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Foible:
MEANING: Slight flaw or defect, especially of character
SENTENCE: Her tendency to gossip was an all-too-human foible.
Foment:
MEANING: To instigate or stir up, especially discord or trouble
SENTENCE: Greenpeace fomented protests on the ocean against whaling.

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Forestall:
MEANING: To prevent, hinder or thwart by action in advance
SENTENCE: They will hand in their resignations to forestall a vote of no
confidence.
Forlorn:
MEANING: Sad And lonely
SENTENCE: After his lover left him and went with some other guy,
Edward was forlorn.
Fortuitous
: MEANING: Occurring by happy chance; by lucky accident
SENTENCE: There is no connection between these two events; their
timing is entirely fortuitous.
Frugality
: MEANING: The attitude of not spending much money
SENTENCE: Monte was no miser, but was simply frugal, wisely spending
the little that he earned.
Futile:
MEANING: Useless, ineffective
SENTENCE: His attempts at scaling the wall were futile, it was simply too
high for him.

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Gainsay:
MEANING: Deny or dispute; oppose
SENTENCE: He shrugged his shoulders, unable to gainsay the argument.
Galling:
MEANING: Causing irritation, exasperating
SENTENCE: Learning vocabulary lists without sentence examples Is a
galling thing for most students.
Gambit:
MEANING: Action aimed at producing a future advantage; a
remark to open or redirect a conversation
SENTENCE: One gambit is to require photo identification. This should
ensure tenants are properly managed.
Garrulous:
MEANING: Talkative, wordy
SENTENCE: Many club members avoided the company of the garrulous
junior executive, because his constant chatter bored them to tears.
Gauche:
MEANING: Clumsy and awkward in social behaviour
SENTENCE: It Is terribly gauche to put ketchup on your steak and then
talk with your mouth full as you eat it! That's the last time I ever bring you
to a nice place!
Gawky:
MEANING: Physically awkward
SENTENCE: As a teenager, she thought of herself as gawky and often
slouched so as not to seem so much taller than her peers; of course, now
that she's a supermodel, no one thinks of her as gawky at all.
Glib:
MEANING: Fluent with insincerity or superficiality

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SENTENCE: Politicians are usually glib and articulate speakers; this helps
them in their campaign.