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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'F'
- FACADE: Front or face, especially of a building.
Sentence:
* A facade of marble.
- 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. - FALLACIOUS (Noun FALLACY): Unsound, misleading, deceptive.
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* Led astray by fallacious reasoning and plan. - FALLIBLE: Liable to make mistakes or be deceived.
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* Being human, Torn was naturally fallible.
Antonyms: Infallible, unerring. - FATHOM: To penetrate and understand.
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* Difficult to fathom his mysterious actions. - FATUOUS: Foolish, silly.
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* A fatuous suggestion that struck us as stupid.
Synonyms: inane, vacuous, puerile.
Antonyms: Judicious, sagacious, sage. - FEALTY: Faithfulness.
Sentence:
* The soldiers were pledged to fealty to their ruler.
Synonyms: Allegiance, constancy, fidelity.
Antonyms: disloyalty, infidelity, treachery. - FEASIBLE: Workable.
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* A feasible plan proved practical by - previous experience.
Antonyms: impracticable. - FEIGN (Noun- FEINT): To pretend.
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* He feigned to be angry, but we saw through his pretense.
Synonyms: dissemble, sham, dissimulate, affect. - FELICITY (Adj. FELICITOUS):
(1) A state of happiness
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* Promoted felicity in the nation.
Synonyms: bliss
(2) A high ability.
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* Lie has a felicity of language, mastery of the well-chosen phrase. - FERVID: Spirited, ardent
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* A fervid debater full of emotion.
Synonyms: Perfervid, impassioned. zealous. fervent, vehement. - 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.
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* A room festooned with spring flowers. - FETISH:
(1) Something that is believed to have magical powers.
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* Savages worshiping the fetish in a ceremonial dance.
Synonyms: charm, talisman. amulet.
(2) An object of unreasoning devotion and worship.
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* Photography, begun as a hobby, became a fetish. - FIASCO: A ludicrous and complete failure.
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* All his glorious plans ending in a fiasco.
Synonyms: Debacle. - FICTITIOUS: Unreal, made-up.
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* Used a fictitious name to avoid being recognized.
Synonyms: Fabricated. - FLACCID: Lacking firmness.
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* Muscles grown flaccid after the illness.
Synonyms: flabby, limp. - FLAGRANT: Outstandingly bad.
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* Condemned for his flagrant abuse of power.
Synonyms: glaring, scandalous, notorious, conspicuous, gross. - FLAMBOYANT: Elaborately showy.
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* Written in a flamboyant, style, full of highly decorative imagery.
Synonyms: florid, ornate, resplendent, embellished, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, rococo.
Antonym: somber. - FLAUNT: Display or wave boastfully.
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* Flaunted the excellent report before his delighted parents. - FLEETING: Passing swiftly
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* The fleeting hours of happiness.
Synonyms: transitory, fugitive. - FLUCTUATE: To waver from one course to another; to vary irregularly
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* His mood fluctuating with every hour.
Synonyms: oscillate, vacillate, undulate, sway. - FORBEAR (Noun: FORBEARANCE): To exercise self control; to keep from
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* Forbearing to shoot the animal despite temptation.
Synonyms: restrain, abstain. - FORENSIC: Pertaining to public discussion or law courts
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* A lawyer gifted in forensic debate.
Synonyms: rhetorical, oratorical. - FORTUITOUS: Accidental
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* A fortuitous meeting with a friend in need.
Synonyms: casual, incidental, adventitious, random. - FRACAS: A disorderly quarrel.
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* A fracas broke up the meeting.
Synonyms: brawl, altercation, fray, wrangle, imbroglio. - 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. - FULSOME: Disgustingly excessive.
Sentence:
* Nauseated by fulsome praise.
Adj. = Adjective
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