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fabricate
When Michael couldn't remove the stain from the fabric, he ate it and fabricated a story that aliens stole it. |
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to invent or make up something (often in order to decieve) |
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facet
"Face it! One of the facets of being a jeweler is sometimes selling flawed facets!" |
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side or aspect; face of something (like gemstones) |
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facetious
She's so facetious that you should not take what she says at face value. |
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fallacious
They used to castigate people who made fallacious statements. (Well, that was a long time ago.) |
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fastidious
The fastidious Enron accountant admonished his employees, "Be careful! Don't shred too fast, idiots." |
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careful about details; impossible to satisfy |
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fatuous
Eating 30 pounds of chocolate a day is a fatuous idea. |
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inane; foolish; fatheaded |
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fawning
The hunter who killed Bambi's mother should have come back and made a fawning plea for forgiveness. |
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groveling; overly admiring |
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feasible
Homer's idea of opening a hair salon for bald people was not feasible - who would pay the $30 fee? D'oh! |
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workable; plausible; possible |
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fecund
"Feh! Couldn't you do wihtout all the smelly manure?" Slick asked Farmer Brown. "No, we need it to make the soil fecund." |
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fervor
I will fight a ferocious ferret and get its fur for you if it will prove the fervor of my love for you. |
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fetid
I am proud to have fetid feet that smell of feta cheese. |
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fictitious
Books of fiction have fictitious plots.
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filch
Since they had zilch, they decided to filch. |
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flagrant
After the protesters flagrantly burned the Stars and Stripes, the mayor began a flag rant, condemning the rebels. |
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deliberately conspicuous; glaring |
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flaunt
I fragrantly flaunted my physical flawlessness to may fawning followers. |
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fluctuation
At the terrifying sight of the nasty sentence completion question, his heartbeat fluctuated wildly. |
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foible
Britney Spears' foible is her penchant for attention. |
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foment
When your foe warned you not to foment the army against him, your foe meant he was afraid of getting his ass kicked. |
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to stir up; agitate; INCITE
(think: when you stir something up it foams) |
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forbearance
He played dead with forbearance until the four bears got antsy and went away. |
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forte
His forte was sneaking into the fort that was just before Fort B. |
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frenetic
When the pilot and the flight attendants became frenzied, the passengers became frenetic. |
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frenzied; frantic; freaked out |
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froward
The froward guardsmen refused to retreat, so the protestors could not move forward. |
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frugal
They told me that I was frugal because I bought a plastic bugle. |
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sparing in expense; stingy; miserly |
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fulminate
After he bombed the SAT, he fulminated for a full minute against the ETS. |
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to explode; roar; denounce loudly |
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futile
The one-armed floor layer felt his work was futile because he could lay only a few tiles a day. |
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