Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #103.

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

286 Essential Vocabulary

1. finesse


2. fission


3. fissure


4. fixate


5. flag


6. flaw


7. flora


8. flourish


9. fluctuate


10. flux


11. foible


12. foment

a. thrive

b. incite

c. artfulness

d. wane

e. change

f. separation

g. defect

h. fault

i. crack

j. plant life

k. vary

l. focus

foreclosure(fawr KLOH zhyoer) n. the legal procedure for a mortgager to gain
possession of a property when the mortgagee has failed to keep up payments so
that the property can be sold to cover the former’s expenses

• The bank’s attorneys took foreclosureaction because the borrower was in
  arrears on the monthly payments.


• Foreclosureauctions, in which the foreclosed-on properties are sold to repay
  the mortgage holder, can be a source of real estate bargains.
  [(to) foreclose vi., vt.]
  foreignness(FAWR in nes) n. the quality of not naturally belonging; having
  the quality of being an outsider; strangeness


• Invading microbes are usually attacked by the body’s defenses when their
  foreignnessis recognized.


• Westerners’ ears have difficulty with the foreignnessof Asian music.
  [Syn. extrinsicness]
  forestall(for STAWL) vt. 1. to prevent by performing some action in advance;

2. to hinder; obstruct

• Paying the overdue mortgage forestalledthe bank’s foreclosing on Ms.
  Green’s home.


• Mr. Black obtained a restraining order to forestallhis neighbor’s cutting
  down the cherry tree.
  [-ed, -ing] [Syn. prevent]