Meaning: to blow, wind

1. conflate : fuse
2. deflate : to release air
3. inflate : fill with air
4. flout : to scorn
5. flabellum : breeze

Root: flex, flat

Meaning: bend

1. deflect : swerve
2. genuflect : to bend knees in worship
3. reflect : to give back
4. retroflex : bend backwards
5. reflexive : involuntary

Context:

1. Different metals are conflated to get a new metal
2. A puncture in the balloon deflated it
3. A balloon is inflated by blowing air into it
4. He flouted all rules with his illegal activities
5. The flabellum from the west is windy
6. The armor deflected the bullet
7. The maid genuflects in front of the queen
8. Cost reflects demand
9. The dancer’s retroflex  amused the audience
10. Blinking is a reflexive action

fait accompli - something that has been done and is past altering

famille Jaune/nolre/rose/verte - Chinese enameled porcelain predominantly

yellow/black/pink/green

faubourg - a suburb, especially of Paris

faute de mieux - for want of a better alternative

fauteuil - a kind of wooden seat in the form of an armchair with open sides and upholstered arms

faux pas - a tactless blunder or indiscretion

favela - a Brazilian shack, slum, or shanty town

felo de se — suicide

feng-shui - in Chinese mythology, a system of good and evil spirit influences which inhabit the natural features of landscapes, and must be taken account of on determining sites for houses and graves

fete champetre - an outdoor entertainment or festival

fete galante - a fete especially of the kind depicted by Watteau

feu dejole - a ceremonial salute by gunfire

fidus Achates - a devoted friend or follower

figura - a person or thing representing or symbolizing a fact etc.

figurant - (fern, figurant) a ballet dancer appearing only in a group

fille dejoie - a prostitute

fils - (added to a surname to distinguish a son from a father) the son, junior (compare PERE)

fin de siecle- characteristic of the (decadent) end of the nineteenth century.

fine champagne – old liqueur brandy

fines herbes - mixed herbs used in cooking, especially to flavor omelettes

flanerie — idling, idleness

flaneur-an idler; a lounger

force majeure - unforeseeable compulsion

frappe - iced, cooled

fritto misto - a mixed grill

garcon - a waiter in a French restaurant, hotel, etc

gastarbeiter - a foreign worker in Germany

gasthaus - a small inn or hotel in German-speaking countries

gasthof- a German hotel, usually larger than a guesthouse

gemutlich - pleasant and comfortable; genial, agreeable

giaour-derog. Or literary a non-muslim, especially a Christian

gite - a furnished holiday house in France, usually small and in the country

gleichschaltung - the standardization of political, economic, and social institutions in

authoritarian states

grande dame - a dignified lady of high rank

grand mal - a serious form of epilepsy

grand monde - fashionable society

grand siecle - the seventeenth century in France

gran turismo-a touring car, with plenty of room for passengers and luggage.

‘   gratine - cooked au gratin

gravitas – solemn demeanor, seriousness

2. placid : peaceful : calm

3. certitude : certainty

4. destitute : extremely poor

5. zany : comic, crazy

6. dispirited : lacking in spirit

7. expound: explain

8. ventral : abdominal

9. reprove : censure, rebuke

10. flout : reject, mock

11. bacchanalian : drunkard

12. expunge : cancel, remove