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F facile, showy, cheap, and superficial faithful, truthful, loyal, and trustworthy fame, distinction, dignity, and honor fanatic, enthusiast, visionary, and zealot fanciful, unreal, fantastic, and grotesque fancy, humor, vagary, and caprice [vagary = extravagant or erratic notion or action] fashion, practise, habit, and usage fastidious, proud, gracious, and poised fate, fortune, contingency, and opportunity fatuous, dreamy, moony, and impracticable fear, timidity, cowardice, and pusillanimity feeble, languid, timid, and irresolute ferocious, restive, savage, and uncultivated fervent, enthusiastic, anxious, and zealous fiction, fancy, falsehood, and fabrication fine, fragile, delicate, and dainty firmness, steadfastness, stability, and tenacity flash, flame, flare, and glare flat, insipid, tame, and monotonous fluctuating, hesitating, vacillating, and oscillating folly, foolishness, imbecility, and fatuity foolhardy, hasty, adventurous, and reckless fop, coxcomb, puppy, and jackanapes [jackanapes = conceited person] force, vigor, power, and energy formal, precise, stiff, and methodical fortunate, happy, prosperous, and successful fragile, frail, brittle, and delicate freedom, familiarity, liberty, and independence frightful, fearful, direful, and dreadful frivolous, trifling, petty, and childish fruitful, fertile, prolific, and productive fruitless, vain, trivial, and foolish frustrate, defeat, disappoint, and thwart fully, completely, abundantly, and perfectly furious, impetuous, boisterous, and vehement Faces pale with bliss, like evening stars Fade away like a cloud in the horizon Faint and distant as the light of a sun that has long set Faintly, like a falling dew Fair and fleet as a fawn Fair as a star when only one is shining in the sky Fallen like dead leaves on the highway Falling away like a speck in space Fanciful and extravagant as a caliph's dream Fawning like dumb neglected lap-dogs Felt her breath upon his cheek like a perfumed air Fields of young grain and verdured pastures like crushed velvet Fierce as a bear in defeat Fierce as the flames Fills life up like a cup with bubbling and sparkling liquor Fit closely together as the close-set stones of a building Fix'd like a beacon-tower above the waves of a tempest Flame like a flag unfurled Flap loose and slack like a drooping sail Flashed with the brilliancy of a well-cut jewel Fled like sweet dreams Fleet as an arrow Flitted like a sylph on wings Flowers as soft as thoughts of budding love Fluent as a rill, that wanders silver-footed down a hill Fluid as thought Fluttered like gilded butterflies in giddy mazes Fragile as a spider's web Free as the air, from zone to zone I flew Free as the winds that caress Fresh and unworn as the sea that breaks languidly beside them Fresh as a jewel found but yesterday Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail Frightened like a child in the dark Full-throated as the sea Furious as eagles |
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A Dictionary of Useful Phrases
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Here is a collection of excellent phrases and word combinations that you can use to add spice to your writings and speech. |
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