TOEFL Vocabulary Page 11

251. FICTITIOUS: Unreal; made-up - used a fictitious name to avoid being recognized.

Synonym: fabricated

252. FLACCID: Lacking firmness - muscles grown flaccid after the illness.

Synonyms: flabby, limp

253. FLAGRANT: Outstandingly bad - condemned for his flagrant abuse of power.

Synonyms: glaring, scandalous, notorious, conspicuous, gross

254. FLAMBOYANT: Elaborately showy - written in a flamboyant, style, full of highly decorative imagery.

Synonyms: florid, ornate, resplendent, embellished, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, rococo

Antonym: somber

255. FLAUNT: Display or wave boastfully - flaunted the excellent report before his delighted parents.

256. FLEETING: Passing swiftly -the fleeting hours of happiness

Synonyms: transitory, fugitive

257. FLUCTUATE: To waver from one course to another; to vary irregularly - his mood fluctuating with every hour.

Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, undulate, sway

258. FORBEAR (noun: FORBEARANCE): To exercise self control; to keep from - forbearing to shoot the animal despite temptation.

Synonyms: restrain, abstain

259. FORENSIC: Pertaining to public discussion or law courts - a lawyer gifted in forensic debate.

Synonyms: rhetorical, oratorical

260. FORTUITOUS: Accidental - a fortuitous meeting with a friend in need.

Synonyms: casual, incidental, adventitious, random

261. FRACAS: A disorderly quarrel - A fracas broke up the meeting.

Synonyms: brawl, altercation, fray, wrangle, imbroglio

262. FRUSTRATE: To prevent (the attainment of an object); to defeat or render ineffectual - His scholastic progress was frustrated by a serious illness.

Synonyms: balk, thwart, foil, baffle, obstruct, discomfit

Antonym: abet

263. FULSOME: Disgustingly excessive - nauseated by fulsome praise.

264. GARNISH: To trim or decorate - dishes garnished attractively with greens.

Synonyms: adorn, deck

265. GENEALOGY: A record of a person's or a family's ancestors or relatives - an interesting genealogy, including saints and sinners.

Synonym: lineage

266. GENESIS: Origin - chemistry, which had its genesis in alchemy.

Synonym: inception

267. GESTICULATE: To make gestures, or indicate feelings by. motions - gesticulated wildly to show his distress.

268. GHASTLY: Horrible, deathlike - a ghastly disaster which shocked the world.

Synonyms: gruesome, grisly, pallid, macabre, grim, lurid

269. GIBE (variant spelling: JIBE): To laugh at; to utter with scorn - gibed at his enemy mercilessly.

Synonyms: mock, sneer, jeer, scoff, flout, deride (adj.: derisive), rail, taunt

270. GLIB: Smooth-spoken, fluent - a glib liar, distorting the truth effortlessly.

271. GLUTTONOUS (noun. GLUTTON; verb: GLUT): Inclined to cat to excess - gulped down his food in gluttonous fashion.

Synonyms:voracious, intemperate

272. GOSSAMER (noun): A very thin gauzelike fabric or structure - a poem so delicate that it seemed an unreal gossamer.

(adj.): Thin and light - the gossamer wings of a dragon fly.

Synonyms: diaphanous, flimsy, gauzelike Antonyms: substantial, ponderous

273. GREGARIOUS: Habitually fond of associating in a company or herd - gregarious sheep; that gregarious animal, man.

Antonyms:lone, aloof

274. GRIMACE: A distortion of the face to express an attitude or feeling - a grimace that was more expressive than words.

275. HAIL: To greet - The crowd hailed the returning hero.

Synonyms: accost, salute