| afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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| (verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
| afflicted | (adjective) grievously affected especially by disease | Synonyms: stricken |
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| (adjective) mentally or physically unfit | Synonyms: impaired |
| affliction | (noun) a cause of great suffering and distress | - |
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| (noun) a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health | - |
| (noun) a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity | - |
| afflictive | (adjective) causing misery or pain or distress | Synonyms: painful, sore |
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| aflicker | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: flickering |
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| conflict | (noun) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) | Synonyms: battle, struggle |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, engagement, fight |
| (noun) an incompatibility of dates or events | - |
| (noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: difference, difference of opinion, dispute |
| (noun) opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings | - |
| (noun) opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot) | - |
| (noun) a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests | - |
| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: contravene, infringe, run afoul |
| (verb) be in conflict | - |
| conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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| (adjective) on bad terms | - |
| flick | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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| (noun) a short stroke | - |
| (noun) a light sharp contact (usually with something flexible) | - |
| (verb) remove with a flick (of the hand) | - |
| (verb) touch or hit with a light, quick blow | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: click, snap |
| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: jerk |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: riffle, ruffle |
| (verb) cause to move with a flick | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flicker |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flip, leaf, riff, riffle, thumb |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flicker |
| flicker | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flutter, waver |
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| (noun) North American woodpecker | - |
| (noun) a momentary flash of light | Synonyms: glint, spark |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flitter, flutter, quiver, waver |
| (verb) flash intermittently | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) shine unsteadily | Synonyms: flick |
| flickering | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: aflicker |
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| flickertail | (noun) of sagebrush and grassland areas of western United States and Canada | Synonyms: Citellus richardsoni, Richardson ground squirrel |
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| inflict | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, visit |
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| infliction | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: imposition |
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| (noun) an act causing pain or damage | - |
| (noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, nuisance, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |