English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'F'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'F'

1. FACADE: Front or face, especially of a building.
   Sentence:
   * A facade of marble.
    
2. FACETIOUS: Given to joking or inappropriate gaiety said in fun.
   Sentence:
   * Brightened the evening with his facetious remarks.
   Synonyms: Jocose, droll, flippant, frivolous.
   Antonyms: Solemn, grave saturnine.
   
   
3. FALLACIOUS (Noun FALLACY): Unsound, misleading, deceptive.
   Sentence:
   * Led astray by fallacious reasoning and plan.
   
   
4. FALLIBLE: Liable to make mistakes or be deceived.
   Sentence:
   * Being human, Torn was naturally fallible.
   Antonyms: Infallible, unerring.
   
   
5. FATHOM: To penetrate and understand.
   Sentence:
   * Difficult to fathom his mysterious actions.
   
   
6. FATUOUS: Foolish, silly.
   Sentence:
   * A fatuous suggestion that struck us as stupid.
   Synonyms: inane, vacuous, puerile.
   Antonyms: Judicious, sagacious, sage.
   
   
7. FEALTY: Faithfulness.
   Sentence:
   * The soldiers were pledged to fealty to their ruler.
   Synonyms: Allegiance, constancy, fidelity.
   Antonyms: disloyalty, infidelity, treachery.
   
   
8. FEASIBLE: Workable.
   Sentence:
   * A feasible plan proved practical by - previous experience.
   Antonyms: impracticable.
   
   
9. FEIGN (Noun- FEINT): To pretend.
   Sentence:
   * He feigned to be angry, but we saw through his pretense.
   Synonyms: dissemble, sham, dissimulate, affect.
   
   
10. FELICITY (Adj. FELICITOUS):
    (1) A state of happiness
    Sentence:
    * Promoted felicity in the nation.
    Synonyms: bliss
    (2) A high ability.
    Sentence:
    * Lie has a felicity of language, mastery of the well-chosen phrase.
    
    
11. FERVID: Spirited, ardent
    Sentence:
    * A fervid debater full of emotion.
    Synonyms: Perfervid, impassioned. zealous. fervent, vehement.
    
    
12. FESTOON:
    (1) (Noun): A garland of flowers, leaves, etc hung between two points.
    Sentence:
    * The room bright with festoons of Thanksgiving decorations.
    (2) (Verb): To hang with festoons.
    Sentence:
    * A room festooned with spring flowers.
    
    
13. FETISH:
    (1) Something that is believed to have magical powers.
    Sentence:
    * Savages worshiping the fetish in a ceremonial dance.
    Synonyms: charm, talisman. amulet.
    (2) An object of unreasoning devotion and worship.
    Sentence:
    * Photography, begun as a hobby, became a fetish.
    
    
14. FIASCO: A ludicrous and complete failure.
    Sentence:
    * All his glorious plans ending in a fiasco.
    Synonyms: Debacle.
    
    
15. FICTITIOUS: Unreal, made-up.
    Sentence:
    * Used a fictitious name to avoid being recognized.
    Synonyms: Fabricated.
    
    
16. FLACCID: Lacking firmness.
    Sentence:
    * Muscles grown flaccid after the illness.
    Synonyms: flabby, limp.
    
    
17. FLAGRANT: Outstandingly bad.
    Sentence:
    * Condemned for his flagrant abuse of power.
    Synonyms: glaring, scandalous, notorious, conspicuous, gross.
    
    
18. FLAMBOYANT: Elaborately showy.
    Sentence:
    * Written in a flamboyant, style, full of highly decorative imagery.
    Synonyms: florid, ornate, resplendent, embellished, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, rococo.
    Antonym: somber.
    
    
19. FLAUNT: Display or wave boastfully.
    Sentence:
    * Flaunted the excellent report before his delighted parents.
    
    
20. FLEETING: Passing swiftly
    Sentence:
    * The fleeting hours of happiness.
    Synonyms: transitory, fugitive.
    
    
21. FLUCTUATE: To waver from one course to another; to vary irregularly
    Sentence:
    * His mood fluctuating with every hour.
    Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, undulate, sway.
    
    
22. FORBEAR (Noun: FORBEARANCE): To exercise self control; to keep from
    Sentence:
    * Forbearing to shoot the animal despite temptation.
    Synonyms: restrain, abstain.
    
    
23. FORENSIC: Pertaining to public discussion or law courts
    Sentence:
    * A lawyer gifted in forensic debate.
    Synonyms: rhetorical, oratorical.
    
    
24. FORTUITOUS: Accidental
    Sentence:
    * A fortuitous meeting with a friend in need.
    Synonyms: casual, incidental, adventitious, random.
    
    
25. FRACAS: A disorderly quarrel.
    Sentence:
    * A fracas broke up the meeting.
    Synonyms: brawl, altercation, fray, wrangle, imbroglio.
    
    
26. FRUSTRATE: To prevent (the attainment of an object); to defeat or render ineffectual.
    Sentence:
    * His scholastic progress was frustrated by a serious illness.
    Synonyms: balk, thwart, foil, baffle, obstruct, discomfit.
    Antonym: abet.
    
    
27. FULSOME: Disgustingly excessive.
    Sentence:
    * Nauseated by fulsome praise. 

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