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Facsimile

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Exact copy

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Facile

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Performing adroitly and without effort.

Used positively and negatively

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Fallible

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Capable of making errors, lacking in moral strength.

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Fallow

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Undeveloped but useful
Smart but lazy is fallow mind.
Originally from unsown fields

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Farcical

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Super humorous.

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Fastidious

TIH

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Paying extreme attention to detail
Fussy, hard to please
(Usually, neg conn)

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Fatuous

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Devoid of intelligence.

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Fawning

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Someone who attempts to win over by flattery—sycophantish.

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Fealty

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Loyalty to country

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Feckless

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Incompetent and irresponsible.

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Felicity

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State of happiness

Content to elated

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Feral

FEE

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Wild, untamed

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Fickle

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Liable to unpredictable change.

Like changing mind all the time.

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Filibuster

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V
To obstruct (esp a bill) by talking a lot
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Thy oratory speech.

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Finesse

fi NESS

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N

Being able to skillfully handle a situation

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Firebrand

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N
One who intentionally stirs up trouble
(Often, connects to a cause)

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Firmament

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The spherical curve of the sky

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Flagrant

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Obviously bad

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Flaunt

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To display proudly

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Florid

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Elaborately ornamented

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Fluster

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To cause to be nervous

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Foible

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A behavioral attitude distinct to an individual.

A weakness distinct…individual.

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Foment

MENT

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V
To stir up public opinion
(Neg conn)

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Foray

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N
Brief excursion
My foray in chess left me humiliated

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Foreboding

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A sense if evil to come

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Forestall

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V
To keep form happening
“Forestall effects if aging”

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Forlorn

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Marked my loneliness or hopelessness

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Fortitude

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N
Fortitude refers to strength in the face of adversity or difficulty. Eating fried worms might require a lot of intestinal fortitude.

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Founder

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V
To fail miserably
To sink

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Fracas

FRAY kus

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A noisy quarrel

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Fractious

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Easily irritated

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Frenetic

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Frenzied, excessively frantic

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Fresco

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N

Mural painted on wet plaster

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Fulminate

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V
To criticism severely
To explode

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Fulsome

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Excessively and insincerely suave
Fulsome blandishment

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Furtive

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Quiet, sly, or secret.
Furtively passing notes