Chapter 12
Part 12
uniformity, n. sameness, even tenor; invariability, regularity, equableness, conformity, consonance, consistency. Antonyms: diversity, variation, anomaly.
unimaginative, a. matter-of-fact, prosaic, literal, practical, unromantic.
unimportance, n. immateriality, insignificance, triviality, paltriness.
unimportant, a. immaterial, insignificant, trivial, paltry.
unimpressible, a. unimpressionable, impassible, stoical, impassive.
unintentional, a. accidental, unpremeditated, fortuitous, undesigned.
union, n. coalition, combination, merger, fusion, unification, incorporation, conjunction, amalgamation, coalescence, junction, league, confederacy, federation, alliance; agreement, concurrence, unison. Antonyms: disunion. See separation.
unique, a. unmatched, unexampled.
unite, v. join, combine, annex, associate, link, couple, yoke, splice; consolidate, merge, amalgamate, fuse, confederate, unify, coalesce, concur, coöperate.
united, a. combined, incorporate, federated, confederate, affiliated, unified, blended, leagued, conjugate, yoked, amalgamated.
unity, n. oneness, singleness; concord, harmony, agreement, uniformity, unison, concert.
universal language. pasilaly; Esperanto.
universal writing. pasigraphy.
unjust, a. unfair, inequitable, iniquitous, unmerited.
unjustifiable, a. indefensible, inexcusable, unwarrantable.
unkind, a. cruel, harsh, austere, rigorous, incompassionate, inclement, brutal.
unkindness, n. cruelty, brutality, severity, incompassion, incivility, disfavor.
unknowable, a. incognizable, incognoscible, unascertainable, unintelligible, incomprehensible.
unknowingly, adv. unwittingly, ignorantly, unconsciously, inadvertently.
unknown, a. obscure, inglorious, unrenowned, nameless, undistinguished; unascertained, unexplored, unapprehended; anonymous.
unknown person. stranger, ignote.
unladylike, a. hoidenish, pert, ill-bred.
unlawful, a. illegal, illicit, contraband, illegitimate, unlicensed.
unleavened, a. azymous.
unleavened bread. azym.
unlike, a. dissimilar, different, diverse, sundry, variant, heterogeneous, unique, nondescript.
unlikelihood, n. improbability, unlikeliness.
unlikely, a. improbable; unpromising.
unlikeness, n. dissimilarity, dissimilitude, difference, contrast.
unlimited, a. limitless, illimitable, infinite, absolute, unbounded.
unload, v. disburden, unlade, relieve.
unlooked-for, a. unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, chance.
unlovely, a. uncomely, homely, plain, unattractive, repulsive.
unlucky, a. unfortunate, luckless, ill-starred, unhappy, untoward.
unmaidenly, a. hoidenish, rude, boisterous, pert.
unman, v. emasculate, castrate; dishearten, discourage, unnerve, intimidate; emolliate, effeminate.
unmanageable, a. ungovernable, intractable, refractory, fractious; cumbersome, unwieldy.
unmanly, a. ignoble, cowardly, mean; womanish, effeminate cockney.
unmanned, a. emasculated, effeminate.
unmannerly, a. impolite, discourteous, boorish, uncivil, rude.
unmanning, n. emasculation, castration; debilitation; discouragement.
unmarried, a. single, celibate.
unmarried man. bachelor, celibate, agamist.
unmarried woman. spinster.
unmatchable, a. peerless, matchless, incomparable, inimitable, unique.
unmatched, a. unequaled, matchless, incomparable, nonpareil.
unmeaning, a. meaningless, senseless; insignificant, inexpressive.
unmeant, a. unintentional.
unmelodious, a. discordant, harsh, dissonant, inharmonious, unmusical.
unmeltable, a. infusible.
unmerciful, a. cruel, pitiless, merciless, inclement, unsparing, stern, unrelenting, ruthless, brutal, incompassionate, unkind; (Colloq.) excessive, fabulous, exorbitant, immoderate.
unmindful, a. oblivious, inadvertent, inattentive, heedless.
unmistakable, a. manifest, palpable, obvious, patent, evident, distinct, unambiguous.
unmixable, a. immiscible.
unmixableness, n. immiscibility.
unmovable, a. fixed, stable, immobile.
unmoved, a. calm, dispassionate, indifferent, unstirred, impassive, stoical.
unmusical, a. inharmonious, discordant.
unnatural, a. abnormal, monstrous, anomalous, aberrant, variant, preternatural, exceptional, irregular; artificial, affected, feigned, assumed simulated, constrained.
unnecessary, a. superfluous, useless, needless, uncalled for, expletive, redundant, supernumerary.
unneighborly, a. unsociable, exclusive, distant, unaccommodating.
unnoticed, a. unheeded, unnoted, surreptitious.
unobjectionable, a. unexceptionable.
unobtainable, a. unprocurable, unattainable, inaccessible.
unobtrusive, a. unpretentious, unassuming, modest.
unorthodox, a. heterodox.
unpacifiable, a. implacable, unappeasable, unreconcilable.
unpaid, a. outstanding, payable, due, unliquidated.
unpardonable, a. inexpiable, unatonable, irremissible, unforgivable.
unpassable, a. impassable.
unpenetrable, a. impenetrable, impervious, imperforable.
unpierceable, a. imperforable, impenetrable.
unplanted, a. fallow.
unpleasant, a. disagreeable, uncongenial.
unplowed, a. fallow.
unpopular, a. disliked, obnoxious, odious, offensive.
unpopularity, n. odium, disesteem, obnoxiousness.
unpractical, a. impractical, visionary, Utopian.
unpraiseworthy, a. uncommendable, illaudable, indign.
unprejudiced, a. impartial, unbiased, unjaundiced.
unpremeditated, a. extemporaneous, offhand, impromptu, extempore.
unpretending, a. unobtrusive, modest, unpretentious, unostentatious.
unpretentious, a. unpretending.
unpreventable, a. unavoidable, inevitable.
unprincipled, a. unscrupulous.
unproductive, a. unfruitful, barren.
unprofessional, a. amateur.
unprofitable, a. unremunerative, profitless; futile, fruitless, unavailing.
unpromising, a. unlikely; inauspicious, unpropitious.
unqualified, a. incompetent, ineligible; absolute, unconditional.
unquenchable, a. unslakable, insatiate, insatiable, quenchless.
unquestionable, a. incontrovertible, irrefutable, incontestable, indubitable, obvious, indisputable.
unquestioned, a. undoubted, implicit.
unravel, v. disentangle, extricate, ravel; decipher, unfold.
unreachable, a. inaccessible.
unreadable, a. illegible.
unreal, a. fanciful, imaginary, visionary, unsubstantial, shadowy, chimerical, illusive, phantasmal, phantasmagorial.
unreasonable, a. irrational, absurd, unwise, preposterous, senseless; excessive, exorbitant, unfair, unconscionable, inordinate.
unreclaimable, a. irreclaimable, irretrievable, hopeless, incorrigible.
unrecognized, a. ignored, disregarded, unacknowledged.
unreconcilable, a. antagonistic, incompatible, irreconcilable, implacable, unpacifiable.
unrecoverable, a. irrecoverable, irreparable, irretrievable, irrecuperable.
unredeemed, a. forfeited, unransomed, unfulfilled.
unrefonnable, a. irreformable, incorrigible.
unrelenting, a. relentless, implacable, inexorable, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful.
unreliable, a. untrustworthy, undependable, uncertain.
unremediable, a. irremediable.
unremitting, a. indefatigable, persevering, unceasing, constant.
unrepairable, a. irreparable.
unrepentant, a. impenitent, incontrite.
unreserve, n. frankness, candor, ingenuousness.
unreserved, a. frank, undissembling, candid, ingenuous; unconditioned, unlimited.
unresistible, a. irresistible.
unresisting, a. passive, submissive, long-suffering.
unrest, n. unquietness, restlessness, uneasiness, disquietude, inquietude.
unrestrained, a. unbridled, ungoverned, uncurbed, riotous, impotent, saturnalian, rampant; licentious, dissolute, profligate.
unrestraint, n. freedom, liberty, license, abandon.
unrestricted, a. unlimited, unfettered, uncircumscribed.
unrevivable, a. irrevivable, irresuscitable.
unrighteous, a. unholy, evil, iniquitous, wicked, vicious.
unrivaled, a. peerless, matchless, inimitable, incomparable, supreme.
unroll, v. unfold, unfurl, evolve.
unrolling, n. unfolding, unfurling, evolvement, evolution.
unromantic, a. prosaic, pragmatical, matter-of-fact, practical, literal.
unruly, a. turbulent, ungovernable, refractory, insubordinate, fractious, insurgent, indocile, disobedient, froward, vicious, intractable, rebellious.
unsafe, a. insecure, risky, perilous, dangerous, hazardous, imperiled, precarious.
unsafety, n. insecurity, danger, risk, peril, hazard, jeopardy.
unsalable, a. invendible, unmarketable.
unsatisfactory, a. disappointing, insufficient.
unsatisfiable, a. insatiable, insatiate.
unsavory, a. offensive, rank, unpleasant; insipid, savorless, mawkish, unpalatable, vapid.
unsay, v. recall, retract, recant.
unsaying, n. recantation, retraction.
unscrupulous, a. unprincipled, unconscientious, dishonest, dishonorable, knavish.
unsearchable, a. inscrutable.
unseasonable, a. inopportune, ill-timed, untimely, premature.
unseasonably, adv. malapropos, untimely.
unseemly, a. unbecoming, improper, indecorous.
unseen, a. invisible, unperceived, secret, unnoticed, unobserved, clandestine, surreptitious, furtive, concealed, underhand.
unselfish, a. magnanimous, disinterested, altruistic, charitable.
unselfishness, n. magnanimity, altruism, beneficence, liberality.
unsentimental, a. matter-of-fact, prosaic, pragmatical, practical.
