foundation
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
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Vocabulary ranked by real-world frequency — start with the 1,000 most common words. Definitions adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), review in progress.
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fifth
The ordinal form of the number five.
fellow
A companion; a comrade.
frank
Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not reserved or disguised.
forever
For all time, for all eternity; for a lifetime; for an infinite amount of time.
funds
Financial resources.
facts
Used to express agreement.
failure
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
festival
Pertaining to a feast or feast day; festive. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
fuel
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
fantastic
Wonderful; marvelous; excellent; extraordinarily good or great (used especially as an intensifier).
flying
That flies or can fly.
filled
That is now full.
fixed
Attached; affixed.
forest
A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods.
fly-by-night
Unreliable or untrustworthy, especially in business
flow
Movement in people or things characterized with a continuous motion, involving either a non solid mass or a multitude.
factor
An agent or representative; a reseller or distributor (sometimes with a private label); a consignee.
facilities
Synonym of facility in certain contexts.
fourth-rate
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
finance
The management of money and other assets.
focused
Directing all one's efforts towards achieving a particular goal.
faster
One who fasts, or voluntarily refrains from eating.
fault
Culpability; the responsibility for a blameworthy event.
fill
To make full — To add contents to (a container, cavity, or the like) so that it is full.
friendly
Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
false
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
fired
dismissed, terminated from employment.
funding
The action of the verb fund.
fifth-rate
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
familiar
Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
facility
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
fucked
Irreparably or catastrophically broken.
favor
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
frame
To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust.
fruit
A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically
frequently
At frequent intervals.
fee
An amount charged for a privilege.
facing
Positioned so as to face (in a particular direction)
fairly
In a fair manner; fair; not biased or skewed or favouring a certain party
ford
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
founded
Having a basis.
formation
The act of assembling a group or structure.
finger
A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other animals.
fishing
The act of catching fish.
format
The layout of a publication or document.
founder
One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
featuring
A cameo on another performer's track.
finals
A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place or prize, 2nd place or prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).
formal
In accordance with established forms.
formula
Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
fort
A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
featured
displayed with special treatment
fiction
Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.
FBI
Fixed-bit index.
finger-light
requiring or using very little strength or effort
flower
A colorful, conspicuous structure associated with angiosperms, frequently scented and attracting various insects, and which may or may not be used for sexual reproduction.
forgotten
Of which knowledge has been lost; which is no longer remembered.
fallen
Having dropped by the force of gravity.
figured
Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.