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- vindicate
- out for revenge, malicious.
- vintner
- winemarker, seller of wine
- viper
- poisonous snake.
- virile
- manly. (John) I do not accept the premise that a man is virile only when he is belligerent.
- virtual
- in essence, for practical purposes. She is a virtual financial wizard when it comes to money mattters
- virtue
- goodness, moral excellence, good quality. A virtue carried to extremes can turn into something resembling vice; humility, for example, can degernate into sevility and spinelessness.
- virtuoso
- highly skilled artist. The child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin grew into a virtuoso whose virtuosity on the violin thrilled millions.
- verbatim
- word for word. He repeated the message verbatim
- verbiage
- pompous array of words, nonsense. After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.
- verbose
- wordy. We had to make some major cuts in Senator Foghorn'sspeech because it was far too verbose.
- verdant
- green; lush in vegetation. Monet's paintings of the verdant meadows were symphonies in green
- verdigris
- green coating on copper that has been exposed to the weather.
- verge
- border, edge. Madame curie knew that she was on the verge of discovering the secres of radioactive elements.
- versimilar
- probably or liekly; having the appearance of trueth. Something verisimilar is very similar to the truth, or at least seems to be.
- verisimilitude
- appearance of truth; likelihood. Critics praised her for the verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth. She was completely believeable.
- veritable
- actual; being truly so; not false or imaginary. At his computer, Pavel is a veritable wizeard, creating graphic effects that seem magical to progammers less skilled than he.
- verity
- quality of being true; lasting truth or principle. Do you question the verity of Kato Kaelin's testimony about what he heard the night NIcole Brown Simpson was slain? The the skeptic, everything was relative: there were no eternal verities in which one could believe.
- vernacular
- living language; natural style. Cut out the old-fashioned "thee's' and 'thou's' and write in the vernacular.
- vernal
- pertaining to spring. We may expect showers all during the month of April.
- versatile
- having many talents; capable of working many fields. She was a versatile athelete, earning vasity letters in basketball, hockey, and track. (eg. Versatile Squad)
- vertex
- summit. Let us drop a perpendicular line from the vertex of the triangle to the base.
- vertigo
- severe dizziness. When you test potential plane pilots for susceptibility to spells of vertigo, be sure to hand out airsick bags.
- verve
- enthusiasm; liveliness. She approached her studies with such verve that it was impossible for her to do poorly.
- vestige
- trace, remains. We discovered vestiges of early Indian life in the cave.
- vex
- annoy; distress. Please try not to vex your mother; she is doing the best she can.
- velocity
- speed
- venal
- capable of being bribed. The venal policeman accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.
- vendetta
- blood feud. the rival mobs engaged in a bitter vendetta.
- vendor
- seller. The fruit vendor sold her wares from a stall on the sidewalk
- veneer
- thin layer; cover. Casual acquaintances were deceived by his veneer of sophistication and failed to revognize his fundamental shallowness.
- venerable
- deserving high respect. We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our venerable leader.
- venerate
- revere, respect. In Tibet today, the common people still venerate their traditional spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama
- venial
- forgivable, trail. When Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister, he committed a venial offense.
- vension
- the meat of a deer. The hunters dined on vension.
- venom
- poison; hatred. (Harry potter's Snape, black magic). Bitten by his ankle by a venomous snake, the cowboy contortionist curled up like a pretzel and sucked the venom out of the wound.
- vent
- express; utter. He vented his wrath on his class
- ventral
- abdominal. We shall now examine the ventral plates of this serpent, not the dorsal side.
- ventriloquist
- someone who can make his or her voice seem to come from another person or thing. This ventriloquist does an act in which she has a conversation with a wooden dummy.
- venture
- risk; dare; undertake a risk. Fearing to ditress the actors, the timorous reviewer never ventured to criticise a performance in harsh terms
- venturesome
- bold. A group of venturesome women were the first to scale Mt. Annapurna.
- venue
- location
- veracious
- truthful. I can recommend him for this position because I have always found him veracious and reliable
- veracity
- truthfulness. Trying to prove HIll a liar, Senator Spector repeatedly questioned her veracity. Veracious
- verbalize
- put into words. I know you don't like to talk about these things. but please try to verbalize your feelings.
- vapid
- dull and unimaginative; insipid and flavorless. 'Boring' said Cher, as she suffered through yet another vapid lecture about Dead White Male Poets.
- vaporize
- turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc_ "zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he vaporized another deadly foe.
- variegated
- many-colored. Without her glasses. Gretchen saw the fields of tulips as a variegated blur
- vassal
- in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord. The lord demanded that his vassals contributed more to his miliatry campaign.
- vaunted
- boasted; bragged; highly publizied. This much vaunted project proved a disappointment when it collaped.
- veer
- change in direction. After what seemed an enternity, the wind veered to the east and the storm abated.
- vegetate
- live in a monotonous way. I do not undertand how you can vegetate in this quiet village after the advefnturous life you have led.
- vehement
- forceful; intensity emotional; with marked vigor. Alred became so vehement in describing what was wrong with the Internal Revenue Service thta he began jumping up and down and gesticulating wildly. vehemence.
- vantage
- position giving an advantage. The fired upon the enemy from behind trees, walls and any other point of vantage they could find.
- vagary
- caprice, whim. She followed every vagary of fashion.
- vagabond
- wanderer; tamp. In summer, college students wander the roads of Europe like carefree vagabonds.
- vacuous
- empty, lacking in ideas; stupid. The cadidate's vacuous remarks annoyed the audience, who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes.
- vacillate
- waver; fluctuate. Uncertain which suitor she ought to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other.
- uxorious
- excessively devoted to one's wife. His friends laughed at him because he was so uxorious and submissive to his wife's desires.
- untrammeled
- without limits or restrictions, unrestrained. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
- untoward
- unfortunately or unlucky; adverse; unexpected. Trying to sneak ou of the house, Huck had a most untoward encounter with Miss Watson, who thwarted his escape.
- untenable
- indefensible; not able to be maintained. Wayne is so contrary that, the more untenable a position is, the harder he'll try to defend it.
- unsullied
- untarnished, clean, pure. I am happy that my reputation is unsullied.
- unsightly
- ugly. Although James was an experienced emergency room nurse, he coccasionally became queasy when faced with a parcticularly unsightly injury.
- unseemly
- unbecoming; indecent; in poor taste. When Seymour put whoopee cushions on all the seats in the funeral parlor, his conduct was most unseemly.
- unscathed
- unharmed. They prayed he would come back from the war unscathed.
- unsavory
- distasteful; morally offensive. People with unsavory reputations should ont be allowed to work with young children
- unruly
- disobedient; lawless. The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
- unrequited
- not reciprocated. Suffering the pangs of unrequited love, Olivia rebukes Cesario for his hardheartedness
- unravel
- disentangel; solve. With equal ease Miss Marple unravelled tangle balls of yarn and baffling murder mysteries.
- unprepossessing
- unattractive. During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is unprepossessing.
- unprecedented
- novel; unparalled. For a first novel, Margaret Mitchell's book Gone with the Wind was an unprecedented success
- unpalatable
- distasteful; disagreeable. "I refuse to swallow your conclusion,' she said, finding his logic unpalatable.
- unobtrusive
- inconspicuous; not blatant. Reluctant to attract notice, the governess took a chair in a far corner of the room and tried to be as unobtrusive as possible.