unserviceableness, n. inutility.
unsettle, v. disorder, derange, upset, unhinge, disconcert.
unsettled, a. undetermined, dubious, unadjusted, controvertible, disputable; irresolute, fickle, changeable; roily, feculent, turbid.
unshapely, a. misshapen, deformed.
unsheltered, a. exposed, unprotected.
unshod, a. discalced, barefooted, discalceated.
unshrinking, a. unflinching, determined, resolute.
unsightly, a. offensive, repulsive.
unskilled, a. unpracticed, unskillful, empirical.
unskillful, a. maladroit, inexpert, unskilled, clumsy.
unsociable, a.morose, uncompanionable, inaffable, ungenial, taciturn.
unsolvable, a. insoluble, inexplicable.
unsophisticated, a. unadulterated; innocent, guileless, gullible, ingenuous.
unsound, a. defective, impaired; sophistical, fallacious, illogical, untenable.
unsparing, a. liberal, ungrudging, profuse; severe, unmerciful.
unspeakable, a. ineffable, unutterable, inexpressible.
unspotted, a. spotless, pure.
unstable, a. insecure, unsteady, irresolute, inconstant, erratic.
unsteadfast, a. unstable, inconstant, wavering, irresolute.
unsteady, a. inconstant, precarious, wavering, variable, vacillating, wabbly.
unstinted, a. plentiful.
unstudied, a. extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, offhand.
unsubmissive, a. insubordinate, refractory.
unsuccessful, a. unfortunate, unlucky, unprosperous; abortive, fruitless, unavailing, bootless, ineffectual, futile.
unsuitable, a. inappropriate, incongruous, incompatible.
unsupplied, a. destitute.
unsurmountable, a. insuperable.
unsurpassed, a. peerless, transcendent, superior, unrivaled, matchless.
unsusceptible, a. unimpressionable, unfeeling.
unsuspecting, a. unsuspicious, gullible, credulous, indubious, unsophisticated.
unsustainable, a. untenable, controvertible.
untangle, v. unravel, disentangle.
untaxed, a. scot-free, exempt.
unteachable, a. indocile, intractable.
unthankful, a. ungrateful.
unthankfulness, n. ingratitude.
untidy, a. disorderly, slatternly, littered.
untillable, a. inarable.
unfilled, a. fallow.
untimely, a. premature, unseasonable, inopportune, ill-timed, malapropos.
untiring, a. indefatigable, unceasing, tireless, unremitting, unwearied.
untrodden, a. trackless, pathless.
untrue, a. inveracious, mendacious, false, untruthful, unfaithful.
untruth, n. falsehood, fiction, fabrication, lie.
untruthful, a. inveracious, mendacious, lying.
untruthfulness, n. mendacity, inveracity, falsehood.
untwist, v. unravel, disentangle, feaze.
unused, a. unaccustomed, unfamiliar.
unusual, a. uncommon, curious, rare, odd, unique, extraordinary, anomalous, irregular.
unutterable, a. unspeakable, ineffable.
unvarying, a. invariable, monotonous, uniform.
unveil, v. expose, uncover, reveal, disclose.
unviolated, a. inviolate, inviolated, inviolable.
unwarrantable, a. unjustifiable, indefensible.
unwavering, a. steadfast, resolute.
unwearied, a. indefatigable.
unweighable, a. imponderable.
unwholesome, a. baneful, insalubrious. See unhealthy.
unwieldy, a. ponderous, cumbersome, clumsy.
unwilling, a. reluctant, indisposed, loath, disinclined, averse.
unwind v. disentangle, unravel.
unwise, a. imprudent, injudicious, inexpedient, indiscreet.
unwittingly, adv. unknowingly, undesignedly, inadvertently.
unworthy, a. unmeritorious, undeserving, despicable, contemptible.
unwritten, a. traditional.
unyielding, a. inflexible, stiff, unbending, incompliant, indomitable, insubmissive, tenacious, unimpressible, impliable, obdurate, intractable, game, resolute.
upbraid, v. reproach, scold, chide, rate, reprove, reprimand, twit.
upbraiding, n. scolding, reproach, reprimand, censure, reprehension.
up grade. ascent, acclivity.
uphill, a. ascending, acclivous, rising.
uphold, v. support, sustain, vindicate, defend.
upkeep, n. maintenance.
upper, n. vamp (of a shoe).
upper-hand, n. advantage, mastery, dominion, control.
upper ten. (Colloq.) aristocracy, élite, _bon ton_.
uppish, a. (Colloq.) proud, arrogant, assuming.
upright, a. erect, perpendicular, vertical; honorable, honest.
uprightness, n. perpendicularity, verticality, erectness; honesty, integrity.
uproar, n. turmoil, _fracas_, clamor, tumult, commotion, din, hubbub.
uproarious, a. (Colloq.) clamorous, obstreperous, boisterous, noisy, turbulent.
uproot, v. eradicate, extirpate.
uprooting, n. eradication, extirpation.
upset, v. overturn, overset, capsize, invert, overthrow; disconcert, discompose, perturb, agitate, unnerve, excite.
upshot, n. event, result, issue, outcome, consequence.
upside down. inverted; disordered, topsy-turvy.
upstart, n. parvenu, snob, mushroom.
up to snuff. (Slang) knowing, acute, sharp.
upward, a. ascending, acclivous (sloping upward).
urge, v. egg, importune, exhort; impel, force; incite, instigate, goad.
urgency, n. insistence, pressure; importunity; exigency, stress, necessity; incitement.
urgent, a. pressing, imperative, insistent, exigent, importunate, pertinacious, imperious.
urine, n. piss, emiction; stale (urine of horses and cattle). Associated words: uronology, urinal, urinate, urination, micturition, urethra, uric, uretic, uriniferous, enuresis, anuresis, diabetis, strangury, urolith, lateritious sediment, uroscopy, urinary, urea, diuretic.
usage, n. treatment; custom, practice, use.
use, n. employment, application, service, utilization, exploitation; necessity, need; utility, avail, advantage, usefulness, service; custom, usage, practice. Antonyms: disuse, obsolescence, desuetude, inutility. Associated Words: obsolescent, obsolete, obsoletism, utilitarian, utilitarianism, utilizable, chrestomathic.
use, v. employ, apply, utilize, exploit; treat, behave toward; practice, exercise; consume, exhaust; accustom, habituate, familiarize, inure.
useful, a. serviceable, advantageous, available.
usefulness, n. utility, advantage.
useless, a. unserviceable, futile, worthless, unavailing, bootless, ineffectual, null, nugatory, abortive.
uselessness, n. inutility, futility, unserviceableness.
usher, v. show to a seat; introduce, forerun, precede, herald, escort.
usual, a. ordinary, general, accustomed, conventional, prevailing, everyday. Antonyms: See unusual.
usually, adv. ordinarily, generally, customarily, commonly.
usurp, v. arrogate, seize, appropriate, accroach.
usurpation, n. arrogation, seizure, appropriation.
utility, n. usefulness. Antonym: inutility. Associated Words: utilitarian, utilitarianism, utilizable.
utilize, v. use, employ, exploit.
utmost, a. farthest out, extreme, last; greatest, maximum, uttermost.
Utopian, a. chimerical, visionary, fanciful, air-built.
utter, v. speak, pronounce, express.
utter, a. complete, absolute, perfect; unconditional, unqualified, peremptory.
utterable, a. pronounceable, expressible.
utterance, n. speech, articulation.
utterly, adv. entirely, completely, wholly, unconditionally, altogether.
uttermost, a. extreme, utmost, farthest.
V
Vacancy, n. emptiness; space, vacuum, chasm, gap; leisure, vacation, intermission.
vacant, a. empty, unfilled, void, uninhabited, untenanted; leisure, unemployed. Antonyms: full, filled, occupied.
vacate, v. empty, evacuate, resign, abdicate; annul, abrogate, invalidate.
vacation, n. evacuation, resignation, abdication; invalidation, abrogation; intermission, holidays, recess.
vaccinate, v. inoculate.
vaccination, n. inoculation (with the cowpox).
vacillate, v. fluctuate, waver, veer, oscillate, whiffle.
vacillating, a. irresolute, changeable, wavering, undecided, inconstant.
vacillation, n. fluctuation, indecision, changeableness, oscillation, irresolution, inconstancy.
vagabond, n. vagrant, tramp, mendicant, beggar; rascal, rogue, scamp, knave.
vagabond, a. vagrant, wandering, nomadic, landloping.
vagabondage, n. vagrancy, vagabondism, nomadism.
vagary, n. whim, caprice, fancy, freak, whimsey, humor.
vagrancy, n. vagabondage.
vagrant, n. tramp; beggar, vagabond, rascal.--a. wandering, nomadic, vagabond.
vague, a. indefinite, ambiguous, obscure, uncertain, groundless, hazy, indistinct.
vagueness, n. indefiniteness, ambiguity, obscurity, uncertainty.
vain, a. conceited, arrogant, egotistical, overweening, vainglorious; nugatory, fruitless, ineffectual, frustrate, unavailing, bootless, futile, abortive, ineffective, empty; delusive, chimerical, unsatisfying, unsubstantial, deceitful.
vainglorious, a. boastful, pretentious, assuming, arrogant, conceited, overweening.
vainglory, n. vanity, boasting, gasconade.
vale, n. dell, valley, dale, dingle.
valiant, a. See brave.
valid, a. cogent, logical, justifiable, efficacious, well-grounded. Antonyms: See invalid.
validity, n. strength, cogency, soundness, force. Antonym: invalidity.
valise, n. portmanteau, satchel, gripsack.
valley, n. vale, hollow, bottom, dale, ravine, dingle, glen, clough, dell.
valor, n. See bravery.
valuable, a. costly, precious, rare, expensive; esteemed, worthy; serviceable, useful.
valuable, n. treasure.
valuation, n. appraisement, appraisal.
value, n. worth, excellence.
