tip, v. incline, lean, cant, tilt; careen, capsize, keel, overturn,

upset.--n. end, apex, extremity.

tiptop, n. (Colloq.) pinnacle, apex.

tirade, n. diatribe, invective, billingsgate, screed.

tire, v. fatigue, weary, jade, fag, bore, irk, tucker, exhaust.

tiresome, a. irksome, wearisome, fatiguing, tedious; toilsome,

arduous.

tissue, n. fabric, stuff, cloth, texture; web, network, fabrication.

toad-eater, n. toady.

toads, n. pl. Associated Words: ranine, ranivorous.

toadstool, n. fungus. See Fungi.

toady, n. sycophant, toad-eater, flatterer, fawner.

tobacco, n. Associated Words: tobacconist, nicotine, nicotinism,

canaster, cavendish, plug, cud, quid, fumacious, carotte, capa, perique,

mundungus, humidor.

toe, n. digit.

together, adv. unitedly, jointly, concertedly, simultaneously.

toil, n. labor, drudgery; toils, snare, trap.--v. labor, moil,

drudge.

token, n. sign, symbol, index, indication.

tolerable, a. sufferable, endurable; passable, mediocre, so-so,

ordinary.

tolerance, n. endurance, toleration, sufferance. Antonym:

intolerance.

tolerant, a. indulgent, forbearing, charitable. Antonym:

intolerant.

tolerate, v. endure, suffer, brook; allow, permit, admit.

toleration, n. tolerance, endurance, sufferance; allowance,

permission.

tomb, n. sepulchre, crypt, vault, ossuary; mausoleum (a magnificent

tomb).

tomboy, n. (Colloq.) hoiden, romp.

tombstone, n. monument; cenotaph (honoring one buried elsewhere).

Associated Words: sepulchral, epitaph, lapidary.

tomfoolery, n. (Colloq.) folly, trifling, monkey-tricks, mummery.

tone, n. sound, note; cadence, modulation; force, vigor, energy.

tone down. subdue, moderate, soften.

toneless, a. aspirated, surd, atonic, unintonated.

tongue, n. Associated Words: lingual, glossal, sublingual, fur,

tchick, barb, papillæ, lick, lap, hyoid, lincture, aglossal, frænum,

fourchette, raphe.

tonguy, a. (Colloq.) voluble, fluent, loquacious, garrulous.

tonic, n. invigorant, roborant.

tool, n. implement, utensil, instrument; cat's-paw, puppet, hireling.

Associated Words: ratten, cocobola, kit.

tooth, n. (little tooth) denticle, dentile. Associated Words:

denticulation, serration, serrature. See teeth.

toothache, n. odontalgia. Associated Word: odontalgic.

toothless, a. agomphious, edentate, edentulous.

toothless animals. Edentata.

toothsome, n. palatable, delicious, savory, gustable.

top, n. summit, crest, apex, vertex, pinnacle, zenith, culmination,

capsheaf, meridian.

top, v. surmount, overtop, surpass.

toper, n. drunkard, sot, inebriate, guzzler.

topic, n. subject, theme; division, head, subdivision.

topknot, n. crest.

top-shaped, a. turbinate, turbinated.

torch, n. flambeau (flaming torch), cresset.

torment, n. pain, anguish, distress, torture; bane, infliction,

scourge, thorn.

torment, v. persecute, hector, tease, tantalize, harry; torture,

grill, rack, distress.

torn, a. rent, lacerated, ripped.

tornado, n. hurricane, cyclone, whirlwind.

torpid, a. numb, benumbed, unfeeling; lethargic, dull, hebetate,

sluggish, stupid.

torpidity, n. numbness, lethargy, inactivity, hebetude.

touch, v. meet, impinge; graze.

touch, n. touching, contact, contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation,

tangency; taction, tact, palpation; dash, sprinkling, _soupçon_,

infusion; animadversion, censure, stricture, reflection, slur. Associated

words: tactile, tactility, tactual, palpable, impalpable, palpability,

impalpability.

touchiness, n. irascibility, petulance, irritability.

touching, a. pathetic, affecting, moving, tender.

touching, prep. respecting, concerning, regarding.

touchstone, n. criterion, test; basanite, Lydian stone.

touchwood, n. punk, tinder, agaric, spunk.

touchy, a. irascible, irritable, petulant, testy, choleric, snappish.

tough, a. tenacious, unyielding; cohesive, adhesive; obdurate,

refractory, stubborn; (Colloq.) difficult, arduous, hard.

tour, n. journey, trip, excursion, expedition.

tousled, a. (Colloq.) disordered, disheveled.

toweling, n. crash.

tower, n. steeple, campanile, minaret, spire, belfry, turret, cupola,

dome; tourelle, barbican, pylon, martello tower; castle, citadel, donjon,

keep, fortress.

tower, v. overtop, rise above.

toy, n. gimcrack, plaything, trinket, kickshaw, bauble, teetotum,

gewgaw.

trace, n. vestige, sign, impression.

track, n. trace, vestige, footprint, footmark, foil; spoor; wake,

trail.

tract, n. Associated Words: colporteur, colportage.

trade, n. commerce, barter, traffic, business; handicraft.

