EditFast Grammar Resource: Homonyms: F

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Homonyms

F

facts - objective things
fax obsolete - but widespread - image transmission technology
fain - willing
feign - pretend to be affected
faint - pass out
feint - a weak - misdirected attack to confuse the enemy
fair - even-handed
fare - payment
fairing - streamlining
faring - the state of progress
fairy - imaginary magic person
ferry - river-crossing boat
faker - a deceiver
fakir - a Hindu ascetic
farrow - a litter of pigs
pharoah - Egyptian king
faux - fake
foe - enemy
fay - a fairy
Faye - a woman's name
fey - strange and otherworldly
fays - more than one fairy
faze - to disconcert
faze - to stun
phase - a part of the sequence
fazed - stunned
phased - done in sequential parts
feat - an accomplishment
feet - look down
ferrate - a salt containing iron and oxygen
ferret - a domesticated polecat
feted - celebrated
fetid - stinking
few - not many
phew - expression of relief
file - a folder for holding papers
phial - a small glass bottle
fills - plural of fill
fils - one one-thousandth of an Iraqi dinar
filter - keep the bad stuff from passing through
philter - a love potion
find - to locate
fined - to have to pay a parking ticket
finish - to complete
Finnish - from Finland
fir - evergreen tree
fur - animal hair
furr - to separate with strips of wood
fisher - one who fishes
fissure - a crack
flair - verve
flare - to spread
flea - parasitic insect
flee - to run away
flecks - many tiny specks
flex - to bend
flew - past tense of fly
flu - short for influenza
flue - chimney pipe
Flo - a girl's name
floe - sheet of floating ice
flow - to glide along
flocks - more than one group of birds
phlox - a scented plant
floes - sheets of floating ice
flows - glides along
floor - what one walks on
fluor - something that glows
flour - powdered grain
flower - a bloom
for - in place of
fore - in front
four - number after three
forego - to precede
forgo - to abstain from
foreword - introduction to a book
forward - the facing direction
fort - a fortification
forte - a person's strong point
forth - a direction
fourth - following the third
foul - grossly offensive to the senses
fowl - domestic hen or rooster
frees - releasing
freeze - very cold
frieze - a wall decoration
friar - a monk
fryer - small chicken