Lesson 21   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
extend
extensive
extinguish
extol
extract
extraneous
extravagant
extricate
exult
facet
facilitate
faction
faculty
fallacious
fallible
fallow
falter
fanatic
fanciful
fastidious
fathom
fatuous
feasible
feeble
feign
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      fatuous 1. foolish or inane, esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly; simple; asinine; brainless
___________________________ 2. weak intellectually or morally; infirm; frail; fragile
___________________________ 3. to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way; stammer; topple; teeter
___________________________ 4. to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse; fake; assume
___________________________ 5. to remove or take out by use of force; tear; evulse
___________________________ 6. to make easier or less difficult; help forward (an action, a process, etc.)
___________________________ 7. coming from outside; foreign; alien
___________________________ 8. to show or feel a lively or triumphant joy; rejoice exceedingly; be highly elated or jubilant; delight; glory; jubilate
___________________________ 9. to put an end to; demolish; squench; dout
___________________________ 10. to stretch, draw, or arrange in a given direction, or so as to reach a particular point, as a cord, wall, or line of troops; open; expand
___________________________ 11. one of the powers of the mind, as memory, reason, or speech; knack; aptness; gift
___________________________ 12. a group or clique within a larger group, party, government, organization, or the like; ring; combination; coalition
___________________________ 13. a unit of length equal to six feet, used to measure the depth of water or mines; plumb-line; sound
___________________________ 14. liable to error; errant; errable
___________________________ 15. of farmland, tilled but not planted.
___________________________ 16. a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics; rabid; revolutionary
___________________________ 17. to praise highly; laud; eulogize; magnify; glorify
___________________________ 18. to free or release from difficulty, entanglement, or involvement; disengage; discrepate; know; sever
___________________________ 19. exhibiting use of the imagination; whimsical or imaginative; imagined; shadowy
___________________________ 20. having great reach or extension; wide; scopic; extended
___________________________ 21. one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem; hand; phase; side
___________________________ 22. spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful; wild; preposterous
___________________________ 23. capable of being done, carried out, or brought about; possible; viable; practicable; doable
___________________________ 24. exceedingly particular or demanding esp. in matters of detail; exacting; pernickety; nice; fussy
___________________________ 25. containing or based on an unsound argument; in error; illogical; invalid; sophistic