GRE : Essential Greek Roots : For- and Soph-

forage
vw
to search about; seek; rummage; hunt
 
forbear
refrain or abstain from.
 
forestall
prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance.
 
forfeit
n
a fine; penalty.
 
forge
form by heating and hammering.
 
forgery
crime of falsely making or altering a writing by which the legal rights of another person.
 
forswear
reject or renounce under oath.
 
sophisticated
altered by education, experience so as to be worldly-wise.
 
sophistry
subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
 
sophomoric
suggestive of or resembling the traditional intellectually pretentious, overconfident, conceited, etc., but immature

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