1.facilitate v.（使）容易，促进(to make easier, help bring about)

例：The function of capital markets is to facilitate an exchange of funds among all participants.

派生词：facility(n.容易；设备)

2.facility n.设施，设备(sth. that makes an action, operation, or course of conduct easier)；容易，灵巧（ease in performance）

词根记忆：fac(做)+ility(性质，状态)一经常做的结果--灵巧

例：Wind farms require more land per unit of electricity generated than any other type of electrical—generation facdity.

同根词：facilitate(v.促进：帮助)

3.faction n.派系，派别(a party or group)

例：the radical faction激进派

4.factor n.因素(ingredient)；【数】因子(any of the numbers or symbols in mathe-matics that when multiplied together form a product)

词根记忆：fac(做)+tor--做，发挥作用的一因素

例：Output is a major factorin GDP.

派生词：factorization(n.因数分解)

5.faculty n．全体教员(all the lecturers, etc. in an educational institution)；（大学的）系(department or group of related departments in a university, etc.);才能（ability）

词根记忆：fac(做)+ult+y--做事的本领--才能

例：Jane is a member of the faculty at the local universitlt.//The village schoolmaster encourages children to use their faculties of obseNation as much as possible.

6.faith n.信任(trust)；信仰(belief)

例：Even during the war,I kept faith in the government.

7.fallow a．休耕的（plowed but left unseeded during a growing season)

联想记忆：休耕(fallow)的时候和伙伴(fellow)一起玩

例：The farmers leave a few fields fallow every year.

8.falsify v.篡改(to alter a record, etc. fraudulently)；说谎(to tell falsehoods; to lie)

词根记忆：fals(假)+ify_造假-+篡改

例：In 1978 a national study found that not only had many contractors licensed by a self-policing private guild failed to pass qualifying exams,but they had also falsified their references.

派生词：falsification(n.伪造；歪曲)

9.fatal a．致命的(causing death)

词根记忆：fat( =fate命运)+al--要命的--致命的

例：During the 1630's smallpox, the disease was most fatal to the Native American people.

10.fatality n.死亡（事故）（death resulting from a disaster）

词根记忆：fat( =fate命运)+alit)r--夺命--死亡（事故）

例：The rate of automobile fatalititas in our country is very high.