Associated Words: technical, technology, technicals, technicality,

technological, polytechnic, polytechnics, vocational, Mercury.

trade, v. exchange, barter, traffic, swap (Colloq.).

trader, n. trafficker, dealer, merchant, tradesman, monger.

tradesman, n. trader, merchant; artisan, craftsman, mechanic,

journeyman, handicraftsman.

trading, a. commercial, mercantile; venal, corrupt, jobbing.

trail, n. train; track, wake, spoor, footmark, foil, trace.

trailing, a. procumbent, prostrate. Antonyms: upright, erect.

train, n. retinue, suite, attendants; series, chain.

train, v. discipline, nurture, drill; accustom, habituate,

familiarize.

trained, a. skilled, practiced, disciplined, competent. Antonym:

untrained.

training, n. discipline, nurture, drilling, exercise.

traitorous, a. perfidious, treasonable, recreant, faithless.

tramp, v. march, trudge, plod.

tramp, n. vagrant, vagabond, landloper, walleteer, nomad, hobo,

derelict.

trample, v. crush; scorn, spurn, disregard.

transaction, n. procedure, affair, deal, business.

transform, v. transfigure, metamorphose; transmute.

transformation, n. transfiguration, metamorphosis; transmutation.

transgress, v. violate, infringe, disregard.

transgression, n. violation, infringement, infraction.

transient, a. fleeting, transitory, temporary, impermanent.

translate, v. construe, render, interpret.

translation, n. rendering, interpretation.

transmogrify, v. (Colloq.) transform, metamorphose.

transparency, n. diaphaneity, translucency. Antonyms: opacity,

intransparency.

transparent, a. diaphanous, translucent, pellucid. Antonyms:

opaque, intransparent.

trap, n. snare, toil, gin, springe, pitfall; artifice, stratagem.

trap, v. entrap, ensnare, trapan, catch.

trapdoor, n. hatchway.

trappings, n. pl. decorations, paraphernalia, frippery, gear,

rigging, ornaments; caparisons, accouterments.

traps, n. pl. See things.

trash, n. rubbish, refuse, trumpery.

trashy, a. trumpery, rubbishy, waste.

travel, v. journey, itinerate, peregrinate.

travel, n. journey, tour, peregrination.

traveler, n. wayfarer, itinerant, voyager, pilgrim, tourist,

peregrinator, passenger.

traveler's handbook. itinerary.

traveling, a. wayfaring, itinerant, wandering, peripatetic.

traveling man. drummer, agent, traveling salesman.

traveling preacher. itinerant.

travesty, n. burlesque, parody, caricature, take-off.

tray, n. salver, waiter, plateau, server.

treacherous, a. traitorous, perfidious, faithless.

treachery, n. treason, perfidy, disloyalty, Punic faith.

treasury, n. exchequer; repository. Associated Words: treasurer,

fiscal, treasure-trove.

treat, v. regale, feast; negotiate; behave toward, deal with.

treatise, n. disquisition, dissertation, monograph; thesis.

treaty, n. covenant, agreement, compact, concordat, pact, protocol.

tree, n. (young) sapling, seedling; (with top cut off) pollard,

bolling; (small) staddle. Associated Words: dendrology, sylviculture,

arboriculture, arboriculturist, sylviculturist, dendrologist, arboreal,

arbor, arboreous, arborescence, arborescent, arborist, arborization,

dendrography, dendrophilous, sylvan, topiary work, thicket, copse,

coppice, grove, plashing, sawyer, dendromoeter, rampick, spinny, dendrite,

dendriform, dendroid, dendrolite, lichen, motte.

trellis, n. lattice, lattice-work, espalier, _treillage_.

tremble, v. quake, quiver, shudder, dodder, quaver, totter, vibrate,

oscillate.

trembling, n. tremor, quivering, quaver, trepidation, rigor,

oscillation.

trembling, a. doddering, shaking, infirm, quivering.

trench, n. ditch, gutter, trough, moat, channel.

trend, n. tendency.

trespass, v. encroach upon, infringe, intrude.

trial, n. test, experiment, proof, essay, examination; probation;

ordeal, crucible, criterion; effort, exertion, endeavor; adversity,

hardship, tribulation, affliction. Associated Words: empiricism,

empirical, empiric, probationer, probationary, tentative.

