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Facetious

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Intended to be funny, often inappropriately.

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Fait accompli

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Already accomplished; done

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Falsetto

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Artificially produced, high pitched, male singing voice

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Farcical

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Ridiculous, absurd

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Felicity

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A pleasing quality or manner, especially in art or language; great happiness

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Fetter

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To restrain, hinder, hamper

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Flaccid

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Flabby, lacking vigor or force

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Flounce

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To move with exaggerated, jerky movements; to leave suddenly as in a huff

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Foment

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To instigate or stir up (revolution or strife)

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Forbear

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To hold back, abstain; to control oneself when provoked

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Forebear

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A person from whom one is descended

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Founder

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To sink under water; to fail

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Francophile

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An enthusiast on the subject of France and French culture

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Fratricide

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To murder one’s brother or sister, or one who is like a 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, sly, surreptitious

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Gargantuan

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Tremendous in size and volume; gigantic

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Garrulous

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Rambling, chatty, annoyingly talkative

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Gestation

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Pregnancy; period in which anything grows and develops

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Gesticulate

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To make gestures, especially when speaking