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- facetious: characterized by wit and pleasantry.
- facetious: playfully jocular; humorous.
- facile: easily done or performed.
- facile: performable or attainable with little labor.
- factious: addicted to form parties and raise dissensions. 968. factitious: artificial; not authentic or genuine 969. factitious: artificial; sham; not natural.
- factotum: a person employed to do all kinds of work.
- faineant: doing nothing; idle; also, a do-nothing.
- fait accompli: an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed or fact.
- fallible: liable to make a mistake.
- fanfaronade: empty boasting; bluster.
- farrago: an assortment.
- farrago: an assortment; a medley.
- fatidic: of, relating to, or characterized by prophecy.
- fatuous: inanely foolish; stupid; also, illusory.
- fatuous: weak; silly; stupid; foolish.
- favonian: pertaining to the west wind; soft; mild; gentle.
- fealty: fidelity; allegiance; faithfulness.
- febrile: feverish.
- feckless: ineffective; weak; worthless.
- fecund: fruitful; prolific.
- felicitous: apt or appropriate; also, delightful.
- felicitous: apt; also, delightful.
- fetid: stinking.
- fetor: a strong, offensive smell.
- fettle: a state or condition of fitness, order, or mind.
- fey: possessing or displaying a strange and otherworldly aspect or quality; elfin.
- fiat: an arbitrary or authoritative command or order.
- fiduciary: relating to the holding of something in trust for another.
- filial: of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter.
- fillip: a snap; also, a stimulus.
- fin de siecle: characteristic of the close of the century; sophisticated; world-weary.
- firmament: the sky; the heavens.
- flagitious: grossly wicked; scandalous.
- flaneur: one who strolls about aimlessly; a lounger; a loafer.
- flibbertigibbet: a silly, flighty, or excessively talkative person.
- flippant: lacking proper respect or seriousness.
- flippant: showing inappropriate levity; pert.
- florid: flushed with red; also, excessively ornate.
- florid: of a lively reddish color; also, excessively ornate.
- flout: to treat with contempt or disregard
- flummery: mumbo jumbo; nonsense.
- foment: to instigate; to incite.
- foment: to nurse to life or activity; to encourage.
- foment: to nurse to life or activity; to incite.
- foofaraw: excessive or flashy ornamentation; also, a fuss over a trivial matter.
- fop: a man who is much concerned with his appearance.
- fop: a man who is vain about his dress and appearance.
- forcible: effected by force used against resistance; also, powerful.
- forfend: to avert; also, to protect or preserve.
- forgo: to do without.
- forlorn: sad and lonely because deserted, abandoned, or lost.
- fortuitous: happening by chance.
- foundling: an abandoned child.
- fractious: tending to cause trouble; also, irritable.
- frangible: capable of being broken; easily broken.
- friable: easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
- frisson: a brief moment of intense excitement.
- frisson: a shudder of excitement, pleasure, or fear.
- fugacious: lasting but a short time.
- fulminate: to issue or utter verbal attacks or censures.
- fulminate: to thunder forth menaces.
- fulsome: offensive from excess of praise.
- funereal: pertaining to a funeral; solemn; mournful.
- funereal: pertaining to or suiting a funeral; gloomy; mournful.
- fungible: interchangeable.
- furbelow: something showy or superfluous.
- furtive: obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy.
- fustian: a kind of coarse twilled cotton; also, bombast.
- fustian: pompous or pretentious language.
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