trick, n. ruse, artifice, stratagem, sleight, hoax, maneuver, wile,

feint, chicane; antic, prank, caper; trait, peculiarity.

trick, v. deceive, cheat, defraud, cozen, impose upon; dress,

decorate, set off, adorn.

trickery, n. deception, chicanery, artifice, duplicity,

Machiavelianism, circumvention, indirection.

trickle, v. dribble, drip, percolate, distill.

trickster, n. rogue, cheat, impostor, scoundrel.

tricky, a. trickish, knavish, unprincipled, treacherous.

trifle, n. triviality, bagatelle, doit.

trifle, v. dawdle, dally, pother, fribble, quiddle.

trifler, n. fribbler, dawdler, dallier, piddler, quiddler.

trifling, a. trivial, paltry, piddling, insignificant, piffling,

frivolous.

trifling, n. piddling, frivolity, piffle, dalliance, quibbling,

piffling.

trim, a. spruce, smart; neat, tidy.

trim, v. adjust, arrange; decorate, adorn, garnish, embellish,

bedeck, trick; prune, clip, lop; (Colloq.) rebuke, reprove, reprimand,

rate, scold.

trimming, n. embellishment, garnish, decoration; (Colloq.)

chastisement, scolding, reproof.

trinket, n. bauble, gimcrack, knickknack, gewgaw, gaud; bijou;

pl. trinkets, trinketry; bijoutry.

trip, n. jaunt; lapse, slip, stumble, misstep. Associated Words:

itinerary, itinerancy, viatic, viaticum.

triplet, n. trilling.

trite, a. hackneyed, banal, commonplace.

triumph, n. victory, conquest; exultation, ovation.

triumph, v. overcome, prevail, succeed; exult, rejoice.

triumphant, a. exultant, jubilant; victorious.

trivial, a. trifling, frivolous, insignificant, unimportant.

triviality, n. unimportance, paltriness.

troop, n. company, battery, squad, band, throng, crowd.

trouble, v. vex, disturb, distress, inconvenience, incommode, pester,

worry.

trouble, n. tribulation, adversity, reverses, affliction, calamity,

misfortune; vexation, annoyance, inconvenience, worry, disturbance;

torment, plague, thorn, bane.

troublesome, a. vexatious, burdensome, afflictive, harassing,

galling, wearisome.

trounce, v. (Colloq.) flog, castigate, whip.

trousers, n. pl. pants, pantaloons, breeches; trews; spatterdashes,

garnashes; knickerbockers.

trout, n. Associated Word: truttaceous.

truce, n. armistice.

truckle, v. cringe, knuckle, submit, yield.

true, a. correct, exact, accurate, veritable, authentic, real,

genuine, actual; veracious, truthful; loyal, stanch, steadfast,

unwavering; incorruptible, trustworthy, faithful, honorable. Antonyms:

See untrue.

trueblue, a. (Colloq.) incorruptible, loyal, true.

truism, n. axiom.

trump, v. impose, palm off, obtrude, deceive.

trumpery, n. falsehood, deception; rubbish, trash.--a.

worthless, deceptive, trashy.

trumpet, n. horn; shophar (Heb.). Associated Words: fanfare,

buccinal.

trump up, v. devise, fabricate.

trunk, n. body, bole, stock; proboscis; chest, coffer.

truss, v. pack, compress; skewer.

trust, n. credence, confidence, belief, reliance, affiance, faith;

credit, tick; assurance, confidence; duty, commission, charge. Antonyms:

distrust, doubt. Associated Words: fiduciary, fiducial.

trust, v. depend upon, rely upon; give credit to, tick; intrust,

commit.

trustee, n. fiduciary, regent.

trustful, a. unsuspicious, confiding, credulous, confident.

trusty, a. trustworthy, faithful, reliable.

truth, n. veracity, truthfulness; accuracy, precision, exactness,

correctness; verity, fact; truism, axiom; fidelity, constancy, loyalty,

fealty, steadfastness; candor, frankness, ingenuousness. Antonyms: See

untruth.

truthful, a. veracious, undissembling, ingenuous, veridical.

try, v. test, examine, prove; attempt, essay, endeavor; purify,

refine; hear, adjudicate, adjudge; strive, seek, strain.

try, n. attempt, essay, trial, experiment. See trial.

trying, a. severe, distressing, hard, irksome, afflictive, ordeal.

trysting-place, n. rendezvous.

tub, n. firkin, keeler, keelfat, keeve, vat, piggin.

tube, n. pipe; valinch.

tubular, a. tubiform, fistular, cannular.

