facetious: joking, teasing facile: ready or fluent, superficial fallacious: misleading, false fancied: unreal, imagined fastidious: squeamish, difficult to please fathom: investigate, comprehend fatuous: pointless, foolish fecundity: fertile, fruitfulness feign: pretend feint: shift, sham blow, trick feral: wild, not domestic fervent: hot, ardent fervid: ardent fervor: intensity of feeling fickle: changeable, faithless filch: steal filial: pertaining to a son or daughter finicky: fussy, too particular flaccid: flabby, loose flay: to criticize, plunder fledgling: inexperienced fleece: plunder, rob florid: flowery, reddish, ruddy flout: mock, reject fluster: confuse, upset foible: slight fault, weakness | foil: frustrate, defeat foist: palm off, insert improperly foment: instigate, stimulate foray: raid, attack foreboding: premonition of evil forestall: preventing by taking action in advance forlorn: wretched. lonely and sad forswear: abandon, renounce forthright: frank, direct fortuitous: by chance, accidental fractious: unruly frail: weak fraught: filled fray: a fight, dispute frigid: intensely cold fritter: waste frivolous: playful, lighthearted fructify: realization, fulfillment fulminate: explode, thunder fulsome: disgustingly excessive furor: commotion, frenzy futile: hopeless, useless |