Part 14
ANT. _Wisdom, sense, soundness, sobriety, discernment._
=Fault.= Defect, blemish, imperfection, flaw, weakness, failing, frailty; misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, trespass, wrong, transgression, delinquency, indiscretion; slip, error, lapse; failure, omission, want, drawback.
ANT. _Perfection, sufficiency, correctness, completeness._
=Faultless.= Without blemish, perfect; innocent, guileless, blameless, sinless, spotless, immaculate, guiltless, stainless; complete, correct, accurate.
ANT. _Incomplete, imperfect, incorrect, defective, inaccurate, corrupt, faulty, erroneous._
=Faulty.= Bad, defective, imperfect; blamable, blameworthy, culpable, reprehensible.
ANT. _Correct, complete, perfect, accurate; irreproachable, blameless, unassailable._
=Favor=, _n._ Kindness, grace, countenance, friendliness, good will; benefit, good deed, friendly turn; patronage, championship, support; letter, communication, epistle; gift, present; decoration, knot, rosette; permission, leave, pardon; advantage, preference, boon; concession, predilection, civility, regard, condescension.
ANT. _Refusal, denial, prohibition, disfavor, withholding, withdrawal, frown, disapproval, injury, discountenance._
=Favor=, _v._ Befriend, countenance, patronize, encourage; approve, regard with favor; facilitate, be propitious to; support, help, aid, assist; humor, indulge, extenuate, palliate, ease, spare; resemble, look like.
ANT. _Refuse, deny, disapprove, withdraw, withhold, prohibit, discountenance, injure, harm._
=Favorable.= Kind, friendly, propitious, willing, auspicious; conducive, contributing; beneficial, advantageous, convenient, suitable, fit; permissive, indulgent, concessive, partial, fond, liberal.
ANT. _Reluctant, unpropitious, unfavorable, impartial._
=Favorite.= Dear, beloved, pet, darling.
=Favoritism.= Partiality, invidiousness.
ANT. _Odium, prejudice; impartiality._
=Fawn upon.= Flatter, wheedle, cajole, cringe, palaver, slaver.
ANT. _Insult, deride, defy, censure, dare, satirize, rebuke, reprimand._
=Fealty.= Homage, loyalty, allegiance; fidelity, faithfulness, honor, good faith, devotion.
ANT. _Disloyalty, treachery, infidelity, disaffection, shame, dishonor._
=Fear.= Dismay, alarm, horror, awe, apprehension, dread, terror, fright, panic, tremor, timidity, trepidation, trembling, affright, consternation, disquietude, misgiving, anxiety, solicitude, concern; veneration, reverence.
ANT. _Courage, confidence, assurance, fearlessness; trust, boldness; fortitude._
=Fearful.= Afraid, apprehensive; timid, nervous, timorous, faint-hearted, cowardly; dreadful, terrible, frightful, dire; awful; shocking, terrific, horrible; hesitating.
ANT. _Venturesome, audacious, bold, confident, consolatory, inspiriting, assuring; attractive, alluring, hopeful, inviting._
=Feasible.= Manageable, possible, permissible, practicable, contrivable.
ANT. _Impossible, unallowable, impracticable._
=Feast.= Treat, banquet, regalement, entertainment, carousal; festival, holiday; delight, enjoyment.
ANT. _Starvation, scarcity, want, lack, bareness, scantiness._
=Featly.= Neatly, cleverly, dexterously, adroitly.
ANT. _Clumsily, bunglingly, hardly._
=Feature.= Lineament, cast of the face; fashion, make, aspect, appearance, conformation; prominent part, outline; characteristic, trait, point, mark, item, component, element, indication, portion, sign.
ANT. _Whole, system, countenance; arrangement, case; misindication, misinformation, falsification; blind, mask, disguise; excrescence._
=Federation.= Uniting, federating, confederation, union, league, allying, alliance, coalition, federal compact, confederacy, combination.
ANT. _Secession, disunion, sedition, mutiny, disruption._
=Fee.= Pay, reward, recompense, compensation, remuneration; feud, fief, fee-simple, unconditional tenure.
=Feeble.= Weak, not strong, enervated, debilitated, infirm, languid, sickly, languishing, declining, frail, drooping; faint, imperfect, dim; without vigor, lacking intensity; wretched, poor, dull, forceless, puny, enfeebled, nerveless; incomplete, vain, fruitless; scanty, pitiable.
