face up to acknowledge, admit, face the music; confront, meet head on, deal with, cope with, brazen out or through.
facet, n. aspect, phase, characteristic, side, angle, slant, twist; factor, particular, item, detail, point, element.
facetious, adj. 1. tongue-in-cheek, unserious, not serious, joking, jesting, Inf. joshing, Inf. kidding, Inf. fooling around.
2. funny, humorous, comical; jocular, jocose, waggish, witty, Archaic, facete; droll, humorsome, whimsical.
3. frivolous, flighty, giddy, dizzy; merry, mirthful, jovial; playful, sportive.
facile, adj. 1. adept, proficient, expert, artful, masterful, masterly; deft, adroit, dexterous, ambidextrous, handy, skillful, skilled, Brit. Dial. feat.
2. easy, simple, elementary, snap, SI. cinchy.
3. fluent, flowing, free, smooth; complaisant, easygoing, bland, mild; unconstrained, affable, agreeable, gracious, graceful, suave; urbane, glib, superficial.
4. influenceable, acquiescent, responsive, obedient, obeyant; compliant, cooperative, willing; flexible, pliant, pliable, manageable, tractable, ductile, malleable; yielding, submissive, deferential, docile.
facilitate, v. 1. ease, smooth, simplify, uncompli-cate, clear; relieve, assuage, disburden, disencumber; alleviate, allay, mitigate, lessen, abate, reduce, lighten.
2. assist, aid, help, befriend; forward, advance, promote, encourage, further, foster, open the door for, pave the way for, make way for, clear the way for; support, back, abet, sustain.
facility, n. 1. edifice, building, structure, plant; complex, system, network.
2. easiness, simpleness, conducibleness, conduceabil-ity, conduciveness; feasibility, feasibleness, practicability, practicableness.
3. benefit, aid, means, resource, advantage, convenience, opportunity.
4. gift, talent, endowment, aptness, aptitude; ability, ableness, faculty, capability, capableness; adeptness, proficiency, address, expertness, masterfulness, readiness; deftness, adroitness, skillfulness, skill, dexterity, ambidexterity, knack, turn, bent.
5. ease, fluency, smoothness, suaveness, suavity, flowingness; affability, complaisance, easygoingness; finesse, grace, graciousness, urbanity. facing, n. 1. decoration, veneer, coating, protection; front, false front, fajade.
2. lining, interfacing, reinforcement,
facsimile, n. copy, replica, reproduction, representation, likeness, portrait, photograph; image, semblance, resemblance, reflex; duplicate, carbon, photocopy, Trademark. Xerox copy, Trademark. Mimeograph, Inf. mimeo, Inf. ditto, Inf. dup., Inf. fax;