Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/94

• valve, aerophone, ball cock, ball valve, bell, bung, bunghole, check valve, cock, cork, discharge tube, double reed, drain cock, draw cock, embouchure, faucet, gate, horn, key, lid, lip, mouthpiece, needle valve, peg, petcock, pin, pipe, plug, radio tube, reed, sea cock, slide, spigot, spike, spile, spill, stop, stopcock, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tap, tooter, tube, vacuum tube, valvula, valvule, wind, wind instrument

• vamoose, be off, beat it, begone, blow, clear out, decamp, dog it, duck and run, duck out, flake off, get, get going, get lost, get out, git, hightail, hit the road, kite, lam, make yourself scarce, scram, shove off, skedaddle, skin out, split, take a powder, take off

• vamp, Aspasia, Circe, Delilah, Don Juan, Jezebel, Lorelei, Messalina, Parthenope, Phryne, Siren, Thais, Vorspiel, ad-lib, adventuress, allure, attract, becharm, beguile, bewitch, brighten up, brush up, cadenza, captivate, captive, carry away, cast a spell, catch, charm, charmer, concert overture, conquest, cook up, coquette, courtesan, curtain raiser, dash off, date, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, descant, do offhand, do up, dramatic overture, draw on, enamor, enchant, enchanter, enchantress, endear, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, enticer, entrance, extempore, extemporize, fake, fascinate, femme fatale, fire brigade, fire department, fire fighter, fire warden, fire-chaser, fire-eater, fireman, fix, fix up, flirt, flourish, forest fire fighter, freshen, furbish, furbish up, gold, gold digger, harem girl, hetaera, hold in thrall, honey, hot lick, houri, hypnotize, impromptu, improvisate, improvisation, improvise, infatuate, inflame with love, interpolation, intrigue, introduction, inveigler, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, lick, make up, mesmerize, odalisque, operatic overture, overhaul, overture, patch, play by ear, polish, polish up, prelude, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, refurbish, renovate, repair, retouch, revamp, revive, riff, rub up, scrap the plan, seduce, seducer, seductress, shine, siren, smokechaser, smokejumper, spell, spellbind, spruce, spruce up, steady, strike off, strumpet, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, tantalize, teaser, tempt, tempter, temptress, throw off, throw together, tone up, toss off, toss out, touch up, transport, vamp up, vampire, voluntary, volunteer fireman, whip up, whomp up, whore, wing it, witch

• vampire, Aspasia, Baba Yaga, Circe, Delilah, Don Juan, Dracula, Euryale, Frankenstein, Gorgon, Jezebel, Lilith, Lorelei, Medea, Medusa, Messalina, Parthenope, Phryne, Siren, Stheno, Thais, Wolf-man, adventuress, afreet, ape-man, barghest, bewitcher, blackmailer, bloodsucker, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, cacodemon, captive, catch, charmer, conquest, coquette, courtesan, daeva, date, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, demon, devil, devil incarnate, dybbuk, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, evil genius, evil spirit, extortionist, fee-faw-fum, femme fatale, fiend, fiend from hell, flirt, frightener, genie, genius, ghost, ghoul, gyre, harem girl, harpy, hellhound, hellion, hellkite, hetaera, hobgoblin, holy terror, honey, horror, houri, incubus, inveigler, jinni, jinniyeh, lamia, leech, monster, nightmare, odalisque, ogre, ogress, phantom, predator, profiteer, racketeer, rakshasa, raptor, revenant, satan, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, seducer, seductress, shakedown artist, shark, shedu, siren, specter, spellbinder, steady, succubus, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, teaser, tempter, temptress, terror, the undead, vamp, vulture, werewolf, yogini

• van, Conestoga wagon, Pullman, Pullman car, advance guard, airhead, anteposition, armed guard, avant-garde, baggage car, bank guard, battle line, beachhead, boxcar, bridgehead, caboose, car, caravan, carriage, chair car, coach, coal car, coast guard, cordon, cordon sanitaire, covered waggon, covered wagon, day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, drawing room, dray, farthest outpost, first line, flat, flatcar, forefront, foregoing, front, front line, front rank, front-runner, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, gondola, guard, guarder, guardsman, haywagon, heading, inlying picket, jailer, le pas, leading, line, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, outguard, outpost, palace car, parlor car, passenger car, picket, pioneer, point, prairie schooner, precedence, preceding, precursor, priority, railhead, railway car, rear guard, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, scout, security guard, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, spearhead, stockcar, tank, tender, the lead, train guard, truck, vanguard, waggon, wagon, wain, warder

• vandal, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, hoodlum, hooligan, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, lout, man-eater, nihilist, pillager, plunderer, ravager, ruffian, ruiner, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, wild man, wrecker

• vandalism, acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, badness, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodbath, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, blue ruin, breakup, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnage, consumption, cruelness, cruelty, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, devastation, discourtesy, disintegration, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, disruption, disruptiveness, dissolution, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, frowned-upon behavior, furiousness, harshness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, hooliganism, horseplay, impetuosity, impropriety, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, murderousness, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, perdition, pitilessness, ravage, rigor, roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, shambles, sharpness, slaughter, spoliation, terrorism, truculence, undoing, ungentleness, vehemence, venial sin, venom, vice, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrongdoing

• vandalize, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry on, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, go on, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, hammer, havoc, incinerate, lay in ruins, lay waste, loot, maul, mug, pillage, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, riot, rip off, roar, ruin, ruinate, sack, savage, shipwreck, slaughter, sow chaos, storm, swallow up, tear, tear around, tear up, terrorize, throw into disorder, trash, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vaporize, violate, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• vanguard, advance guard, airhead, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, armed guard, avant-garde, bank guard, battle line, beachhead, bellwether, bridgehead, buccinator, bushwhacker, coast guard, cordon, cordon sanitaire, explorer, farthest outpost, first line, forebear, forefront, foregoer, forerunner, front, front line, front rank, front runner, front-runner, frontiersman, fugleman, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, groundbreaker, guard, guarder, guardsman, guide, harbinger, herald, inlying picket, innovation, innovator, jailer, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, lead runner, leader, line, messenger, new look, newfangled device, novelty, outguard, outpost, pathfinder, picket, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, railhead, rear guard, scout, security guard, spearhead, stormy petrel, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, trailblazer, trailbreaker, train guard, van, vaunt-courier, voortrekker, warder

• vanish, abandon, abscond, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, beat a retreat, bow out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, clear, come to naught, come to nothing, conk out, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dwindle, end, erode, evacuate, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, flee, fleet, flit, fly, go, go away, hide, leave no trace, leave the scene, melt, melt away, melt like snow, pass, pass away, pass out, peg out, perish, peter out, quit, remove, retire, retire from sight, retreat, run out, sink, sink away, succumb, suffer an eclipse, vacate, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away, withdraw

• vanished, absconded, absent, ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique, away, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, deleted, departed, disappeared, done for, down the drain, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, had it, has-been, irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lacking, lapsed, lost, missing, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, obsolete, omitted, out of sight, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, perished, run out, subtracted, taken away, wanting, wound up

• vanishing, blackout, blocking, dematerialization, departure, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fleeting, flying, fugitive, going, melting, occultation, passing, transient, vanishing point, wipe

• vanity case, base, clown white, cold cream, compact, cosmetics, drugstore complexion, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, foundation, foundation cream, greasepaint, hand cream, hand lotion, lip rouge, lipstick, makeup, mascara, mudpack, nail polish, paint, powder, powder puff, puff, rouge, talcum, talcum powder, vanishing cream, war paint

• vanity, absurdity, aimlessness, amour propre, arrogance, autotheism, big deal, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bootlessness, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, cockiness, conceit, conceitedness, egotism, emptiness, face, fanfaronade, fatuity, fecklessness, flimsiness, folly, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, futility, gasconade, gasconism, haughtiness, heroics, hollowness, idleness, impotence, inanity, independence, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, jactation, jactitation, levity, lightness, meaninglessness, narcissism, nugacity, otiosity, pardonable pride, pointlessness, pride, pridefulness, profitlessness, proudness, purposelessness, purse-pride, rat race, rodomontade, self-admiration, self-conceit, self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-importance, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-worship, shallowness, side, silliness, slenderness, slightness, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, superficiality, swagger, the absurd, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unreality, uselessness, vacuity, vacuousness, vainglory, vainness, valuelessness, vapidity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, vicious circle, worthlessness

• vanquish, bear down, beat down, bend, break, conquer, crush, defeat, fell, flatten, humble, master, overpower, override, overturn, prostrate, put down, quell, reduce, ride down, smash, subdue, subjugate, subvert, suppress, surmount, trample, trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot

• vanquisher, champ, champion, conquering hero, conqueror, conquistador, defeater, easy winner, hero, master, pancratiast, runner-up, shoo-in, subduer, subjugator, sure winner, top dog, triumpher, victor, winner

• vantage, advantage, allowance, ambit, angle, angle of vision, bailiwick, bulge, coign of vantage, constituency, deadwood, draw, drop, edge, flying start, footing, handicap, head start, inside track, jump, mental outlook, odds, orbit, outlook, point of view, running start, something extra, something in reserve, sphere of influence, stamping ground, standpoint, start, territory, turf, upper hand, vantage ground, vantage point, viewpoint, whip hand

• vapid, airy, arid, asinine, barren, betwixt and between, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boring, catchpenny, changeable, characterless, cold, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, dilute, diluted, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, etiolated, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fatuous, flat, flavorless, flimsy, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, gruelly, halfhearted, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, idle, inane, indecisive, indifferent, inexcitable, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, innocuous, insipid, irresolute, jejune, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, light, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, mediocre, medium, middling, mild, milk-and-water, milky, moderate, modest, mundane, mushy, namby-pamby, neutral, nugacious, nugatory, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ordinary, otiose, pale, pallid, pappy, passable, pedestrian, plain, plodding, poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pulpy, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, respectable, sapless, savorless, scatterbrained, shallow, silly, slender, slight, slow, so-so, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tame, tasteless, tedious, thin, tiresome, tolerable, trifling, trite, trivial, unembellished, unflavored, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, unlively, unpalatable, unpoetic, unromantic, unsavory, vacant, vacuous, vain, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wearisome, wearying, windy, wishy-washy, wooden

• vapor trail, backwash, condensation trail, contrail, course, exhaust, line, path, piste, scent, signs, spoor, stream, traces, track, trail, vortex, wake, wash

• vapor, Barnumize, London fog, London special, Old Faithful, air, airy nothing, apparition, autism, babble, blabber, blather, blow, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, boast, boiling water, bombast, bounce, brag, brainchild, breathe out, bubble, bull, bullshit, bully, chimera, cloud, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, depression, dereism, distemper, draw the longbow, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, drisk, drivel, drizzling mist, drool, eidolon, emit, ether, evacuate, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, false belief, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, film, flourish, fog, frost smoke, fume, gabble, gas, gasconade, gauze, geyser, gibber, gibble-gabble, give off, give out, give vent to, hallucination, haze, hector, hot spring, hot water, hypochondria, hysteria, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, inflate, insubstantial image, intimidate, invention, jabber, lay it on, let out, maggot, make-believe, misbelief, misconception, mist, morbidity, myth, nervousness, open the floodgates, open the sluices, out-herod Herod, pea soup, pea-soup fog, peasouper, phantasm, phantom, piffle, pile it on, pipe dream, pontificate, prate, prattle, puff, rage, rant, rattle, rave, reek, rheuminess, roister, rollick, romance, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, shadow, sick fancy, slang, smog, smoke, speak for Buncombe, spirit, splutter, sputter, steam, storm, swagger, swashbuckle, talk big, talk highfalutin, talk nonsense, the pip, thermae, thick-coming fancies, thin air, throw off, trick, trip, twaddle, twattle, vaunt, vision, waffle, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, wrong impression

• vaporize, aerate, aerify, atomize, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bring down, bring to ruin, burn to death, carbonate, chlorinate, condemn, confound, consume, cut down, cut to pieces, damn, deal a deathblow, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, disintegrate, dissolve, distill, drop, emit, engorge, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, fell, fluidize, fractionate, frag, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, give the quietus, gobble, gobble up, gun down, gut, gut with fire, havoc, hydrogenate, incinerate, jugulate, lapidate, lay in ruins, lay low, lay waste, oxygenate, perfume, pistol, poleax, ravage, reek, riddle, ruin, ruinate, send out, shipwreck, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, smoke, spray, stab to death, steam, stone, stone to death, strike dead, sublimate, sublime, swallow up, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, volatilize, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

• vaporous, adulterated, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, cloudy, cut, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, flimsy, foggy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gossamery, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, mushy, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, phantasmal, phantomlike, pneumatic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, shadowy, slight, smoking, smoky, spirituous, steaming, steamy, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vapory, watered, watered-down, windy, wispy

• vaquero, broncobuster, buckaroo, caballero, cattleman, cavalier, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider, cowboy, cowgirl, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpuncher, drover, equestrian, equestrienne, gaucho, goatherd, gooseboy, gooseherd, herder, herdsman, hogherd, horse soldier, horse wrangler, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseherd, horseman, horsewoman, jockey, knight, mounted policeman, pigman, postboy, postilion, puncher, rider, roughrider, sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd, shepherdess, steeplechaser, swanherd, swineherd, trick rider, waddy, wrangler

• variability, arrhythmia, brokenness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, fibrillation, fickleness, fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation, freakishness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, intermittence, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness, pluralism, raggedness, restlessness, roughness, shiftiness, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, wobble

• variable, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alterable, alterative, alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chancy, changeable, changeful, changing, checkered, choppy, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dicey, different, disconnected, discontinuous, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doubting, eccentric, equivocal, erose, erratic, ever-changing, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flexible, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, freakish, giddy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite, immethodical, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, lurching, malleable, many-sided, mazy, mercurial, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moody, motley, movable, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, patchy, permutable, plastic, pluralistic, polysemous, protean, proteiform, ragged, rambling, resilient, restless, rough, roving, rubbery, scatterbrained, scrappy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, skeptical, slippery, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, supple, temperamental, ticklish, touch-and-go, transient, transitory, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undependable, undisciplined, undivinable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vagrant, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

• variably, at irregular intervals, at random, back and forth, brokenly, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, changeably, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, fitfully, haltingly, in and out, in snatches, in spots, inconstantly, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, lurchingly, nonuniformly, off and on, on and off, patchily, roughly, round and round, spasmodically, sporadically, spottily, to and fro, uncertainly, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadfastly, unsteadily, unsystematically, waveringly, whimsically, wobblingly

• variance, agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism, apostasy, argument, argumentation, at variance, change, clashing, conflict, contention, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counter-culture, cross-purposes, debate, departure, deviation, difference, difference of opinion, difficulty, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dispute, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, dividedness, division, dropping out, faction, far cry, fluctuation, heterogeneity, in disagreement, in dispute, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jarring, minority opinion, misunderstanding, mixture, negation, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, odds, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, polarization, quarrel, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, rift, schism, secession, separateness, separation, severing, strife, unconformity, underground, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variation, variegation, variety, withdrawal

• variant, altering, alternative, antagonistic, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, changing, clashing, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cranky, cross, departing, deviant, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, modification, motley, multifarious, negative, out of accord, out of whack, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, separate, separated, several, unconformable, uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unstable, variable, variation, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

• variation, Nachtmusik, Proteus, aberrancy, aberration, about-face, absolute music, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, altering, alternation, amelioration, anacrusis, analysis, anatomization, apostasy, arrangement, atomization, bass passage, bend, betterment, bias, bourdon, branching off, break, bridge, burden, cadence, capriciousness, chamber music, chamber orchestra, change, change of heart, change of pace, changeability, changeableness, changing, choice, choppiness, chorus, circuitousness, coda, composition, constructive change, continuity, contrariety, contrast, conversion, corner, crook, curve, dappleness, declination, defection, deflection, degeneration, degenerative change, demarcation, departure, descant, desultoriness, desynonymization, deterioration, detour, development, deviability, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, difference, differencing, differentiation, differing, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discrimination, discursion, disequalization, disjunction, disorder, disparity, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, distinguishment, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, electronic music, errantry, erraticism, etude, excursion, excursus, exercise, exorbitation, exposition, far cry, fickleness, figure, fitting, flightiness, flip-flop, fluctuation, folderol, freakishness, gradual change, hairpin, harmonic close, harmonization, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, improvement, impulsiveness, inaccordance, incidental music, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, indirection, individualization, individuation, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, instrumental music, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, invention, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, manifoldness, measure, melioration, mercuriality, mitigation, mixture, modification, modifying, modulation, moodiness, motleyness, movement, multifariousness, multiplicity, musical phrase, musical sentence, mutability, mutation, nocturne, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, novelty, obliquity, odds, omnifariousness, omniformity, opposition, opus, orchestration, ornament, oscillation, otherness, overthrow, part, particularization, passage, pendulation, pererration, period, permutation, personalization, phrase, piece, pluralism, polymorphism, production, program music, qualification, radical change, raggedness, rambling, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, refrain, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, response, restlessness, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ricercar, ritornello, score, section, seesawing, segregation, separateness, separation, severalization, severance, shapeshifter, sheer, shift, shiftiness, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shuffling, skew, slant, sonata, sonatina, specialization, stanza, statement, strain, straying, string orchestra, string quartet, study, sudden change, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switch, tack, tailpiece, teeter-tottering, teetering, theme and variations, total change, tottering, transition, trio, turn, turnabout, turning, tutti, tutti passage, twist, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unfixedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, upheaval, vacillation, variability, variance, variegation, variety, variousness, varying, veer, versatility, verse, vicissitude, violent change, wandering, wantonness, warp, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, work, worsening, yaw, zigzag