ANT. _Strong, robust, active, successful, effective; abundant; powerful, muscular; forcible, cogent, telling; violent, vehement, ardent; lusty, hale, vigorous, hearty._
=Feed.= Give food to, supply, contribute to, provide for; nourish, cherish, sustain; eat, take food, take nourishment; sustain life, subsist.
ANT. _Starve, refuse, deny, withhold, take away; impoverish, steal from; diet, abstain, refrain._
=Feel.= Perceive, have feeling; be perceived; be moved, be excited, be stirred, be wrought up, be impressed; touch, handle; experience, suffer, _or_ enjoy; be affected by, be moved by; prove, sound, try, put to the test.
ANT. _Be hard or callous, insensate, apathetic, dull, numb, imperceivable, indifferent, unsusceptible, or stoical._
=Feeling.= Sense of touch; sensation, perception by touch; sensibility, emotion, sentiment, affection, passion, impression; tenderness, susceptibility; contact; pathos; consciousness, sensitiveness.
ANT. _Callousness, insensibility, imperturbability, inexcitability, coldness, insensateness._
=Feign.= Invent, imagine, devise, forge, fabricate; counterfeit, affect, assume, simulate, pretend to.
ANT. _Detect, test, unmask, refute, verify, substantiate._
=Felicitous.= Fit, appropriate, apt, pertinent, seasonable, opportune, well-timed, happy, skilful, ingenious; prosperous, successful, fortunate, lucky, auspicious, propitious; timely, joyous.
ANT. _Unhappy, unfortunate, inauspicious, untimely, inopportune, disastrous, sad._
=Felicity.= Bliss, blessedness, happiness; aptness, aptitude, fitness, propriety, felicitousness, suitableness; success, luck, fortune.
ANT. _Ill luck, bad fortune, sorrow, unhappiness, disaster, misfortune; sadness, mourning, melancholy._
=Fell=, _a._ Inhuman, cruel, barbarous, relentless, ruthless, implacable, unrelenting, pitiless, malignant, malicious, malign, savage, ferocious, bloody, blood-thirsty; direful, merciless, remorseless, fierce, truculent.
ANT. _Generous, chivalrous, lenient, humane, propitious._
=Fell=, _v._ Prostrate, level, bring to the ground, hurl down, knock down; cut down, hew down, lay low; hem; demolish, subvert, waste, bare.
ANT. _Plant, erect, support; stock, upraise, rear, propagate._
=Fellow.= Associate, companion, comrade; equal, peer, compeer; mate, match, counterpart; adherent, colleague, member; correlative, tally; partner, friend.
ANT. _Foe, opponent, antagonist, stranger, mismatch, opposite._
=Fellowship.= Companionship, familiarity, intimacy, brotherhood, acquaintance; participation, partnership, joint interest; converse, intercourse, communion; sociability, affability, kindliness; association, company; membership, society.
ANT. _Severance, disconnection, dismemberment; non-intercourse._
=Felonious.= Malignant, malign, malicious, nefarious, infamous, heinous, atrocious, cruel, felon; perfidious, traitorous, disloyal, base.
ANT. _Legal, constitutional, rightful, regular; legitimate, legalized; permissible, allowable; just, proper._
=Feminine.= Female, womanish, womanly, effeminate; delicate, tender, modest, soft.
ANT. _Robust, manly; indelicate, unfeminine; rough, rude; masculine._
=Fen.= Marsh, swamp, bog, moor, morass, quagmire.
=Fence=, _v._ Enclose, guard, fortify, defend, circumscribe, protect; elude, parry, stave.
ANT. _Open, disenclose; receive, catch, suffer._
=Ferment=, _n._ Yeast, leaven, fermentation; agitation, commotion, tumult; fever, heat, glow.
=Ferment=, _v._ Set in fermentation; excite, agitate, heat; seethe, concoct, brew; warm, chafe; effervesce, rankle, fester.
ANT. _Damp, cool; dissipate; subside, evaporate, disperse; heal._
=Fertile.= Prolific, fecund, breeding, bearing; fruitful, productive, rich, plenteous, luxuriant, exuberant, teeming; causative, conducive; pregnant; fraught, ingenious, inventive.
ANT. _Poor, sterile, barren, unproductive, ineffective, inconducive, fruitless, inoperative, uninventive, unimaginative._
=Festive.= Convivial, jovial, joyous, gay, merry, mirthful, festival.