value, v. appraise; prize, esteem, appreciate.
vamose, v. (Slang) decamp, depart quickly, go.
vampire, n. extortioner, bloodsucker.
vandal, n. destroyer, iconoclast, hun.
vanish, v. See disappear.
vanishing, a. evanescent, disappearing, transient.--n. disappearance, evanescence.
vanity, n. unsubstantialness, unreality, inanity, delusiveness, emptiness, sham; conceit, self-admiration, egotism.
vanquish, v. overcome, defeat, subjugate, subdue, rout, overpower.
vanquishment, n. defeat, subjugation, routing, conquering.
vapid, a. lifeless, spiritless; insipid, stale, tasteless; prosy, tame.
vapidity, n. lifelessness; insipidity, tastelessness; prosiness, tameness.
vapor, n. gas, haze, fog, fume, effluvium, exhalation, reek, emanation, rack. Associated Words: atmology, atmolysis, atomize, atomization, exhale, emanate.
vaporize, v. evaporate.
vaporous, a. halituous, vapory, foggy.
variability, n. variableness, mutability, inconstancy, unsteadfastness.
variable, a. mutable, changeable. See changeable. Antonyms: invariable, unchangeable.
variance, n. change, alteration; dissension, disagreement, difference, nonconformity.
variation, n. mutation, change; deviation, diversity, discrepancy; diversification.
varied, a. various, diversified, different, motley.
variegated, a. mottled, diversified, motley, divers-colored, party-colored, polychrome.
variety, n. diversity, diversification, multiplicity, variousness; assortment, collection; kind, class, species.
various, a. manifold, diverse, sundry, numerous, multifarious.
varnish, v. lacquer, japan, enamel, glaze; gloss over, palliate, extenuate.
varnish, n. lacquer; gloss, palliation, extenuation.
vary, v. diversify, variegate, modify; deviate, depart, swerve; disagree; modify, alternate.
vassal, n. feudatory, beneficiary, subject, liege, liegeman.
vast, a. spacious, immense, monstrous, huge, extensive, immeasurable.
vault, n. crypt, tomb, catacomb, ossuarium.
vault, v. leap over, spring, bound, jump; tumble.
vaulted, a. arched, concave.
vaunt, v. See boast.
veal, n. Associated Word: vituline.
veering, n. shift, shifting; vacillation, tergiversation; temporizing, time-serving.
vegetable, n. plant, truck.
vegetable oyster. salsify.
vegetate, v. sprout, grow, germinate, pullulate; rusticate, hibernate.
vehemence, n. fervency, impetuosity, intensity, zeal. See ardor.
vehement, a. fervent, impetuous, ardent, passionate, eager.
vehicle, n. conveyance, carriage; medium, instrument; excipient.
veil, v. screen, cloak, disguise, shroud, mask, conceal.
veil, n. disguise, pretense, cloak, mask, mantilla.
veiled, a. hidden, disguised, incognito.
vein, n. Associated Word: venous. See blood vessel.
vein, n. seam, lode.
venal, a. purchasable, mercenary, hireling.
vend, v. See sell.
venerate, v. reverence, revere, honor, esteem.
veneration, n. reverence, honor.
venereal disease. gonorrhea, clap; syphilis.
venereal sore. chancre, chancroid (soft chancre).
venery, n. amorousness, amativeness; sexual intercourse, coition.
vengeance, n. retribution, avengement, revenge; Nemesis, retaliation. Associated Word: wreak.
venial, a. pardonable. Antonyms: See unpardonable.
vent, n. airhole, aperture, venthole; touchhole; spiracle blowhole; outlet, emission, escape.
vent, v. emit, utter, say, discharge.
venthole, n. touchhole, vent, bung, orifice, spiracle.
ventriloquism, n. ventriloquy, gastriloquy.
ventriloquist, n. gastriloquist, polyphonist.
venture, n. chance, risk, hazard, contingency.
venture, v. dare, hazard, risk.
venturesome, a. daring, bold, intrepid, undaunted, temerarious.
Venus, n. Aphrodite, Cytherea; Morning Star, Lucifer Phosphor; Evening Star, Hesper, Hesperus.
veracious, a. truthful.
veracity, n. truthfulness. Associated Words: compurgation, compurgator, compurgatorial.
veranda, n. porch, piazza.
verbal, a. oral.
verbiage, n. wordiness, verbosity, perissology, prolixity, pleonasm.
verdant, a. See green.
verdict, n. finding, decision.
verification, n. confirmation, corroboration, authentication, attestation, proof.
verify, v. corroborate, confirm, attest, authenticate, prove.
vermifuge, n. anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
verse, n. stitch; poetry, versification; stanza, stave, staff, text; l'envoi.
versed, a. acquainted, skilled, proficient, conversant.
versification, n. orthometry.
version, n. rendition, translation.
vertex, n. apex, top, summit, crown, zenith.
vertical, a. upright, perpendicular, plumb. Antonyms: horizontal, flat, level.
very, a. veritable, true, real, actual, unquestionable, identical, same, selfsame.
very, adv. exceedingly, highly, greatly, extremely, excessively, surpassingly.
vessel, n. dish, utensil, receptacle; boat, ship; duct, canal, tube.
vest, n. waistcoat.
vest, v. invest.
vestibule, n. hall, antechamber, lobby.
vestige, n. trace, sign, mark.
vestments, n. pl. canonicals (priestly garments); pontificals; cassock, cotta (choir vestments). Associated Words: vested, vestiarian, vestiary, vestry.
vestry, n. vestry-room, sacristy.
veterinarian, n. veterinary surgeon, horse doctor, farrier, horse leech.
veterinary art. farriery.
veterinary surgeon. veterinarian, farrier.
vex, v. tease, plague, harass, torment, tantalize, hector, annoy, irritate, trouble, bother, distress.
vexation, n. discomfiture, irritation, chagrin, mortification, annoyance.
vexatious, a. annoying, troublesome, carking, irritating, provoking, aggravating, afflictive, burdensome, anxious.
vibrate, v. brandish, flourish, swing; oscillate, librate; quiver, shake; fluctuate, vacillate.
vibration, n. oscillation, swinging, vacillation, libration.
vibratory, a. vibratile, oscillatory, swinging, fluctuating, oscillating, libratory.
vicar, n. deputy, lieutenant, vicegerent.
vice, n. sin, iniquity, licentiousness, immorality; defect, fault, blemish, imperfection.
vicinity, n. neighborhood, vicinage; nearness, propinquity, proximity.
vicious, a. immoral, evil; defective, faulty, imperfect; refractory, unruly, unmanageable; foul, noxious; (Colloq.) malignant, hateful.
victim, n. (Colloq.) gull, dupe, gudgeon, cully, prey.
victor, n. conqueror, champion, master.
victorious, a. triumphant, conquering, successful, exultant.
victory, n. triumph, conquest, mastery. Antonyms: See defeat. Associated Words: trophy, epinicial.
victualler, n. caterer.
vie, v. contend, compete, emulate.
view, n. scene, landscape, vista, perspective, panorama, prospect, scenery; seeing, sight, survey, inspection, aspect, scrutiny, supervision, beholding; opinion, judgment, impression, conception; design, intention, intent.
viewy, a. visionary, fanciful, quixotic; spectacular, panoramic, picturesque.
vigilance, n. watchfulness, circumspection, attention, caution.
vigilant, a. watchful, attentive, circumspect, wakeful.
vigor, n. strength, force, lustiness, energy, endurance, virility, hardihood.
vigorous, a. strong, lusty, robust; energetic, cogent, forcible, luxuriant.
vile, a. base, depraved, vicious, iniquitous, felonious, atrocious, outrageous, shameless; worthless, mean, despicable, contemptible, abject, scurvy, sordid, debased, ignoble, miserable, wretched.
vilify, v. malign, revile, vituperate, traduce, calumniate.
village, n. hamlet, borough, thorpe, dorp, burg. Antonyms: city, town.
villain, n. See scoundrel.
villainous, a. unprincipled, knavish, arrant, depraved, atrocious.
villainy, n. depravity, wickedness, turpitude, rascality, scoundrelism, atrocity.
vim, n. (Colloq.) activity, energy, spirit, life. Antonyms: lifelessness, languor.
vindicate, v. justify.
vindication, n. justification, defense.
vindicator, n. justifier, champion, advocate.
vindictive, a. revengeful, implacable, malevolent, rancorous.
vine, n. Associated Words: lattice, trellis, tendril, arbor, pergola, bower, bine, cordon, amplectant, capreolate, cirrose, pourridie, cirrus.
vinegar, n. Associated Words: acetic, acetification, acetify, mother, guile, wort, gyle, insolation, cruet.
vinegary, a. acetous, sour, unamiable.
violate, v. break, disobey, transgress, contravene, profane, desecrate.
violation, n. transgression, infringement, breach, infraction, contravention, profanation, desecration. Antonyms: inviolability, keeping, obedience.
violator, n. trespasser, infringer, transgressor, infractor.
violence, n. force, impetuosity, vehemence, intensity, severity, wildness, fury; injury, violation, profanation, outrage, assault.
violent, a. passionate, vehement, impetuous, fierce, impotent, ungovernable, outrageous, poignant, severe. Antonyms: See mild.
violet, n. mauve.
violin, n. fiddle; kit.
virgin, n. vestal.
virgin, a. vestal, virginal; chaste, pure, stainless; impregnant.
virginal generation. parthenogenesis.
virginity, n. maidenhood, chastity.