• varied, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, at odds, at variance, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, dappled, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indiscriminate, inharmonious, intricate, ironic, irreconcilable, jumbled, many, many and various, many-sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, of all sorts, patchy, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, promiscuous, scrambled, separate, separated, several, sundry, syncretic, thrown together, unconformable, unequal, unlike, variant, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

• variegate, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blotch, break up, check, checker, dapple, differ, differentiate, dissent, disunify, divaricate, diverge, diversify, dot, flake, fleck, freckle, harlequin, iris, maculate, marble, marbleize, motley, mottle, pepper, polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, relieve, spangle, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, variate, vary, vein

• variegated, assorted, at odds, at variance, bicolor, bicolored, brindled, calico, capricious, changeable, changing, checked, checkered, choppy, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dichromatic, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discolor, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, divers-colored, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, flecked, freaked, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, many, many-colored, marbled, matching, medley, mercurial, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, mottle, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multifarious, multihued, mutable, nacreous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, opalescent, opaline, parti-color, parti-colored, piebald, pied, pigmentary, pinto, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, prismatic, ragged, rainbow, rough, separate, separated, several, shot, shot through, skewbald, spasmodic, spattered, speckled, spectral, sporadic, spotted, stippled, streaked, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varicolored, varied, variform, various, varying, versicolor, versicolored, warm, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

• variegation, Dalmatian, Proteus, allotropism, allotropy, antigorite, butterfly, candy cane, capriciousness, chameleon, changeability, changeableness, cheetah, choppiness, chrysotile, confetti, contrariety, contrast, crazy quilt, dappleness, departure, deviation, difference, differentiation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disorder, disparity, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversity, far cry, firedog, harlequin, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, iris, irreconcilability, irregularity, jaguar, jerkiness, leopard, mackerel, mackerel sky, manifoldness, marble, marbled paper, mercuriality, mixture, moire, mother-of-pearl, motleyness, multifariousness, multiplicity, mutability, nacre, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, ocelot, odds, omnifariousness, omniformity, opal, ophite, opposition, otherness, patchwork quilt, peacock, pluralism, polymorphism, raggedness, rainbow, separateness, serpentine, serpentine marble, shapeshifter, shot silk, spectrum, tortoise shell, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variance, variation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering, zebra

• variety store, boutique, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, supermarket, trading post, variety shop, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

• variety, Broadway, Proteus, a certain number, a few, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, affiliation, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assortment, betterment, biotype, blood, body, branch, brand, break, breed, burlesque, capriciousness, cast, category, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, character, choice, choppiness, church, circus, clan, class, classification, collectanea, collection, color, communion, community, conglomerate, conglomeration, constructive change, continuity, contrariety, contrast, conversion, dappleness, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, denomination, departure, description, designation, desultoriness, deterioration, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disorder, disparity, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, drama, eccentricity, entertainment industry, erraticism, faction, family, far cry, feather, fellowship, fickleness, fitting, flightiness, flip-flop, form, freakishness, genotype, genre, genus, grade, gradual change, grain, group, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, hodgepodge, ilk, improvement, impulsiveness, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, kidney, kin, kind, kingdom, label, legit, legitimate stage, line, lot, make, manifoldness, manner, mark, medley, melioration, mercuriality, miscellanea, miscellany, mitigation, mix, mixture, modification, modulation, mold, moodiness, more, motleyness, multifariousness, multiformity, multiplicity, mutability, nature, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nonuniqueness, number, numerousness, oddments, odds, odds and ends, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, offshoot, omnifariousness, omniformity, omnium-gatherum, opposition, order, organization, otherness, overthrow, party, persuasion, phylum, playland, pluralism, plurality, pluralness, polymorphism, qualification, race, radical change, raggedness, range, rank, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, religious order, remaking, renewal, repertory drama, reshaping, restlessness, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, schism, school, sect, sectarism, section, segment, selection, separateness, series, several, shape, shapeshifter, shift, shiftiness, show biz, show business, society, sort, species, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stamp, stock, strain, strawhat, strawhat circuit, stripe, style, subclass, subfamily, subgenus, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, sudden change, summer stock, sundries, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, switch, the boards, the footlights, the like of, the likes of, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, total change, transition, tribe, turn, turnabout, type, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, upheaval, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variousness, vaudeville, versatility, version, violent change, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, worsening

• variform, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, jagged, jerky, mercurial, motley, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, pluralistic, ragged, rough, spasmodic, sporadic, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, various, varying, wavering

• various, assorted, at odds, at variance, capricious, certain, changeable, changing, choppy, composite, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, individual, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, legion, many, many and various, mercurial, miscellaneous, more, more than one, motley, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, not singular, numerous, of all sorts, peculiar, plural, pluralistic, plurative, poles apart, poles asunder, populous, ragged, rough, separate, separated, several, some, spasmodic, sporadic, sundry, unalike, unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, upwards of, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, varying, voluminous, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

• varmint, amphibian, animal, aquatic, beast, biped, brute, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite, creature, creeping thing, critter, cur, dog, dumb animal, dumb friend, feline, gnawer, herbivore, hound, hyena, insect, insectivore, invertebrate, living being, living thing, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, mongrel, omnivore, pig, polecat, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, serpent, skunk, snake, swine, ungulate, vermin, vertebrate, viper, whelp, worm

• varnish, acting, adorn, affectation, air brush, alibi, allow for, allowance, apology, appearance, apply paint, art paper, attitudinizing, becloud, bedaub, bedizen, befog, begild, belie, besmear, bias, blanket, blind, bluff, bluffing, brush, brush on paint, buff, burnish, calcimine, camera lucida, camera obscura, camouflage, canvas, chalk, charcoal, cheating, cloak, cloud, coat, coating, color, coloring, complexion, conceal, convolute, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, crayon, curtain, dab, daub, deception, decontamination, decorate, deep-dye, delusion, device, diminish, dip, disguise, dissemblance, dissemble, dissembling, dissimulation, distemper, distort, distract attention from, double-dye, drawing paper, drawing pencil, dress up, drier, dye, ease, easel, eclipse, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, engild, enrich, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, excuse, extenuate, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, facade, face, facing, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsify, falsity, fast-dye, feigning, feint, festoon, film, finish, fixative, flourish, four-flushing, fraud, fresco, front, fudge, fur, furbish, garble, gild, gilding, gilt, glance, glaze, gloss, gloss over, grain, ground, guise, handle, hide, hue, humbug, humbuggery, ignore, illuminate, imbue, imposture, ingrain, involve, japan, keep under cover, lacquer, lame excuse, lay figure, lay on color, lessen, load with ornament, locus standi, luster, make allowance for, mask, masquerade, maulstick, medium, meretriciousness, mince, miscite, miscolor, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misquote, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misuse, mitigate, mitigation, obfuscate, obscure, occult, ornament, ostensible motive, ostentation, outward show, overcharge, overlay, overload, overstate, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, palliate, palliation, palliative, parget, pastel, pellicle, pencil, pervert, pigment, pigments, playacting, polish, poor excuse, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, prime, protestation, public motive, put-off, qualification, refuge, representation, revetment, rub, scale, scour, scratchboard, screen, scum, seeming, semblance, shade, shadow, sham, shellac, shine, show, shroud, siccative, simulacrum, simulation, sketchbook, sketchpad, skin, slant, sleek, slick, slick down, slop on paint, slur over, smear, smoke screen, soft-pedal, soften, softening, spatula, speciousness, spray gun, stain, stalking-horse, stipple, strain, stratagem, stump, subterfuge, sugarcoat, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, titivate, tone, torture, trick, trick out, twist, undercoat, understate, veil, veneer, warp, wash, wax, white, whiten, whitewash, whitewashing, window dressing

• varsity, academe, academia, alma mater, cast, college, college of engineering, community college, company, complement, crew, degree-granting institution, eight, eleven, first string, first team, five, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, nine, normal, normal school, platoon, postgraduate school, reserves, rowing crew, school of communications, school of education, second string, second team, squad, string, team, third string, two-year college, university, university college

• vary, accommodate, adapt, adjust, agree to disagree, alter, alternate, ameliorate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, back and fill, be at cross-purposes, be changed, be converted into, be distinct, be distinguished, be renewed, bear off, bend, better, bottom out, branch off, break, break off, break up, camouflage, change, change the bearing, checker, chop, chop and change, chop logic, clash, clash with, collide, come about, come around, come round, conflict, conflict with, contradict, contrast with, convert, counter, curve, deform, degenerate, denature, depart, depart from, desynonymize, deteriorate, detour, deviate, deviate from, differ, difference, differentiate, digress, disaccord, disaccord with, disagree, disagree with, discord, discriminate, disequalize, disguise, disjoin, dissent, dissimilate, distinguish, disunify, dither, divagate, divaricate, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, diversify, divide, ebb and flow, equivocate, extend, fit, flop, flounder, fluctuate, go, go through phases, haul around, heel, improve, individualize, individuate, intermit, jangle, jar, jar with, jibe, jostle, lack regularity, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, meliorate, mismatch, mismate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, negate, not accord with, not square with, object, oscillate, overthrow, part, particularize, pendulate, personalize, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refashion, refine a distinction, refit, reform, relieve, remake, remodel, renew, reorganize, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring changes, ring the changes, run, seesaw, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, sheer, shift, shift the scene, shilly-shally, shuffle, shuffle the cards, specialize, split hairs, stagger, stand apart, stand over against, subvert, sway, swerve, swing, switch, tack, take a turn, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, totter, transform, trend, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, vacillate, variate, variegate, veer, warp, waver, wax and wane, wobble, work a change, worsen

• varying, assorted, at odds, at variance, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, many, mercurial, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rough, separate, separated, several, spasmodic, sporadic, unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

• vase, adobe, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, crock, crockery, enamelware, firebrick, glass, jug, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, tile, tiling, urn

• vasectomy, adenoidectomy, appendectomy, arteriectomy, castration, cholecystectomy, craniectomy, cricoidectomy, cystectomy, enterectomy, gastrectomy, hemorrhoidectomy, hysterectomy, mammectomy, mastectomy, mastoidectomy, nephrectomy, omphalectomy, oophorectomy, oophorocystectomy, orchidectomy, ovariectomy, pancreatectomy, penectomy, pericardiectomy, phrenicectomy, pneumonectomy, prostatectomy, salpingectomy, stapedectomy, tonsillectomy, ureterectomy, urethrectomy, venectomy

• vassal, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, client, concubine, creature, debt slave, dependent, feudal, feudatory, flunky, follower, galley slave, hanger-on, helot, homager, inferior, lackey, liege, liege man, liege subject, minion, myrmidon, odalisque, peon, retainer, serf, servant, servile, slave, stooge, subject, subordinate, subservient, theow, thrall, tributary, underling, understrapper, villein, yeoman

• vassalage, absolutism, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, villenage

• vast, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, ample, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, behemoth, big, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, commodious, cosmic, deep, elephantine, endless, enormous, epic, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, heroic, huge, humongous, immeasurable, immense, incalculable, indeterminate, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, jumbo, king-size, large, limitless, mammoth, massive, massy, measureless, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, never-ending, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, roomy, sizable, spacious, spreading, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, unbounded, unlimited, voluminous, weighty, whopping, wide, widespread

• vastly, abroad, almost entirely, broadly, colossally, considerably, enormously, exceedingly, extensively, extremely, far and near, far and wide, gigantically, greatly, hugely, immensely, infinitely, on all sides, on every side, prodigiously, right and left, stupendously, substantially, titanically, tremendously, very much, widely, worlds

• vastness, ampleness, amplitude, boundlessness, bulk, enormity, enormousness, expanse, formidableness, fullness, gigantism, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, hugeness, immensity, infinity, intensity, largeness, magnitude, might, mightiness, monstrosity, monstrousness, muchness, plenitude, power, prodigiousness, strength, stupendousness, tremendousness

• vat, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, glory hole, godown, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

• vaudeville, Broadway, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque, burlesque show, carnival, charade, circus, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, entertainment industry, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legit, legitimate drama, legitimate stage, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playland, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, repertory drama, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, show biz, show business, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, straight drama, strawhat, strawhat circuit, success, summer stock, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater of cruelty, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, total theater, variety, variety show, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

• vaudevillian, actor-proof, all-star, artist, artiste, ballet, balletic, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, cinematic, cinematographic, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, film, filmic, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, ham, hammy, histrionic, hoofer, impersonator, legitimate, magician, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, mountebank, movie, mummer, musician, nautch girl, operatic, overacted, overplayed, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, scenic, show girl, singer, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillist

• vault, Caelus, Fort Knox, Highland fling, air, anabasis, and jump, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archives, archway, armory, arsenal, ascend, ascension, ascent, attic, azure, bank, barrow, basement, bay, beehive tomb, bend, bend back, bin, blue sky, bob up, bonded warehouse, bone house, bookcase, booth, bounce, bound, bow, box, box grave, break water, broad jump, buck, buckjump, bunker, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bursary, buttery, caelum, camber, canopy, canopy of heaven, capriole, cargo dock, cash register, cashbox, catacomb, catacombs, cavity, ceilinged roof, cell, cellar, cellule, cenotaph, cerulean, chamber, charnel house, chest, cist, cist grave, clamber, clear, climb, climbing, closet, coffer, coin box, compartment, concameration, concha, conservatory, cope, cove, crate, crib, cromlech, crook, crypt, cupboard, cupola, curl, curve, curvet, decurve, deep six, deflect, demivolt, depository, depot, dock, dokhma, dolmen, dome, drawer, dump, elevation, embow, empyrean, enclosed space, escalade, ether, exchequer, firmament, fisc, flex, float up, fly up, flying jump, fountain, galliard, gelandesprung, geodesic dome, glory hole, godown, gold depository, grand jete, grave, gush, gyring up, handspring, heaven, heavens, high jump, hippety-hop, hold, hole, hollow, hook, hop, house of death, hump, hunch, hurdle, hutch, hyaline, igloo, increase, incurvate, incurve, inflect, jet, jete, jig, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump up, jump-hop, jump-off, keystone, last home, lavolta, leap, leap over, leap up, leapfrog, levitation, library, lift, lifts, locker, long home, long jump, loop, lop, low green tent, low house, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, manger, mastaba, mausoleum, money chest, monstrance, morris, mount, mounting, mummy chamber, narrow house, negotiate, ogive, ossuarium, ossuary, over, overjump, overleap, overskip, passage grave, penny bank, pew, piggy bank, pit, pole vault, pop up, pork barrel, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, pyramid, rack, recurve, reflect, reflex, reliquary, repertory, repository, reservoir, resting place, retroflex, rick, rise, rising, rocket, rocketing up, round, running broad jump, running high jump, safe, safe-deposit box, sag, saltation, saut de basque, sepulcher, shaft grave, shelf, shoot up, shooting up, shrine, skewback, ski jump, skip, sky, skyrocket, soar, soaring, span, spout, spring, spring up, spurt, stack, stack room, stall, starry heaven, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, stupa, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, surface, surge, surmount, swag, sweep, takeoff, taking off, tank, the blue, the blue serene, till, tomb, tope, tour jete, tower of silence, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, tumulus, turn, upclimb, upcoming, updive, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspear, upspring, upstart, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vat, vault of heaven, vault up, vaulting, voussoir, warehouse, welkin, wind, wine cellar, zooming

• vaulted, arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bowed, bowlike, concave, convex, embowed, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, oxbow

• vaulter, broad jumper, bucking bronco, buckjumper, flea, frog, gazelle, goat, grasshopper, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, jackrabbit, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, leaper, pole vaulter, salmon, stag, sunfisher, timber topper

• vaulting, aduncity, apse, aquilinity, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, arching, archway, arcuation, aspiring, bouncing, bounding, camber, capering, ceilinged roof, circularity, concameration, concavity, concha, convexity, convolution, cove, crookedness, cupola, curvation, curvature, curving, curvity, decurvation, decurvature, dome, emulous, enthusiastic, excurvation, excurvature, geodesic dome, hookedness, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, igloo, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, jumping, keystone, leaping, ogive, pole vaulting, prancing, recurvation, recurvature, recurvity, rondure, rotundity, saltation, sinuosity, sinuousness, skewback, skipping, span, springing, steeplechase, the hurdles, timber topping, tortuosity, tortuousness, vault, voussoir

