F-words Flashcards

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Facet

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Side or aspect; face of something

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Facetious

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Joking or jesting

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Fallacious

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False; wrong; incorrect

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Fastidious

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Careful about details; impossible to satisfy

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Fatuous

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  1. Inane; foolish; silly

2. Unreal; illusory

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Fawning

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Groveling; overly admiring

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Fecund

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Fertile

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Fervor

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Passion

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Fetid

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Smelly

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Filch

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Steal

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Flagrant

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Deliberately conspicuous; glaring

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Flaunt

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To show off something

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Foible

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Weakness, flaw

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Foment

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To stir up; agitate; incite

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Forbearance

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Patience

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Forbear

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  1. to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
  2. to keep back; withhold.
  3. Obs. to endure.
  4. to refrain; hold back.
  5. to be patient or self-controlled when subject to annoyance or provocation.
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Formication

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Spontaneous abnormal sensation of ants or other insects running over the skin

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Frenetic

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Frenzied; frantic; freaked out

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Frorward

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Stubborn (similar to obdurate)

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Frugal

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Sparing in expense; stingy; miserly

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Fulminate

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To explode; roar; denounce loudly