Alphabet "F" | Dictionary Words - Class 6 PDF Download

100 Words Starting with "F"

1. fabricate: put together out of artificial or natural components
   Generally they are fabricated in that hardest of all metals-steel.
2. facet: a distinct feature or element in a problem
   For the last two years, my work has focused on all facets of the energy sector, including investment, development and policy issues.
3. facetious: cleverly amusing in tone
   I am looked upon as highly facetious at night, for I crack jokes with everybody near me until we fall asleep.
4. facile: performing adroitly and without effort
   His facile talent adapted itself to every style in turn.
5. facsimile: an exact copy or reproduction
   These ultra-counterfeits are light years beyond the weak facsimiles produced by most forgers, who use desktop printers.
6. faction: a dissenting clique
   According to reports, an Islamist, al-Qaeda-linked faction known as Ansar Dine spearheaded the city’s takeover, likely muscling out more secular Tuareg and rebel comrades.
7. fallacy: a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
   It's called the straw man fallacy: refuting arguments nobody's made.
8. fallible: wanting in moral strength, courage, or will
   We regard them as extraordinary but fallible and imperfect men, whom it would be very unsafe to follow in every view and line of conduct.
9. fallow: left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
   But before that the fields, which had lain fallow through the winter, must be ploughed and harrowed.
10. falter: the act of pausing uncertainly
    Tom tried to speak, but he faltered and moved from one foot to the other, in an embarrassed and hesitating way.
11. familial: relating to a social unit living together
    They are also highly familial, with very high rates among first-degree relatives of affected people.
12. famine: a severe shortage of food resulting in starvation and death
    To address famine in developing countries, genetic engineers can make inexpensive food crops, such as rice or corn, that contain extra nutrients.
13. farcical: broadly or extravagantly humorous
    Mr. Sheldon's The Havoc seems also farcical in its type; nevertheless it is a serious satiric thrust at certain extreme conceptions of marital relations.
14. fastidious: giving careful attention to detail
    Clodagh bent her head, noting with the fastidious intolerance of youth that his clothes were baggy and his hands unclean.
15. fatal: bringing death
    It was a very fatal complication, death resulting in all but two instances.
16. fatuous: devoid of intelligence
    Seth Meyers’s opening monologue: Background required to understand jokes: Like other celebrities, professional athletes are occasionally fatuous and commit embarrassing acts in their personal lives.
17. fauna: all the animal life in a particular region or period
    Bore holes and wells drilled in Australia, however, have revealed an amazing water beetle fauna of about 100 species.
18. fawning: attempting to win favor by flattery
    Waiters at fashionable hotels, who hung on the chairs of rich guests with more than usual fawning, were boasting of fortunes made in a day.
19. fealty: the loyalty that one owes to a country, sovereign, or lord
    In Germany and France the vassal owned supreme fealty to his lord, against all foes, even the King himself.
20. feasible: capable of being done with means at hand
    There are many evening classes at universities in major metropolitan areas, which make it more feasible when you're working full-time.
21. feckless: generally incompetent and ineffectual
    Her research helped change the stereotype of bankrupt people as feckless deadbeats: many, she showed, are middle-class workers upended by divorce or illness.
22. feign: give a false appearance of
    Robots, says Christian, have become quite good at feigning conversation, giving an appearance of interchange, when in fact there is none.
23. felicity: state of well-being characterized by contentment
    In those warm climates men imagined there could be no greater felicity than shades and murmuring brooks.
24. feral: wild and menacing
    Rural Arkansans are seeing Razorback red as feral hogs are destroying yards, wreaking havoc on gardens and leaving behind their waste.
25. fervent: characterized by intense emotion
    Inside was an uproar of adulation: repeated standing ovations, eagerly shouted requests, Cuban flags and banners unfurled, fervent singalongs, roses hurled onstage.
26. fiasco: a complete failure or collapse
    Still, it’s hard to imagine a more embarrassing public relations fiasco than being connected with child sex trafficking — even indirectly.
27. fickle: liable to sudden unpredictable change
    Once Hollywood’s most reliable audience, teenagers have become increasingly fickle and distracted by other leisure activities, like video games.
28. fidelity: the quality of being faithful
    Her fidelity to Scriptural language may be seen in the following simple verses: Have ye heard the invitation, Sinners ruined by the fall?
29. figurative: not literal
    The cat-in-heat joke, the judge said, quoting from a previous court decision, was "colorful, figurative rhetoric that reasonable minds would not take to be factual."
30. filial: designating the generation following the parental generation
    Filial cannibalism, where a mother eats her own offspring, is much rarer, particularly among great apes, in which it has only once been reported before.
31. filibuster: a tactic for delaying legislation by making long speeches
    The government has accused Labour of deliberately trying to sabotage the bill by stretching out debate - known as filibustering.
32. finesse: subtly skillful handling of a situation
    Drivers say that turning on ice requires finesse — turn too much, and you will spin out; don’t turn enough, and the turn will not happen.