• vaunt, advertise, air, blazon, blazon forth, blow, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, brandish, bravado, bravura, brilliancy, cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, dangle, daring, dash, demonstrate, demonstration, display, dramatics, draw the longbow, eclat, emblazon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, false front, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, histrionics, hold up, jactation, jactitation, manifest, manifestation, mouth, pageant, pageantry, parade, prate, puff, put forth, put forward, rodomontade, sham, show, show off, showing-off, side, speak for Buncombe, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, staginess, swagger, theatrics, trumpet, trumpet forth, vanity, vapor, vauntery, vaunting, wave

• Vayu, Agni, Asvins, Avalokita, Bhairava, Bhairavi, Brahma, Chandi, Daksha, Devaki, Devi, Dharma, Dharti Mai, Durga, Dyaus, Ganapati, Ganesa, Ganesha, Garuda, Hanuman, Himavat, Indra, Kali, Kama, Kamsa, Karttikeya, Lakshmi, Parjanya, Parvati, Pushan, Rahu, Rhibhus, Rudra, Sarasvati, Savitar, Shiva, Sita, Soma, Surya, Uma, Ushas, Vaja, Varuna, Varuni, Vishnu, Yama, Zephyr, Zephyrus

• VD, French disease, Spanish pox, acquired syphilis, balanitis gangrenosa, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, dose, dose of clap, fifth venereal disease, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, hard chancre, latent syphilis, locomotor ataxia, morbus Gallicus, paralytic dementia, paresis, pox, pudendal ulcer, simple chancre, social disease, soft chancre, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, venereal disease

• vector, aerial infection, air line, airborne infection, axis, azimuth, beeline, biological vector, carrier, chord, communicability, compass bearing, compass direction, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, course, cryptogenic infection, diagonal, diameter, direct infection, direct line, directrix, droplet infection, dust infection, edge, epidemiology, great-circle course, hand infection, heading, indirect infection, infection, infectiousness, lee side, magnetic bearing, mechanical vector, normal, perpendicular, phytogenic infection, primary infection, pyogenic infection, radius, radius vector, relative bearing, right line, secant, secondary infection, segment, shortcut, side, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, subclinical infection, tack, taint, tangent, transversal, true bearing, vehicle, virus, waterborne infection, weather side, zoogenic infection

• veer, L, aberrancy, aberration, about ship, alter, ameliorate, angle, angle off, apex, avert, back and fill, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bent, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bottom out, box off, branch, branch off, branching off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change, change course, change the bearing, change the heading, checker, chevron, chop, chop and change, circuitousness, coin, come about, come around, come round, corner, crank, crook, crotchet, curve, declination, deflect, deflection, degenerate, depart from, departure, deteriorate, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digress, digression, discursion, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversify, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, double a point, draw aside, drift, drifting, ease off, edge, edge off, elbow, ell, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fetch about, flop, fly off, fork, furcate, furcation, gee, glance, glance off, go about, go crabwise, go off, go sideways, gybe, hairpin, haul around, haw, head off, heave round, heel, hook, improve, indirection, inflection, jib, jibe, jibe all standing, knee, lateral, lateralize, lurch, make leeway, make way for, meliorate, miss stays, mitigate, modulate, move aside, mutate, nook, oblique, obliquity, pererration, pivot, pivot about, ply, point, put about, put back, quoin, rambling, revive, round, round a point, sheer, sheer off, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sideslip, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, skew, skid, slant, slew, slue, spin, steer clear of, step aside, straying, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swing, swing round, swing the stern, swinging, switch, swivel, tack, take a turn, throw about, trend, turn, turn about, turn around, turn aside, turn away, turn back, turn into, turn round, turn tail, turn the corner, turning, twist, undergo a change, variation, vary, veer around, veer off, vertex, wandering, warp, wear, wear ship, wheel, wheel about, whirl, wind, worsen, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag

• veering, aberrant, aberrative, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, circuitous, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, indirect, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, labyrinthine, lurching, mazy, meandering, nonuniform, out-of-the-way, patchy, planetary, rambling, rough, roving, scrappy, serpentine, shifting, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, uncertain, undirected, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, vagrant, variable, wandering, wavering, winding, wobbling, wobbly, zigzag

• vegetable kingdom, animal kingdom, botany, chain of being, class structure, domain, establishment, flora, flowerage, greenery, greens, herbage, hierarchy, kingdom, mineral kingdom, natural hierarchy, pecking order, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, power structure, pyramid, realm, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, verdure

• vegetable oil, Macassar oil, absinthe, animal oil, avocado oil, bay oil, beechnut oil, camphor, candlenut oil, carapa oil, castor oil, cedarwood oil, cerate, clove oil, cocoa butter, copaiba, copra oil, corn oil, croton oil, drying oil, edible oil, essential oil, ester, eucalyptus oil, fat, fatty oil, fixed oil, flaxseed oil, grease, gum spirit, hempseed oil, hydrogenated fat, kekuna oil, laurel butter, lemon oil, linseed oil, lipid, mineral oil, nut oil, oil, oil of almonds, oleoresin, oleum, olive oil, palm oil, palm-kernel oil, peanut oil, perilla oil, pine oil, pine tar, pine-tar oil, polyunsaturated fat, poppyseed oil, rape oil, ricinus oil, rosin grease, rosin oil, sebum, sesame oil, soybean oil, spikenard, tallow, turpentine, unsaturated fat, volatile oil, wood oil

• vegetable, Boston lettuce, Chinese cabbage, French bean, Irish potato, Kraut, Swiss chard, amphibian, angiosperm, annual, apathetic, aquatic plant, asparagus, aubergine, bean, bean sprout, beans, beet, beet greens, beetroot, bell pepper, benumbed, biennial, blase, bored, botanic, broccoli, bulbous, butter bean, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, celery cabbage, celery root, celtuce, cereal, chard, chick-pea, chicory, collards, contemplative, corn, cosmopolite, cress, cucumber, cutting, dead, debilitated, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, do-nothing, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, eggplant, enervated, ephemeral, evergreen, exanimate, exotic, farinaceous, flowering plant, fruitlike, fruity, fungus, gametophyte, garlic, green bean, green onion, green pea, green pepper, greens, gumbo, gymnosperm, heavy, hebetudinous, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, hominy, horseradish, hydrophyte, idle, immobile, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded, kale, kidney beans, kohlrabi, lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, leaden, leek, legumes, leguminose, leguminous, lentil, lethargic, lettuce, lifeless, listless, love apple, lumpish, mad apple, maize, meditative, monocot, monocotyl, moribund, motionless, mushroom, navy bean, neuter, neutral, numb, onion, oyster plant, paralytic, paralyzed, parsley, parsnip, passive, pea, pepper, perennial, phlegmatic, pieplant, pimento, pinto bean, plant, plantlike, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pooped, popcorn, potato, potherbs, procrastinating, produce, pumpkin, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, radicated, radiciform, radicular, radish, red cabbage, red pepper, rhizoid, rhubarb, rootlike, sated, scallion, seed plant, seedling, shallot, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, sorrel, soy, soya, spermatophyte, spinach, sporophyte, spud, squash, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, stultified, succory, sugar beet, supine, swede, sweet potato, taro, tater, thallophyte, tomato, torpid, triennial, truffle, tuberous, turnip, vascular plant, vegetables, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, wan, water chestnut, weary, weed, weedy, white potato, world-weary, yam

• vegetarian, Apostolic, Apostolici, Brillat-Savarin, Encratic, Encratite, Lenten, Lucullus, Pythagorean, Pythagorist, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, banian, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, botanic, bulbous, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivore, carnivorous, celibate, cereal, chaste, commensal, connoisseur of food, consumer, continent, dietetic, diner, diner-out, dining, eater, eater-out, eating, epicure, farinaceous, feeder, feeding, flesh-eater, flesh-eating, fruitarian, fruitlike, fruity, gastronome, gastronomic, glutton, gluttonous, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, grain-eating, graminivore, graminivorous, granivore, granivorous, grass-eating, gymnosophist, herbaceous, herbal, herbivore, herbivorous, herbose, herbous, herby, high liver, hungry mouth, hydropot, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, leguminose, leguminous, luncher, man-eater, man-eating, meat-eater, meat-eating, mensal, mouth, nephalist, nephalistic, nourishing, nutritious, omnivore, omnivorous, omophagist, omophagous, on the wagon, pantophagist, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophage, phytophagous, picnicker, plant-eater, plant-eating, plantlike, postprandial, prandial, predacean, predacious, preprandial, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, sexually abstinent, sworn off, teetotal, teetotaler, teetotalist, trencherman, tuberous, vegetable, vegetable-eating, vegetal, vegetational, vegetative, water-drinker, weedy

• vegetarianism, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, acid-ash diet, allergy diet, appetite, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, bland diet, calorie chart, calorie counter, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, celibacy, chastity, chewing, consumption, continence, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment, diabetic diet, diet, diet book, dietary, dietetics, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, eschewal, fast, feasting, feeding, fish day, fruitarianism, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, gymnosophy, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, high-protein diet, high-vitamin diet, hunger, ingestion, licking, low-carbohydrate diet, low-salt diet, macrobiotic diet, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nephalism, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pap, pasture, pasturing, pecking, plain living, refraining, refrainment, regalement, regime, regimen, relishing, rumination, salt-free diet, savoring, sexual abstinence, simple diet, soft diet, spare diet, spoon victuals, tasting, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, ulcer diet, vitamin-deficiency diet, wolfing

• vegetate, be a sideliner, be still, blossom, brew, bud, burgeon, burst forth, coast, delay, develop, do nothing, drift, flourish, fust, gather, gemmate, germinate, grow, grow rank, grow up, hang fire, hibernate, hypertrophy, idle, increase, just be, languish, leaf, leaf out, leave, lie dormant, luxuriate, mature, merely exist, mushroom, not budge, not stir, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, pass the time, procreate, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, reproduce, rest, riot, root, shoot, shoot up, sit back, sit it out, sleep, slumber, smolder, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stagnate, strike root, take root, thrive, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, wait and see, watch and wait, wax

• vegetation, a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, botany, budding, burgeoning, catalepsy, catatonia, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, development, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, entropy, excrescence, flora, flowerage, gemmation, germination, greenery, greens, growth, herbage, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, just being, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, latency, lotus-eating, luxuriation, maturation, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, outgrowth, overgrowth, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, policy, procrastination, procreation, pullulation, quiescence, quietism, reproduction, sloth, sprouting, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, torpor, upgrowth, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation spirit, verdure, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

• vehemence, Alecto, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, abandon, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, amperage, animality, application, ardency, ardor, armipotence, assiduity, assiduousness, astringency, atrocity, authority, barbarity, beef, bite, bitterness, black power, bloodlust, brutality, brute force, burning rage, causticity, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, commitment, committedness, compulsion, concentration, dedication, destructiveness, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, diligence, dint, drive, duress, earnestness, ecstasy, edge, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energeticalness, energy, enthusiasm, excitement, extremity, faith, faithfulness, ferociousness, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fierceness, fieriness, fire, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, furious rage, furiousness, furor, fury, glow, grip, gusto, harshness, heart, heartiness, heat, heatedness, impassionedness, impetuosity, inclemency, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, influence, inhumanity, intensity, intentness, keenness, laboriousness, liveliness, loyalty, main force, main strength, malignity, mana, mercilessness, might, might and main, mightiness, mindlessness, mordacity, mordancy, moxie, murderousness, muscle power, passion, passionateness, pitilessness, pizzazz, poignancy, point, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, rage, relentlessness, relish, resolution, rigor, roughness, savagery, savor, sedulity, sedulousness, seriousness, severity, sharpness, sincerity, sinew, soul, spirit, steam, sting, strength, strenuousness, stridency, stringency, strong arm, superiority, superpower, tartness, tearing passion, teeth, terrorism, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, tirelessness, towering rage, trenchancy, ungentleness, unsparingness, validity, vandalism, venom, verve, viciousness, vigor, vim, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, warmth, warmth of feeling, wattage, weight, zeal, zealousness

• vehement, abandoned, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afire, ardent, assiduous, astringent, biting, bitter, burning, caustic, committed, concentrated, cutting, dedicated, delirious, desperate, devoted, devout, diligent, double-edged, drastic, earnest, edged, emphatic, energetic, enthusiastic, escharotic, excessive, exciting, exorbitant, exquisite, extravagant, extreme, faithful, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forceful, frantic, furious, glowing, great, hard, hardworking, harsh, hearty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hotheaded, immoderate, impassioned, impetuous, in earnest, incisive, indefatigable, industrious, intemperate, intense, intent, intent on, keen, laborious, lively, loyal, mordacious, mordant, never idle, on fire, outrageous, passionate, penetrating, perfervid, piercing, poignant, potent, powerful, pronounced, provoking, rabid, red-hot, relentless, resolute, rigorous, rough, scathing, sedulous, serious, severe, sharp, simmering, sincere, sleepless, spirited, splitting, stabbing, stimulating, stinging, stirring, stormy, strenuous, strident, stringent, tart, tempestuous, terrible, tireless, trenchant, unconscionable, unflagging, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unwearied, urgent, venomous, vicious, violent, virulent, vitriolic, volcanic, warm, white-hot, wild, zealous

• vehicle, Charlie McCarthy, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, agency, agent, ancilla, antimasque, appliance, audience success, backing, ballet, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, carrier, cartridge, channel, charade, chromogen, cliff hanger, closet drama, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color film, color filter, color gelatin, color negative film, colorant, coloring, comedy drama, conduit, contrivance, conveyance, creature, critical success, daytime serial, dead-color, device, dialogue, distemper, documentary drama, dope, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, drier, dry plate, dummy, duodrama, duologue, dupe, dye, dyestuff, emulsion, epic theater, experimental theater, exterior paint, extravaganza, failure, film, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, flop, frame, gasser, giveaway, go-between, ground, handmaid, handmaiden, happening, hit, hit show, implement, improvisational drama, instrument, instrumentality, interagent, interior paint, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, legitimate drama, lever, masque, mean, means, mechanism, mediator, medium, melodrama, microfilm, midwife, minion, ministry, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monochromatic film, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, motion-picture film, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, negative, opaque color, opera, organ, orthochromatic film, pack, pageant, paint, panchromatic film, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, pawn, photographic paper, piece, pigment, plate, play, playlet, plaything, prime coat, primer, priming, printing paper, problem play, psychodrama, puppet, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, roll, sensational play, serial, servant, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, slave, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, spectacle, stage play, stage show, stain, stooge, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, tempera, theater of cruelty, thinner, tinction, tincture, tool, total theater, toy, transparent color, transport, transportation, tripack, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, wash, wash coat, word-of-mouth success, work

• veil, alibi, apology, apply to, awning, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, beach umbrella, becloud, befog, blackout, blanket, blind, block, bosom, camouflage, canopy, censorship, classify, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, color, coloring, conceal, cope, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, device, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from, drape, drapery, draw the curtains, eclipse, enclose, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, excuse, facade, false front, feint, file and forget, film, front, gloss, gloss over, guise, handle, hanging, hide, hold out on, hood, housing, hush-up, in petto, invest, iron curtain, ironbound security, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under cover, keep under wraps, lame excuse, lay on, lay over, light shield, locus standi, make no sign, mantilla, mantle, mask, muffle, never let on, not give away, not tell, oath of secrecy, obduce, obfuscate, obscure, occult, official secrecy, ostensible motive, overlay, overshadow, overspread, pall, parasol, play dumb, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put on, put-off, refuge, repression, screen, scum, seal of secrecy, secrete, security, semblance, shade, shader, shadow, sham, shelter, shield, show, shroud, shutter, slur over, smoke screen, smothering, spread over, stalking-horse, stifling, stratagem, subterfuge, sunblind, sunshade, superimpose, superpose, suppression, trick, umbrella, varnish, veil of secrecy, veiler, veiling, vestment, whitewash, withhold, wrap, wraps, yashmak

• veiled, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, armored, between the lines, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, cased, ceiled, chance, chancy, chaotic, cloaked, clouded, coated, concealed, confused, coped, covered, covert, cowled, cryptic, curtained, delitescent, disguised, disordered, dormant, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, filmed, floored, foggy, fuzzy, general, hazy, hibernating, hidden, hit-or-miss, hooded, housed, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, latent, lax, loose, loricate, loricated, lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mystic, nonspecific, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, orderless, packaged, paved, possible, potential, random, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secret, shaded, shadowed forth, shadowy, shady, shapeless, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, sleeping, stochastic, sub rosa, submerged, subtle, swathed, sweeping, tented, unclear, undefined, under cover, under the surface, underlying, undestined, undetermined, unmanifested, unplain, unrevealed, unspecified, vague, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped

• vein, affectation, aorta, arteriole, artery, attitude, band, bar, bed, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blood vessel, blotch, body-build, bonanza, brand, capillary, carotid, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, check, checker, chimney, chute, command of language, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, cornucopia, country rock, course, crasis, cue, dapple, deposit, dharma, diathesis, dike, disposition, dot, ethos, exaggeration, expression of ideas, fashion, feeling, feeling for words, fettle, fiber, flake, fleck, font, form of speech, fount, fountain, frame, frame of mind, freckle, gangue, genius, gold mine, grace of expression, grain, grandiloquence, gruel, habit, harlequin, heart, hint, hue, humor, humors, ilk, inflation, iris, jugular vein, kind, lath, line, literary style, lode, lodestuff, maculate, makeup, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, marble, marbleize, matrix, mere shadow, mind, mine, mineral deposit, mode, mode of expression, mold, mood, morale, motley, mottle, nature, note, ore bed, paper, pattern, pay dirt, peculiarity, pepper, personal style, physique, polychrome, polychromize, portal vein, property, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, quality, quarry, rail, rainbow, rake, resource, rhetoric, seam, sense of language, shade, shadow, shaving, shoot, skeleton, slat, slip, somatotype, sort, soup, source, source of supply, spangle, speck, speckle, spirit, spirits, splinter, splotch, spot, spring, sprinkle, stamp, staple, state of mind, stigmatize, stipple, stock, strain, stratum, streak, stria, striate, striation, stripe, stud, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, suchness, suggestion, suspicion, system, tattoo, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tessellate, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, thread, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, trace, trick, type, variegate, veinlet, vena cava, venation, venule, wafer, way, well, wellspring

• veld, agricultural region, alkali flat, alluvial plain, arable land, basin, black belt, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, citrus belt, coastal plain, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, delta, desert, down, downs, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, fruit belt, grass, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing, grazing region, haugh, haughland, heath, highlands, lande, lea, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, meadows and pastures, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, moors, open country, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, range, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, steppes, swale, table, tableland, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, tree veld, tundra, upland, uplands, vega, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

• velocity, activity, actuation, alacrity, amble, bat, briskness, celerity, dispatch, drag, droop, dynamics, expedition, fleetness, flounce, gait, gallop, going, haste, headway, hitch, hobble, hurry, impetus, jog, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, limp, lock step, lurch, miles per hour, mince, mincing steps, mobilization, momentum, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, pace, paddle, piaffer, prance, quickness, rack, rapidity, restlessness, roll, running, saunter, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, slink, slither, slouch, slowness, speed, stagger, stalk, step, stir, stirring, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, swagger, swiftness, swing, toddle, totter, tread, trot, unrest, waddle, walk

• velvet, Easy Street, affluence, alabaster, bed of roses, billiard table, blubber, bowling alley, bowling green, breeze, butter, cinch, clay, clover, comfort, contentment, cushion, daintiness, delicacy, dough, down, downiness, ease, easy circumstances, easy target, easy thing, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, felicity, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, flat, fleece, fleshpots, floss, flue, fluff, fluffiness, foam, fuzz, fuzziness, glass, gossameriness, gracious life, gracious living, happiness, ice, ivory, kapok, lap of luxury, level, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, mahogany, marble, peach fuzz, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pillow, plane, plush, prosperity, prosperousness, pubescence, pudding, puff, pushover, putty, refinement, rubber, satin, satininess, security, setup, silk, silkiness, sinecure, sitting duck, slide, smooth, smoothness, snap, softness, solid comfort, success, swansdown, tennis court, the affluent life, the good life, thistledown, thriving condition, upward mobility, velvetiness, wax, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, wool, zephyr

• velvety, attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, cottony, dainty, delicate, downy, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, flossy, fluffy, furbished, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gossamer, gossamery, hirsute, lacquered, nappy, peachy, pinnate, plush, plushy, polished, pubescent, refined, rubbed, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, soft as silk, thin-spun, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, wiredrawn

• venal, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, approachable, avaricious, avid, bent, bottomless, bribable, bribeable, buyable, corrupt, corruptible, coveting, covetous, crooked, devouring, dishonorable, esurient, fixable, flagitious, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hack, hireling, hoggish, ignoble, infamous, iniquitous, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, nefarious, omnivorous, on the pad, on the take, overgreedy, paid, piggish, purchasable, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unethical, unprincipled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unscrupulous, unslakeable, unslaked, vicious, voracious

• vendetta, acrimony, altercation, animosity, animus, argument, avengement, bad blood, bicker, bitter feeling, bitterness, blood feud, brawl, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, feud, fight, fliting, fracas, fuss, getting even, hard feelings, hatred, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, imbroglio, logomachy, open quarrel, polemic, quarrel, rancor, reprisal, retaliation, revanche, revanchism, revenge, rhubarb, rivalry, row, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, soreness, sourness, spat, squabble, strife, sweet revenge, tiff, tussle, vengeance, venom, virulence, vitriol, words, wrangle

• vending, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, direct-mail selling, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, huckstering, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market research, marketing, marketing research, merchandising, peddling, promotion, retailing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell, wholesaling

• vendor, arab, automat, cadger, chapman, cheap-jack, cheap-john, cheapjack, coin machine, coin-operated machine, colporteur, coster, costermonger, duffer, hawker, higgler, huckster, peddler, roadman, sidewalk salesman, slot machine, vending machine

• veneer, appearance, aspect, board, brick, clapboard, coat, coating, collop, cover, covering, cursoriness, cut, deal, disguise, disk, enamel, epidermis, extenuate, exteriority, facade, face, facing, false front, feuille, film, finish, flap, foil, fold, front, fur, glass, glaze, gloss, gloss over, guise, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, leaf, mask, membrane, mere scratch, no depth, no water, outward show, paint, pane, panel, paper, patina, peel, pellicle, pinprick, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, rasher, revet, revetment, rind, safety glass, scale, scratch, scum, shake, shallowness, sheathe, sheet, shingle, shoaliness, show, skin, slab, slat, slate, slice, slightness, stone, sugarcoat, superficiality, superficies, surface, table, tablet, thatch, tile, triviality, varnish, wafer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, weatherboard, white, whiten, whitewash, window dressing

• venerable, acknowledged, admirable, admitted, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antique, aristocratic, august, auld, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, conventional, courtly, creditable, customary, dateless, dignified, divine, dreadful, elderly, established, esteemed, estimable, fixed, folk, grand, grave, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grown old, hallowed, handed down, heavenly, held in esteem, heroic, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, hoar, hoary, holy, honorable, honored, immemorial, imposing, impressive, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, inveterate, inviolable, inviolate, kingly, legendary, long-established, long-standing, lordly, magisterial, majestic, meritorious, mythological, noble, numinous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-time, olden, oral, patriarchal, prescriptive, prestigious, princely, queenly, received, recognized, regal, religious, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverenced, reverend, reverential, rooted, royal, sacred, sacrosanct, sedate, senectuous, sober, solemn, spiritual, stately, statuesque, time-honored, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, unwritten, venerated, well-thought-of, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, worshipful, worthy, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

• venerate, accord respect to, admire, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, defer to, deify, do homage to, do service, entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, favor, hallow, hero-worship, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, idolize, look up to, pay homage to, prize, regard, respect, revere, reverence, think highly of, think much of, think well of, value, worship

• veneration, admiration, adoration, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, awe, breathless adoration, churchgoing, co-worship, conformity, consideration, courtesy, cult, cultism, cultus, deference, deification, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, dulia, dutifulness, duty, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, faith, faithfulness, favor, great respect, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, hyperdulia, idolatry, idolization, latria, love of God, observance, pietism, piety, piousness, prestige, prostration, regard, religion, religionism, religiousness, respect, reverence, reverential regard, theism, transcendent wonder, worship, worshipfulness, worshiping

• venerative, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying, devoted, devotional, devout, dutiful, faithful, hero-worshiping, idolatrous, idolizing, imploring, in awe, in the dust, on bended knee, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, religious, reverent, reverential, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, theistic, venerational, worshipful, worshiping

• venereal disease, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, French disease, German measles, Haverhill fever, Spanish pox, VD, acquired syphilis, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, balanitis gangrenosa, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, chicken pox, cholera, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dose, dose of clap, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, fifth venereal disease, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, general paresis, glandular fever, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, grippe, hansenosis, hard chancre, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, latent syphilis, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, locomotor ataxia, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, morbus Gallicus, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paralytic dementia, paratyphoid fever, paresis, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pox, psittacosis, pudendal ulcer, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, simple chancre, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, social disease, soft chancre, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tropical bubo, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

• venereal, amorous, aphrodisiac, aphroditous, arousing, carnal, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticizing, erotogenic, fleshly, gamic, genital, heterosexual, libidinal, nuptial, oversexed, potent, procreative, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, social, stimulating, straight, syphilitic, undersexed, voluptuous

• venery, act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, ass, balling, beasts of venery, big game, carnal knowledge, chase, chevy, chivy, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, coursing, cynegetics, debauchery, debauchment, diddling, dissipation, dissoluteness, falconry, fastness, fornication, fox hunting, gallantry, game, gunning, hawking, hunt, hunting, intercourse, intimacy, kill, libertinage, libertinism, license, licentiousness, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, prey, procreation, profligacy, quarry, rakishness, relations, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, shikar, shooting, sleeping with, sperm, sport, sporting, stalking, still hunt, the hunted, unbridledness, victim, wenching, whoring, wildness

• vengeance, avengement, avenging, blood feud, counterblow, energetically, enthusiastically, ferociously, feud, fiercely, forcefully, furiously, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, return, revanche, revanchism, revenge, revengefulness, sweet revenge, vehemently, vendetta, vengefulness, violently, wholeheartedly, wildly, with a vengeance

• venial, admissible, allowable, condonable, defensible, dispensable, excusable, exemptible, expiable, forgivable, harmless, inoffensive, insignificant, justifiable, legitimate, minor, pardonable, petty, reasonable, remissible, tolerable, tolerated, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unobjectionable, vindicable, warrantable

• venire, blue-ribbon jury, certiorari, citation, country, garnishment, grand jury, habeas corpus, hung jury, impanelment, inquest, jury, jury list, jury of inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel, jury selection, monition, panel, petit jury, police jury, sessions, special jury, subpoena, summons, trial jury, venire de novo, venire facias, writ of summons

• venison, aspic, barbecue, boiled meat, bouilli, civet, flesh, forcemeat, game, hachis, hash, jerky, joint, jugged hare, meat, menue viande, mince, pemmican, pot roast, roast, sausage meat, scrapple, viande

• venom, abomination, acaricide, acrimony, acuteness, animality, animosity, animus, antagonism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, atrocity, bad, bad blood, bane, barbarity, befoulment, bitter feeling, bitterness, blight, bloodlust, brutality, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, communicability, contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, crying evil, damage, deadliness, defilement, defoliant, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, detriment, disinfectant, eradicant, evil, extremity, ferociousness, feud, fierceness, force, fumigant, fungicide, furiousness, gall, germicide, grievance, hard feelings, harm, harshness, hate, hatred, havoc, herbicide, hostility, hurt, ill, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency, infection, infectiousness, infectivity, inhumanity, injury, insect powder, insecticide, intensity, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mercilessness, microbicide, mindlessness, mischief, miticide, murderousness, noxiousness, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage, pesticide, pitilessness, poison, poisonousness, pollution, rancor, rat poison, rigor, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, soreness, sourness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, stomach poison, systemic, systemic insecticide, terrorism, the worst, toxic, toxicant, toxicity, toxin, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, vendetta, venin, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, viciousness, violence, virulence, virulency, virus, vitriol, weed killer, woe, wrong

• venomous, acerbic, acrid, acute, antagonistic, antipathetic, baleful, baneful, belligerent, bitter, catching, caustic, clashing, colliding, communicable, conflicting, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, drastic, embittered, envenomed, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fierce, full of hate, furious, great, harmful, hateful, hostile, hurtful, immoderate, infectious, infective, injurious, intemperate, intense, keen, lethal, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, outrageous, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, piercing, poison, poisonous, prejudicial, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, rigorous, rough, savage, scatheful, set against, severe, sharp, sore, spiteful, splenetic, splitting, tough, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, unconscionable, vehement, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, vicious, violent, viperish, viperlike, viperous, virulent, vitriolic

• vent, air, air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, announce, aperture, armhole, articulate, articulation, assert, avenue, blow, blow out, blowhole, blurt out, break, break it to, break the news, breakout, breathe, breathing hole, broadcast, brolly, bullet-hole, bunghole, cast out, channel, chute, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, come out with, communicate, confide, confide to, cringle, deadeye, debouch, declare, defecate, deliverance, delivery, deplete, discharge, divulgate, divulge, door, drain, drogue chute, duct, dump, egress, eject, eliminate, emanation, emergence, emersion, emission, emit, empty, empty out, emunctory, enunciate, escape, escapism, estuary, evacuate, evasion, evulgate, exhaust, exit, expel, express, extrication, extrusion, eye, eyelet, fissure, flight, floodgate, flue, flume, freeing, fumarole, funnel, gasket, getaway, give, give off, give out, give vent to, grommet, guide, harness, hole, inlet, issuance, issue, jailbreak, keyhole, knothole, leak, leakage, let get around, let go, let in on, let loose, let out, liberation, loop, loophole, loose, louver, louverwork, make known, make public, manhole, mousehole, naris, nostril, opening, orifice, out, out with, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pack, parachute, parachute jump, passage, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, pipe, placket, placket hole, pore, port, porthole, prisonbreak, proclaim, pronounce, publish, punch-hole, purge, put, release, remove, rescue, reveal, riddance, sally port, scour out, setting-free, shaft, shroud lines, sky dive, slit, slot, sluice, spilehole, spiracle, spout, state, statement, surfacing, sweep out, tap, tell, throw off, throw out, touchhole, transom, umbrella, unclog, unfoul, unleash, utter, utterance, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilate, ventilating shaft, ventilator, verbalization, verbalize, vocalization, voice, void, vomitory, way out, weir, wind tunnel

• ventilate, aerate, air, air out, air-condition, air-cool, airify, analyze, break it to, break the news, breathe, bring up, broach, canvass, chew the fat, chill, come out with, comment upon, confide, confide to, consider, controvert, cool, cross-ventilate, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate upon, discourse, discourse about, discuss, display, divulgate, divulge, evulgate, examine, exchange views, fan, freshen, freshen the air, fumigate, give, give out, give vent to, go into, handle, ice, ice-cool, infrigidate, introduce, investigate, knock around, let get around, let in on, let out, make known, make public, moot, open up, out with, oxygenate, oxygenize, pass under review, publish, put, put out, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, refresh, refrigerate, reveal, review, sift, state, study, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tell, thresh out, treat, utter, vent, wind, winnow

• ventilation, aerage, aeration, air conditioning, air cooling, airing, analysis, bandying, book, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, buzz session, canvassing, circulation, colloquium, confabulation, conference, consideration, cross-ventilation, debate, debating, deliberation, deodorization, deodorizing, dialectic, dialogue, diffusion, discussion, display, dissemination, evulgation, examination, exchange of views, forum, fumigation, investigation, issuance, issue, joint discussion, logical analysis, logical discussion, open discussion, open forum, oxygenation, oxygenization, panel discussion, perflation, periodical, printing, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, rap, rap session, refreshment, review, seminar, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, study, symposium, telecasting, town meeting, treatment

• ventilator, aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air duct, air filter, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, blower, blowhole, breathing hole, chiller, cold pack, cooler, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, flabellum, ice bag, ice bucket, ice cube, ice pack, ice pail, louver, louverwork, naris, nostril, punkah, shaft, spilehole, spiracle, surface cooler, thermantidote, touchhole, transom, vent, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilating shaft, water cooler, wind tunnel, windcatcher, windsail, windscoop, wine cooler

• venture, accept, advance, adventure, affair, agiotage, approach, arbitrage, assay, assume, attack, attempt, banter, be a man, be caught short, be short, beard, belong, bet, brave, broach, bucket, bucketshop, buckle to, business, buy in, buy into, buying in, calculated risk, challenge, chance, chance it, commitment, contract, crack, dare, daresay, deal, defy, deposit margin, effort, embark in, embark upon, emprise, endanger, endeavor, engage, engage in, engagement, enter on, enter upon, enterprise, equity capital, essay, experiment, exploit, expose, face, fall into, fall to, feat, financier, flier, fling, flutter, fortune, front, gamble, gamble on, gest, get under way, go about, go at, go in for, go into, go long, go upon, have at, have the guts, have the nerve, hazard, hold on, imperil, invest, invest in, investment, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, launch forth, launch into, lay about, lay open, lay out money, lift a finger, liquidation, luck, make a killing, make a scoop, make an attempt, make an effort, make an investment, make bold, make bold to, make free, margin up, miss the market, move into, obligation, offer, operate, operation, outdare, outface, overstay the market, peril, pitch into, place, plan, play, play the market, plow back into, plunge, plunge into, presume, pretend, prime investment, proceed to, proffer, profit taking, program, project, proposition, put, put down, put forward, pyramid, reinvest, rely on fortune, risk, round trade, run a chance, run the risk, scalp, scalping, scoop the market, set about, set at, set at hazard, set forward, set going, set to, sink, sink money in, speculate, speculation, spot sale, stag, stag the market, stake, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, tackle, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, take on, take the liberty, take up, task, tempt fortune, tender, trade on margin, trust to chance, try, try the chance, turn, turn to, uncertainty, undertake, undertaking, venture capital, venture on, venture upon, volunteer, wager, work