tuft, n. knot, bunch, clump; tussock, crest.

tug, n. trace; pull, effort.

tumble, v. heave, toss, roll, pitch; topple.

tumble-down, a. (Colloq.) dilapidated, ramshackle.

tumbler, n. acrobat, contortionist.

tumor, n. sarcoma; myoma; carcinoma; lipoma. Associated Words:

oncology, oncotomy.

tumult, n. commotion, hurly-burly, turbulence.

tumultuous, a. disorderly, turbulent, noisy, riotous.

tune, n. air, melody; order, harmony, unison, concord, accord.

tune, v. attune, modulate, harmonize.

tuneful, a. melodious, harmonious.

tuneless, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant.

tunnel, n. funnel; subway.

turf, n. sward, sod, greensward; peat.

turmoil, n. commotion, uproar, tumult, turbulence, agitation.

turn, v. revolve, spin, gyrate, rotate, wheel, veer, shift, swivel;

deflect, inflect; reverse, revert; divert, avert; invert; resort, apply.

turn, n. bend, winding, meander, curve, detour, deflection, crook,

sweep; favor, kindness, service, accommodation.

turn aside. divert, avert, deflect, parry.

turned away. averted.

turning, n. rotation, revolution, spinning, gyration; eversion,

extroversion; flexure, flexion, incurvation; deviation, deflection;

circumrotation.

turning, a. revolving, rotary, rotating, gyratory, winding,

circumrotary.

turning aside. averting, deviation, diversion, deflection, parry.

turning back. retroversion, retroflexion.

turning inward. introversion.

turning over or backward. inversion, reversal.

turning point. crisis; pivot. Associated Words: pivotal, critical.

turning upside down. inversion, reversal.

turning wrong side out. extroversion, eversion.

turnip-shaped, a. napiform.

turnkey, n. warder.

turn upside down. invert, reverse.

turtle, n. tortoise; terrapin.

tussle, n. struggle, contest, scuffle, conflict.

twaddle, n. flummery, balderdash, fustian, moonshine.

twelve, n. dozen. Associated Words: dodecagon, dodecahedral,

dodecahedron, duodecimal, duodecimfid, duodecimo, duodecuple, duodenary.

twenty, n. score. Associated Words: vicenary, vigesimal,

vigesimation, icosahedron.

twenty years. Associated Word: vicennial.

twig, n. spray, branch, sprig, switch.

twilight, n. dusk, evening. Associated Words: crepuscular,

crepusculous.

twine, v. entwine, encircle, wreathe.

twinkle, v. blink, wink; flash, sparkle, scintillate.

twinkling, n. sparkling, scintillation, flash, twinkle.

twist, v. contort, writhe, squirm, convolve, pervert, coil, wrench,

distort.

twisted, a. contorted, awry, tortuous, coiled, perverted.

twisting, n. contortion, convolution, writhing, torsion, wrench,

distortion, perversion.

twit, v. taunt, upbraid, reproach.

twitch, n. jerk; twitching, vellication.--v. jerk, snatch,

vellicate.

twitter, n. chirp, chirrup.

two, n. couple, pair, brace, doublet, dyad, team, span, twain; twins.

Associated Words: dual, duality, double, dualism, duplex, duplicate,

duplication, bifarious, binary, dimidiate, dimidiation, duet, dialogue,

duarchy, bisect, bisection, halve.

two bodies. Associated Word: bicorporal.

two colors. Associated Words: dichromatic, dichromatism, dichromic.

two-faced, a. Janus-faced, bifacial.

two fingers. Associated Word: bidigitate.

twofold, a. double, duplicate.

two-footed, a. biped.

two-footed animal. biped.

two-forked, a. bifurcated, bifurcate, dichotomous.

two-handed, a. bimanous; ambidextrous.

two-handed animals. Bimana.

two-headed, a. bicephalous.

two hundred years. Associated Words: bicentenary, bicentennial.

two languages. Associated Words: bilingual, diglot, bilingualism,

bilinguist.

two-legged, a. biped.

two letters. Associated Words: biliteral, biliteralism, diphthong,

digraph, duoliteral.

two months. Associated Word: bi-monthly.

two parties. Associated Words: bipartisan, bipartisanship.

two parts. Associated Words: bipartible, bipartite, bipartition,

bipartient, bisect, bisection.

two poles. Associated Words: bipolar, bipolarity.

two-sided, a. double-faced, bilateral.

two weeks, fortnight. Associated Words: bi-weekly, fortnightly.

two years. Associated Words: biennial, biennially.

type, n. symbol, token, representation; model, exemplar, phototype,

archetype. Antonyms: antitype, variant, monstrosity.

typesetter, n. compositor; typograph (machine).

typhoid fever. enteric fever.

typical, a. emblematical, prefigurative, representative, indicative.