ANT. _Solitary, deserted, ascetic, gloomy._
=Fetid.= Stinking, offensive, rank, rancid, malodorous, mephitic, noisome, foul, strong-smelling, corrupt.
ANT. _Inodorous, fresh, perfumed, scented, balmy._
=Fetter=, _n._ Chains, bondage, custody, durance, duress, manacles, irons, shackles, imprisonment, handcuffs, gyves, bonds.
=Fetter=, _v._ Shackle, clog, hamper, trammel; chain, bind, tie, confine, restrain, encumber; manacle, hinder, impede.
ANT. _Free, liberate, accelerate, expedite._
=Feud.= Contest, controversy, dispute, enmity, hostility, quarrel, strife, dissension, affray, animosity, bitterness, broil, contention, brawl, fray; antipathy.
ANT. _Friendliness, congeniality, sympathy, clanship, pacification, reconciliation, sociality, neighborliness._
=Fever.= Heat, flush, excitement, agitation, ferment; ardor, fervor, broil, passion.
ANT. _Coolness, iciness, frigidity; composure, indifference._
=Few.= Not many, small in number, hardly any, scarcely any; scant, rare, lacking.
ANT. _Many, abundant, numerous._
=Fiber.= Strength, sinews, thews, toughness; thread, staple, pile, filament.
ANT. _Laxity, debility, flabbiness._
=Fickle.= Wavering, unsteady, unstable, inconstant, variable, vacillating, volatile, mercurial, fitful, changeable, irresolute, unsettled, capricious, fanciful, unreliable, mutable; veering, restless, shifting.
ANT. _Sober, orderly, reliable, calculable, well-regulated, uniform, steady, trustworthy._
=Fiction.= Fable, falsehood, myth, invention, novel, romance, figment, story, fabrication, legend, allegory, apologue; creation.
ANT. _History, fact, literalness, reality, truth, verity, certainty._
=Fictitious.= Feigned, imaginary, invented, unreal, purely ideal, fanciful; false, counterfeit, spurious, supposititious.
ANT. _Real, true, historical, genuine, authentic, veritable._
=Fidelity.= Faithfulness, devotedness, devotion, truth, loyalty, true-heartedness, fealty, adherence to duty; accuracy, closeness, exactness, truthfulness, precision, attachment, honesty, allegiance, integrity.
ANT. _Disloyalty, treachery, untruthfulness, disaffection, inaccuracy, infidelity, inexactness._
=Field.= Tract of land; battle-field, scene of war; surface, expanse, range, scope; province, department, region, realm, domain; ground, arena; room, opportunity.
ANT. _Circumscription, constraint; interdiction, exclusion, debarment._
=Fierce.= Ravenous, infuriate, barbarous, fell; vehement, turbulent, passionate, uncurbed, untamed, raging; furious, savage, ferocious, fiery, violent, wild, impetuous; uncultivated, untrained.
ANT. _Gentle, harmless, kind, patient, submissive, sweet, tender, docile, affectionate, mild, peaceful, tame; calm._
=Fiery.= Hot, ardent, heated, fervid, flaming, glowing; impetuous, vehement, fierce, passionate, impassioned; irascible, choleric, excited, enkindled, hot-blooded, irritable.
ANT. _Cold, icy, frigid, chilly; indifferent, phlegmatic, passionless, unimpassioned, mild, tame; extinguished, quenched._
=Fight=, _n._ Combat, conflict, contest, battle, struggle, engagement, encounter, action, affair, fray, affray, brush; broil, riot; spirit, fighting temper; resistance, disposition to struggle, contention.
ANT. _Pacification, reconciliation._
=Figurative.= Typical, representative, emblematical; metaphorical, tropical; flowery, florid, ornate; poetical, rhetorical, symbolical.
ANT. _Literal, prosaic, unpoetical, unmetaphorical._
=Figure=, _n._ Form, shape, configuration, conformation, outline; image, likeness, representation, effigy; appearance; pattern, design; metaphor, trope; diagram, drawing; price; symbol, type, emblem; digit, number, numeral, character; aspect, delineation, condition, illustration.
ANT. _Misrepresentation, deformity, disfigurement._
=Figure=, _v._ Adorn, variegate, diversify; represent, signify, typify, symbolize; imagine, image, conceive, picture, represent; calculate, compute, cipher; appear, act, perform; show off, cut a dash.
ANT. _Disfigure, harm, destroy; miscalculate, mistake._
=File.= Rasp, smooth, finish; place on file; polish; perfect, refine, improve.
