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• Allowing a five-year-old to walk alone near a busy street can only be 283
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 fidelity of the
other.
• High fidelity is 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 fidelity to 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.

1. exculpate a. ineffective
2. exigent b. escapable
3. extant c. partisan
4. extraneous d. clear
5. extricable e. criminal

6. extrovert f. irrelevant
7. facetious g. outgoing person
8. facilitate h. urgent
9. faction i. witty
10. feckless j. faithfulness
11. felon k. ease
12. fidelity l. existing