• venturesome, adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, aleatory, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, chancy, courageous, daredevil, daring, determined, dicey, doughty, driving, dynamic, enterprising, experimental, fearless, foolhardy, forceful, full of risk, game, go-ahead, hazardous, hustling, intrepid, overbold, plucky, pushful, pushing, pushy, rash, reckless, resolute, riskful, risky, speculative, spirited, sporting, stalwart, stout, sturdy, temerarious, tentative, trial, up-and-coming, venturous, wildcat, willing

• Venus, Adonis, Agdistis, Aldebaran, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Balder, Canicula, Ceres, Cleopatra, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dog Star, Earth, Eros, Freya, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hebe, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hesper, Hesperus, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kama, Kore, Kronos, Love, Lucifer, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Narcissus, Neptune, Nike, North Star, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Pluto, Polaris, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Sirius, Tellus, Uranus, Venus de Milo, Vesper, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid, celestial body, comet, daystar, evening star, fixed stars, heavenly body, houri, inferior planet, living sapphires, lodestar, major planet, minor planet, morning star, orb, peri, planet, planetoid, polar star, polestar, secondary planet, solar system, sphere, starry host, stars, superior planet, terrestrial planet, the Graces, wanderer

• veracious, actual, ascertained, attested, authenticated, categorically true, certain, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, direct, documentary, effectual, established, factual, historical, not in error, objectively true, proved, real, substantiated, sure-enough, true, true as gospel, true-meaning, true-speaking, true-tongued, truth-bearing, truth-declaring, truth-desiring, truth-filled, truth-guarding, truth-loving, truth-passing, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthful, unconfuted, undeceitful, undeceptive, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, valid, validated, veridical, verified, veritable

• veracity, absolute credibility, accuracy, actuality, correctness, credibility, eternal verities, exactness, fact, factualness, frankness, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, honesty, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth, truth-loving, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veraciousness, veridicality, verisimilitude, verity, very truth

• verbal, adjectival, adverbial, answering, articulated, attributive, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, colloquial, communicating, communicational, communional, conjunctive, conversational, copulative, correct, dinkum, enunciated, expressed, following the letter, formal, functional, genuine, glossematic, good, grammatic, honest, honest-to-God, iconic, inartificial, interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive, interrogative, interrogatory, intransitive, lawful, legitimate, lexemic, lexical, lifelike, lingual, linguistic, linking, literal, morphemic, natural, naturalistic, nominal, nuncupative, oral, original, parol, participial, phrasal, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, pronounced, pure, questioning, real, realistic, responsive, rightful, said, semantic, semantological, semasiological, sememic, semiotic, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sounded, speech, spoken, sterling, structural, substantive, sure-enough, symbolic, syntactic, tagmemic, telepathic, traditional, transitive, transmissional, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, unwritten, uttered, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, viva voce, vocabular, vocabulary, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word, word-for-word, word-of-mouth

• verbalize, air, articulate, breathe, chime, chorus, come out with, communicate, convey, couch in terms, deliver, disclose, emit, enunciate, express, fling off, formulate, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, impart, let out, lip, out with, phonate, phrase, pour forth, present, pronounce, put forth, put in words, raise, say, set forth, sound, state, talk, tell, throw off, utter, vent, ventilate, vocalize, voice, whisper, word

• verbatim, absolutely, accurate, accurately, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, close, dead, definitely, dinkum, direct, directly, even, exact, exactly, expressly, faithful, faithfully, following the letter, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, in all respects, in every respect, inartificial, ipsissimis verbis, just, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, literally, literatim, natural, naturalistic, original, plumb, point-blank, positively, precise, precisely, pure, real, realistic, right, rightful, rigidly, rigorously, simon-pure, simple, sincere, square, squarely, sterling, straight, strict, strictly, sure-enough, to the letter, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeviatingly, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unerringly, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbally, verbatim et litteratim, veridical, verisimilar, word by word, word for word, word-for-word

• verbiage, choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance, periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech, stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity, vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words

• verbose, all jaw, candid, chatty, circumlocutory, communicative, conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable, effusive, endless, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive, extended, filled out, flip, flowery, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, grandiloquent, gratuitous, gregarious, gushy, in excess, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, magniloquent, multiloquent, multiloquious, needless, newsy, nonessential, overtalkative, padded, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, protracted, redundant, smooth, sociable, spare, spun-out, supererogatory, superfluous, talkative, talky, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unrelenting, voluble, windy, wordy

• verbosity, bedizenment, big mouth, bombast, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filling, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, frill, frills, frippery, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, gingerbread, glibness, grandiloquence, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, luxury, needlessness, openness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, slush, sociability, spate of words, superfluity, superfluousness, talkativeness, tautology, unnecessariness, verbalism, verbality, verbiage, verboseness, volubility, windiness, wordiness

• verboten, banned, barred, contraband, disapproved, forbade, forbid, forbidden, illegal, illicit, nonpermissible, not permitted, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, prohibited, ruled out, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, untouchable, vetoed

• verdant, aestival, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, caespitose, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, graminaceous, grasslike, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leaved, meadowy, moss-covered, moss-grown, mossy, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, smaragdine, springlike, summerlike, summery, swardy, tufted, turflike, turfy, verdured, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green

• verdict, acquittal, action, award, condemnation, consideration, decision, decree, deliverance, determination, diagnosis, dictum, doom, finding, judgment, landmark decision, order, penalty, precedent, prognosis, pronouncement, resolution, ruling, sentence

• verdure, botany, chloranemia, chloremia, chlorophyll, chlorosis, flora, flowerage, glaucescence, glaucousness, green, greenery, greenishness, greenness, greens, greensickness, herbage, leafage, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, umbrage, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, verdancy, virescence, viridity

• verge, about to, abut, abut on, adjoin, aim, approach, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, bank, baton, be contiguous, be in contact, bear, befringe, bend to, bias, bind, blazonry, board, border, border line, border on, bordure, bound, boundaries, boundary, bounds, bourns, brassard, brim, brink, brow, butt, button, cap and gown, chain, chain of office, circumference, circumscription, class ring, coast, cockade, collar, communicate, compass, conduce, confines, conjoin, connect, contribute, coordinates, cross, decoration, dispose, draw, dress, eagle, edge, edges, emblems, enframe, ensigns, extend, fasces, featheredge, figurehead, flange, fleur-de-lis, frame, fringe, fringes, go, hammer and sickle, have a tendency, head, hem, heraldry, hold a heading, incline, insignia, join, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lapel pin, lead, lean, ledge, lie by, limb, limbus, limitations, limits, line, lip, list, livery, look to, mace, mantle, march, marches, marge, margin, medal, metes, metes and bounds, mortarboard, move, neighbor, old school tie, outline, outlines, outskirts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, pin, point, point to, purfle, purl, ragged edge, ready to, redound to, regalia, rim, ring, rose, school ring, selvage, serve, set, set off, set toward, shamrock, shore, show a tendency, side, sideline, sigillography, skirt, skirts, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, staff, stand by, steer, stretch, surround, swastika, tartan, tend, tend to, tend to go, thistle, threshold, tie, touch, trench, trend, trim, turn, uniform, verge on, verge upon, verges, wand, warp, work toward

• veridical, actual, faithful, indisputable, just, real, right, speaking, strict, true, true-tongued, truth, truth-telling, uncolored, undeniable, undistorted, unreal, unvarnished, veracious

• verifiable, absolute, actual, admitting no question, apodictic, attestable, authenticatable, checkable, confirmable, demonstrable, demonstratable, evincible, factual, historical, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, provable, real, self-evident, substantiatable, supportable, sustainable, testable, unanswerable, unconfutable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unrefutable, validatable

• verification, acid test, affirmation, ascertainment, assay, assurance, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, bearing out, blank determination, bolstering, brouillon, buttressing, certification, check, checking, circumstantiation, collation, comparative scrutiny, confirmation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, criterion, cross-check, crucial test, crucible, determination, docimasy, documentation, ensuring, essay, establishment, feeling out, first draft, fortification, kiteflying, ordeal, probation, proof, proving, proving out, ratification, reassurance, reassurement, reinforcement, rough draft, rough sketch, sounding out, standard, strengthening, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, test, test case, touchstone, trial, try, undergirding, validation

• verified, actual, ascertained, attested, authenticated, borne out, categorically true, certain, certified, circumstantiated, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, documentary, effectual, established, factual, fixed, historical, not in error, objectively true, proved, proven, real, settled, shown, substantiated, sure-enough, tested, tried, tried and true, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, validated, veracious, veritable

• verify, affirm, assay, attest, audit, authenticate, back, back up, balance, balance the books, bear out, bolster, bring to test, buttress, certify, check, check and doublecheck, check out, check over, circumstantiate, clench, clinch, collate, confirm, corroborate, cross-check, cut and try, demonstrate, document, double-check, essay, establish, experiment, fortify, give a try, give a tryout, guarantee, have a go, inventory, justify, overhaul, painstakingly match, play around with, practice upon, probate, prove, put to trial, ratify, recheck, reinforce, research, road-test, run a sample, sample, scrutinize comparatively, settle, shake down, show, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, take stock, taste, test, triple-check, try, try it on, try out, undergird, uphold, validate, vouch for, warrant

• verily, actually, assuredly, certainly, clearly, decidedly, demonstrably, factually, for a certainty, for real, forsooth, historically, in all conscience, in fact, in reality, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, indubitably, manifestly, nay, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of a truth, patently, positively, quite, really, really-truly, sensibly, seriously, truly, unambiguously, undeniably, undoubtedly, unmistakably, veritably, visibly, with truth, without doubt, yea

• verisimilar, apt, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, dinkum, fair, following the letter, foreseeable, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, hopeful, in the cards, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, liable, lifelike, likely, literal, natural, naturalistic, odds-on, original, predictable, predictable within limits, presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, statistically probable, sterling, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, word-for-word

• veritable, aboveboard, absolute, actual, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, bona fide, born, broad-based, categorically true, certain, certified, clean, clear, comprehensive, confirmed, congenital, consummate, corroborated, de facto, deep-dyed, demonstrated, determined, documentary, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effectual, egregious, established, exhaustive, factual, fair and square, for real, foursquare, genuine, good-faith, historical, honest-to-God, indubitable, intensive, legitimate, not in error, objectively true, omnibus, omnipresent, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, positive, proved, pure, radical, real, regular, sheer, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, straight, straight-shooting, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, true, true as gospel, truthful, ubiquitous, unconditional, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, universal, unmistaken, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestionable, unrefuted, unreserved, unrestricted, up-and-up, utter, validated, veracious, verified, very, virtual, wholesale

• verity, absolute credibility, actuality, credibility, eternal verities, fact, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth, truth-loving, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veraciousness, veracity, veridicality, very truth

• vermicide, aborticide, acaricide, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, contact poison, defoliant, disinfectant, eradicant, fratricide, fumigant, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insect powder, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, miticide, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, poison, rat poison, regicide, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, sororicide, stomach poison, suicide, systemic, systemic insecticide, toxic, toxicant, toxin, uxoricide, venin, venom, vermifuge, virus, weed killer, worm medicine

• vermilion, Titian, Titian-red, bricky, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, crimson, damask, ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, glowing, gules, henna, hot, incarmined, incarnadine, inflame, inflamed, infrared, iron-red, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lipstick, lobster-red, lurid, madder, maroon, miniate, port-wine, puce, red, red-dyed, red-ink, red-looking, redden, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, rouge, rubicund, rubify, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddle, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scarlet, stammel, tile-red, vinaceous, warm, wine, wine-colored, wine-red

• vermin, amphibian, animal, aquatic, beast, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cattle, chaff, cosmopolite, cur, dog, dregs, dregs of society, feline, gnawer, herbivore, hound, hyena, insect, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, mongrel, offscourings, offscum, omnivore, pig, polecat, primate, quadruped, raff, reptile, riffraff, rodent, rubbish, ruminant, scavenger, scum, serpent, skunk, snake, sordes, swine, swinish multitude, trash, ungulate, varmint, vertebrate, viper, whelp, worm

• vernacular, Babbittish, Philistine, aboriginal, accustomed, ancient language, argot, austerity, autochthonous, average, baldness, bareness, bourgeois, campy, candor, cant, classical language, colloquial, colloquial speech, colloquial usage, colloquialism, common, common speech, commonplace, confined, conventional, conversational, conversationalism, current, customary, dead language, directness, easy, endemic, everyday, familiar, frankness, general, geographically limited, gibberish, gobbledygook, habitual, high-camp, homebred, homegrown, homely, homespun, household, household words, idiom, illiterate speech, indigenous, informal, informal English, informal language, informal speech, insular, jargon, kitschy, language, leanness, limited, lingo, living language, local, localized, low-camp, matter-of-factness, mother tongue, mumbo jumbo, natal, native, native language, native speech, native tongue, native-born, naturalness, nonstandard, normative, of a place, openness, ordinary, original, parent language, parochial, patois, patter, phraseology, plain, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plebeian, pop, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, primitive, prosaicness, prosiness, provincial, public, regional, regular, regulation, restrainedness, rustic style, scatology, severity, simple, simpleness, simplicity, slang, soberness, spareness, speech, spoken, spoken language, standard, starkness, stock, straightforward, straightforwardness, substandard, substandard language, taboo language, talk, topical, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, uneducated, unimaginativeness, universal, unliterary, unpoeticalness, unstudied, usual, vernacularism, vocabulary, vulgar, vulgar language, vulgar tongue, vulgate, wonted

• vernal equinox, aphelion, apogee, astronomical longitude, autumnal equinox, celestial equator, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, circle, colures, ecliptic, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, galactic longitude, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, great circle, heliocentric longitude, longitude, meridian, orbit, perigee, perihelion, period, small circle, solstice, solstitial colure, summer solstice, trajectory, winter solstice, zodiac, zone

• vernal, aestival, arctic, autumn, autumnal, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, boreal, brumal, budding, callow, canicular, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, dewy, emerald, equinoctial, ever-new, evergreen, firsthand, fledgling, foliaged, fresh, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, growing, hibernal, hiemal, holly, immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, ivy, ivy-green, juicy, leafy, leaved, maiden, maidenly, midsummer, midwinter, minor, naive, neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, original, out of season, porraceous, pristine, raw, ripening, sappy, seasonal, sempervirent, smaragdine, solstitial, spring, springlike, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, verdant, verdurous, vernant, vert, virescent, virgin, virginal, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry, yellowish-green, young

• versatile, able, accessible, accomplished, adaptable, adjustable, adroit, all-around, ambidextrous, amphibious, at hand, available, changeable, changing, convenient, conversant, coquettish, dexterous, elastic, facile, faddish, fickle, flexible, flighty, flirtatious, fluctuating, generally capable, gifted, handy, inconstant, light, many-sided, mercurial, mobile, multifaceted, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, plastic, pliable, protean, quicksilver, ready, resourceful, skilled, skillful, skittish, supple, talented, to hand, toying, two-handed, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, variable, volatile, well-rounded

• versatility, Renaissance man, Renaissance versatility, adaptability, adjustability, all-roundedness, ambidexterity, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, deviation, difference, differentiation, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, flexibility, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, irregularity, jerkiness, many-sidedness, mercuriality, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, pluralism, raggedness, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, wavering

• verse, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian stanza, acquaint, adage, advertise, advertise of, advise, alba, ana, anacreontic, anacrusis, analects, antistrophe, aphorism, apothegm, apprise, article, avant-propos, axiom, back matter, balada, ballad, ballade, bass passage, book, bourdon, breakthrough, bridge, brief, bring word, bucolic, burden, byword, cadence, canso, canto, catchword, chanson, chapter, chorus, clause, clerihew, climb Parnassus, coda, collected sayings, column, communicate, compose poetry, couplet, current saying, development, dictate, dictum, dirge, disclose, distich, dithyramb, division, eclogue, elegize, elegy, enlighten, envoi, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, exordium, exposition, expression, familiarize, fascicle, figure, folderol, folio, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, gathering, georgic, ghazel, give notice, give the facts, give word, gnome, golden saying, haiku, harmonic close, heptastich, hexastich, idyll, inform, innovation, installment, instruct, interlude, intermezzo, introduction, introductory phrase, jingle, lay, leap, leave word, let know, limerick, line, lisp in numbers, livraison, lyric, madrigal, make immortal verse, maxim, measure, mention to, monody, monostich, moral, mot, motto, mount Pegasus, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, musical thought, narrative poem, notify, number, nursery rhyme, octastich, octave, octet, ode, oracle, ornament, ottava rima, overture, page, palinode, paragraph, part, passage, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, pentastich, period, phrase, pithy saying, poem, poesy, poetize, poetry, postulate, preamble, precept, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, prescript, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, prothalamium, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quatrain, refrain, report, resolution, response, rhyme, rhyme royal, ritornello, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, saw, saying, section, send word, sentence, sententious expression, septet, serial, serve notice, sestet, sestina, sextet, sheet, signature, sing, sing deathless songs, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, speak, stanza, statement, stave, stock saying, strain, strophe, sutra, syllable, tailpiece, tanka, teaching, tell, tenso, tenzone, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, text, the supreme fiction, threnody, triolet, triplet, tristich, troubadour poem, tutti, tutti passage, variation, verselet, versicle, versify, villanelle, virelay, volume, voluntary, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, write poetry