Virgin Mary. Madonna, Theotokos (Theol.). Associated Words: mariolatry, mariolater, hyperdulia, Ave Maria.
virile, a. masculine, vigorous, strong; potent. Antonyms: invirile, emasculated, impotent.
virility, n. manhood, manly vigor. Antonyms: invirility, impotency, emasculation.
virtual, a. potential, energizing; practical, essential.
virtually, adv. practically, really, substantially, potentially.
virtue, n. excellence, worth, goodness, purity, morality, integrity. Associated Words: aretology, aretaics.
virtuous, a. good, exemplary, moral, pure, continent, upright.
virulent, a. poisonous, venomous; malignant, bitter, acrimonious.
visible, a. perceivable, perceptible, discernible, apparent, evident, manifest. Antonyms: invisible, imperceptible.
vision, n. sight; apparition, dream, phantasm, specter, phantom, hallucination, illusion.
visionary, a. dreamy, imaginative, romantic, fanciful, illusory, chimerical, Utopian.
visionary, n. castle-builder, dreamer, illusionist.
visitor, n. guest. Antonym: host.
vitiate, v. debase, corrupt, demoralize, contaminate, deprave, spoil.
vitiation, n. debasement, corruption, demoralization, depravation, contamination.
vixen, n. virago, scold, shrew, termagant, Tartar, Xantippe, spitfire.
voice, n. utterance, speech; vote, choice, election, suffrage. Associated Words: phonology, phonetics, phonation, phonography, oral, vocal, non-vocal, aphonic, arsis, ictus, vocalize, modulate, modulation, inflection.
void, a. vacant, empty, vacuous; destitute, devoid, lacking; ineffectual, invalid, nugatory, vain.
void, v. evacuate, eject, discharge, egest, pass; nullify, abrogate, annul.
voidance, n. evacuation, discharge, egestion.
volatile, a. See changeable.
volcano, n. Associated Words: crater, lapilli, lava, scoria, obsidian, volcanic, eruption, belch.
volley, n. salvo; outpouring, storm, discharge.
voluble, a. glib, fluent, oily, talkative.
volume, n. book, tome; dimensions, compass, size, bulk, mass.
voluntary, a. free, volitional, unforced, spontaneous. Antonyms: See involuntary.
volunteer, n. Antonym: conscript.
voluptuary, n. sensualist, epicure, sybarite, _bon vivant_. Antonym: ascetic.
voluptuous, a. sensual, epicurean, sybaritic. Antonyms: ascetic, abstemious, austere.
vomit, v. puke; spew, emit, belch, disgorge, eject.
vomiting, n. emesis, vomition, puking, spew. Associated Words: emetic, antemetic, qualmish, gag, retch, nausea, nauseate.
voracious, a. rapacious, ravenous, insatiable, fierce, gluttonous, cormorant.
voracity, n. rapacity, voraciousness, greediness.
votary, n. devotee, votarist.
vote, n. suffrage; ballot, ticket; referendum, plebiscite. Associated Words: enfranchise, enfranchisement, disenfranchise, disenfranchisement, suffragist, elect, election electoral, electorate, acclamation, franchise, poll.
vote, v. (Colloq.) declare.
voter, n. elector, suffragist.
voters, n. pl. electorate.
voting place. poll.
vouch, v. attest, corroborate, warrant.
voucher, n. attestator.
vow, n. pledge. Associated Words: votary, votive.
vowel, n. Associated Words: macron, breve, diæresis.
vulgar, a. unrefined, plebeian, ignoble, low-born, coarse, inelegant, ribald, risque, broad, gross. Antonyms: refined, dainty, pure, chaste.
vulgarity, n. unrefinement, dowdiness.
vulgar-looking, a. dowdy.
W
Wabble, v. stagger, vacillate, reel.
waddle, v. toddle, totter.
wade, v. ford.
wading birds. Grallatores, Grallæ.
wading place. ford.
wage, v. stake, bet, wager.
wager, v. bet, stake, pledge, hazard, speculate.
wages, n. compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary.
waggery, n. humor, facetiousness, pleasantry, drollery, jesting, jocularity.
waggish, a. frolicsome, facetious, roguish, arch, sportive, prankish.
wagon, n. vehicle, wain; caravan, van.
wagon-maker, n. wainwright, wagonwright, wheelwright.
waif, n. estray, stray, wastrel.
waist, n. corsage, bodice; blouse, basque; girth (waist measure).
waistcoat, n. vest, doublet.
wait, v. tarry, stay, linger, await, abide; (Colloq.) delay, postpone, defer, procrastinate.
wait, n. waiting, delay, halt, stop; ambush, ambuscade.
waiter, n. attendant, servitor, lackey, _garçon_ (Fr.); salver, tray.
waiting, n. tarrying, lingering, delay; abeyance, suspension, quiescence.
waiting-room, n. station, depot.
waive, v. relinquish, forego, surrender.
wake, v. awake, waken; arouse, rouse, revive.
wakeful, a. sleepless, insomnolent; vigilant, watchful.
wakefulness, n. sleeplessness, insomnia, insomnolence; vigilance, watchfulness.
waken, v. awake, awaken, wake.
Wales, n. Cambria (Ancient name).
walk, n. stroll, promenade, constitutional; gait, step, carriage; sidewalk, mall; ambulatory. Associated Words: ambulant, ambulatory, ambulatorial, peripatetic pedometer, odograph, gradient, gravigrade, stilts, shambling, shuffling, locomotion, alure.
walk, v. stroll, tramp, stride, plod, trudge, tread, ambulate, pace, march, promenade, shamble, stalk, strut, step, bundle, toddle, daddle, waddle, shuffle, gad, galavant, hike, saunter, foot it, slouch; perambulate (walk through or about).
walker, n. pedestrian, ambulator, perambulator.
walking, n. ambulation, pedestrianism, strolling, perambulation.
walking papers. dismissal.
wall, n. foundation; partition; defense, breastwork, rampart, battlement, bulwark, parapet, fortification. Associated Words: mural, murage dado, buttress, coping, intramural, wainscot, alcove, niche, abutment, pointing, fresco, studding, underpinning.
wallet, n. pocket-book, purse.
wallow, v. welter, flounder; grovel.
walrus, n. morse, sea-cow.
wand, n. verge, rod; baton, mace, truncheon.
wander, v. ramble, range, rove, stroll, roam, stray, straggle, itinerate, saunter, gad, peregrinate, digress, expatiate; depart, deviate, swerve.
wanderer, n. nomad, vagrant, rover, rambler, stroller, peregrinator, vagabond, itinerant, pilgrim, waif, wayfarer, landloper.
wandering, n. rambling, ranging, roving, strolling, itineracy, peregrination, pilgrimage; digression, expatiation, departure, deviation, divergence, errantry; aberration, delirium, raving, irrationality; divagation.
wandering, a. nomadic, migratory, itinerant, vagrant, vagabond, landloping, wayfaring, errant, unsettled, devious, excursive, digressive, deviating.
wane, v. decrease, diminish, fade.--n. decrease, diminution, decrescence.
want, n. deficiency, lack, dearth, scarcity, need, default, absence, shortness, inadequacy, paucity, insufficiency, scarceness; desideratum, requirement; destitution, distress, straits, privation, indigence, penury, poverty.
want, v. need, require; desire, wish, crave.
wanting, a. absent, lacking, missing, deficient, defective, needy, destitute.
wanton, a. unrestrained, uncontrolled, unchecked, unbridled undisciplined; luxuriant, rampant, exuberant, excessive, rank; dissolute, licentious, immoral, unchaste; frolicsome, playful, sportive; reckless, heedless, inconsiderate.
war, n. hostilities, warfare, strife, battle, crusade, belligerence. Associated Words: Bellona, Mars, belligerent, bellicose, tactics, _casus belli_, strategy, cartel, campaign, mobilize, mobilization, demobilize, demobilization, munitions, disarmament.
war, v. contend, fight, combat, militate, wage war.
warble, v. trill, carol, yodel.
warble, n. trill, carol, yodel.
warcry, n. slogan, war-whoop.
ward, n. guardianship, guard, tutelage; protégé. Associated Word: pupillary.
ward, v. ward off, fend off, avert, parry, repel, forefend.
warden, n. church warden; keeper, custodian, curator, warder.
warder, n. keeper, guard, warden; mace, truncheon; turnkey.
warding off. parry, evasion, averting.
wardship, n. pupillage, pupillarity, minority.
warehouse, n. storehouse, depot, magazine, repository, depository.
wares, n. pl. merchandise, commodities.
warfare, n. war, hostilities; crusade, struggle, strife, militancy.
war-horse, n. charger; Bucephalus.
warlike, a. military, martial, belligerent, bellicose.
warm, a. lukewarm, tepid, thermal; zealous, ardent, fervent, sanguine, fervid, glowing, eager, enthusiastic; temperate, genial; irascible, choleric, irritable, peppery, fiery; vehement, violent, heated, passionate, animated, spirited; sultry, muggy; incalescent.
warm, v. heat.
warm-blooded, a. homothermous, homoiothermal.
warmed over. _réchauffé_.
warm room of Roman baths. tepidarium.
warmth, n. heat; ardor, fervor, passion, earnestness, fervency, cordiality, vehemence, enthusiasm, zeal, empressement.
warn, v. admonish, caution, notify, premonish, apprise, advise, forewarn, signal.
warner, n. admonisher, monitor, sentinel, sentry, mentor.
warning, a. cautioning, monitory, mentorial, monitorial, ominous, admonitory, admonishing.
warning, n. premonition, forewarning; caution, admonition, monition; portent, omen, beacon.
warp, v. twist, bend, bulge; pervert, distort, bias.
warped, a. twisted, bent, bulging, protuberant, distorted.
warp thread. stamen.
warrant, v. guarantee, assure, insure; justify, defend; affirm, attest, vouch.
warrant, n. commission, authority; guaranty, surety; voucher, attestation.
warrantable, a. justifiable, defensible.
warranty, n. guaranty, guarantee, security, warrant.
wart, n. excrescence, ecphyma, verruca; condyloma (venereal wart). Associated Word: catheretic.
warty, a. excrescent, verrucose, verruciform.
wary, a. guarded, cautious, circumspect, careful, vigilant.
wash, v. lave, bathe, absterge, foment, rinse; launder.
