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- zany
- comic; crazy
- zeal
- eager enthusiasm (to a cause or ideal)
- zealot
- one who is zealous; fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
- zenith
- point directly overhead in the sky; summit; acme; highest point
- zephyr
- gentle breeze; west wind
- zest
- interest; flavor; spirited enjoyment
- yarn
- tale, story; fibers for knitting
- yen
- strong desire; longing; urge
- yeoman
- man or farmer owning small estate; middle-class farmer
- yield
- amount produced; crop; income on investment; profit obtained from an investment
- yoke
- join together; unite
- yokel
- rustic; country bumpkin
- yore
- time long past
- xenophobia
- fear or hatred of foreigners
- wade
- walk through a substance, such as water, that impedes movement
- waffle
- talk vaguely and without much result
- waft
- scent, waving movement; carry lightly through
- wag
- merry person
- wage
- payment, carry on, engage in (war)
- waggish
- humorous; mischievous; tricky
- waif
- homeless child or animal;
- waive
- give up temporarily; yield
- wake
- trail of ship or other object through water; path of something that has gone before;
- wallow
- roll in mud; indulge in; (of a ship) roll in a rough sea; become helpless;
- wan
- having a pale or sickly color; pallid
- wanderlust
- strong longing to travel
- wane
- decrease in size or strength (after being full); grow gradually to an end
- wangle
- achieve by cleverness or trick; wiggle out; fake
- wanton
- unrestrained; gratuitously cruel; willfully malicious; unchaste; sexually improper; promiscuous
- warble
- (of a bird) sing; babble
- ward
- administrative division of a city; division in a hospital or prison
- warmonger
- person who stirs up war
- warp
- become bent
- warrant
- authority, written order, guarantee
- warranted
- justified; authorized
- warranty
- guarantee; assurance by seller
- warren
- tunnels in which rabbits live; overcrowded living area; crowded conditions in which people live
- wary
- cautious
- wastrel
- waster; profligate
- waver
- move or swing back and forth; be uncertain or unsteady in decision or movement
- wax
- increase gradually (as the moon); grow
- waylay
- ambush; lie in wait for and attack
- wean
- to turn away (from a habit)
- weary
- tired after long work
- weather
- pass safely through (a storm or difficult period); endure the effects of weather or other forces
- weave
- make (threads) into cloth
- weigh
- measure how heavy something is
- weird
- eerie; strange; unnatural
- well-bred
- of good upbringing; well-mannered and refined
- welt
- raised mark from a beating or whipping