Antonyms: atypical, abnormal, variant, unique.

typify, v. represent, prefigure.

typographer, n. printer.

typography, n. printing.

tyrannical, a. despotic, arbitrary, autocratic, imperious, absolute,

dictatorial, domineering, oppressive, tyrannic.

tyrannize, v. domineer, persecute, oppress.

tyranny, n. despotism, absolutism, oppression, rigor, severity.

tyrant, n. despot, autocrat; oppressor, persecutor, usurper.

tyro, n. novice, neophyte, pupil, beginner.

U

Ubiquitous, a. omnipresent.

ubiquity, n. omnipresence.

udder, n. mamma. Associated Words: escutcheon, garget.

ugly, a. repulsive, unsightly, loathsome, hideous, grewsome,

frightful; (Colloq.) crossgrained, ill-natured, unamiable, inaffable,

surly, refractory, vicious, indocile, spiteful, sullen, morose; uncomely,

hard-visaged, homely, ill-favored, hard-featured.

ulcer, n. fester, gathering, imposthume, pustule, ulceration.

Associated Words: sanies, sanious.

ulcerate, v. suppurate, fester, maturate.

ultimate, a. final, farthest, extreme.

ultimately, adv. finally.

ultra, a. extreme.

umbrage, n. resentment.

umpire, n. referee, judge, arbitrator, arbiter.

unabated, a. undiminished, unassuaged.

unable, a. incapable.

unabundant, a. scarce, deficient, rare.

unacceptable, a. objectionable, unwelcome, undesirable.

unaccountable, a. incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable.

unaccustomed, a. unfamiliar, unwonted, unused.

unacquainted, a. unfamiliar, strange.

unadulterated, a. unsophisticated, unalloyed, pure.

unadvised, a. imprudent, unwise, indiscreet, inconsiderate.

unaffected, a. unmoved, untouched, unimpressed; artless, naïve,

sincere, natural, unfeigned.

unafraid, a. undaunted, unappalled, unabashed, undismayed.

unalterable, a. immutable, unchangeable.

unambitious, a. unenterprising, indifferent.

unamiable, a. cross, ungracious, surly, unfriendly, irascible.

unanimity, n. unison, accord, agreement.

unanswerable, a. irrefutable, incontrovertible.

unappeasable, a. insatiate, insatiable, unquenchable, implacable.

unappreciable, a. imperceptible.

unapproachable, a. inaccessible, distant.

unarmed, a. defenseless, unguarded, unprotected.

unasked, a. unsolicited, voluntary, free-will.

unassailable, a. impregnable, invincible, secure, invulnerable.

unassorted, a. mixed, promiscuous, indiscriminate.

unatonable, a. inexpiable, irremissible.

unattainable, a. unachievable, impracticable, impossible.

unauthentic, a. spurious, supposititious, uncanonical, apocryphal,

fictitious.

unavailing, a. futile, nugatory, ineffectual, abortive, vain,

bootless.

unavoidable, a. inevitable, unpreventable, ineludable.

unaware, a. unconscious, unmindful, insensible.

unbearable, a. intolerable, insufferable, unendurable.

unbecoming, a. inappropriate, unseemly, unsuitable, indecorous.

unbegotten, a. self-existent.

unbelief, n. incredulity, skepticism, doubt, infidelity, distrust,

suspicion.

unbelievable, a. incredible, implausible, fabulous.

unbeliever, n. doubter, skeptic, infidel, free-thinker, nullifidian.

unbelieving, a. incredulous, doubtful, skeptical, nullifidian.

unbend, v. relax.

unbending, a. inflexible, unyielding, rigid, unpliant, resolute,

incompliant.

unbiased, a. unprejudiced, impartial, unjaundiced, neutral,

disinterested.

unbidden, a. unasked, uninvited; spontaneous, voluntary, volitional.

unblamable, a. blameless, inculpable, irreprehensible, innocent.

unblushing, a. shameless, unabashed, brazen-faced, indecent,

immodest.

unbosom, v. confess, reveal, divulge.

unbounded, a. illimitable, boundless, unlimited, limitless,

immeasurable, vast, infinite, immense.

unbreakable, a. infrangible; inviolable (said of a promise or vow).

unbreakableness, n. infrangibility; inviolability.

unbreathable, a. irrespirable.

unbridled, a. unrestrained, uncurbed, uncontrolled, licentious,

immoderate.

unbroken, a. whole, intact; inviolate, inviolated; undisturbed,

sound, profound; wild, untamed.

unburnable, a. incombustible, asbestic, incremable.

