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- volitive adj
- Exercising the will
- voluble adj
- Having great fluency in speaking
- voluptuous adj
- having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality
- voracious adj
- Eating with greediness or in very large quantities
- vortex n
- A mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center
- votary adj
- Consecrated by a vow or promise
- votive adj
- Dedicated by a vow
- vulgarity n
- Lack of refinement in conduct or speech
- vulnerable adj
- Capable of receiving injuries
- waif n
- A homeless, neglected wanderer
- waistcoat n
- A vest
- waive v
- To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim
- wampum n
- Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency
- wane v
- To diminish in size and brilliancy
- wantonness n
- Recklessness
- warlike adj
- Belligerent
- wavelet n
- A ripple
- weak-kneed adj
- Without resolute purpose or energy
- weal n
- Well-being
- wean v
- To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment
- wearisome adj
- Fatiguing
- wee adj
- Very small
- well-bred adj
- Of good ancestry
- well-doer n
- A performer of moral and social duties
- well-to-do adj
- In prosperous circumstances
- whereabouts n
- The place in or near which a person or thing is
- whereupon adv
- After which
- wherever adv
- In or at whatever place
- wherewith n
- The necessary means or resources
- whet v
- To make more keen or eager
- whimsical adj
- Capricious
- whine v
- To utter with complaining tone
- wholly adv
- Completely
- wield v
- To use, control, or manage, as a weapon, or instrument, especially with full command
- wile n
- An act or a means of cunning deception
- winsome adj
- Attractive
- wintry adj
- Lacking warmth of manner
- wiry adj
- Thin, but tough and sinewy
- witchcraft n
- Sorcery
- witless adj
- Foolish, indiscreet, or silly
- witling n
- A person who has little understanding
- witticism n
- A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment
- wittingly adv
- With knowledge and by design
- wizen v
- To become or cause to become withered or dry
- wizen-faced adj
- Having a shriveled face
- working-man n
- One who earns his bread by manual labor
- workmanlike adj
- Like or befitting a skilled workman
- workmanship n
- The art or skill of a workman
- wrangle v
- To maintain by noisy argument or dispute
- wreak v
- To inflict, as a revenge or punishment
- wrest v
- To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing
- wretchedness n
- Extreme misery or unhappiness
- writhe v
- To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress
- writing n
- The act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs
- wry adj
- Deviating from that which is proper or right
- yearling n
- A young animal past its first year and not yet two years old
- zealot n
- One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner
- zeitgeist n
- The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch
- zenith n
- The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness
- zephyr n
- Any soft, gentle wind
- zodiac n
- An imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets