Soft
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Giving way under pressure. Smooth and flexible. Gentle. Having an acute angle. Quiet. voiced, sonant voiceless palatalized Lacking strength or resolve, wimpy. Low in dissolved calcium compounds. (Northern British, colloquial) Foolish. Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (c.f. hard)
Example sentence: Gun control is not the answer. The best and most effective path forward, I believe, is one that safeguards our schools from becoming 'soft targets.'
Fricative
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant. English F and S are fricatives.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.