unbury, v. exhume, disentomb, disinter.

unburying, n. exhumation, disentombment, disinterment.

uncanny, a. weird, eerie.

uncanonical, a. apocryphal, unauthentic.

unceasing, a. incessant, perpetual, perennial, ceaseless.

unceremonious, a. informal, unconstrained; bluff, blunt.

uncertain, a. distrustful, hesitating; dubious, precarious,

problematical, insecure; equivocal, ambiguous, indefinite, irresolute,

inconstant, fickle, variable, capricious; fallible.

uncertainty, n. distrust, hesitation, doubt, dubiousness, dubiety,

incertitude; irresolution, variableness, inconstancy, capriciousness;

ambiguity, indefiniteness; contingency, fortuity; fallibility; suspense.

unchangeable, a. immutable, invariable, changeless, stereotyped,

unalterable, unmodifiable, permanent, constant.

unchanging, a. unvarying, permanent.

uncharitable, a. illiberal, intolerant, ungenerous, bigoted,

censorious.

unchaste, a. incontinent, impure, lewd, wanton, immoral.

unchastity, n. incontinence, wantonness, lechery, licentiousness,

lewdness, impurity.

unchecked, a. unbridled, unrestrained, unhampered, untrammeled,

uncurbed.

unchurch, v. excommunicate.

uncivil, a. discourteous, rude, churlish, boorish, brusque, impolite.

uncivilized, a. savage, barbarous, unreclaimed, benighted.

unclassifiable, a. nondescript.

uncle, a. Associated Word: avuncular.

unclean, a. soiled, dirty, foul, filthy, nasty, uncleanly; tref

(Jewish); polluted, defiled, impure.

uncommon, a. unusual, singular, rare, unique, queer, strange, odd,

anomalous, exceptional, abnormal, variant, nondescript, extraordinary,

noteworthy, remarkable, aberrant.

uncommunicative, a. reserved, taciturn, reticent, secretive.

uncompelled, a. voluntary, spontaneous, gratuitous, unconstrained,

volitional.

uncomplaining, a. resigned, patient, forbearing, long-suffering,

meek.

uncomplimentary, a. unflattering, frank, derogatory, blunt.

uncompromising, a. inflexible, irreconcilable, intransigent, firm.

unconcern, n. indifference, nonchalance, apathy, disinterestedness.

unconcerned, a. indifferent, nonchalant, cool, apathetic,

disinterested.

unconditional, a. absolute, unqualified, unrestricted, _carte

blanche_.

uncongenial, a. disagreeable, unpleasant.

unconnected, a. disconnected, separate, isolated, abrupt, incoherent.

unconquerable, a. invincible, insuperable, impregnable, indomitable,

inexpugnable.

unconscionable, a. unreasonable, inordinate, exorbitant, excessive.

unconscious, a. unaware, insensible; comatose; ingenuous, artless,

naïve.

unconsciousness, n. insensibility; coma.

unconstrained, a. spontaneous, uncompelled, voluntary, natural.

uncontradictable, a. incontrovertible, indisputable, incontestable.

uncontrollable, a. ungovernable, irrepressible.

unconvincing, a. inconclusive.

uncouple, v. disconnect, detach, disjoin, loose.

uncourtly, a. rude, gawky, ungraceful, awkward, inelegant.

uncouth, a. awkward, clumsy, rude, ungainly, loutish, gawky,

ungraceful.

uncover, v. disclose, reveal, expose, show.

unction, n. anointing; unguent, ointment; fervor, emotion, fervency,

enthusiasm.

uncultivated, a. untilled, fallow.

uncultured, a. unlettered, ignorant; philistine.

undaughterly, a. unfilial.

undecaying, a. imperishable, amaranthine, perennial, undying,

fadeless; imputrescible, incorruptible.

undeceive, v. disabuse, disillusionize, disillusion.

undeceiving, n. disillusion, disillusionment.

undecided, a. unsettled, pending; wavering, irresolute, dubious,

controvertible.

undecipherable, a. illegible.

undefinable, a. unexplainable, undeterminable.

undefined, a. vague, indefinite, obscure; boundless, limitless.

undemonstrative, a. staid, quiet, demure, phlegmatic, sedate.

undeniable, a. incontestable, indisputable, unquestionable,

indubitable, irrefragable, incontrovertible, unimpeachable.

under, prep. beneath, below, subordinate, inferior, subject to.

under, a. subordinate, subaltern, inferior, subjacent.

underbrush, n. undergrowth, jungle.

underground, a. subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene,

subterrestrial.

underhand, a. underhanded, surreptitious, clandestine, covert.

underhand, adv. clandestinely, covertly, secretly, surreptitiously.