33. finicky: fussy, especially about details
    After overeating for a day or two, Dr. Levitsky said, people become very finicky; starving yourself will decrease food selectivity.
34. finite: bounded in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
    Scientists have long taught that all female mammals are born with a finite supply of egg cells, called ooctyes, that runs out in middle age.
35. firebrand: someone who deliberately foments trouble
    The firebrand rarely pulled punches, and some obituarists are following his lead.
36. firmament: the sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected
    The firmament above us was without a cloud, and of a darkness almost equal to that which surrounded the moon at 2 a.m.
37. fissure: a long narrow depression in a surface
    The fissures produced in the crust are sometimes clean, sharply defined divisional planes, like cracks across a pane of glass.
38. flabbergasted: as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise
    I should translate from experience: " Flabbergasted; astounded and bewildered at the same time, with a slight dash of premature second childhood thrown in."
39. flagrant: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
40. flail: thrash about
    Coach Tom Coughlin was raging as only he can, arms flailing in all directions, after a blocked field-goal attempt in the fourth quarter.
41. flaunt: display proudly
    Between the corridors of Saddar, Karachi’s old city, sunlit storefronts still flaunt glorious silks and chiffons, offering distractions from striking poverty on the street.
42. flippant: showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness
    I may be flippant—several people have called me flippant—but I draw the line at making jokes about murder.
43. flora: all the plant life in a particular region or period
    “The flora is so vivid — every few meters you come across a different plant,” he explained later.
44. florid: elaborately or excessively ornamented
    The North Korean Central News Agency, in its typically florid language, derided the exercise as warmongering and threatened “a merciless counterblow.”
45. flounder: move clumsily or struggle to move, as in mud or water
    He set out for it, limping, while the sharp gravel rolled under his bleeding feet as he floundered up the climbing trail.
46. flourish: grow vigorously
    Roses are a flourishing industry in India, particularly around Valentine’s Day.
47. fluke: a stroke of luck
    Cautious that it might be a fluke, Midas tried the program in St. Louis and got similarly encouraging results.
48. fluster: cause to be nervous or upset
    Ms. Ryan also includes time for role-playing situations that might fluster the student, like being pulled over by a police officer.
49. flux: a state of constant change
    Though plans are still in flux, he will likely travel by sailboat, kayak, foot and mountain bike.
50. fodder: coarse food composed of plants or leaves and stalks
    "The products will be mainly fruits and vegetables, and we're looking at cereals as well, fodder, livestock and fisheries."
51. foible: a minor weakness or peculiarity in someone's character
    In truth, the leading foible of Hodgkinson through life, was vanity—the great taproot of all his irregularities and errors.
52. foil: hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire
    On March 1st, a Turkish newspaper reported that the country's intelligence service had foiled an attempt by Syrian agents to kidnap the colonel.
53. foliage: the aggregate of leaves of one or more plants
    Witch hazel will burst into small yellow flowers in January, and striking plants like Japanese maple will have brilliant red foliage throughout summer and fall.
54. foment: try to stir up
    Iran is often accused of instigating, fomenting, or stirring up violence and anti-Americanism in other countries.
55. forage: collect or look around for, as food
    Banded birds also arrived later at the breeding grounds and took longer trips to forage for food.
56. foray: an initial attempt
    Another big question is whether Apple will reveal its rumored foray into making TV sets.
57. foreboding: a feeling of evil to come
    There were forebodings of evil in attempting this winter journey now stretched out to fifteen hundred miles, under conditions which increased its perils.
58. forecast: a prediction about how something will develop
    We broke another record today as forecasts show the March warm spell continuing into next week.
59. forensic: used in the investigation of facts or evidence in court
    Defence lawyers said the large number of forensic tests which had been carried out had failed to find any substantial evidence linked to the accused.
60. foresee: realize beforehand
    Shortly thereafter the political atmosphere was considerably disturbed by the Crete affair, just as Chevket Pasha had foreseen.
61. foreshadow: indicate by signs
    Rising wealth disparities could foreshadow a year of tensions, as failed harvests and inflation cause famines, riots, hoarding and trade wars worldwide.
62. foresight: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
    Mr. Bourassa said that General Lea, gifted with an astonishing foresight, predicted all that was happening in Europe and in the world.
63. forestall: keep from happening or arising; make impossible
    Many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the guards — at some points posted every 15 feet — had apparently been deployed to forestall disruptions.
64. forfeit: lose the right to or lose by some error, offense, or crime
    By giving up its status as a U.S. bank holding company, Deutsche Bank is forfeiting its access to the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending window.
65. forge: create by hammering
    Forging and Welding.—The process of pressing or hammering wrought iron when at a red or white heat into any desired shape is called forging.
66. forlorn: marked by or showing hopelessness
    Hans, the resort in such emergencies, was given a light sledge, the two surviving dogs, and to him was committed the forlorn hope.
