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fair fresh
F F F flash n. a light that appears suddenly and
briefly. A flash of lightning appeared in
the distance.
gleam a flash or beam of light. You could
fair adj. in keeping with the rules; according see the gleam of the car’s lights through
to what is accepted as right. If you want to the fog.
play on the team, you must learn fair play. sparkle shine; glitter; flash. The sparkle of
equal of the same value, size, rank, amount, the jewels caught my eye.
etc. The two boys are of equal weight.
just right; fair. She received a just reward float v. to stay or move in or on top of air,
for her heroic deeds. water, or liquid. Ice will float in water.
reasonable not asking too much; just. We drift to carry or be carried along by air or
paid a reasonable price for the bookcases. water. The wind made the balloons drift
antonym: unfair toward the trees.
antonym: sink
fight v. to try to overcome by force. Boxers
wear padded gloves when they fight. flow v. to move in a stream, as water does.
battle to take part in a fight or struggle. The A river can flow to the ocean.
team will battle for first place. run to flow. Water will run downhill.
clash to disagree strongly; fight. The stream to flow, move. The tears seemed to
reporter’s viewpoint always seems to clash stream down his face.
with ours.
fool v. to trick or attempt to trick someone.
find v. to look for and get back a lost Her costume could not fool me into
object. We will find my watch. thinking she was someone else.
discover to find out; learn for the first time. deceive to mislead; trick. The magician
The hikers want to discover a new trail in tried to deceive us with his magic tricks.
the woods. trick to fool; cheat. We will trick them into
locate to find the specific place. The museum thinking the painting was real.
guide helped us locate the dinosaur display.
antonym: lose fresh adj. newly made, grown, or
gathered. Mother baked fresh bread.
finish v. to come or bring to an end; new not having existed before. We played
complete or become completed. The movie with the new computer game.
will finish at 9:30. unusual not ordinary. The book was an
complete to finish; get done. We will unusual size.
complete the job before we go home. antonym: stale
conclude to come or bring to an end. The
speaker will conclude by asking everyone
to help with the book fair.
end to stop; to come or bring to its last part.
Our story will end with a very clever
surprise.
antonyms: start, begin
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