wash, n. lotion.
washbowl, n. lavatory, washbasin, laver.
washerwoman, n. laundress.
washhouse, n. laundry.
washing, n. ablution, bath, bathing, lavement; abstersion, detersion, fomentation; laundering, laundry.
washing away. detergent, abluent.
washing soda. sodium carbonate.
washstand, n. commode.
wasp, n. Associated Words: vespid, vespiform, vespine, vespoid.
waspish, a. irascible, irritable, snappish, touchy, petulant.
wasp nest. vespiary.
waste, v. squander, misspend, fritter away, dissipate, dawdle; desolate, devastate, despoil, sack, pillage, ravage, strip; decline, decay, pine, wither, dwindle, molder.
waste, a. refuse, rejected, unused, unproductive, untilled, inarable, worthless; desolate, devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged; superfluous, exuberant, unnecessary; excrementitious.
waste, n. wasting, squandering, dissipation, decrement, prodigality; wilderness, wild, desert; remnants, offal, recrement, garbage, refuse, rubbish; desolation, devastation rapine, ravage, havoc, destruction, sacking, pillage, despoliation.
wasteful, a. extravagant, prodigal, unthrifty, improvident infrugal, lavish, thriftless.
waster, n. spendthrift, prodigal, squanderer.
wasting, n. squandering, dissipation, prodigality, improvidence; emaciation, decline.
watch, n. vigil, outlook, attention; watcher, patrol, watchman, sentry, perdue, picket, guard, sentinel, vedette, guardsman, Argus.
watch, n. horologe.
watch, v. keep vigil, be on the lookout, keep guard.
watchful, a. vigilant, heedful, attentive, alert, circumspect wary, Argus-eyed.
watchfulness, n. vigilance, circumspection, wariness, heedfulness.
watching, n. vigil, vigilance; espionage, surveillance.
watchmaker, n. horologer, horologist.
watchmaking, n. horology, horography.
watchman, n. sentinel, guard, Argus, Cerberus. See watch.
watch-pocket, n. fob.
watch-tower, n. observatory.
watchword, n. countersign, password, shibboleth, parole.
water, v. irrigate.
Water, n. Associated Words: aquatic, aquarium, aqueduct, alluvial, alluvion, affusion, aquapuncture, alluvium, diluvium, anhydrous, enhydrous, amphibious, amphibian, aquiferous, aquiform, aquiparous, buoy, coffer, cofferdam, debacle, cataclysm, dehydrate, dehydration, irrigation, diluvian, douche, glairin, baregin, hydragogue, hydrant, hydrate, hydration, hydrated, hydraulicon, hydrodynamics, hydroextractor, hydrogen, oxygen, hydrognosy, hydrographer, hydrography, hydrologist, reservoir, hydrolysis, hydromania, hydromaniac, hydraulic, hydromancy, hydromechanics, hydrometry, hydrophanous, hygrophilous, hydrorrhea, hydroscope, hydrostatic, hydrofuge, hydrostatics, hydrotic, hydrotherapeutics, hydrous, siphon, seepage, philhydrous, sluice, turbine, hydraulics, current, undertow.
water, n. lymph; serum.
water-bearer, n. Aquarius.
water bottle. carafe.
water brash. water-qualm, pyrosis.
water-clock, n. clepsydra; hydroscope.
water-closet, n. privy.
water color. aquarelle.
water-course, n. channel, ditch, canal, moat, sewer, drain, aqueduct, gutter, trench, wady.
water-cure, n. hydropathy.
water-doctor, n. hydropathist.
waterfall, n. cascade, cataract, fall, linn.
wateriness, n. aquosity.
waterless, a. anhydrous.
water-lily, n. Nymphæ.
waterman, n. ferryman, boatman.
water-nymph, n. Naiad, hydriad.
water on the brain. hydrocephalus.
water on the chest. hydrothorax.
water plant. aquatic, hydrophyte. Associated Word: hydrophytology.
water-pox, n. varicella, swine-pox.
water-qualm, n. water brash, pyrosis.
watershed, n. divide.
water sports. aquatics.
water wheel. tympanum, turbine.
watery, a. aqueous; ichorous, serous, sanious.
watery discharge. hydrorrhea.
wattle, n. gill, caruncle.
wave, n. undulation, surge, eagre, bore, swell, billow, breaker; ripple; whitecap; signal, flourish; swelling, excitement, tide. Associated Words: rote, trough, rut, crest.
wave, v. undulate, float, flutter; flourish, brandish; beckon, signal.
waver, v. vacillate, fluctuate, veer, oscillate, hesitate.
wavering, a. vacillating, fluctuating, oscillating, unstable, irresolute, uncertain.
wavering, n. vacillation, fluctuation, indecision, irresolution, oscillation, hesitancy.
wavy, a. undulatory, undulating, undulated.
wax, n. beeswax; spermaceti; adipocere (grave wax); ozocerite, mineral wax. Associated words: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma, inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin.
wax, v. cere; increase, grow, develop, become larger.
waxy, a. waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile, pliable, fictile, impressible, plastic.
way, n. manner, method, mode, fashion, style, guise, custom, habitude, wont, practice; distance, interval, space; passage, transit, progression, advance; means, device, expedient, contrivance; direction; road, track, path, thoroughfare.
wayfarer, n. traveler, pilgrim, passenger, wanderer.
wayfaring, a. traveling, passing.
way in. entrance.
waylay, v. ambush.
way out. exit, egress.
wayward, a. disobedient, perverse, froward, willful, intractable, headstrong.
waywiser, n. odometer, pedometer, perambulator.
weak, a. feeble, infirm, debilitated, weakly, fragile, delicate, invalid, emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable, unguarded, unprotected, exposed; frail, pliant, tender; peccable, fallible, errable, erring, indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, ineffective; illogical, unsustained, inconclusive, lame, unsatisfactory; vacillating, irresolute, wavering, unstable; diluted, thin, insipid, vapid; slight, gauzy, sleazy, flimsy, brittle, fragile; unsound, unsubstantial, defective, unsafe, rickety.
weaken, v. debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unman, exhaust, deplete; dilute, thin; invalidate; impair, diminish, lower, decline.
weakening, a. debilitant; diluent, attenuant.
weak-kneed, a. yielding, irresolute, pliant, vacillating.
weak-minded, a. feeble-minded, foolish, shallow, witless.
weakness, n. debility, feebleness, infirmity, enervation, debilitation, frailness, fragility, impotence, invalidism; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible, defect, deficiency; peccability, errability, fallibility; inefficacy, ineffectiveness; vacillation, indecision, instability, irresolution; atony, asthenia.
wealth, n. opulence, affluence, riches, fortune, competence. Associated Words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chrysology, chrematistics, plutomania, plutocrat, plutocratic, magnate.
wealthy, a. opulent, affluent, rich, capitalistic, independent.
wean, v. disaccustom, alienate, detach.
weaning, n. ablactation; alienation.
wear away. abrade, fray, erode, corrode, fret, chafe.
wearied, a. tired, fatigued, exhausted, weary, fagged, jaded.
weariness, n. fatigue, lassitude, languor, exhaustion, _ennui_.
wearing away. abrasion, attrition, detrition, corrosion, erosion.
weary, a. tired, fatigued, worn, exhausted, wearied, spent, fagged, _ennuyé_.
weary, v. tire, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag, bore.
weather, n. Associated Words: meteorology, meteorologist, barometer.
weather-cock, n. weather-vane.
weave, v. entwine, interlace, mat, plait, braid, plat, fabricate.
weaving, n. Associated Words: loom, textile, textorial, textrine, spindle.
web, n. texture, tissue.
web-footed, a. palmiped, palmated, fin-toed, lobate.
wedding, n. nuptials, marriage, espousals.
wedge, n. embolus, chock, quoin, scotch.
wedge-shaped, a. cuneiform, sphenoid.
weed, v. uproot, extirpate.
weeding, n. sarculation; extirpation, rooting out.
weeding machine. aberuncator.
week day. Associated Word: ferial.
weekly, a. hebdomadary, hebdomadal.
weep, v. sob, cry.
weeping, n. sobbing, crying.
weevil, n. curculio.
weighable, a. ponderable.
weight, n. heaviness, ponderousness, gravity, ponderosity, poise, heft; encumbrance, pressure, incubus, clog, burden; importance, consequence, moment, significance.
weighty, a. heavy, ponderous, massive, onerous; momentous, important, pregnant, serious.
welcome, n. greeting, salutation.
welfare, n. prosperity, happiness, weal, success, well-being.
well, a. good, desirable, fortunate, expedient, favorable, beneficial, advantageous; healthy, sound, undiseased, hale, hearty.
Welsh, a. Cymric, Cambrian.--n. Cymry.