ANT. _Roughen, jag, acuminate, denticulate, barb, notch, cusp._
=Fill.= Make full, fill up; pervade, occupy; dilate, expand, stretch, distend; store, supply, furnish, replenish, stock; satisfy, content, sate, satiate, cloy, pall; occupy, hold, fulfil, perform; become full, be filled; gorge, appoint, glut; stuff; rise; swell, grow, increase.
ANT. _Exhaust, drain, dissatisfy, deprive, stint, vacate; misappoint; subside, ebb, evaporate, shrink, diminish._
=Filter.= Strain, ooze, percolate, exude, transude; refine, distil, leak; purify, cleanse, depurate, defecate, clarify.
ANT. _Muddle, disturb, befoul, thicken._
=Filthy.= Dirty, nasty, foul, defiled, unclean, squalid; impure, corrupt, gross; dingy, unsanitary, unwholesome.
ANT. _Pure, sweet, healthy, clean, sanitary, wholesome._
=Final.= Latest, last, eventual, ultimate; decisive, conclusive, definitive; terminal; definite, developed.
ANT. _Initiative, open, progressive, continuous, incipient, current, unconcluded, inchoate, inaugural, nascent, rudimental._
=Find.= Discover, fall upon, light upon, meet; obtain, get, procure, gain, arrive at, attain to; observe, remark, perceive, notice, discover; detect, catch; supply, furnish, provide, contribute; determine judicially, declare by verdict; confront, ascertain, experience, invent.
ANT. _Withdraw; miss, lose, elude, withhold, overlook, miscontrive._
=Fine=, _n._ Forfeit, penalty, forfeiture, mulct, amercement.
=Fine=, _a._ Minute, small, comminuted, little; slender, capillary, delicate; thin, tenuous, subtile, attenuated; light, keen, sharp; exquisite, nice, refined; excellent, superior, very good; brilliant, accomplished; beautiful, handsome, splendid, elegant; clear, pure, unadulterated; gay, showy, garish, flashy, filmy, artistic, choice, finished, high, grand, noble, generous, honorable, pretentious, pretty, ostentatious; presumptuous, casuistical.
ANT. _Rough, mean, petty, unfinished; illiberal, unimposing, paltry; modest, unaffected, affable; plain-spoken, categorical; unanalytical, unreflective; coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick, blunt, big, clumsy._
=Finery.= Gewgaws, trinkets, ornaments, trimmings, tawdriness, decorations, trappings, bedizenment, tinsel, trash, dressiness.
ANT. _Ornament, dress, decoration, adornment; chasteness, sobriety, simplicity._
=Finical.= Fastidious, dainty, overparticular, squeamish, overnice, affected, elegant; dandyish, foppish, spruce.
ANT. _Effective, unaffected, practical, energetic, real, genuine, natural; outspoken, blunt, coarse, rude._
=Finish=, _v._ Accomplish, execute, complete, perform, achieve, do, get done; perfect, polish, elaborate; end, terminate, close, conclude, put an end to; shape.
ANT. _Start, commence, begin; fail, undertake; miscontrive, botch, mar, mismanage._
=Finished.= Perfect, artistic, refined, high.
ANT. _Inartistic, incomplete, poor, rude, coarse, unfinished._
=Finite.= Bounded, limited, conditioned, contracted, restricted, terminated.
ANT. _Infinite, unlimited, unbounded._
=Fire.= Blaze, burning, conflagration, flame, combustion; discharge; heat, ardor, fervor, violence, force, passion, impetuosity, fervency, intensity, animation, vigor, spirit, enthusiasm; light, luster, radiance, splendor; vivacity, inspiration, imagination; torture, affliction, trouble, bitter trial, persecution.
=First.= Foremost, leading; chief, highest, principal, capital; elementary, primary, rudimentary; earliest; primitive, primeval, pristine; in the first place, at the outset, in the beginning, first and foremost; original, onmost.
ANT. _Subsequent, secondary, subordinate, subservient, lowest, unimportant, last, hindmost._
=Fit=, _a._ Competent, fitted, qualified; suitable, appropriate, apt, apposite, meet, seemly, becoming, befitting, proper, good, decent, convenient, fitting, decorous, adapted, congruous, peculiar, particular, prepared, adequate, calculated, ripe, right, contrived, expedient.
