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- expanse n
- A continuous area or stretch
- expansion n
- Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like
- expatriate v
- To drive from one's own country
- expect v
- To look forward to as certain or probable
- expectancy n
- The act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable
- expectorate v
- To cough up and spit forth
- expediency n
- Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case
- expedient adj
- Contributing to personal advantage
- expedite v
- To hasten the movement or progress of
- expeditious adj
- Speedy
- expend v
- To spend
- expense n
- The laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength
- expiate v
- To make satisfaction or amends for
- explicate v
- To clear from involvement
- explicit adj
- Definite
- explode v
- To cause to burst in pieces by force from within
- explosion n
- A sudden and violent outbreak
- explosive adj
- Pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak
- exposition n
- Formal presentation
- expository adj
- Pertaining to a formal presentation
- expostulate v
- To discuss
- exposure n
- An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass
- expressive adj
- Full of meaning
- expulsion n
- Forcible ejection
- extant adj
- Still existing and known
- extemporaneous adj
- Done or made without much or any preparation
- extempore adv
- Without studied or special preparation
- extensible adj
- Capable of being thrust out
- extension n
- A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope
- extensive adj
- Extended widely in space, time, or scope
- extensor n
- A muscle that causes extension
- extenuate v
- To diminish the gravity or importance of
- exterior n
- That which is outside
- external n
- Anything relating or belonging to the outside
- extinct adj
- Being no longer in existence
- extinguish v
- To render extinct
- extol v
- To praise in the highest terms
- extort v
- To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity
- extortion n
- The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion
- extradite v
- To surrender the custody of
- extradition n
- The surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government
- extrajudicial adj
- Happening out of court
- extraneous adj
- Having no essential relation to a subject
- extraordinary adj
- Unusual
- extravagance n
- Undue expenditure of money
- extravagant adj
- Needlessly free or lavish in expenditure
- extremist n
- One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views
- extremity n
- The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position
- extricate v
- Disentangle
- extrude v
- To drive out or away
- exuberance n
- Rich supply
- exuberant adj
- Marked by great plentifulness
- fabricate v
- To invent fancifully or falsely
- fabulous adj
- Incredible
- facet n
- One of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem
- facetious adj
- Amusing
- facial adj
- Pertaining to the face
- facile adj
- Not difficult to do
- facilitate v
- To make more easy
- facility n
- Ease
- facsimile n
- An exact copy or reproduction
- faction n
- A number of persons combined for a common purpose
- factious adj
- Turbulent
- fallacious adj
- Illogical
- fallacy n
- Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning
- fallible adj
- Capable of erring
- fallow n
- Land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest
- famish v
- To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst
- fanatic n
- A religious zealot
- fancier n
- One having a taste for or interest in special objects
- fanciless adj
- Unimaginative
- fastidious adj
- Hard to please
- fathom n
- A measure of length, 6 feet
- fatuous adj
- Idiotic
- faulty adj
- Imperfect
- faun n
- One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet
- fawn n
- A young deer
- fealty n
- Loyalty
- feasible adj
- That may be done, performed, or effected; practicable
- federate v
- To league together
- feint n
- Any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement
- felicitate v
- To wish joy or happiness to, especially in view of a coming event
- felicity n
- A state of well-founded happiness
- felon n
- A criminal or depraved person
- felonious adj
- Showing criminal or evil purpose
- felony n
- One of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment
- feminine adj
- Characteristic of woman or womankind
- fernery n
- A place in which ferns are grown
- ferocious adj
- Of a wild, fierce, and savage nature
- ferocity n
- Savageness
- fervent adj
- Ardent in feeling
- fervid adj
- Intense
- fervor n
- Ardor or intensity of feeling
- festal adj
- Joyous
- festive adj
- Merry
- fete n
- A festival or feast
- fetus n
- The young in the womb or in the egg
- feudal adj
- Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal
- feudalism n
- The feudal system
- fez n
- A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel
- fiasco n
- A complete or humiliating failure
- fickle adj
- Unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose
- fictitious adj
- Created or formed by the imagination
- fidelity n
- Loyalty
- fiducial adj
- Indicative of faith or trust
- fief n
- A landed estate held under feudal tenure
- filibuster n
- One who attempts to obstruct legislation
- finale n
- Concluding performance
- finality n
- The state or quality of being final or complete
- finally adv
- At last
- financial adj
- Monetary
- financier n
- One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations
- finery n
- That which is used to decorate the person or dress
- finesse n
- Subtle contrivance used to gain a point
- finite adj
- Limited
- fiscal adj
- Pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government
- fishmonger n
- One who sells fish
- fissure n
- A crack or crack-like depression
- fitful adj
- Spasmodic
- fixture n
- One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position
- flag-officer n
- The captain of a flag-ship
- flagrant adj
- Openly scandalous
- flamboyant adj
- Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste
- flatulence n
- Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels
- flection n
- The act of bending
- fledgling n
- A young bird
- flexible adj
- Pliable
- flimsy adj
- Thin and weak
- flippant adj
- Having a light, pert, trifling disposition
- floe n
- A collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice
- flora n
- The aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district
- floral adj
- Pertaining to flowers
- florid adj
- Flushed with red
- florist n
- A dealer in flowers
- fluctuate v
- To pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another
- fluctuation n
- Frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another
- flue n
- A smoke-duct in a chimney
- fluent adj
- Having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas
- fluential adj
- Pertaining to streams
- flux n
- A state of constant movement, change, or renewal
- foggy adj
- Obscure
- foible n
- A personal weakness or failing
- foist v
- To palm off
- foliage n
- Any growth of leaves
- folio n
- A sheet of paper folded once, or of a size adapted to folding once
- folk-lore n
- The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people
- fondle v
- To handle tenderly and lovingly
- foolery n
- Folly
- foot-note n
- A note of explanation or comment at the foot of a page or column
- foppery n
- Dandyism
- foppish adj
- Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners
- forbearance n
- Patient endurance or toleration of offenses
- forby adv
- Besides
- forcible adj
- Violent
- forecourt n
- A court opening directly from the street
- forejudge v
- To judge of before hearing evidence
- forepeak n
- The extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck
- foreshore n
- That part of a shore uncovered at low tide
- forebode v
- To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil
- forecast v
- To predict
- forecastle n
- That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds
- foreclose v
- To bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property
- forefather n
- An ancestor
- forego v
- To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of
- foreground n
- That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator
- forehead n
- The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair
- foreign adj
- Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country
- foreigner n
- A citizen of a foreign country
- foreknowledge n
- Prescience
- foreman n
- The head man
- foreordain v
- To predetermine
- foreordination n
- Predestination
- forerun v
- To go before as introducing or ushering in
- foresail n
- A square sail
- foresee v
- To discern beforehand
- foresight n
- Provision against harm or need
- foretell v
- To predict
- forethought n
- Premeditation
- forfeit v
- To lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation
- forfend v
- To ward off
- forgery n
- Counterfeiting
- forgo v
- To deny oneself
- formation n
- Relative disposition of parts
- formidable adj
- Difficult to accomplish
- formula n
- Fixed rule or set form
- forswear v
- To renounce upon oath
- forte n
- A strong point
- forth adv
- Into notice or view
- forthright adv
- With directness
- fortify v
- To provide with defensive works
- fortitude n
- Patient courage
- foursome adj
- Consisting of four
- fracture n
- A break
- fragile adj
- Capable of being broken
- frailty n
- Liability to be broken or destroyed
- frankincense n
- A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes
- frantic adj
- Frenzied
- fraternal adj
- Brotherly
- fraudulence n
- Deceitfulness
- fraudulent adj
- Counterfeit
- fray v
- To fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads
- freemason n
- A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans
- freethinker n
- One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion
- free trade n
- Commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs
- frequency n
- The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space
- fresco n
- The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings
- freshness n
- The state, quality, or degree of being fresh
- fretful adj
- Disposed to peevishness
- frightful adj
- Apt to induce terror or alarm
- frigid adj
- Lacking warmth
- frigidarium n
- A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc
- frivolity n
- A trifling act, thought, saying, or practice
- frivolous adj
- Trivial
- frizz v
- To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to
- frizzle v
- To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair
- frolicsome adj
- Prankish
- frontier n
- The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country
- frowzy adj
- Slovenly in appearance
- frugal adj
- Economical
- fruition n
- Fulfillment
- fugacious adj
- Fleeting
- fulcrum n
- The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns
- fulminate v
- To cause to explode
- fulsome adj
- Offensive from excess of praise or commendation
- fumigate v
- To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection
- functionary n
- An official
- fundamental adj
- Basal
- fungible adj
- That may be measured, counted, or weighed
- fungous adj
- Spongy
- fungus n
- A plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom
- furbish v
- To restore brightness or beauty to
- furlong n
- A measure, one-eighth of a mile
- furlough n
- A temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer
- furrier n
- A dealer in or maker of fur goods
- further adj
- More distant or advanced
- furtherance n
- Advancement
- furtive adj
- Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief
- fuse v
- To unite or blend as by melting together
- fusible adj
- Capable of being melted by heat
- futile adj
- Of no avail or effect
- futurist n
- A person of expectant temperament
- gauge n
- An instrument for measuring
- gaiety n
- Festivity
- gaily adv
- Merrily
- gait n
- Carriage of the body in going
- gallant adj
- Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit
- galore adj
- Abundant
- galvanic adj
- Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action
- galvanism n
- Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action