag rant, condemning the rebels.

Definition
deliberately conspicuous; glaring
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flaunt

I fragrantly flaunted my physical flawlessness to may fawning followers.

Definition
to show off something
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fluctuation

At the terrifying sight of the nasty sentence completion question, his heartbeat fluctuated wildly.

Definition
irregular variation
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foible

Britney Spears' foible is her penchant for attention.

Definition
weakness; flaw
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foment

When your foe warned you not to foment the army against him, your foe meant he was afraid of getting his ass kicked.

Definition

to stir up; agitate; INCITE

(think: when you stir something up it foams)

Term

forbearance

He played dead with forbearance until the four bears got antsy and went away.

Definition
patience
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forte

His forte was sneaking into the fort that was just before Fort B.

Definition
strong point
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frenetic

When the pilot and the flight attendants became frenzied, the passengers became frenetic.

Definition
frenzied; frantic; freaked out
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froward

The froward guardsmen refused to retreat, so the protestors could not move forward.

Definition
stubborn (see OBDURATE)
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frugal

They told me that I was frugal because I bought a plastic bugle.

Definition
sparing in expense; stingy; miserly
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fulminate

After he bombed the SAT, he fulminated for a full minute against the ETS.

Definition
to explode; roar; denounce loudly
Term

futile

The one-armed floor layer felt his work was futile because he could lay only a few tiles a day.

Definition
completely ineffective
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