Review Lessons 21 through 24   -   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
ferment
fertile
fervent
fiasco
fickle
fidget
finesse
finite
fitful
flabby
flagrant
flamboyant
fleeting
flexible
flourish
fluent
foment
foolhardy
forego
forerunner
foresee
forestall
formidable
formulate
forsake
forthright
fortify
fortuitous
fragile
frail
frenzy
frigid
frivolous
frugal
fruitless
fugitive
furrow
furtive
futile
galaxy
galling
gamely
garble
garish
garner
generalize
generate
generation
genre
geology
germane
glacier
goad
grandiose
gratify
gratis
gratuitous
gregarious
gross
guile
gulf
gullible
gusty
habitat
hamper
haphazard
harass
harbinger
harbor
hardy
hazard
heed
hemisphere
herald
heretic


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      extricate 1. to free or release from entanglement; disengage; difference; differentiate; separate
___________________________ 2. of great extent; wide; broad; scopic
___________________________ 3. a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbr.: fath; plumb-line; sound
___________________________ 4. not organized or based on reason or logic; without aim or purpose; hit-or-miss; indiscriminate; unconsidered
___________________________ 5. tending to economize; thrifty; canny; economical
___________________________ 6. exhibiting use of the imagination; whimsical or imaginative; imagined; imaginary
___________________________ 7. introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign; alien; extrinsic
___________________________ 8. to imitate in order to deceive; put on or give a false appearance of; simulate; bluff; assume
___________________________ 9. something causing unavoidable danger, peril, risk, or difficulty; chance; fortune
___________________________ 10. given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary; chargeless; costless
___________________________ 11. to make less difficult; help in progress.
___________________________ 12. coming, appearing, acting, etc., in fits or by spells; recurring irregularly; spotty; spasmodic; sporadic
___________________________ 13. strikingly bold or brilliant; showy; rich; rococo
___________________________ 14. not firm; soft; flaccid; flimsy; floppy
___________________________ 15. a person with an extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics; extremist; revolutional; ultra
___________________________ 16. an utter and shameful failure.
___________________________ 17. foolish or inane, esp. in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly; brainless; sheepheaded; weak-headed
___________________________ 18. a person or thing that signals the beginning or approach of something; forerunner; harbinger; precursor
___________________________ 19. readily believing and thus easily tricked or deceived; fleeceable; naive
___________________________ 20. spending excessively or imprudently; fantastic; wild
___________________________ 21. physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail; decrepit; weakly; unsubstantial
___________________________ 22. extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill, discrimination, taste, etc; exploit; play; manipulate
___________________________ 23. 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; fan; unfold; open
___________________________ 24. a seizure marked by violent agitation, excitement, or enthusiasm, or the activity accompanying such a seizure; furor
___________________________ 25. quickly changing without reason or warning, esp. in affection or allegiance; variable or capricious; volatile; temperamental; inconstant