Welshman, n. Cambrian.
welter, v. wallow, flounder, roll.
west, n. Associated Words: Occident, Hesperian, Hesperus, Hesperides.
western, a. occidental.
west wind. Associated Word: favonian.
wet, a. damp, moist, humid, soaked.
wet, v. moisten, dampen, soak, imbrue, saturate.
wet blanket. check, damper, discouragement.
whalebone, n. baleen.
whale oil. train oil.
wharf, n. pier, quay, dock; jetty.
whatnot, a. étagère, cabinet.
wheat, n. Associated Word: mattamore. See grain.
wheedle, v. cajole, blandish, inveigle.
wheedling, n. cajolery, blandishment, inveiglement.
wheel, n. cycle; truckle, caster, roulette, rowel; gear, cogwheel, miter wheel; pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley). Associated words: spoke, felly, hub, strake, tire, straddle, cog, sprocket, linchpin, arbor, axle, axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, trochilic, ratchet, flange, skid, rotiform.
whetstone, n. oilstone. Associated Word: coticular.
whey cure. serumtherapy, serotherapy.
whim, n. vagary, caprice, fancy, crotchet, freak, humor, maggot, notion, quirk.
whimsey, n. whim.
whimsical, a. capricious, vagarious, notional, crotchety, fantastic.
whine, n. whimper, puling, complaint.--v. whimper, pule, complain.
whiningly, a. plaintively, querulously.
whinny, n. and v. neigh.
whip, v. lash, beat, thrash, flog, drub, punish, chastise, trounce, flagellate, castigate, scourge, switch, spank, maul, fustigate; (Slang) conquer, defeat; jerk, snatch, whisk.
whip, n. horsewhip, crop, scourge, lash, switch, rattan, thong, knout, cat-o-nine-tails, quirt (rawhide); koorbash (Africa).
whipping, n. chastisement, castigation, punishment, scourging, trouncing, flagellation, beating, lashing, fustigation, flogging, mauling; defeat.
whippletree, n. whiffletree, swingletree, singletree.
whirl, v. spin, revolve, twirl, rotate, gyrate, wheel, pirouette.
whirl, n. circumvolution, rotation, gyration, swirl.
whirling, a. spinning, rotating, vertiginous, gyratory.
whirling, n. spinning, rotation, gyration, turbination, pirouette.
whirlpool, n. maelstrom, vortex, eddy; Charybdis.
whirlwind, n. cyclone, typhoon.
whiskers, n. pl. beard; (of a cat) vibrissa.
whiskey, n. _spiritus frumenti_. Associated words: faints, distill, distiller, distillery, poteen, moonshine, moonshiner.
whisper, n. susurrus, susurration, whispering, sibilation; innuendo, suggestion, intimation.
whistling, n. rhonchus, râle (Med.).
whit, n. particle, atom, iota, jot, tittle, bit, mite, mote, ace, scintilla, scrap.
white, a. blanched, bleached, etiolate, pale; hoary.
white heat. incandescence.
white hot. incandescent.
white lead. ceruse, carbonate of lead.
white livered, a. cowardly, pusillanimous, dastardly.
whiten, v. bleach, blanch, pale, etiolate, decolorize.
whitening, n. bleaching, blanching, etiolation.
white race. Caucasian race.
whites, n. leucorrhea, fluor albus.
Whitsunday, n. Pentecost, Whitsuntide.
whiz, v. hum, buzz, whirr.
whole, a. all, total, entire; intact, complete, inviolate, integral, unbroken, unscathed, unabridged.
whole, n. sum, total, totality, all, aggregate, gross, integral. Antonyms: part, portion, fraction, disintegration.
wholeness, n. entirety, completeness, integrity. Associated Words: integral, integrate, integration, integrant.
wholesome, a. healthy, salubrious, salutary, nutritious, beneficial. Antonyms: See unhealthy.
whoop, n. halloo, hoot, shout, yell.
whooping-cough, n. chin cough, pertussis.
whore, n. harlot, prostitute, strumpet, courtesan, wench, Cyprian, bawd, drab, punk, woman of ill fame, demirep.
whoredom, n. prostitution, fornication, lewdness, harlotry, bawdry.
whorehouse, n. brothel, bawdy-house.
whoremaster, n. lecher, fornicator, whoremonger; pimp, procurer, pander.
whoremonger, n. whoremaster, debauchee, rake, wencher.
whorish, a. lewd, incontinent, licentious, meretricious, libidinous.
wicked, a. sinful, iniquitous, evil, immoral, depraved, vicious, pernicious, abandoned, unrighteous, heinous, flagitious.
wickedness, n. iniquity, depravity, immorality, sinfulness, vice, infamy, atrocity, evil, offense, flagrancy, unrighteousness.
wide, a. broad: extensive, vast; comprehensive.
wide-awake, a. alert, keen, vigilant, watchful, wary, attentive.
wideness, n. breadth, width.
widespread, a. prevalent, extended, extensive.
widow, n. relict. Associated Words: viduage, dower weeds, widowhood.
width, n. breadth.
wife, n. spouse, consort, helpmate, partner. Associated Words: uxoricide, uxorious, uxoriousness, coverture, dowry, polygamy, polygamist, monogamy, dower, dot, uxorial.
wig, n. peruke, toupee, periwig, toupet, jasey, scratch wig, bagwig.
wiggle, v. squirm, wriggle.
wigmaker, n. perruquier.
wigwam, n. tepee.
wild, a. untamed, undomesticated, feral, ferine; desert, waste, uncultivated, uninhabited; savage, ferocious, barbarous, uncivilized, cannibal; unrestrained, violent, turbulent, tempestuous, riotous, wanton, uncontrolled; visionary, bizarre, grotesque, impracticable; agrarian, agrestial.
wile, n. artifice, deception, guile, trick, ruse, craft.
will, n. volition, preference, choice; command, wish behest, order.
will, n. testament, devise. Associated Words: intestate, intestacy, testate, testacy, testamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate, bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment, bequest, codicil, devisee, devisor, intestable, legacy, legatee, legator, testable, nuncupative.
will, v. bequeath, devise, leave; decree, ordain, direct, order; wish, desire, want.
willful, a. refractory, headstrong, perverse, disobedient, inflexible.
willing, a. disposed, voluntary, desirous.
willingness, n. readiness, disposition, alacrity.
will-o'-the-wisp, n. ignis fatuus, Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-with-a-lantern.
willow, n. osier. Associated Words: osiery, osiered, salicaceous, salicin, withe, wicker.
willowy, a. lithe, graceful, pliant; osier, osiered.
wily, a. crafty, artful, intriguing, designing, tricky, insidious, politic.
win, v. achieve, attain.
wince, v. shrink, flinch, recoil.
wind, n. breeze, zephyr; draught; gale, squall; hurricane, tornado, cyclone, tempest, whirlwind, flurry; simoon, sirocco, monsoon, chinook, trade wind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano. Associated Words: anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, Æolus, gust, æolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous, fan, blast, æolic, sough, soughing, lee, leeward, windward, anemogram, anemograph.
wind, n. flatulence. Associated Words: belch, belching, eructation, crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitis.
wind, v. coil, twine, twist, wreathe; crook, meander, curve, deviate, sinuate, bend.
windfall, n. godsend, boon.
windflower, n. anemone.
wind gauge. anemometer.
winding, n. convolution, labyrinth, detour, meander, meandering, crook, bend, curve, angle, sinuation, contortion.
winding, a. circuitous, labyrinthian, meandering, spiral, serpentine, tortuous, deviating.
winding-up, n. conclusion, settlement, _dénouement_, finale, end.
windlass, n. winch.
window, n. casement, ventilator, transom, fenestella, oriel, dormer window, bay window, luthern, rose window, _moucharaby_, _œil-de-bœuf_, lunette window. Associated Words: fenestral, fenestrated, fenestration, squilgee, cancelli, tracery, mullion, mullioned, sash, sill, reveal, jamb, foliation, lintel, rabbet, splay, louver boarding, interfenestration, lattice, shutter.
windpipe, n. trachea, weasand, throttle. Associated Words: tracheal, tracheary, tracheitis, tracheotomy, tracheocele, tracheoscopy, bronchus.
windy, a. squally, gusty, tempestuous; flatulent.
wine, n. Associated Words: vinous, vintage, viniculture, vintner, vinometer, mull, stum, œnology, œnophilist, vinaceous, flagon, lees, œnolin.
wine-bibber, n. tippler.
wing, n. pinion. Associated Words: alary, alate, alation, elytra, neuration, shard.
wing, n. annex, ell; flank.
wink, v. nictate, nictitate; overlook, ignore, connive at.
winking, n. nictation, nictitation.
winning, n. achievement, gaining.
winning, a. charming, captivating, winsome, engaging.
winter, n. Associated Words: hibernation, hibernal, hibernacle, hyemation, hibernaculum, hyemal, brumal.
winter, v. hibernate.
wipe, v. swab; expunge, efface, obliterate, erase.
wipe, n. gibe, taunt, jeer, sarcasm.
wireless telegraphy. Associated Word: marconigram.
wire-pulling, n. intrigue.
wisdom, n. lore, learning, sapience, erudition, knowledge, enlightenment.
wise, a. erudite, sapient, learned, philosophical, enlightened, sage; sagacious, expedient.
wiseacre, n. pretender, sciolist, ignoramus.
wisely, adv. prudently, judiciously, sapiently, sagaciously.
wise man. Solon, sage, oracle, luminary, authority, philosopher, Nestor, savant, philomath, scholar.
wise men (of the East). Magi.
wish, v. desire, aspire; invoke, imprecate; congratulate, felicitate (wish happiness to).
wish, n. desire, longing, aspiration, hankering.
wishbone, n. merry thought, furculum; fourchette.
wishing, n. longing, aspiration.
wit, n. sense, understanding; repartee, drollery, facetiousness, jocularity, waggishness; wag, humorist.
witch, n. sorceress, enchantress; hag; siren; warlock (male witch).
witchcraft, n. sorcery, enchantments, necromancy, black art, conjuration, incantation; fascination, witchery.
witchery, n. witchcraft, sorcery; fascination, spell, charm, entrancement.
witch-hazel, n. hamamelis.
witching, a. bewitching, fascinating, charming.
withdraw, v. retire, retreat, quit; recall, retract, recant, disavow.
withdrawal, n. retirement, retreat; retraction, recantation, disavowal.
withering, a. blighting, blasting, marcescent.
with foal. pregnant.
withhold, v. refrain, abstain; refuse, deny.
withholding, n. restraint, repression, abstinence; refusal, denial.
witness, v. testify, bear witness, confirm, corroborate, attest.
witness, n. attestation, testimony, evidence; eye-witness, deponent, attestor.
witty, a. facetious, droll, sharp.
witty sayings. witticisms, conceits, facetiæ, _bons mots_.
wizard, n. wonder-worker, magician, conjurer, sorcerer, enchanter, necromancer.
wizardry, n. wonder-working, sorcery, necromancy.
wolf, n. coyote; werewolf, lycanthrope.