ANT. _Awkward, misfitting, ungainly, ill-suited, inappropriate, unseemly, unprepared, unsuitable, inadequate, miscalculated, miscontrived, improper, unfit, inexpedient._
=Fitful.= Variable, irregular, impulsive, spasmodic, unstable, fickle, whimsical, fanciful, capricious, fantastic, humorsome, odd; eventful, checkered; restless, inconstant, mutable, desultory, unequal.
ANT. _Regular, equable, orderly, systematic, calculable._
=Fix.= Set, place, establish, plant, fasten, make firm; attach, tie, connect; determine, define, appoint, limit, settle; rivet, direct steadily, adjust; solidify, consolidate; link, locate, root, secure; decide.
ANT. _Displace, unsettle, remove, disarrange, uproot, transplant, transfer, weaken, shake, disestablish, reverse, disturb, change, unfix._
=Flaccid.= Limber, lax, drooping, flabby, soft, limp, yielding, relaxed, inelastic, pendulous.
ANT. _Firm, braced, plump, muscular, chubby, brawny, vigorous, strong, powerful._
=Flag=, _n._ Flagstone; streamer, banner, colors, standard, pennon, pennant, ensign, gonfalon.
=Flag=, _v._ Hang loose, droop; languish, faint, decline, pine, sink, succumb, grow weak, become dejected; pall, grow stale, lose interest, weary, tire; give in.
ANT. _Freshen, flourish; persevere, hold, brace up, struggle, persist, battle, recruit, recover._
=Flagitious.= Atrocious, heinous, flagrant, scandalous, villainous, corrupt, abandoned, profligate; enormous, monstrous, disgraceful, nefarious, aggravated.
ANT. _Creditable, honorable, noble, meritorious, justifiable, distinguished, extenuated, excusable, pardonable._
=Flaring.= Flaming, glaring, conspicuous, bright, gaudy, overcolored, flaunting, flashy, ostentatious, showy, tawdry.
ANT. _Subdued, toned, harmonized, dull, dim, dingy, neutral, dowdy, colorless._
=Flat=, _a._ Level, horizontal; even, plane, smooth; low, prostrate, laid low; dull, lifeless, spiritless, unanimated, frigid, tame, prosaic, uninteresting; pointless; vapid, tasteless, insipid, stale, dead, jejune; peremptory, absolute, positive; downright, mawkish.
ANT. _Animated, exciting, interesting, thrilling, sensational, emotional, melodramatic._
=Flaunt.= Wave ostentatiously, insolently, brazenly, or boldly; display, vaunt, flourish, toss, disport, boast; flout, flounce, flutter, parade, figure.
ANT. _Conceal, suppress, retire, skulk, recede, hide, shrivel, collapse, furl._
=Flavor.= Taste, savor, relish, zest, smack, gusto; aroma, essence, subtle quality, spirit, soul; odor.
ANT. _Insipidity, tastelessness, inodorousness, mawkishness, scentlessness, flatness._
=Flexible.= Pliable, pliant, limber, lithe, supple, crooked; affable, tractable, compliant, docile, gentle; elastic; easy, indulgent, ductile, flexile, yielding.
ANT. _Tough, rigid, inelastic, hard, inflexible, inexorable._
=Flicker.= Quiver, flutter, falter, waver, glimmer, bicker, shimmer, scintillate.
ANT. _Stream, blase, beam, shine, gleam._
=Flight.= Flying, soaring, volitation, mounting, fleeing, departure; flock; volley, shower; escape, evasion, disappearance; stampede, hegira, exodus.
ANT. _Recurrence, return, reappearance; repose, perching, alighting._
=Flimsy.= Gauzy, poor, transparent, thin; trifling, trivial, inane, puerile; weak, shallow, superficial, slight, unsubstantial; feeble, frivolous, foolish, light, trashy.
ANT. _Solid, sound, irrefragable, cogent, substantial._
=Flinch.= Wince, swerve, recoil, blench, shrink, draw back.
ANT. _Dare, face, bare, meet, endure, challenge, defy._
=Fling.= Throw, cast, toss, hurl, dart, pitch, chuck; prostrate, overthrow, throw down; wince, flounce; jeer, sneer, gibe, scoff, flaunt, taunt; emit, ejaculate.
ANT. _Snatch, grasp, hold, keep, retain, arrest, catch._
=Flippant.= Fluent, voluble, glib, talkative, nimble of speech; impertinent, pert, malapert, forward, bold; superficial, saucy, thoughtless.
ANT. _Servile, considerate, obsequious, flattering, deferential; accurate; complimentary, respectful._
=Float.= Waft, swim, be buoyed up; bear up, buoy up; spread, prevail.
ANT. _Sink, drown, die, vanish, founder._
=Flock=, _n._ Brood, bevy, herd, lot, group, pack, swarm, set, hatch, drove, covey, litter; collection, company, congregation.
=Flock=, _v._ Herd, congregate, assemble, throng, crowd, troop.
ANT. _Disperse, scatter, separate, segregate, distribute, rout._
=Flood=, _n._ Deluge, abundance, inundation, overflow, freshet; downrush, multitude.
ANT. _Drought, drain, ebb, scarcity, subsidence._
=Florid.= Flowery; flushed, rubicund; ornate, rhetorical, figurative, embellished; overwrought, sanguine, meretricious.
ANT. _Pallid, exsanguine; bloodless, anemic, unadorned, bare, sober, nude, chaste._
=Flounder.= Struggle, toss, wallow, tumble, flounce; roll, blunder, bungle.
ANT. _Emerge, course, career, speed, rise, skim, flourish._
=Flourish.= Thrive, grow; prosper, succeed, be successful; vapor, boast, brag, vaunt, bluster, show off; attain one’s prime, be in vigor; brandish, wave; speed, triumph.
ANT. _Fail, decline, fade, arrest, founder, miscarry; sheath, ground._
=Flow.= Stream, run, pour, roll on, sweep along; melt, liquefy, be molten; issue, emanate, proceed, come, grow, arise, follow, spring, result; glide, wave, undulate, float, waver, abound, be full, flood, deluge, overflow; career, progress, course.
ANT. _Halt, stick, stop, hesitate, fail, stickle, stint, beat, recoil, ebb, regurgitate; stagnate._
=Flower=, _n._ Blossom, bloom; best part; prime, vigor; figure, expression; perfection, acme, ornament, pride, gem, cream.
ANT. _Deformity, disappointment, blot, abortion; blight; scum; dregs._
=Flowing.= Running; fluent, copious, smooth; abundant, exuberant, easy, eloquent.
ANT. _Dry, dribbling, meager, strained, labored, difficult, unready, forced._
=Fluctuate.= Veer, waver, swerve, vacillate, vary, undulate, oscillate, hesitate.
ANT. _Abide, adhere, persist, stand fast, stay, stick, hold fast._
=Fluctuation.= Oscillation, undulation, unsteadiness, variation, change, shifting, rise and fall, inconstancy, hesitation, wavering, vacillation.
ANT. _Steadiness, firmness, steadfastness, constancy, stability, fixedness, stolidity; persistence, perseverance, pertinacity, obstinacy, tenacity._
=Fluency.= Smoothness, flowing quality, liquidness; copiousness, affluence, command of language, readiness of speech.
ANT. _Solidity, density, compactness, hardness; difficulty, slowness; paucity._
=Flurry=, _v._ Excite, agitate, disconcert, confuse, disturb, perturb, hurry, ruffle, worry, fluster.
ANT. _Soothe, compose, quiet, calm, mesmerize._
=Flutter.= Hover, flap, flirt; palpitate, tremble; flaunt; fluctuate, waver, oscillate, vacillate, be inconstant, be unsteady; flit, quiver, flicker.
ANT. _Perch, roost, nestle, settle, subside, collapse, rest, repose, pause, sink, lull._
=Flux.= Flow, flowing; mutation, change, shifting, transition; fusion, melting; solvent; motion, progression, substitution, transmutation.
ANT. _Stagnation, stillness, identity, invariableness, immutability, arrestation, crystallization._
=Focus.= Center; standpoint; convergence, rendezvous, nucleus.
ANT. _Circle, dispersion, divergence, dissipation._
=Foggy.= Misty, hazy; confused, dazed, bewildered, muddy, muddled; absent, stupid, obscure.
ANT. _Alert, alive, awake; lucid, clear, bright; shrewd, sharp._
=Foible.= Frailty, weakness, failing, defect, imperfection, infirmity, fault, weak point; peccadillo.
ANT. _Crime, atrocity, sin, enormity._
=Foil=, _n._ Contrast, background, set off; rapier; enhancement, setting; elucidation.
ANT. _Eclipse, outshining, extinction, overshadowing._
=Foist.= Impose, thrust; falsify, counterfeit, palm, pass.
ANT. _Expose, detect, verify, authenticate._
=Fold=, _v._ Double, enfold, enwrap, envelop, wrap, embrace, enclose.