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Fait accompli

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Already accomplished

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Facetious

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Intended to be funny inappropriately

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Falsetto

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High pitch male singing voice

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Farcical

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Ridiculous, absurd

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Felicity

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Pleasing quality or manner, especially in art or language

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Fetter

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To restrain

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Flaccid

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Flabby, lacking force

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Flounce

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Move with exaggerated and jerky motion

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Foment

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Instigate or stir up

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Forbear

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To hold back or abstain

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Forebear

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A person from one is descended

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Founder

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To sink underwater

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Francophile

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Enthusiast of french culture

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Fratricide

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Murder ones brother or sister

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Fraught

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Charged with, filled with

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Furtive

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Stealthy, secretive

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Gargantuan

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Enormous

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Garrulous

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Rambling, chatty, annoying

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Gestation

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Pregnancy, period in which anything grows or develops

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Gesticulate

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To make gestures