wolfish, a. lupine, ravenous.
woman, n. dame, matron; mulier; adult. Associated Words: gynecology, gynecologist, gyniatrics, gyneocracy, gynecocracy, gynocracy, gynecian, gynarchy, gyneolatry, gyneolater, gynephobia, gynecopathy, philogynist, philogyny, misogyny, femicide, matriarchy, gynæceum.
woman-hater, n. misogynist.
womanhood, n. womanliness, femininity, feminality.
womanish, a. effeminate, feminine.
womb, n. uterus, venter, matrix, matrice. Associated Words: uterine, metritis.
wonder, n. surprise, astonishment, amazement, awe; phenomenon, miracle, prodigy, marvel, rarity.
wonder, v. marvel.
wonderful, a. marvelous, wondrous, phenomenal, miraculous, portentous.
wonder-worker, n. wizard, magician, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, necromancer.
wonder-working, n. wizardry, magic, sorcery, thaumaturgy, necromancy.
wonder-working, a. magical, thaumaturgic, miraculous, necromantic, wizard.
wont, n. habit, custom, practice.
wonted, a. accustomed, customary, usual, habitual.
wood, n. timber; duramen, heartwood; alburnum, sapwood; kindling, fuel. Associated Words: kyanize, fissile, fissility, lignification, lignify, ligniferous, lignescent, lignite, lignivorous, xylopyrography, pyrography, veneer, cord.
wood, n. forest, wold, grove, woodland, timberland, copse.
woodbine, n. honeysuckle, caprifole, eglantine; Virginia creeper.
woodcoal, n. charcoal; lignite, brown coal.
wood-engraving, n. xylography; woodcut.
wooden shoe. sabot, clog.
woodman, n. forester.
wood-nymph, n. dryad, hamadryad.
woods, n. pl. forest.
wood-sugar, n. xylose.
woody, a. wooden, ligneous; sylvan, bosky.
wooing, n. courtship.
wool, n. fleece; worsted, merino, pelotage; mortling, Associated words: laniferous, lanifical, lanigerous, lanolin, depilate, depilation, depilatory.
woolly, a. downy, fleecy, nappy, lanate.
word, n. term, vocable; etymon, root; derivative; signal, order, command; promise, affirmation, parole.
wordbook, n. dictionary, lexicon, thesaurus, glossary.
word for word. _verbatim_, literally.
wordiness, n. verbosity, prolixity, verbiage, pleonasm, redundancy.
wording, n. phrasing.
words, n. pl. phraseology; vocabulary. Associated Words: glossary, glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology, lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography, terminology, paronomasia, pun, punning, onomatopœoea, syncope, syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, verbal, verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium, apocope, kyriology, metonomy, autonomasia, multiloquence, perissology, purism, purist, elision, polysynthesis, coin, coinage, apheresis, aphetic, aphetism, aphesis, onomatopoiesis, metaphrase, acrostic, rebus, synecdoche, verbicide, verbomaniac, locution.
words of an opera. libretto. Associated Word: librettist.
wordy, a. diffuse, prolix, verbose, redundant, pleonastic. Antonyms: terse, succinct, laconic.
work, v. toil, labor, strive; drudge, slave; operate, manipulate, perform; ferment, effervesce. Antonyms: shirk, idle, dabble, loaf, soldier (Colloq.).
work, n. industry, toil, labor, employment, occupation; effort, exertion, striving; drudgery; diligence, assiduity; business, duty, job, task; _magnum opus_. Antonyms: idleness, dalliance, trifling, sloth, sluggardy, truancy, dabbling, dilettanteism, relaxation, leisure, vacation.
work-bag, n. reticule.
worker, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, handicraftsman, journeyman, mechanic, workman, laborer, operative, industrial. Antonyms: idler, drone, dabbler, sluggard, truant, dilettante, loafer, shirker.
working, a. industrious.
working man. worker, laborer.
working together., coöperation; collusion; concurrence; collaboration.
workman, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, journeyman. See worker.
work together. coöperate; collude; concur; collaborate.
world, n. earth, creation, universe, cosmos; globe; planet; macrocosm, microcosm. Associated Words: cosmology, cosmologist, cosmography, cosmogony, cosmographer, cosmogonist, cosmometry, cosmoplastic, cosmic, cosmolatry, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, cataclysm, ante-mundane, secularize, secularization, secularist, supermundane, geography, geology, paleontology, tellurian, telluric.
wordliness, n. secularity, secularism.
worldly, a. terrestrial, earthly, mundane, terrene; secular, temporal.
worldly-minded, a. irreligious, sordid, groveling.
worm, v. wriggle, insinuate.
worm killer. vermicide.
worm medicine. vermifuge, anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
worms, n. pl. Associated Words: helminthology, helminthologist, vermeology, vermeologist, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, tænifuge, helminthic, helminthiasis, vermicious, vermicular, vermiculose, anthelmintic, wormy.
worm-shaped, a. vermiform, vermicular, wormlike.
worn away. eroded, abraded, attrite.
worry, v. harass, vex, annoy, torment, tease, fret, trouble, pester, badger, harry, importune; be anxious, be solicitous, fret.
worry, a. anxiety, fretting, apprehension, concern, solicitude. Antonym: unconcern.
worrying, a. anxious, distressing, carking.
worship, n. adoration, homage; idolatry, deification, apotheosis. Associated Words: liturgies, liturgy, ritual, cult, fetish, fetishism, totem, totemism.
worship, v. adore, revere; idolize, deify, apotheosize, glorify.
worst, v. defeat, vanquish, conquer, overcome, overthrow, discomfit, rout.
worth, n. worthiness, excellence, virtue, merit, integrity, honor; value.
worthless, a. valueless, good-for-nothing, futile, trashy, unworthy, trumpery, scurvy, contemptible.
worthy, a. meritorious, excellent, estimable, deserving, reputable, exemplary, upright.
would-be, a. self-styled, _soi-disant_, presumptuous.
wound, n. hurt, injury, scath, lesion, trauma; traumatism. Associated Words: vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, vulnerary, vulnific, sanies, sanious, pledget, spleget, dossil, ichor, probe, antiseptic, inviolable, violable, tent, autoplasty.
wound, v. injure, scath, hurt, maim, disable.
wrangle, n. altercation, dispute, squabble, brawl, bickering, quarrel.
wrangle, v. altercate, dispute, squabble, bicker, quarrel.
wrangler, n. disputant.
wrap, v. infold, swathe, bemuffle, envelop, muffle, swaddle.
wrapper, n. house-dress; negligee, kimono, peignoir; envelope, wrap, covering, capsule; tillot.
wrath, n. See anger.
wreath, n. garland, chaplet, festoon, crown.
wreck, n. desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris, derelict.
wreck, v. demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo, raze.
wrest, v. wrench, wring, extort; distort, pervert, garble, falsify, misconstrue.
wretch, n. outcast, pariah, pilgarlic, vagabond, knave, rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rake, scullion, poltroon, varlet, ronion, libertine, blackguard, cullion, bezonian.
wretched, a. miserable, unhappy; contemptible, abject, despicable, paltry.
wring, v. writhe, squeeze, pinch; distort, pervert, wrest, exact, extort.
wrinkle, n. corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle, ruck; (Colloq.) notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey; pl. crow's feet.
wrinkle, v. rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, cockle, ruck, crumple.
wrinkled, a. corrugated, rumpled, puckered, cockled, creased, rugous.
wrist, n. carpus. Associated Words: carpal, carpale.
write, v. inscribe, indite; superscribe (write on the top or outside of anything); subscribe.
writer, n. scribe, scrivener, penman, secretary, amanuensis, correspondent, essayist, clerk, copyist, author, hack, calligrapher.
writing, n. handwriting, chirography, penmanship, hand, calligraphy; document, writ, indenture, debenture, certificate, charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription. Associated Words: graphology, agraphia, graphomania, _cacoëthes scribendi_, cursive, uncial, clerical, stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.
writing-desk, n. secretary, escritoire.
writing-room, n. scriptorium.
written above. superscript, suprascript.
written under. subscript, subscribed.
wrong, a. immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, evil, improper, criminal, vicious, unjust, contraband, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy, reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, mistaken, untrue, false, inaccurate, inexact, incorrect; inappropriate, unsuitable; reverse.
wrong, n. injustice, inequity, oppression, disservice, trespass, transgression, injury, tort, offense, grievance, detriment; error, falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt, misdoing, malpractice, offense, delinquency, peccancy, dereliction, mischief, obliquity, misdemeanor.--adv. amiss, erroneously.
wrong, v. cheat, damnify, defraud, maltreat, abuse.
wrong-doer, n. sinner, criminal, culprit, delinquent, offender, malefactor, transgressor, miscreant, profligate, pervert, crook, prevaricator.
wrong-doing, n. misdemeanor, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, dereliction, iniquity, sin, immorality, wickedness, indiscretion, prevarication, chicanery, delinquency, transgression, graft, malfaction, demerit, default.
wrong-timed, a. ill-timed, inopportune, unseasonable.
wrought, a. worked, elaborated, finished.
wrought up. excited, perturbed, distracted, discomposed, agitated.
wry, a. twisted, distorted, awry; wrested, perverted.
wryneck, n. torticollis.
X
X-ray, n. the Röntgen ray. Associated Words: fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, cryptoscopy, cryptoscope.
