fabrication a lie
facade mask, front of a building
facet aspect
facetious joking, sarcastic
facile easy
facilitate make easier
facility skill
facsimile duplicate
faction clique, sect
factious causing disagreement
factitious artificial
factotum handyman
fallacious false
fallacy false belief
fallow unproductive, unplowed
falsetto high male voice
falter waver
fanaticism excessive zeal
fane temple
fanfare publicity
farcical absurd, ridiculous
farrago mixture
fascism totalitarianism, extreme nationalism
fastidious meticulous
fatal resulting in death
fathom understand
fatuity foolishness
fatuous inane, stupid
fauna animals
faux pas false step, mistake
fealty loyalty
feasible likely to succeed
feat deed, remarkable achievement
febrile feverish, delirious
feckless incompetent
fecund fertile
feign pretend
felicity happiness
felonious criminal
femme fatale a woman who leads men to their destruction
fend ward off
feral untamed, wild
ferment turmoil
ferret rummage through
fertile fruitful
fervor intensity
fester decay, to make someone increasingly bitter
festive joyous
festoon decorate
fete to honor with an event
fetid stinking
fetters shackles
fey eccentric, whimsical
fiasco debacle
fiat decree
fickle always changing one’s mind
fictitious invented, imaginary
fidelity loyalty
figment falsehood, fantasy
filch steal
filial son
filibuster long speech
fillip stimulus
finale conclusion
finesse skill
firebrand agitator
firmament sky
fiscal monetary
fitful starting and stopping irregularly
fjord coastal inlet
flabbergasted amazed, bumdfounded
flagellate whip
flagrant outrageous, blatant
flail whip, to thrash something around uncontrollably and menacingly
fledgling just beginning, struggling
flippant pert, glib, dismissive
florid ruddy, ornate
Match each word in the first column with its definition in the second column. Answers are on page 101.
1. EXHORT |
A. free from blame |
2. EXONERATE |
B. strongly urge |
3. EXPOSTULATE |
C. agitator |
4. EXTRADITE |
D. untamed |
5. EXULT |
E. debacle |
6. FACTITIOUS |
F. inane |
7. FATUOUS |
G. artificial |
8. FERAL |
H. deport |
9. FIASCO |
I. rejoice |
10. FIREBRAND |
J. protest |
flout to show disregard for the law or rules
fluctuate waver, vary
foible weakness, minor fault
foil defeat, thwart
foist palm off a fake
foment instigate
font source, fountainhead, set of type
forage search for food
foray raid
forbear abstain, restrain oneself
force majeure superior force
foreboding ominous
foreclose exclude
forensic pertaining to debate
foresight ability to predict the future
forestall thwart, preempt
forgo relinquish (usually voluntarily)
forsake abandon
forswear deny
forthright frank
forthwith immediately
fortify strengthen
fortitude resilience, courage
fortuitous lucky
foster encourage, cultivate
founder sink. fail
fracas noisy fight
fragile easily broken
fragmented broken into fragments
fraternity brotherhood
fraught filled
frenetic harried, neurotic
fret worry
fritter squander
frivolity playfulness
frolic romp, play
frond bending tree
frugal thrifty
fruitful productive
fruition realization, completion
fruitless unprofitable, barren
fulminate denounce, menace
fulsome excessive, insincere
fuming angry
furlough leave of absence
furor commotion
furtive stealthy
fusillade bombardment
futile hopeless