• versed in, acquainted with, adept in, at home in, at home with, conversant with, expert at, familiar with, good at, handy at, informed in, intimate with, master of, proficient in, skilled in, strong in, up on, well up on, well-read in, well-versed

• versification, Stabreim, alliterative meter, ars poetica, measure, meter, metrical pattern, metrics, numbers, poetcraft, poetic justice, poetic language, poetic license, poeticism, poetics, prosodic pattern, prosody, quantitative meter, scanning, scansion, syllabic meter, vers libre, versecraft, versemaking

• version, account, adaptation, affiliation, arrangement, article, autograph, body, brainchild, branch, burlesque, chronicle, church, clarification, communion, community, composite reading, composition, computer printout, conception, condensation, conflation, construct, construction, copy, critical edition, denomination, diplomatic text, division, document, draft, dummy, duplication, edited text, edited version, edition, engrossment, essay, facsimile, faction, fair copy, fellowship, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, form, group, history, holograph, hymnal, hymnbook, idea, imitation, instrumental score, interpretation, kind, knockoff, lection, letter, libretto, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, lute tablature, manifestation, manuscript, matter, mock-up, model, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, narrative, nonfiction, normalized text, notation, offshoot, opera, opera score, opus, orchestral score, order, organization, original, paper, paraphrase, parchment, parody, part, party, penscript, persuasion, piano score, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, portrayal, printed matter, printout, production, reading, reading matter, recension, religious order, rendering, rendition, replica, report, representation, reproduction, restatement, rewording, schism, scholarly edition, school, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sect, sectarism, segment, sheet music, short score, side, simplification, society, songbook, songster, story, style, tablature, tale, text, the written word, transcript, transcription, translation, travesty, type, typescript, understanding, variant, variation, variety, view, vocal score, work, writing, written music

• verso, Gospel side, acknowledgments, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, cantorial side, catch line, catchword, colophon, contents, contents page, copyright page, dedication, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, half-title page, head, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, larboard, leaf, left, left hand, left wing, left-hand side, left-winger, liberal, makeup, near side, page, port, port tack, portside, preface, preliminaries, radical, recto, reverso, running title, signature, subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, wrong side

• versus, across, adverse to, against, at cross-purposes with, athwart, con, confronting, contra, counter to, dead against, en route to, facing, fronting, headed for, in conflict with, in front of, in opposition to, in passage to, in transit to, on, on route to, opposed to, opposite to, over against, to, toward, towards, up, upon, vis-a-vis

• vertebrate, amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cetacean, chordate, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate, varmint, vermin

• vertex, L, acme, angle, apex, apogee, bend, bifurcation, bight, brow, cant, cap, chevron, climax, cloud nine, coin, corner, crank, crest, crook, crotchet, crown, culmen, culmination, deflection, dogleg, edge, elbow, ell, extreme limit, extremity, fork, furcation, heaven, heavens, height, heights, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hook, inflection, knee, limit, maximum, meridian, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, nook, noon, peak, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, quoin, ridge, roof, seventh heaven, sky, spire, summit, swerve, tip, tip-top, top, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, veer, very top, zag, zenith, zig, zigzag

• vertical, abrupt, acmatic, apical, arrowlike, azimuth circle, bluff, bold, bolt upright, breakneck, capital, chief, consummate, dead straight, direct, downright, erect, even, flat, head, headlong, headmost, highest, horizontal, in a line, level, lineal, linear, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, normal, orthodiagonal, overmost, paramount, perpendicular, plumb, plunging, precipitous, preeminent, rampant, rapid, rearing, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, right angle, ruler-straight, sharp, sheer, smooth, stand-up, standing up, steep, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straight-up, streamlined, summital, supreme, tip-top, top, topmost, true, ultimate, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, up-and-down, upended, upmost, uppermost, upraised, upreared, upright, upstanding, vertical circle, zenithal

• vertigo, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, drunkenness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, giddiness, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, instability, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lightheadedness, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pruritus, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spinning head, swimming, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, upset stomach, vertiginousness, vomiting, wasting, wooziness

• verve, active fancy, aggressiveness, alacrity, animal spirits, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardency, ardor, avidity, avidness, bang, bounce, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, buoyancy, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, drive, eagerness, ebullience, ecstasy, effervescence, elan, elasticity, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, esprit, excited imagination, excitement, exuberance, fervency, fervent imagination, fervidness, fervor, fire, flair, flourish, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, furor, fury, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, get-up-and-go, ginger, gust, gusto, heart, heartiness, heat, heated imagination, impassionedness, impatience, initiative, keen desire, keenness, kick, life, liveliness, lively imagination, lurid imagination, moxie, oomph, panache, passion, passionateness, pep, pepper, peppiness, piquancy, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, poop, promptness, punch, pungency, push, quickness, raciness, readiness, relish, resiliency, rollicksomeness, rompishness, savor, skittishness, snap, soul, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spring, spunk, starch, thrust, vehemence, vigor, vim, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, vivacity of imagination, vivid imagination, vividness, warmth, warmth of feeling, wild imagination, zeal, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

• very, a bit, a little, absolutely, actually, acutely, almighty, almost, altogether, awful, awfully, bare, barest, big, bleeding, bloody, bona fide, certainly, completely, correct, crazy, damned, danged, darned, de facto, decidedly, deeply, definitely, dreadful, dreadfully, eminently, entirely, especial, exact, exactly, exceedingly, exceptionally, express, extraordinarily, extremely, fairly, genuine, genuinely, greatly, highly, hugely, hundred-percent, ideal, identical, in a measure, in a way, in some measure, in truth, indubitable, jolly, just, kind of, larruping, least, main, mere, mightily, mighty, model, monstrous, mortally, most, much, nearly, notably, only too, parlous, particular, passing, perfect, perfectly, pesky, plumb, powerful, powerfully, practically, precise, precisely, pretty, profoundly, pure, quite, rather, rattling, real, really, remarkably, right, same, scarcely, selfsame, seriously, sheer, significantly, simple, slightly, snapping, so, somewhat, sort of, spanking, special, strikingly, super, sure-enough, surely, surpassingly, tellingly, terribly, terrifically, thoroughly, to a degree, to some extent, too, totally, true, truly, uncommonly, undoubted, unequivocally, unquestionable, unquestionably, unusually, utter, vastly, veritable, veritably, very much, vitally, whacking, whopping

• vesicle, air bubble, balloon, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, blood blister, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, check, chine, cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, fault, fever blister, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, gall, globule, gnarl, handle, hemangioma, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, soap bubble, spine, split, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, track, tubercle, tubercule, twist, verruca, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

• vesicular, arterial, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, camerated, capillary, capsular, carbonated, cellular, chiffon, cystic, ebullient, effervescent, fizzy, locular, marsupial, puffed, saccular, siliquose, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, vascular, veinous, venose, venous, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, whipped

• vesper, Mass, bedtime prayer, camp meeting, church, church service, close of day, cockshut, compline, crepuscular, devotions, divine service, dusk, dusky, duty, eve, even, evening, evening devotions, evensong, eventide, exercises, grayness, lauds, liturgy, matins, meeting, morning devotions, night song, nightfall, none, nones, novena, office, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prime, prime song, public worship, revival, revival meeting, service, setting sun, sext, shut of day, sundown, sunset, sunsetty, tent meeting, the expiring day, tierce, twilight, twilighty, undersong, vespers, vespertine, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service

• vessel, Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, LC, LSD, LSM, SC, aircraft carrier, aircraft tender, ammunition ship, argosy, ark, assault transport, bark, battleship, bawley, beaker, bilander, blackjack, boat, bomb ketch, bottom, bowl, brig, brigantine, bucket, bully, buss, canal, capital ship, caravel, carrier, cat, catamaran, chalice, clipper, coast guard cutter, coffee cup, communications ship, container, convoy, corsair, corvette, craft, cruiser, cutter, dandy, depot ship, destroyer, destroyer leader, destroyer tender, dhow, dispatch boat, dreadnought, dromond, duct, eagle boat, eggcup, emunctory, escort carrier, escort vessel, fire ship, first-rate, fishing smack, fistula, flagship, flattie, flattop, four-masted bark, four-master, frigate, fuel ship, galiot, galleass, galleon, glass, goblet, guided missile cruiser, gunboat, heavy cruiser, highball glass, holder, hooker, horn, hospital ship, hoy, hulk, hull, ice yacht, intestines, ironclad, jigger, junk, keel, keelboat, ketch, knockabout, landing craft, lateen, lateener, leviathan, liberty boat, light cruiser, line-of-battle ship, lorcha, loving cup, lugger, meatus, mine sweeper, minisub, monitor, mosquito boat, mug, nobby, noggin, ocean racer, ostium, outrigger, oviduct, packet, patrol boat, picketboat, pilot boat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue, pony, pore, pram, privateer, protected cruiser, pungy, racing yacht, raider, ram, receiver, receiving ship, receptacle, reconnaissance ship, rigger, rocket boat, sailing auxiliary, sailing canoe, sailing dinghy, sailing packet, sailing trawler, salpinx, sampan, sandbagger, schooner, schooper, scooter, scout, scout cruiser, seaplane carrier, shallop, sharpie, shell, ship, ship of war, shipentine, shipplane carrier, shot glass, skipjack, sloop, smack, smack boat, snow, spy ship, stein, storeship, storm boat, submarine, submarine chaser, submarine patrol boat, submarine tender, submersible, superdreadnought, sweeper, tankard, tanker, tartan, tassie, teacup, tender, thoracic duct, topsail schooner, transport, trimaran, troopship, tub, tumbler, turret ship, ureter, urethra, utensil, vagina, vas, warship, watercraft, well smack, whaler, wineglass, wool-clipper, xebec, yacht, yawl

• vest pocket, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, handy, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscule, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, small-scale, subminiature, toy, twelvemo

• vest, appertain, appertain to, authorize, base, belong to, bless with, build, build in, dower, empower, endow, endow with, establish, favor with, fix, found, grace with, ground, install, invest, lay the foundation, pertain, pertain to, pitch, plant, put in, put up, seat, set, set up, settle on, settle upon, vest in, vest with, waistcoat

• Vesta, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vulcan, Zeus, lares and penates

• vestal, Platonic, abstinent, bachelor girl, celibate, continent, feme sole, intact, lone woman, maid, maiden, maiden lady, maidenly, old maid, single girl, spinster, spinstress, vestal virgin, virgin, virginal

• vested interest, Black Power, Italian vote, Jewish vote, Polish Power, White Power, absolute interest, appurtenance, authority, benefit, birthright, black vote, claim, common, conjugal right, contingent interest, demand, divine right, droit, due, easement, equitable interest, equity, estate, faculty, farm interests, financial interests, holding, inalienable right, interest, interest group, labor interests, limitation, natural right, part, percentage, power, prerogative, prescription, pressure group, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, proper claim, property right, right, right of entry, settlement, special interests, special-interest group, stake, strict settlement, title, trust, use, vested interests, vested right

• vested, appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, confirmed, costumed, decked, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dight, disguised, dressed, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, endued, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, firmly established, garbed, garmented, gowned, graven, habilimented, habited, hooded, implanted, impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, invested, inveterate, inwrought, liveried, long-established, mantled, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, pantalooned, raimented, rigged out, robed, rooted, set, settled, shod, shoed, stabilized, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vestmented, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled

• vestibule, Eustachian tube, access, adit, air lock, antechamber, anteroom, anvil, approach, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basilar membrane, bony labyrinth, cauliflower ear, cochlea, conch, concha, corridor, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, endolymph, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, external ear, foyer, galilee, gangplank, gangway, hall, hammer, in, incus, ingress, inlet, inner ear, intake, lobby, lobe, lobule, lug, malleus, mastoid process, means of access, middle ear, narthex, opening, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, passage, passageway, perilymph, pinna, portal, portico, propylaeum, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell, stapes, stirrup, stoa, threshold, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, way, way in

• vestige, account, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, annals, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, balance, boss, bump, butt, butt end, candle ends, catalog, catchword, cave painting, chaff, chronicle, clue, colophon, concavity, convexity, correspondence, cue, cue word, dactylogram, dactylograph, dash, debris, dent, detritus, dint, documentation, embossment, end, eolith, evidence, excrescence, fag end, filings, fingerprint, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil, fossil footprint, fragment, glimmer, hint, history, holdover, hot lead, husks, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, infusion, inkling, intimation, inventory, key, key word, lead, leavings, leftovers, letters, list, lump, mark, memento, memorial, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, pad, paleolith, parings, path, paw print, pawmark, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, pimple, pipe roll, plateaulith, print, pug, pugmark, rag, rags, record, recording, refuse, register, registry, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rubbish, ruin, ruins, rump, sauce, sawdust, scent, scourings, scrap, scraps, scroll, seal, seasoning, shade, shadow, shavings, sigil, sign, signet, smack, soupcon, spice, spoor, sprinkling, stamp, step, straw, stubble, stud, stump, suggestion, survival, suspicion, sweepings, table, tag, taint, taste, telltale, tempering, thought, thumbmark, thumbprint, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tip-off, token, touch, trace, track, tract, trail, waste, whiff

• vestment, apparel, array, attire, bedizenment, blanket, canonicals, ceremonial attire, clericals, cloak, cloth, clothes, clothing, coat, costume, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, drape, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, episcopal vestments, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, frock, garb, garment, garments, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habit, hanging, hood, housing, investiture, investment, linen, liturgical garments, mantle, mask, pall, pontificalia, pontificals, rag, rags, raiment, robe, robes, screen, shelter, shield, shroud, sportswear, style, threads, togs, toilette, trim, veil, vestments, vesture, wear, wearing apparel

• vestry, Council of Nicaea, Council of Trent, Easter sepulcher, Lateran Council, Vatican Council, ambry, apse, baptistery, blindstory, chancel, chapter, choir, classis, cloisters, conciliarism, conclave, conference, confessional, confessionary, congregation, consistory, convention, convocation, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, diocesan conference, ecclesiastical council, ecumenical council, nave, parochial church council, parochial council, plenary council, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, session, synod, transept, triforium

• vet, bone, campaigner, canvass, check over, check up, con, contemplate, dig, drill, elucubrate, examine, examine thoroughly, eye, give the eye, give the once-over, go deep into, go over, grind, hard look, horse doctor, inspect, leer, leer at, look closely at, look over, lucubrate, new, ogle, ogle at, old, old campaigner, old hand, old pro, old salt, old sea dog, old soldier, old-time, old-timer, perlustrate, perscrutate, peruse, plunge into, pore, pore over, practical, practice, practiced, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, salt, scrutinize, seasoned, seasoned veteran, shellback, size up, skilled, study, survey, swot, take a long, take stock of, versed, veteran, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon, wade through, war-horse

• vetch, algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vine, wort, wrack

• veteran, Father Time, Methuselah, Nestor, Old Paar, blase, campaigner, centenarian, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, dotard, elder, experienced, expert, gaffer, geezer, golden-ager, gramps, grandfather, grandsire, graybeard, knowing, master, mature, matured, nonagenarian, not born yesterday, octogenarian, old, old campaigner, old chap, old codger, old dog, old duffer, old geezer, old gent, old gentleman, old hand, old man, old party, old pro, old salt, old sea dog, old soldier, old-time, old-timer, older, oldster, pantaloon, past master, patriarch, practical, practiced, presbyter, ripe, ripened, sagacious, salt, seasoned, seasoned veteran, senior citizen, septuagenarian, sexagenarian, shellback, skilled, sophisticated, the quiet-voiced elders, tried, tried and true, trouper, venerable sir, versed, vet, war-horse, warhorse, wise, world-wise, worldly, worldly-wise

• veto, absolute veto, ban, block, constitute, decline, decree, defeat, denial, deny, disallow, disallowance, embargo, enact, enact laws, executive veto, filibuster, forbid, get the floor, have the floor, interdict, interdiction, item veto, kill, killing, legislate, limited negative, limited veto, lobby through, logroll, negative, nix, ordain, outlaw, pass, pigeonhole, pocket, pocket veto, preclude, preclusion, prevent, prevention, prohibit, prohibition, proscribe, proscription, put in force, put through, quash, quashing, railroad through, refuse, reject, rejection, roll logs, rule against, rule out, senatorial courtesy, stop, stoppage, suspensory veto, table, taboo, take the floor, turn down, veto message, veto power, yield the floor

• vetoed, banned, barred, contraband, forbade, forbid, forbidden, illegal, illicit, nonpermissible, not permitted, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, prohibited, ruled out, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, untouchable, verboten

