| Word |
Definition |
| Fallacious | false; misleading |
| Fallible | capable of making a mistake |
| Fallow | plowed but not sowed; uncultivated |
| Falter | to hesitate |
| Fanaticism | excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause |
| Fancied | imagined; unreal |
| Fancier | breeder or dealer of animals |
| Fanciful | whimsical; visionary |
| Fanfare | call by bugles or trumpets; showy display |
| Farce | broad comedy; mockery |
| Fastidious | difficult to please; squeamish |
| Fatalism | belief that events are determined by forces beyond one’s control |
| Fathom | to comprehend; to investigate |
| Fatuous | foolish; inane |
| Fauna | animals of a period or region |
| Fawning | courting favor by cringing and flattering |
| Faze | to disconcert; to dismay |
| Feasible | practical |
| Febrile | feverish |
| Fecundity | fertility; fruitfulness |
| Feign | to pretend |
| Feint | an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attac: trick |
| Felicitous | apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
| Felicity | happiness; appropriateness |
| Fell | cruel; deadly <the newspapers told of the tragic spread of the fell disease.> |
| Fell | to cut or knock down; bring down |
| Felon | person convicted of a grave crime |
| Feral | not domestic; wild |
| Ferment | agitation; commotion |
| Ferret | to drive or hunt out of hiding |
| Fervent | ardent; hot |
| Fervid | ardent; fervent |
| Fervor | glowing ardor; intensity of feeling |
| Fester | to rankle; to produce irritation or resentment |
| Festive | joyous; celebratory |
| Fete | to honor at a festival |
| Fetid | malodorous (having an unpleasant or offensive odor; smelling bad) |
| Fetter | to confine; to shackle |
| Fiasco | total failure |
| Fiat | command |
| Fickle | changeable; faithless |
| Fictitious | imaginary; false |
| Fidelity | loyalty |
| Figurative | not literal |
| Figurine | small ornamental statuette |
| Filch | to steal |
| Filial | pertaining to a son or daughter |
| Filibuster | to block legislation by making long speeches |
| Filigree | delicate, lacelike metalwork |
| Filing | particle removed by a file |
| Finale | conclusion |
| Finesse | delicate skill |
| Finicky | too particular; fussy |
| Finite | having bounds or limits; not infinite; measurable |
| Firebrand | hothead; troublemaker |
| Fissure | crevice |
| Fitful | spasmodic; intermittent |
| Flaccid | soft and limp; not firm; flabby; lacking force; weak |
| Flag | to droop; to grow feeble |
| Flagrant | conspicuously wicked; blatant; outrageous |
| Flail | talent |
| Flamboyant | ornate |
| Flaunt | to display ostentatiously |
| Flay | to strip off |
| Fleck | to spot |
| Fledgling | inexperienced |
| Fleece | wood coast of a sheep |
| Fleece | to rob; plunder |
| Flick | light stroke as with a whip |
| Flinch | to hesitate; to shrink |