underhanded, a. covert, clandestine, surreptitious, underhand.

underline, v. underscore.

underling, n. subordinate, inferior, understrapper.

underlying, a. fundamental, basic.

underrate, v. underestimate, undervalue, underprize.

understand, v. comprehend, apprehend, grasp, discern.

understandable, a. comprehensible, intelligible.

understanding, n. comprehension, discernment, apprehension; accord,

_entente_, harmony, agreement. Associated Word: tacit.

under the rose. secretly, privately, confidentially, _sub rosa_.

undervalue, v. depreciate, vilipend, despise; underrate,

underestimate.

under water. submarine, subaquatic, subaqueous, submerged.

underwear, n. underclothing; lingerie.

underwrite, v. insure; subscribe.

undeserved, a. unmerited, unjust.

undeserving, a. unworthy, unmeritorious, indign.

undesigned, a. unpremeditated, unintentional, accidental.

undesigning, a. artless, guileless, sincere.

undesirable, a. inexpedient; objectionable, unacceptable, ineligible.

undetermined, a. unsettled, irresolute, wavering, indeterminate,

abeyant.

undeveloped, a. in embryo, embryonic, immature, abeyant, embryo,

imperfect; atrophied, dwarfed, rudimentary, stunted, abortive, puny.

undevelopment, n. immaturity; atrophy, abortion; embryo.

undignified, a. unseemly, unbecoming, groveling, servile, obsequious.

undiminished, a. unabated, unlessened.

undiscernible, a. imperceptible, indiscernible.

undisputable, a. incontrovertible, incontestable, indisputable,

undeniable.

undissolvable, a. insoluble, indissolvable, indissoluble.

undo, v. reverse, annul, nullify, abrogate, neutralize, invalidate;

loose, unfasten, disentangle; impoverish, ruin.

undoing, n. reversal, annulment, invalidation, abrogation;

impoverishment, ruin.

undoubted, a. indubitable, unquestioned, unchallenged, undisputed.

undoubting, a. sure, confident, sanguine, implicit.

undress, n. dishabille, negligee.

undress, v. disrobe, strip, divest, doff, disarray.

undressing, n. disrobing, stripping.

undue, v. unreasonable, immoderate, exorbitant, excessive,

disproportioned.

undutiful, a. disobedient, unfilial.

undying, a. deathless, immortal.

unearth, v. uncover, disclose, ferret out.

unearthly, a. weird, supernatural, preternatural, eerie, apalling,

terrific.

uneasiness, n. restlessness, inquietude, perturbation, anxiety,

agitation, malaise.

uneasy, a. restless, restive, anxious, perturbed, impatient.

uneatable, a. inedible, incomestible.

uneducated, a. illiterate, benighted. See ignorant.

unemotional, a. phlegmatic.

unendurable, a. intolerable, insufferable.

unequal, a. unmatched, uneven, disparate; ill-balanced,

disproportioned, incommensurate, inequitable; inequable, irregular;

inadequate, insufficient.

unequaled, a. unmatched, unexampled, incomparable, superior,

preëminent, peerless, unsurpassed, unrivaled, exceeding, superlative,

_sans pareil_.

unequalness, n. inequality, unevenness, disproportion, inadequacy.

unerasable, a. indelible, inerasable, permanent.

unerring, a. certain, sure, unfailing, infallible, inerrable,

impeccable.

unescapable, a. inevitable, unavoidable.

unessential, a. nonessential, immaterial, unnecessary.

uneven, a. jagged, rugged, rough, hummocky, humpy, protuberant,

unequal.

unexcelled, a. unequaled, unsurpassed, superior, supreme.

unexcitable, a. imperturbable, phlegmatic.

unexhaustible, a. exhaustless, inexhaustible.

unexpected, a. unforeseen, unanticipated, unlooked for.

unexperienced, a. inexperienced, unpracticed.

unexplainable, a. inexplicable, inscrutable, uninterpretable.

unexpressible, a. inexpressible, unutterable, ineffable.

unextinguishable, a. unquenchable, insuppressible.

unfading, a. perennial, amaranthine, permanent, enduring.