• vex, abrade, aggravate, ail, anger, annoy, arouse, badger, bait, be at, be the matter, bedevil, beset, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, chafe, chaw, chivy, complicate matters, concern, devil, discommode, discompose, distemper, distress, disturb, dog, embarrass, embitter, exasperate, exercise, fash, fret, gall, get, gripe, harass, harry, haunt, heckle, hector, hound, huff, incense, inconvenience, inflame, infuriate, irk, irritate, miff, molest, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, peeve, perplex, persecute, perturb, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, put out, put to it, puzzle, rankle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, set up, stir the blood, stir up, tease, torment, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, work up, worry

• vexation, abomination, affliction, aggravation, agitation, all-overs, angst, annoyance, anxiety, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, anxious bench, anxious concern, anxious seat, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness, atrocity, bad, bad news, bane, bedevilment, befoulment, blight, bore, bother, botheration, bothering, bothersomeness, bugbear, burden, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, concern, concernment, corruption, crashing bore, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, death, defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, devilment, difficulty, disapprobation, disapproval, discontent, disease, displeasure, disquiet, disquietude, dissatisfaction, distress, disturbance, dogging, downer, drag, dread, evil, exasperation, fear, foreboding, forebodingness, grievance, harassment, harm, harrying, havoc, headache, hounding, hurt, ill, infection, infliction, injury, inquietude, irking, irritation, malaise, mischief, misgiving, molestation, nemesis, nervous strain, nervous tension, nervousness, nuisance, open wound, outrage, overanxiety, persecution, perturbation, pest, pestilence, pins and needles, plague, poison, pollution, problem, provocation, provoking, pucker, resentfulness, resentment, running sore, scourge, solicitude, stew, strain, suspense, tension, the worst, thorn, torment, toxin, trial, trouble, uneasiness, unquietness, upset, venom, vexatiousness, vexing, visitation, woe, worriment, worry, wrong, zeal

• vexatious, aggravating, annoying, backbreaking, besetting, bothering, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, disturbing, exasperating, galling, grueling, harassing, heavy, hefty, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, mean, onerous, oppressive, painful, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, troublous, trying, ugly, vexing, wearisome, wicked, worrisome, worrying

• vexed, aggravated, angry, annoyed, anxious, beset, bothered, browned-off, bugged, burnt-up, chafed, distressed, disturbed, dogged, embarrassed, exasperated, fretted, galled, griped, harassed, harried, haunted, hounded, huffy, inconvenienced, irked, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, persecuted, perturbed, piqued, plagued, provoked, put to it, put-out, puzzled, resentful, riled, roiled, ruffled, sore beset, tormented, troubled, worried, worried sick, worried stiff

• vexing, aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, disturbing, exasperating, galling, harassing, harassment, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provocation, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, vexation, vexatious, wearisome, worrisome, worrying

• VHF, AF, CPS, EHF, HF, Hz, MF, RF, SHF, UHF, VLF, audio frequency, carrier frequency, cycles, extremely high frequency, frequency, frequency spectrum, hertz, high frequency, intermediate frequency, kilocycles, kilohertz, low frequency, lower frequencies, medium frequency, megacycles, megahertz, radio frequency, spark frequency, spectrum, superhigh frequency, ultrahigh frequency, upper frequencies, very high frequency, very low frequency

• viability, acceptability, achievability, actability, activation, adequacy, admissibility, agreeability, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, attainability, being alive, birth, compassability, existence, feasibility, having life, immortality, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, manageability, maneuverability, manipulatability, negotiability, operability, performability, practicability, practicality, reactivation, realizability, satisfactoriness, spriteliness, sufficiency, superability, surmountability, tenability, tolerability, unexceptionability, unobjectionability, viableness, vitality, vivacity, workability

• viable, OK, aboveground, acceptable, achievable, actable, activating, admissible, agreeable, alive, alive and kicking, all right, alright, among the living, animate, animated, animating, animative, applicable, attainable, bracing, breathing, capable of life, compassable, conscious, doable, endowed with life, energizing, enlivened, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative, existent, feasible, good enough, in the flesh, inspirited, instinct with life, invigorating, invigorative, live, living, long-lived, manageable, maneuverable, manipulatable, negotiable, of concern, of concernment, of consequence, of interest, of moment, of note, of significance, of weight, okay, operable, operatable, overcomable, passable, performable, possible, practicable, practical, quick, quickening, realizable, reasonable, rousing, sensible, stimulating, stimulative, superable, supportable, surmountable, sustainable, tenable, tenacious of life, tonic, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, very much alive, vital, vitalizing, vivified, workable, zoetic

• viaduct, Bifrost, bascule bridge, bateau bridge, bridge, cantilever bridge, carrefour, catwalk, cloverleaf, crossing, crosspoint, crossroad, crosswalk, crossway, drawbridge, floating bridge, flyover, footbridge, gangboard, gangplank, gangway, grade crossing, intercrossing, intersection, level crossing, lift bridge, overbridge, overcrossing, overpass, pontoon bridge, rope bridge, rotary, span, stepping-stone, stepstone, suspension bridge, swing bridge, toll bridge, traffic circle, undercrossing

• viands, board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, comestibles, creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, eatables, eats, edibles, fare, fast food, feast, feed, food, food and drink, foodstuff, grub, health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, meat, nurture, provender, provision, provisions, spread, sustenance, table, tucker, victuals, vittles

• vibes, battery, bells, bones, caring, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, chord, clappers, concern, crash cymbal, cymbals, echo, empathy, feelings, fellow feeling, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, handbells, identification, idiophone, involvement, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone, orchestral bells, pathos, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, rapport, rattle, rattlebones, relating, resonances, response, responsiveness, sensations, sharing, sizzler, snappers, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, tam-tam, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibraphone, vibrations, xylophone

• vibrancy, bassness, deepness, fluctuation, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, fullness, harmonic motion, hollowness, libration, lowness, mellowness, nutation, oscillation, pendulation, periodicity, plangency, resonance, resonance frequency, richness, sonority, sonorousness, vacillation, vibratility, vibration, wavering

• vibrant, active, acute, aggressive, animated, brisk, consonant, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, forceful, forcible, full, full of pep, go-go, hearty, impetuous, incisive, intense, keen, kinetic, lively, living, lusty, mellow, mettlesome, orotund, peppy, plangent, pulsing, resonant, resonating, resounding, rich, ringing, robust, rolling, rotund, round, smacking, snappy, sonorous, spanking, spirited, strenuous, strong, take-charge, take-over, throbbing, trenchant, vibrating, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, zestful, zesty, zippy

• vibraphone, battery, bells, bones, castanets, celesta, chime, chimes, clappers, crash cymbal, cymbals, finger cymbals, gamelan, glockenspiel, gong, handbells, idiophone, lyra, maraca, marimba, metallophone, orchestral bells, percussion, percussion instrument, percussions, percussive, rattle, rattlebones, sizzler, snappers, tam-tam, tintinnabula, tonitruone, triangle, tubular bells, vibes, xylophone

• vibrate, bob, bobble, bounce, bump, careen, chatter, coggle, continue, dangle, didder, falter, fluctuate, flutter, have an ague, hustle, jactitate, jar, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, librate, lurch, nutate, occur often, oscillate, pendulate, pitch, pulsate, pulse, quake, quaver, quiver, recur, reel, resonate, reverberate, rock, roll, shake, shiver, shock, shudder, swag, sway, swing, throb, toss, tremble, tremor, twitter, vacillate, wag, waggle, wave, waver, wobble

• vibrating, aspen, ceaseless, chattering, constant, continual, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, full, harmonic, incessant, libratory, machine gun, mellow, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, palsied, pendular, pendulous, perennial, periodic, perpetual, plangent, pulsating, pulsing, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, rapid, regular, repeated, resonant, resonating, rich, rolling, shaking, shaky, shivering, shivery, shuddering, sonorous, staccato, steady, stuttering, succussatory, succussive, sustained, throbbing, trembling, trembly, tremulous, unbroken, unceasing, unchanging, unintermitted, unintermittent, unintermitting, uninterrupted, unremitting, unstopped, unvarying, vacillating, vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibratory, wavering, wobbly

• vibration, ague, bumpiness, caring, ceaselessness, chattering, chord, chorea, cold shivers, concern, constancy, constant flow, continualness, continuity, echo, empathy, fellow feeling, fits and starts, fluctuation, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, harmonic motion, identification, incessancy, involvement, jactation, jactitation, jerkiness, joltiness, libration, noninterruption, nutation, oscillation, palsy, pathos, pendulation, periodicity, perpetuity, pulsation, quaking, quavering, quick fire, quivering, rapid fire, rapid recurrence, rapid succession, rapidity, regularity, relating, repetition, resonance, resonance frequency, response, responsiveness, shakes, shaking, sharing, shivering, shivers, shuddering, spasms, staccato, steadiness, stuttering, succussion, sustainment, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, tattoo, trembling, tremulousness, unintermission, uninterruption, vacillation, vibes, vibrancy, vibratility, vibrations, wavering

• vibrato, Bebung, English horn, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion, concert flute, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, cymbel, diapason, dulciana, falter, flute stop, flutter, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, hybrid stop, koppel flute, larigot, melodia, mixture, mutation stop, nazard, oboe, octave, organ stop, piccolo, plein jeu, posaune, principal, quaver, quint, quintaten, quiver, rank, ranket, reed stop, register, rohr flute, sesquialtera, shake, shawm, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string diapason, string stop, tierce, tremble, tremolando, tremolant, tremolo, tremor, trill, trillet, trilleto, trillo, trombone, trumpet, twelfth, unda maris, viola, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana

• vibrator, agitator, beater, churn, eggbeater, facial, facial massage, jiggler, kneading, massage, massaging, massotherapy, metronome, oscillator, paddle, pendulum, rocker, rocking chair, rocking stone, rubdown, seesaw, shaker, shuttle, shuttlecock, stroking, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetery-bender, whirlpool bath, whisk

• vicar, Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, advocate, agent, alter ego, alternate, alternative, amicus curiae, analogy, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, attorney, backup, backup man, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, champion, change, changeling, chaplain, coadjutor, comparison, copy, counterfeit, curate, dean, deputy, diocesan, double, dummy, ecclesiarch, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exarch, exchange, executive officer, exponent, fake, figurehead, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, hierarch, high priest, imitation, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, makeshift, metaphor, metonymy, metropolitan, next best thing, papa, paranymph, patriarch, penitentiary, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, pleader, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, procurator, proxy, rector, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, rural dean, second in command, second string, secondary, sign, spares, stand-in, sub, subdean, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, suffragan, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility man, utility player, vicar general, vice, vice-president, vice-regent, vicegerent

• vicarage, Dymaxion house, White House, adobe house, advowson, benefice, building, care of souls, casa, charge, church house, clergy house, cliff dwelling, consulate, country house, country seat, curacy, cure, dacha, deanery, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, farm, farmhouse, glebe, hall, house, houseboat, incumbency, lake dwelling, living, living machine, lodge, manor house, manse, parsonage, pastorage, pastorate, penthouse, prefabricated house, prelacy, presbytery, presidential palace, ranch house, rectory, roof, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, structure, town house

• vicarious, alternate, alternative, assigned, backup, commissioned, counterfeit, delegated, dummy, equivalent, ersatz, fake, imitation, indirect, makeshift, mock, phony, pinch, provisional, proxy, reserve, secondary, spare, stopgap, substitute, substituted, surrogate, temporary, tentative, token, utility

• vice president, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy, archon, backup, chancellor, change, changeling, chief executive, chief executive officer, comparison, copy, counterfeit, dean, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, executive, executive director, executive officer, executive secretary, fake, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, imitation, locum tenens, magistrate, makeshift, management, managing director, metaphor, metonymy, next best thing, officer, official, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, prefect, president, prexy, provost, proxy, relief, replacement, representative, reserves, ringer, second string, secondary, secretary, sign, spares, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, the administration, third string, token, treasurer, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-chairman, vice-chancellor, vice-consul, vice-director, vice-governor, vice-king, vice-legate, vice-master, vice-premier, vice-queen, vice-regent, vice-warden, vicegerent, viceroy, warden

• vice versa, a rebours, against the grain, alternately, arsy-varsy, back and forth, backward and forward, backwards, backwards and forwards, bottom side up, bottom up, by contraries, contra, contrarily, contrariously, contrariwise, contrary, contrawise, conversely, head over heels, heels over head, in flat opposition, inversely, just the opposite, mutatis mutandis, nay rather, on the contrary, oppositely, otherwise, over, per contra, quite the contrary, rather, reciprocally, reversed, seesaw, to and fro, to the contrary, topsy-turvy, tout au contraire, turned around, upside down

• vice, advocate, alter ego, alternate, amicus curiae, as proxy for, as representing, attorney, backup, backup man, bad habit, badness, besetting sin, blemish, champion, corruption, crime, criminal tendency, criminality, criminosis, debasement, debauchery, decay, defect, deficiency, degeneracy, degradation, depravity, deputy, discourtesy, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, dummy, evil, evil courses, evildoing, executive officer, exponent, failing, failure, fault, feloniousness, figurehead, flaw, foible, for, frailty, frowned-upon behavior, hooliganism, horseplay, ill, immorality, imperfection, impropriety, in behalf of, in lieu of, in place of, in preference to, indecency, infirmity, iniquity, lawbreaking, licentiousness, lieutenant, locum, locum tenens, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision, misprision of treason, moral flaw, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, on behalf of, paranymph, perversion, pinch hitter, pleader, positive misprision, procurator, profligacy, proxy, replacing, representative, rot, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, second in command, secondary, shortcoming, sin, sinfulness, squalor, stand-in, substitute, surrogate, thou scarlet sin, transgression, unchastity, understudy, utility man, vandalism, venality, venial sin, vicar, vicar general, vicegerent, viciousness, villainy, weak point, weak side, weakness, wickedness, wrong, wrong conduct, wrongdoing

• viceroy, beg, beglerbeg, bey, burgrave, collector, dey, eparch, exarch, gauleiter, governor, governor-general, khedive, lieutenant governor, nabob, nawab, palatine, proconsul, provincial, satrap, stadtholder, subahdar, tetrarch, vali, vice-chairman, vice-chancellor, vice-consul, vice-director, vice-governor, vice-king, vice-legate, vice-master, vice-premier, vice-president, vice-queen, vice-regent, vice-warden, vicegerent, wali

• vichyssoise, bisque, borscht, bouillabaisse, bouillon, broth, burgoo, chicken soup, chowder, clam chowder, clear soup, consomme, egg drop soup, fish soup, gazpacho, gravy soup, gumbo, julienne, matzo ball soup, minestrone, misoshiru soup, mock turtle soup, mulligatawny, oxtail soup, pot-au-feu, potage, potage au tomate, potato soup, pottage, puree, soup, stock, thick soup, thin soup, tomato soup, turtle soup, vegetable soup, won ton soup

• vicinity, airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation, area, belt, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, extent, foreground, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, locale, locality, magnitude, matter, milieu, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, range, region, salient, section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, total environment, tune, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, zone

• vicious circle, absurdity, aimlessness, annular muscle, annulus, apparent soundness, areola, aureole, bootlessness, casuistry, chain of circumstances, chain reaction, chaplet, chapter of accidents, circle, circuit, circularity, circumference, circus, closed circle, concatenation of events, corona, coronet, crown, cycle, diadem, discus, disingenuousness, disk, distortion, emptiness, equivocalness, equivocation, eternal return, evasive reasoning, fairy ring, fallaciousness, fallacy, fatuity, feast and famine, fecklessness, fruitlessness, futility, garland, glory, halo, hollowness, impotence, inanity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, ins and outs, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, lasso, logical circle, loop, looplet, magic circle, meaninglessness, misapplication, mystification, noose, nugacity, obfuscation, obscurantism, orbit, otiosity, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, pointlessness, profitlessness, purposelessness, radius, rat race, rationalization, ring, rondelle, round, roundel, saucer, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, sphincter, subtlety, the absurd, triviality, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, ups and downs, valuelessness, vanity, vicious reasoning, vicissitudes, vicissitudes of fortune, wheel, worthlessness, wreath

• vicious, Draconian, Tartarean, abominable, acrimonious, amoral, animal, anthropophagous, arrant, atrocious, bad, baleful, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, bestial, bitchy, bitter, black, blamable, blameworthy, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, cannibalistic, concentrated, contaminated, corroding, corrosive, corrupt, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, criminal, cruel, cruel-hearted, damaging, damnable, dark, deadly, defamatory, degenerate, degraded, degrading, deleterious, demoniac, demoniacal, depraved, desperate, despiteful, detrimental, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, disadvantageous, disgraceful, disserviceable, distressing, evil, execrable, exquisite, faulty, fearful, fell, feral, ferine, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, flagitious, flagrant, foul, furious, harmful, hateful, heinous, hellish, hurtful, ill, immoral, improper, inaccurate, inauspicious, inexpedient, infamous, inferior, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous, injurious, invalid, kill-crazy, knavish, lethal, low, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, merciless, mischievous, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, noncivilized, nonmoral, noxious, obnoxious, odious, ominous, opprobrious, peccant, pernicious, perverse, perverted, pitiless, poisonous, poor, prejudicial, profligate, putrid, rancorous, rank, ravening, reprehensible, reprobate, rotten, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, scandalous, scatheful, septic, severe, shameful, shameless, sharkish, sinful, sinister, slanderous, slavering, spiteful, steeped in vice, subhuman, tameless, terrible, toxic, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfavorable, unforgivable, ungentle, unhealthy, unhuman, unkind, unmoral, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprincipled, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, untamed, untoward, unworthy, vehement, venal, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vice-laden, vice-prone, vile, villainous, vindictive, violent, virulent, wicked, wild, wolfish, wrong

