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Fable
- noun - a deliberately false or improbable account
- a short moral story (often with animal characters)
- a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
Fails
- verb -
- be unable; "I fail to understand your motives"
- be unsuccessful; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably"
- become bankrupt or insolvent; fail financially and close; "The toy company went bankrupt after the competition hired cheap Mexican labor"; "A number of banks failed that year"
- disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis"
- fail to do something; leave something undone; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account"
- fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?"
- fall short in what is expected; "She failed in her obligations as a good daughter-in-law"; "We must not fail his obligation to the victims of
Falla
- noun - Spanish composer and pianist (1876-1946)
Falls
- noun - a downward slope or bend
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"
- a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"
- a steep descent of the water of a river
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"
- a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"
- assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"
- Autumn
- be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon"
Farle
- unknown - Thin oatmeal cake, often triangular
Fauld
- noun - a piece of armor plate below the breastplate
Faule
- - A fall or falling band.
Fault
- noun - (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); "it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it"
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other;
- (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention;
- an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer"
- Defect
- put or pin the blame on
- responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault"
- the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did"
Gable
- noun - the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof
- United States film actor (1901-1960)