67. formidable: extremely impressive in strength or excellence
    That has not prevented China from producing modern weapons systems, buying arms elsewhere and building up a formidable military with both.
68. forsake: leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
    He was not going to forsake her, but would serve her to the day of his death.
69. forte: an asset of special worth or utility
    Playmaking has never been Anthony’s forte, but the ball moved a bit better and, at times, the offense hummed in the first half.
70. forthcoming: available when required or as promised
    Two colleges aren’t forthcoming with solid offers, leaving you at an unreasonable disadvantage in making your important decision on deadline.
71. fortified: having something added to increase the strength
    Some of the houses at Wells were fortified; one in particular was defended by fifteen men under a militia captain named Convers.
72. fortitude: strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity
    Have you ever proved your fortitude by suffering protracted pain, enduring continued hunger, or sustaining great fatigue?
73. fortress: a fortified defensive structure
    Before the invention of gunpowder Castle Reifenstein had been an impregnable fortress, although it owed little of its impregnability to art.
74. fortuitous: lucky; occurring by happy chance
    Did the prosperities and confident hopes with which the twentieth century opened, mark nothing more than a culmination of fortuitous good luck?
75. fortunate: having unexpected good luck
    Chet was not so fortunate, as his gun failed to go off.
76. fortune: a large amount of wealth or prosperity
    He has an independent fortune, though not called rich in this country.
77. forum: a public facility to meet for open discussion
    Britain and Hong Kong set up a forum earlier this year to discuss working more closely in yuan trade clearing and settlement.
78. foster: help develop or grow
    Paris and Pyongyang do not have formal diplomatic relations, but France opened an office in North Korea last year to foster cultural exchanges.
79. foul: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
    There was panic buying of bottled water in some areas in Jiangsu after residents noticed a foul smell coming from the tap water.
80. founder: a person who establishes some institution
    Microsoft founder Bill Gates is expected to testify.
81. founding: the act of starting something for the first time
    Eight years later, Garay succeeded in founding Buenos Aires after Zarate, the third adelantado, had failed as badly as any of his predecessors.
82. foyer: a large entrance or reception room or area
    Suddenly James, their stooping, white-haired Irish servant pushed through the doorway from the paneled entry foyer.
83. fracas: a noisy quarrel
    After an estimated half-dozen individual altercations on the court, some Chinese onlookers joined the fracas, the Washington Post reported late on Thursday.
84. fractious: easily irritated or annoyed
    The last-minute haggling between 19 countries involved in the test over whether and how to make the test's design available, highlights fractious European Union decision-making.
85. fracture: breaking of hard tissue such as bone
    He was convicted of recklessly causing grievous bodily harm to Cowley, who sustained fractures to his jaw, eye socket, cheekbone and nose.
86. fragile: easily broken or damaged or destroyed
    Larvae lack mouths, eyes and guts and are so fragile that colliding with an air bubble could kill them.
87. fragrant: pleasant-smelling
    Michael found himself wrapped in a cloud of filmy linen fragrant with feminine perfumes.
88. frail: physically weak
    He had been frail for years, using a walker to get around.
89. fraud: intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
    Despite claims of sporadic vote rigging in Sunday’s presidential election, it is becoming increasingly clear that Mr. Putin had enough support to win without fraud.
90. fraught: marked by distress
    His girlfriend’s parents are divorced, and her family situation is fraught.
91. frenetic: fast and energetic in an uncontrolled or wild way
    But the Rams mimic the frenetic nature of their mentor; they run, press, take charges and go at least nine players deep.
92. frenzy: state of violent mental agitation
    Inside the store, glassy-eyed staff were whipped up into a frenzy of excitement, jumping up and down, clapping and shouting.
93. fresco: a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
    "She's an unmitigated nuisance," declared an artist, proceeding to Natal in order to paint some frescoes for one of the important buildings.
94. frolic: play boisterously
    More nimble now than when he was young, he frolics about, cuts capers, and leaps from the bottom of a large pitcher.
95. frontier: an international boundary or the area immediately inside it
    Thus threatened with invasion on her German and Italian frontiers, France was disabled by anarchy within.
96. frugal: avoiding waste
    Such banking represents the kind of “ frugal innovation” that India has become known for in recent years — finding inexpensive solutions to its development challenges.
97. fulminate: criticize severely
    Mr. Cameron has fulminated publicly about cutting public sector pay and decreed that members of Parliament themselves take a 5 percent pay cut.
98. fulsome: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating
    Fulsome, fool′sum, adj. cloying or causing surfeit: nauseous: offensive: gross: disgustingly fawning.—adj.
99. furtive: secret and sly
    I anticipated finding them deceitful and evasive: furtive people, wandering in devious ways and disappearing into mysterious houses, at dead of night.
100. futile: producing no result or effect
     He took up elocution lessons for a while, but eventually concluded that his efforts to become an Englishman were futile.