Unfailing, a. sure, certain, constant, inexhaustible, infallible,

inevitable.

unfair, a. unjust, partial, unconscionable, inequitable,

disingenuous.

unfairness, n. injustice, inequity, partiality.

unfaithful, a. disloyal, faithless, perfidious, undutiful, renegade,

apostate, recreant, derelict, false, treacherous, traitorous, treasonable,

untrustworthy, pervert, inconstant, unsteadfast, fickle.

unfaithfulness, n. disloyalty, perfidy, apostasy, recreancy,

inconstancy, treachery, treason, bad faith, dereliction, fickleness,

defection.

unfaltering, a. steadfast, unwavering, unswerving.

unfamiliar, a. unaccustomed, strange, novel; inconversant,

unacquainted.

unfathered, a. fatherless; bastard, illegitimate.

unfathomable, a. abyssmal, immeasurable; inscrutable.

unfavorable, a. adverse, inimical, unpropitious, inauspicious,

malign, derogatory, hostile.

unfeathered, a. unfledged, callow, squab.

unfeeling, a. insensible, insensate, insentient, numb, apathetic,

impassible, impassive; stoic, callous, cruel, stern, incompassionate,

unpitying, brutal, inclement.

unfeelingness, n. insensibility, impassibility, impassivity,

torpidity, numbness, apathy; unkindness, cruelty, stoicism, incompassion,

inclemency.

unfeigned, a. genuine, sincere, unaffected, unassumed.

unfinished, a. incomplete.

unfit, a. unsuitable, ineligible, inappropriate, unqualified,

incompetent, inapt, inept.

unfit, v. disqualify, incapacitate, disable.

unfitness, n. ineligibility, unsuitableness, incompetency,

irrelevance, disqualification.

unflattering, a. uncomplimentary, derogatory, frank.

unfledged, a. callow, unfeathered, squab.

unflinching, a. resolute.

unfold, v. unfurl, expand, evolve, unroll; disentangle, unravel,

resolve; divulge, disclose, reveal, elucidate.

unfoldment, n. evolution, evolvment, expansion, unrolling;

disentanglement, interpretation, explanation.

unforced, a. spontaneous, voluntary, optional, unconstrained.

unforgivable, a. unpardonable, irremissible, inexpiable.

unforgiving, a. implacable, irremissive, relentless.

unfortunate, a. unlucky, unsuccessful, disastrous, ill-starred,

ill-fated.

unfounded, a. baseless, groundless.

unfriendliness, n. enmity, inimicalness, hostility, disfavor,

antipathy, disaffection, alienation, estrangement, unfriendship.

unfriendly, a. hostile, ill-disposed, inimical, malign, unamicable,

disaffected, alienated, estranged, antagonistic, unfavorable, adverse.

unfruitful, a. unproductive, effete, unprolific, infertile, acarpous.

ungainly, a. awkward, gawky, ungraceful, lumbering, loutish, wooden,

uncouth.

ungenerous, a. illiberal, narrow, sordid, uncharitable, stingy.

unglue, v. deglutinate.

ungodly, a. godless, impious, irreverent, profane, unrighteous.

ungovernable, a. unruly, unmanageable, refractory, intractable,

mutinous, impotent, irrepressible, rampant, unbridled, impetuous.

ungraceful, a. awkward, uncourtly, clumsy, uncouth, lumbering,

ungainly, wooden, gawky.

ungrateful, a. ingrateful, unthankful; disagreeable, offensive.

ungratefulness, n. ingratitude.

ungrateful person. ingrate.

unguarded, a. defenseless, unprotected; incautious, unwary.

unhair, v. depilate.

unhairing, n. depilation. Associated Word: depilatory.

unhallowed, a. unsanctified, profane.

unhandy, a. inconvenient; clumsy, awkward, maladroit.

unhappiness, n. infelicity, misery, distress, sorrow, woe.

unhappy, a. infelicitous, unfortunate; miserable, wretched, sad,

sorrowful, disconsolate, woeful, distressed, heart-sick, mournful,

lugubrious; deplorable, calamitous, distressing, grievous, inauspicious,

unpropitious, malign.

unharmed, a. unscathed, inviolate, uninjured, unhurt, intact,

scathless.

unharmonious, a. inharmonious, discordant, dissonant, harsh.

unhealable, a. insanable, incurable.

unhealthful, a. unwholesome, insalubrious, unsanitary, unhealthy,

morbific, pestiferous.

unhealthfulness, n. insalubrity, unwholesomeness.

unhealthy, a. unhealthful, unwholesome, insalubrious, noxious,

noisome, pestiferous, pernicious, unsanitary, unhygienic, morbid,

morbific, pestilent, insalutary; sickly, unsound, diseased, morbid,

invalid.

unheard of. unprecedented, exceptional; unknown, obscure.

unheeded, a. disregarded, ignored, unnoticed.

unholy, a. unhallowed, unconsecrated, profane, impious, evil,

ungodly.

unhonored, a. inglorious, unsung, unrenowned, obscure.

unhurt, a. See unharmed.

uniform, a. unvarying, invariable, constant, undeviating; consonant,

consistent. Antonyms: diverse, difform, anomalous, variant,

heterogeneous, variable.

uniform, n. livery, dress, regimentals.

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.