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Fabrication-Futile Flashcards

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Facetious

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Humorous
Not serious
Clumsily humorous

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Fabrication

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A lie

Something made up

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Facile

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Fluent
Skillful in a superficial way
Easy

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Faction

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A group, usually a small group within a larger one. United around some cause

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Farcical

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Absurd

Ludicrous

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Fastidious

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Meticulous
Finicky
Demanding

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Fatalist

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Someone who believes that all human action is predetermined and cannot be changed

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Fatuous

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Idiotic
Silly
Foolish

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Fauna

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Animals

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Fecund

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Fertile

Productive

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Felicity

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Happiness
Skillfulness especially at expressing oneself
Adeptness

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Fervor

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Ardor
Zeal
Great warmth or earnestness

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Fetter

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To restrain

To hamper

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Fidelity

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Loyalty

Faithfulness

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Figurative

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Metaphorical

Based on figures of speech

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Finesse

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Skillful maneuvering
Craftiness
Subtlety

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Flagrant

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Glaringly bad
Notorious
Scandalous

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Flaunt

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To show off
To display ostentatiously
Thomas

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Flout

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To disregard something out of disrespect

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Foible

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A minor character flaw

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Foment

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To stir up

To instigate

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Forbear

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To refrain from
To abstain
To forego

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Forego

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To abstain
To forbear
To go without

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Forsake

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To abandon
To renounce
To relinquish

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Fortuitous

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Something that happened by chance

Accidental

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Founder

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To fall
To collapse
To sink

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Fraternal

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Like brothers

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Frenetic

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Frantic

Frenzied

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Frugal

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Economical

Penny-pinching

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Furtive

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Sly

Secretive

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Futile

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Useless

Hopeless

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