The noun expedience or expediency also refers to practicality or being especially suited to a
particular goal.
EXPEDITE (EK spi dyte) v to speed up or ease the progress of
- The post office expedited mail delivery by hiring more letter carriers.
- The lawyer expedited the progress of our case through the courts by bribing a few judges.
- Our wait for a table was expedited by a waiter who mistook Angela for a movie star.
FALLACY (FAL uh see) n a false notion or belief; a misconception
- Peter clung to the fallacy that he was a brilliant writer, despite the fact that everything he
had ever written had been rejected by every publisher to whom he had sent it. - That electricity is a liquid was but one of the many fallacies spread by the incompetent
science teacher.
The adjective is fallacious (fuh LAY shus).
FISCAL (FIS kul) adj pertaining to financial matters; monetary
- Having no sense of fiscal responsibility, he was happy to waste his salary on a life-size
plastic flamingo with diamond eyes. - A fiscal year is any twelve-month period established for accounting purposes.
- Scrooge Enterprises begins its fiscal year on December 25 to make sure that no one takes
Christmas Day off.
FLAGRANT (FLAY grunt) adj glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous
- An example of a flagrant theft would be stealing a car from the parking lot of a police
station. - A flagrant spelling error is a very noticeable one.
Don’t confuse flagrant with blatant, which means “obvious.”
FLAUNT (flawnt) v to show off; to display ostentatiously
- The brand-new millionaire annoyed all his friends by driving around his old neighborhood to
flaunt his new, expensive car. - Colleen flaunted her engagement ring, shoving it in the face of almost anyone who came
near her.
This word is very often confused with flout, which means to openly disregard or break a rule or
law.
FLEDGLING (FLEJ ling) adj inexperienced or immature
- A fledgling bird is one still too young to fly; once its wing feathers have grown in, it is said to