Y
Y. Associated Words: ypsiloid, ypsiliform.
yank, n. (Colloq.) pull, jerk, twitch.--v. pull, jerk, twitch, snatch.
yap, n. bark, yelp.
yard, n. three feet; enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law).
yarn, n. worsted, warp, abb, spinel. Associated Word: skein.
yawn, v. gape, oscitate.
yawn, n. gape, gaping, yawning, oscitation, oscitancy.
yawning, a. gaping, oscitant.
yearbook, n. annual.
yearly, a. annual, anniversary.--adv. annually.
yearn, v. long, desire, hanker after, pine.
yearning, n. longing, hankering, pining.
yeast, n. harm, leaven, ferment.
yeasty, a. barmy.
yell, n. outcry, scream, shriek, howl, yowl, vociferation.
yell, v. scream, shriek, screech, bawl, howl, yowl, vociferate, hoot.
yellow, a. golden, sallow, tawny, ecru, amber, fallow, fulvous, croconic, jaundiced, fulvid, buff, luteous, saffron, ocherous, lurid.
yellowbird, n. goldfinch.
yellow race. Mongols, Mongolians.
yellows, n. jaundice; jeterus.
yelp, n. bark, yap, yaup.
yes, adv. yea, aye, ay.--n. affirmative, consent.
yield, v. produce, pay, return; submit, surrender, succumb, give up, capitulate; resign, relinquish, cede, forego, waive; concede, admit, grant, allow. Antonyms: resist, retain, withhold, refuse, withstand.
yield, n. product, crop, harvest.
yielding, n. production, bearing, surrender, relinquishment, submission, compliance, acquiescence, succumbing.
yielding, a. compliant, tractable, submissive, amenable, unresisting, docile, indulgent, irresolute, facile; plastic, fictile, pliant, flexible. Antonyms: See unyielding.
yoke, n. oxbow and bar, crosspiece; team, span, pair, couple; bond, link, chain, coupling.
yoke, v. couple, join, unite, link, hitch together; subject, enslave.
yokel, n. bumpkin, boor, rustic.
yolk, n. yelk, vitellus, oviplasma.
young, a. juvenile, youthful, immature, adolescent.
young, n. offspring. Associated Words: beget, prolific, fecundity, procreation, fetus, brood, generation, fetiferous, pregnant, pregnancy.
younger, a. junior.
youngest born. Associated Word: postremogeniture.
youth, n. juvenility, youthfulness; adolescence, teens, minority, nonage, juniority; young man, lad, boy, stipling, cadet, minor, juvenile, adolescent. Associated Words: rejuvenescence, rejuvenation, rejuvenate, rejuvenescent, rejuvenating, juvenescence, juvenescent.
youthful, a. immature, juvenile, adolescent, boyish. Antonyms: adult, manly, mature.
Z
Z. izzard, zed.
zany, n. jester, buffoon, clown, harlequin, merry-an-drew.
zanyism, n. harlequinism, buffoonery, clownishness.
zeal, n. fervor, ardor, zealotry, intensity, passion, devotion, devotedness.
zealot, n. enthusiast, partisan, devotee, fanatic.
zealous, a. ardent, eager, strenuous, fervent, passionate, intense, devoted, impassioned.
zenith, n. culmination, pinnacle, acme, summit, apex. Antonym: nadir.
zero, n. cipher, nothing, naught.
zest, n. relish, flavor, taste; enjoyment, relish, gusto.
zinc, n. spelter.
zip, n. hissing, sibilance, sibilation.--v. hiss, sibilate.
zone, n. clime, region; girdle, belt, band, girth.
Addenda
automobile, n. motor car, autocar, motor. Associated Words: garage, tonneau, carburetter, chassis, automobilist, chauffeur, mechanician.
baby carriage. perambulator.
balloon, n. Montgolfier (hot-air balloon). Associated words: parachute, inflate, inflation, deflate, deflation, dirigible.
birth rate. natality.
blood poisoning. pyæmia.
blue, n. indigo.
books, n. pl. Associated Words: literature, literary, bibliomaniac, bibliophagist, bibliotaph, bookcraft, bookworm.
break up. disorganize, disrupt.
burglar, n. housebreaker, cracksman (Slang).
burglary, n. housebreaking. Associated Word: burglarious.
buttonhole bouquet. boutonnière.
Christ, n. Jesus, the Savior, the Messiah, the Annointed, Immanuel, the Redeemer, God the Son, the Mediator, the Intercessor, the Advocate, Son of God, Son of Man, Lamb of God, Logos, the Word, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, King of Glory, Prince of Peace, Son of Righteousness, Light of the World, Good Shepherd, Incarnation, Hypostatic Union. Associated Words: dominical, Christology, Christian, deicide, bambino, kenosis, psilanthropist, psilanthropy, Antichrist, christocentric, pietà.
coffee, n. _Associated word: demi-tasse_.
college student. undergraduate.
color, n. Associated Words: polychrome, party-colored, variegated, variegation.
come back. return, recur.
coming back. return, recurrence.
coming down. descent.
coming up. ascent.
consumption, n. tuberculosis. Associated Words: tubercular, tubercle, tuberculin, hectic, consumptive, pectoral.
crime, n. Associated Words: accessory, accomplice, perpetrate, perpetration, perpetrator, incorrigible.
date, n. Associated Words: chronology, chronological, chronologist, antedate, antedating, prolepsis, metachronism, prochronize, prochronism.
death, n. Associated Words: mortuary, _rigor mortis_.
death rate. mortality.
die sooner than. predecease.
electricity, n. Associated Words: volt, voltage, ohm, kilowatt, ampere, amperage, armature, current, amperemeter, battery, dynamo, motor, voltaic, magnet, charge, coil, induction, conductor, nonconductor, insulate, insulation, farad, electrology, electric, electrician, electrify, electrification, electrifiable, electrition, electrization, electrizer, electrocute, electrocution, electrodynamics, electrodynamometer, electrotherapeutics, electrolysis.
electric light. incandescent light; arc light; electrolier (lamp or chandelier).
expression, n. locution.
famous person. celebrity, notable.
five, n. Associated Word: quintan.
five-sided figure. pentagon.
funeral, n. exequies.
funeral procession. cortège.
go in. enter, penetrate.
going in. entrance, penetration.
going up. ascent, ascension, rise.
go through. penetrate, permeate.
go up. ascend, rise.
green, n. chlorine; chlorophyll.
happen again. recur.
high priest. pontiff, pontifex. Associated Words: pontifical, pontificate, pontificals.
humming birds. Associated Word: trochilidist.
imagination, n. fantasy.
improve, v. Antonyms: deteriorate, decline, degenerate.
iron, n. cast iron; wrought iron; pig iron; spiegel iron. Associated words: ferriferous, ferrous, billet, ore, forge, founder, foundry, ironmaster, ironmonger, ironmongery, ironsmith, ironware, irony, ironbound, pyrites, metallurgy, metallurgist, siderurgy, siderotechny, siderognost, siderurgical, malleable, smelt, smeltery, anneal, siderite, shadrach, larget, manganese, carbon, speiss.
jaw, n. Associated Words: gnathic, gnathism, gnathic index, undershot, overshot, prognathous, prognathism, prognathic, orthognathous, orthognathism, mesognathous, gonion, paragnathous, inframaxillary, intermaxillary, submaxillary, maxillary, supramaxillary, admaxillary, lantern-jawed.
khan keeper. khanjee.
language, n. Associated Words: purist, purism, euphuism, euphuist, euphuistic, euphuize, euphemism, euphemistic, euphemize, charism, locution, provincial, provincialism, localism, solecism, solecistical, barbarism, vulgarism.
lock-jaw, n. trismus.
marriage rate. nuptiality.
metals, n. pl. Associated Words: metallic, metallurgy, metallography, metalliferous, metalliform, metalline, metallist, metallurgical, metallurgist, alloy, lode, dross recrement, bimetallic, bimetallism, monometallic, monometallism.
minerals, n. pl. Associated Words: mineralogy, mineralogist, mineralize, mineralization, mineralogize, sclerometer, chondrule, paramorphism, geology.
mouth, n. Associated Words: oral, oriform, stomatology, stomatoplasty, palate, stomatic, uvula, collutory, cibarian, grimace, splaymouth, buccal.
moving pictures. photo play. Associated Words: cinematograph, biograph, vitascope, bioscope, kinematograph, kinetograph, kineograph, chronophotograph, film, scenario.
muscles, n. pl. Associated Words: muscular, muscularity, myology, myolin, myography, myosin, myologist, tonicity, collagen, coördination, myotomy.
northern, a. hyperborean.
nose, n. Associated Word: nasute.
occur again. recur.
older, a. senior, elder.
parent, n. father; mother; begetter; author, originator, source. Associated Words: parental, parricide, foster, filiation, prepotent, prepotency.
people, n. Associated Words: demotic, democratic, democracy, popular, lay, depopulate, depopulation.
philosopher's stone. Associated Word: carmot.
pickpocket, n. dip. (Thieves' slang).
pillar saint. stylite, pillarist.
pistol case. holster.
prayer-book, n. breviary; missal.
priest, n. presbyter, minister, rector; _padre_ (Sp. Amer. and India); flamen (Rom. Antiq.); hierophant; hierarch; hieromartyr. Associated Words: acolyte, hierarchy, hierocracy, hagiarchy, exeat, hierarchism, hierarchal, hieratic, hagiocracy, unfrock, ordain, ordination, sacerdotalism, pontificate, pontific, pontifical, priesthood, Holy Orders, priestcraft, priest-ridden, soutane, cassock, vestments, canonicals, rectory, incumbent.
provincial words. Associated Word: patavinity.
roundabout, a. circumlocutory, circumlocutional, periphrastic.
self-propelling, a. automatic.
sending, n. transmission.
shorthand writer. stenographer.
short pants. (Colloq.) knickerbockers, knee breeches.
speechifier, n. declaimer, haranguer, orator.
speechify, v. declaim, harangue.
speed gauge. speedometer.
stools, n. pl. dejecta.
strap-shaped, a. ligulate.
trade, n. craft.
vulgar person. vulgarian.
weal, n. prosperity, welfare, happiness.
willy-nilly, adv. willingly or unwillingly.
with a bad grace. reluctantly, perfunctorily, ungraciously.
with a good grace. graciously, willingly, gracefully.
wood-tar oil. creosote.
workmanship, n. craftsmanship.
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