fabricate | v. invent |
facade | n. front (of a building) |
facet | n. any of the many sides of a cut stone or jewel |
facetious | adj. intended to be amusing, often inappropriately |
facile | adj. easily obtained or achieved (and so not highly valued) |
facilitate | v. (of an object, a process, etc but not of a person) make (sth) easy or less difficult |
facsimile | n. exact copy or reproduction of writing, printing, a picture, etc |
faction | n. small united group within a larger one, esp in politics |
factious | adj. of or causedby faction |
factitious | adj. deliberately created or developed; unnatural; artificial |
factotum | n. person employed to do all kinds of work |
faculty | n. any of the powers of the body or mind |
fake | n. object (eg a work of art) that seems genuine but is not |
fallacious | adj. misleading; based on error |
fallible | adj. liable to make mistakes |
fallow | adj. ploughed but left unplanted to restore its fertility |
falsify | make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story |
falter | v. move, walk or act hesitantly, usu because of weakness, fear or indecision |
fanaticism | n. great or obsessive enthusiasm |
fancied | imaginary; unreal |
fancier | n. person with a special interest in and love for sth |
fanciful | adj. using the imagination rather than reason |
fancy | n. power of the mind to imagine |
fanfare | n. short ceremonial piece of music, usu played on trumpets |
fantastic | adj. wild and strange |
farce | n. funny play for the theatre based on unlikely situations and events |
far-fetched | adj. (of a comparison) strained; unnatural |
fashion | n. manner or way of doing sth |
fastidious | adj. selecting carefully; choosing only what is good ; |
fatalism | n. belief that events are decided by fate(1); acceptance of all that happens as inevitable ; |
fathom | n. measure of the depth of water , 61.8 |
fathomless | adj. too deep to measure |
fatuous | adj. stupid and silly; foolish |
fauna | n. all the animals of an area or a period of time |
favoritism | [ favouritism: ] the practice of giving special treatment to a person or group |
fawning | [ fawn: ] a young deer of either sex aged under one year |
faze | v. fluster (sb) |
feasible | adj. that can be done; practicable; possible |
feature | n. one of the named parts of the face (eg nose, mouth, eyes) which together form its appearance |
febrile | adj. caused by a fever |
feckless | adj. inefficient; irresponsible ; |
fecundity | n. |
feebleminded | |
feign | v. pretend |
feint | n. pretended attack to distract an opponent's attention from the main attack |
felicitous | adj. (esp of words) well-chosen; apt |
felicity | n. great happiness |
feline | adj. n animal of the cat family |
fell | pt of fall1 |
felon | n. person guilty of felony |
feral | adj. (of animals) wild or savage, esp after escaping from captivity or from life as a pet |
ferment | v. change chemically through the action of organic substances (esp yeast) |
fermentation | n. fermenting |
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
F Set1
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