Webster Essential Vocabulary

• Allowing a five-year-old to walk alone near a busy street can only be
  described as feckless.
  [-ly adv.]
  felon(FEL in) n. a person guilty of a major crime (guilty of a felony, rather than
  a misdemeanor); a criminal


• Petty larceny is a misdemeanor, while grand larceny is a felony, and one
  who commits it is a felon.


• The person who wrote the sentence “The boy felon his head” is not neces-
  sarily a felon.


• Most prison residents in the United States are felons.
  fidelity(fi DEL i tee) n. 1. faithfulness to one’s obligations; loyalty; 2. faithful
  to the story, the truth, the actual sound, and so on


• When two people get married, each should expect the full fidelityof the
  other.


• High fidelityis so named because it tries to be faithful to the sound of the
  concert hall.


• When one reads a news story, it is only right to expect the reporter to
  show fidelityto the actual facts.
  [Syn. allegiance]

Quick Review #102.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

E – F: GRE Words 283

1. exculpate


2. exigent


3. extant


4. extraneous


5. extricable


6. extrovert


7. facetious


8. facilitate


9. faction


10. feckless


11. felon


12. fidelity

a. ineffective

b. escapable

c. partisan

d. clear

e. criminal

f. irrelevant

g. outgoing person

h. urgent

i. witty

j. faithfulness

k. ease

l. existing