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Wabble, v. stagger, vacillate, reel.
waddle, v. toddle, totter.
wade, v. ford.
wading birds. Grallatores, Grallae.
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, garcon (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; protege. 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. rechauffe.
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. Nymphae.
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, ennuye.
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. etagere, 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, rale (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, AEolus, gust, aeolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous, fan, blast, aeolic, 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, denouement, finale, end.
windlass, n. winch.
window, n. casement, ventilator, transom, fenestella, oriel, dormer window, bay window, luthern, rose window, moucharaby, oeil-de-boeuf, 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, oenology, oenophilist, vinaceous, flagon, lees, oenolin.
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, facetiae, 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, gynaeceum.
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, onomatopoeoea, 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., cooeperation; collusion; concurrence; collaboration.
workman, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, journeyman. See worker.
work together. cooeperate; 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, taenifuge, 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, cacoethes 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.
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X-ray, n. the Roentgen ray. Associated Words: fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, cryptoscopy, cryptoscope.
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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.
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