| Word | Meaning | Synonyms |
| Flaunt | Display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Show-off, parade, display, wave around, Grandstand ( to conduct oneself or perform showily or ostentatiously in an attempt to impress onlookers: The senator doesn’t hesitate to grandstand if it makes her point.) |
| Flout | Laugh at with contempt and derision, treating others with scorn | Deride, sneer, laugh at, gibe, ridicule |
| Flay | Strip the skin off/ flay a person, you are criticizing him bitterly | Peel/ pare (apples), reprove, castigate, excoriate, upbraid |
| Flail | Give a thrashing to; beat hard, flogging someone | Flog, pummel, smash, slug ( “He slugged me so hard that I passed out”) |
| Prate | Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle( Act in a trivial or ineffective way), Tattle ( Divulge confidential information or secrets), tittle-tattle |
| Rail | Complain bitterly, in a loud and angry manner Criticize severely | Fulminate, inveigh, Upbraid (to find fault with or reproach severely; censure: The military tribunal upbraided the soldier for his cowardice), Bawl out (Informal. to scold vociferously; reprimand or scold vigorously: Your father will bawl you out when he sees this mess.), vituperate |
| Wreak | Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence (wreak havoc) | Inflict |
| Raze | Tear down so as to make flat with the ground | Dismantle, tear down, take down, obliterate, efface, expunge (to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one’s unhappy memories.) |
| Cloy | To become uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance: A diet of cake and candy soon cloys. | Surfeit (to supply with anything to excess or satiety; satiate.), Satiate (to supply with anything to excess, so as to disgust or weary; surfeit.) |
| Foist | 1. To force onto another 2. Insert surreptitiously or without warrant | Fob off(to cheat someone by substituting something spurious or inferior; palm off :He tried to fob off an inferior brand on us),Fraudulently |