• vicissitude, adverse circumstances, adversity, affliction, aggravation, alteration, alternation, annoyance, asperity, blight, bummer, care, chain of circumstances, chain reaction, change, changeability, changes, chapter of accidents, chop and change, concatenation of events, contrasts, cross, curse, difficulties, difficulty, diversity, downer, feast and famine, fluctuation, flukiness, flux, hard knocks, hard life, hard lot, hardcase, hardness, hardship, inconstancy, innovation, ins and outs, irritation, mischance, misfortune, mutability, mutation, novelty, oscillation, pendulation, permutation, plight, predicament, pressure, progression, reversal, rigor, sea of troubles, seesawing, shifting, shuffling, sport, stress, stress of life, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, transposition, trial, tribulation, trouble, troubles, unpredictability, ups and downs, vacillation, vale of tears, variability, variation, variations, variety, vicious circle, vicissitudes, vicissitudes of fortune, wavering

• victim, also-ran, babe, beasts of venery, big game, boob, booby, butt, byword, byword of reproach, casualty, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, defeatee, derision, duck, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, fair game, fall guy, figure of fun, fish, fool, game, game loser, gazingstock, goat, gobe-mouches, good loser, good sport, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, hard-luck guy, hardcase, innocent, jest, jestingstock, joke, kill, laughingstock, leadpipe cinch, loser, mark, martyr, mockery, monkey, object of compassion, offering, patsy, pigeon, plaything, poor devil, poor unfortunate, prey, prize sap, pushover, quarry, sacrifice, sad sack, sap, saphead, scapegoat, schlemiel, schlimazel, sitting duck, sport, stock, stooge, sucker, sufferer, sure loser, target, the hunted, the vanquished, toy, trusting soul, underdog, unfortunate, venery, wretch

• victimization, McCarthyism, bamboozlement, befooling, bluffing, calculated deception, circumvention, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dupery, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, harassment, harrying, hoodwinking, hounding, illusion, kidding, mirage, oppression, outwitting, overreaching, persecution, phantasm, putting on, red-baiting, self-deception, snow job, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, subterfuge, swindling, tormenting, trickiness, tricking, vision, willful misconception, wishful thinking, witch-hunt, witch-hunting

• victimize, bamboozle, beat, beguile of, beset, bilk, bleed, bleed white, bully, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, clip, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, deceive, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, dupe, elude, euchre, evade, exploit, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, foil, fool, frustrate, fudge, get around, get round, give the runaround, give the slip, go after, go one better, gouge, gull, gyp, harass, harry, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold up, hoodwink, hound, hunt, immolate, molest, mulct, oppress, outfigure, outflank, outfox, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overcharge, overprice, overreach, overtax, pack the deal, pass the buck, persecute, pick on, pigeon, practice fraud upon, prey on, profiteer, pursue, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shaft, shave, shortchange, skin, snooker, soak, stack the cards, stick, sting, stonewall, suck in, surcharge, swindle, take a dive, take advantage of, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, torment, trick, use

• victor, champ, champion, comer, conquering hero, conqueror, conquistador, defeater, easy winner, first, hero, master, pancratiast, prizewinner, runner-up, shoo-in, star, subduer, subjugator, success, sure winner, top, top dog, triumpher, vanquisher, winner

• Victorian, Gothic, Quakerish, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, bluenose, censorious, classical, demure, fossil, fossilized, genteel, goody-goody, grown old, hidebound, medieval, mid-Victorian, narrow, of other times, old maid, old-fashioned, old-maidish, old-world, overmodest, petrified, prig, priggish, prim, prissy, prude, prudish, puritan, puritanical, sanctimonious, smug, starchy, stiff-necked, straitlaced, stuffy, superannuated

• victory, accomplishment, advantage, command, conquest, control, crushing, dominion, fortunate outcome, go, mastery, overcoming, prosperity, prosperous issue, quelling, subjugation, success, superiority, supremacy, triumph, upper hand, walkaway, walkover, whip hand, win, winning

• Victrola, Gramophone, PA, PA system, audio sound system, audiophile, binaural system, bitch box, bullhorn, cartridge, ceramic pickup, changer, crystal pickup, derived four-channel system, discrete four-channel system, four-channel stereo system, hi-fi, hi-fi fan, high-fidelity, intercom, intercommunication system, jukebox, magnetic pickup, monaural system, mono, needle, nickelodeon, phonograph, photoelectric pickup, pickup, public-address system, quadraphonic sound system, radio-phonograph combination, record changer, record player, sound reproduction system, sound truck, squawk box, stereo, stylus, system, tape deck, tape recorder, tone arm, transcription turntable, turntable

• victuals, board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, chow, comestibles, creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, eatables, eats, edibles, fare, fast food, feast, feed, food, food and drink, foodstuff, grub, health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, meat, provender, provision, provisions, spread, sustenance, table, tucker, viands, vittles

• videotape, TV show, book, bulletin board, calendar, canned show, card, carve, catalog, catalog card, chalk, chalk up, check in, chronicle, colorcast, cut, disc, docket, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, file, filing card, fill out, film, grave, impanel, incise, index, index card, inscribe, insert, jot down, library catalog, list, live show, log, magnetic tape, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, microcard, microdot, microfiche, microfilm, minute, motion-picture film, note, note down, phonograph record, place upon record, platter, poll, post, post up, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, record, reduce to writing, register, scoreboard, scorecard, scoresheet, set down, simulcast, slip, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, taped show, telecast, telefilm, television broadcast, ticker tape, write, write down, write in, write out, write up

• vie, admit of comparison, antagonize, battle, be commensurable, be comparable, beat against, beat up against, breast the wave, buck, buffet, buffet the waves, challenge, challenge comparison, close with, combat, come up to, compare, compare to, compare with, compete, compete with, contend, contend against, contend for, contest, cope, counter, emulate, equal, fight, fight against, fight for, grapple with, jockey, join battle with, labor against, match, match up with, measure up to, meet, militate against, not compare with, offer resistance, outvie, parallel, pit, reluct, reluctate, resemble, rival, stack up with, stem the tide, stickle for, stipulate for, strive against, strive for, struggle against, struggle for, take on, test one another, vie for, vie with

• view, Anschauung, account, aim, airscape, ambition, analysis, analyzing, angle, angle of vision, animadvert, animus, appraisal, appraisement, appraising, appreciation, apprehension, approach, aspect, aspiration, assess, assessing, assessment, assumption, attend, attitude, audit, basis, be disposed to, be vigilant, be watchful, because of, behold, belief, believe, canvass, catch sight of, check over, check up, cityscape, clap eyes on, climate of opinion, cloudscape, command, common belief, community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, configuration, consensus gentium, consider, consideration, considering, contemplate, contemplation, conviction, counsel, deduction, deem, dekko, descry, desideration, desideratum, design, desire, determination, diorama, direction, discern, discover, distinguish, domination, dream, effect, eidolon, envisage, envision, espy, estimate, estimation, ethos, evaluating, evaluation, evaluative criticism, examination, examine, expectation, exterior, eye, eyeball, eyeful, eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, facet, farmscape, fashion, feature, feel about it, feeling, field of view, field of vision, figure, fixed purpose, follow, footing, form, frame of reference, framework, function, gauge, gauging, gaze at, general belief, gestalt, glimpse, goal, guise, have a looksee, have in sight, heed, hold, hold in view, hope, horizon, idea, image, imagine, imago, impression, in consideration of, in view of, incline toward, inference, inspect, inspection, intendment, intent, intention, interior, judge, judgement, judgment, keep in sight, keep in view, keep under observation, ken, landscape, lay eyes on, lean toward, leer, leering look, light, lights, likeness, limit of vision, line of sight, lineaments, look, look after, look at, look at it, look on, look upon, look-in, lookout, lustful leer, make out, manner, mark, meaning, measurement, mental outlook, mind, motive, mystique, naked eye, nisus, note, notice, notion, object, objective, observation, observe, ocular, on account of, opinion, outlook, outlook over, panorama, pastoral, perceive, personal judgment, perspective, persuasion, phase, phasis, pick out, picture, place, plan, point, point of view, popular belief, position, posture, prefer, presumption, prevailing belief, preview, project, projection, proposal, prospect, prospectus, public belief, public opinion, purpose, range, ranking, rate, rating, reaction, reckon, reckoning, recognize, reconnoiter, reference, reference system, regard, remark, representation, resolution, resolve, respect, review, riverscape, sake, scan, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, scope, scope of vision, scout, scrutinize, scrutiny, seapiece, seascape, see, seeable, seeming, semblance, sentiment, shape, side, sidelong look, sight, sightliness, simulacrum, situation, skyscape, slant, sly look, snowscape, spectacle, spot, spy, spy upon, stance, stand, standpoint, striving, study, style, survey, sweep, system, tableau, take in, take note, take notice, tend, tend toward, theory, think of, thinking, thought, total effect, townscape, twig, twist, understanding, universe, valuation, valuing, vet, view, viewable, viewpoint, visible, vision, vista, visualize, watch, waterscape, way of thinking, weighing, will, wise, witness

• viewer, TV-viewer, accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, beholder, bird-watcher, bystander, consignee, drugstore cowboy, eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, getter, girl-watcher, goggler, hearer, holder, kibitzer, listener, looker, looker-on, observer, obtainer, ogler, onlooker, payee, perceiver, percipient, procurer, receiver, recipient, seer, sidewalk superintendent, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, taker, televiewer, television-viewer, trustee, video-gazer, watcher, witness

• viewpoint, Anschauung, angle, angle of vision, aspect, attitude, base, basis, coign of vantage, configuration, context, direction, distance, effect, eidolon, estimation, eye, facet, fashion, feature, figure, footing, form, frame of reference, framework, gestalt, ground, guise, image, imago, impression, light, likeness, lineaments, long, look, manner, mental outlook, outlook, perspective, phase, phasis, place, point of view, position, post, posture, reference, reference system, regard, respect, seat, seeming, semblance, shape, side, sight, simulacrum, situation, slant, stance, stand, standing, standpoint, station, status, style, system, total effect, twist, universe, vantage, vantage point, venue, view, way of thinking, wise

• vigil, Mass, alertness, all-night vigil, bedtime prayer, camp meeting, church, church service, compline, consciousness, custodianship, custody, devotions, divine service, duty, eagle eye, evening devotions, evensong, exercises, guard, guardedness, guardianship, insomnia, insomniac, insomnolence, insomnolency, invigilation, lauds, lidless vigil, liturgy, lookout, matins, meeting, monitoring, morning devotions, night song, none, nones, novena, observance, office, peeled eye, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prime, prime song, proctoring, prudence, public worship, qui vive, restlessness, revival, revival meeting, sentience, service, sext, sharp eye, sleeplessness, stewardship, surveillance, tent meeting, tierce, tossing and turning, undersong, vesper, vespers, vigilance, vigils, wake, wakefulness, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye

• vigilance, alertness, attentiveness, caution, circumspection, custodianship, custody, eagle eye, guard, guardedness, guardianship, invigilation, lookout, monitoring, observance, peeled eye, proctoring, prudence, qui vive, sharp eye, stewardship, surveillance, tout, vigil, wariness, watch, watch and ward, watchful eye, watchfulness, watching, weather eye

• vigilant, Argus-eyed, acute, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, all ready, all set, armed, armed and ready, attentive, aux aguets, avid, booted and spurred, briefed, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, coached, cocked, covering, custodial, defensive, eager, eagle-eyed, equipped, familiarized, fostering, good and ready, groomed, guarded, guardian, guarding, hawk-eyed, immunizing, in arms, in battle array, in readiness, in the saddle, informed, keen, keen-eyed, lidless, loaded, loaded for bear, mature, mobilized, observant, on guard, on the alert, on the lookout, on the mark, on the watch, open-eyed, parental, planned, prearranged, prepared, prepared and ready, prepped, preventive, primed, prophylactic, protecting, protective, provided, prudent, psyched up, ready, ready for anything, ripe, safeguarding, screening, set, sharp, sharp-eyed, sheltering, shielding, sleepless, tutelary, unsleeping, up in arms, wakeful, wary, watchful, well-prepared, wide-awake, with open eyes

• vigilantes, Cheka, FBI, Gestapo, Interpol, MP, MVD, Mounties, NKVD, OGPU, RCMP, SP, Scotland Yard, constabulary, county police, highway patrol, law enforcement agency, military police, police, police force, political police, posse, provincial police, riot police, secret police, security force, shore patrol, special police, state police, tactical police, troopers, vigilance committee

• vignette, Bildungsroman, Gothic novel, aquatint, autolithograph, black and white, block, block print, brouillon, cameo, cartoon, catalog, cataloging, character, character sketch, characterization, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chiaroscuro, chromolithograph, color print, comic novel, copperplate, copperplate print, crayon, crayon engraving, cut, delineation, depiction, description, design, details, detective novel, diagram, dime novel, doodle, draft, drawing, dreadful, ebauche, engravement, engraving, epistolary novel, erotic novel, esquisse, etching, evocation, graph, graphic account, graphotype, historical novel, image, imagery, impress, impression, imprint, itemization, limning, line drawing, linoleum-block print, lithograph, mezzotint, negative, nouvelle, novel, novel of character, novel of ideas, novel of incident, novel of manners, novel of sensibility, novelette, novella, particularization, pastel, pen-and-ink, pencil drawing, penny dreadful, photograph, picaresque novel, picture, pornographic novel, portrayal, print, problem novel, profile, proletarian novel, propaganda novel, psychological novel, regional novel, rendering, rendition, representation, river novel, roman, roman a clef, roman-fleuve, rough copy, rough draft, rough outline, rubber-block print, satirical novel, science-fiction novel, sentimental novel, shilling shocker, short story, short-short, silhouette, silver-print drawing, sinopia, sketch, sociological novel, specification, storiette, stream-of-consciousness novel, study, thesis novel, tracing, vivid description, wood engraving, woodblock, woodcut, woodprint, word painting, xylograph

• vigor, amperage, animal spirits, animation, armipotence, authority, bang, beef, bite, bitingness, black power, bounce, brio, briskness, brute force, capacity, capersomeness, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, coltishness, compulsion, cuttingness, decisiveness, demonic energy, dint, drive, duress, dynamism, eagerness, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, elan, endurance, energy, enthusiasm, ergal, esprit, exuberance, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, fortitude, friskiness, frolicsomeness, full blast, full force, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, get-up-and-go, getup, go, gusto, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardiness, healthiness, heartiness, impressiveness, incisiveness, influence, intensity, intestinal fortitude, kinetic energy, life, liveliness, longevity, lustihood, lustiness, main force, main strength, mana, manliness, mettle, mettlesomeness, might, might and main, mightiness, mordancy, moxie, muscle, muscle power, muscularity, nervosity, nervousness, obstinacy, oomph, pep, piss and vinegar, pith, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, poop, potence, potency, potential energy, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, resilience, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, ruggedness, sinew, sinewiness, skittishness, snap, soundness, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spunk, stalwartness, stamina, starch, staying power, steam, sticking power, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strenuousness, strong arm, strong language, sturdiness, superiority, superpower, toughness, trenchancy, validity, vehemence, verve, vigorousness, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, vivacity, wattage, weight, zealousness, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

• vigorous, ablaze, acid, active, acute, afire, aggressive, animated, ardent, armipotent, athletic, authoritative, balmy, beefy, biting, blooming, blossoming, boiling over, booming, bouncing, breathless, brisk, burning, cartilaginous, chewy, clear, cogent, cohesive, cordial, coriaceous, corrosive, cutting, dashing, delirious, doughty, driving, drunk, durable, dynamic, effective, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, fair, fat, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fibrous, fiery, fit, flaming, flourishing, flowering, flush, flushed, forceful, forcible, forcy, fruiting, full of beans, full of pep, full-blooded, full-strength, glowing, go-go, going strong, gristly, gutsy, gutty, halcyon, hale, hale and hearty, hard, hard as nails, hard-hitting, hardy, healthy, hearty, heated, hefty, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, hot, husky, impassioned, imperative, impetuous, impressive, in force, in full swing, in good case, in power, incisive, intense, intoxicated, iron-hard, irresistible, keen, kinetic, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, lively, living, lusty, masterful, mettlesome, mighty, mighty in battle, mordant, muscular, nervous, nervy, obstinate, on fire, operative, palmy, passionate, penetrating, peppy, piercing, piping, poignant, potent, powerful, prepotent, prospering, proud, puissant, punchy, red-blooded, red-hot, resilient, resistant, robust, robustious, robustuous, ropy, rosy, rough-and-ready, rude, rugged, ruling, sensational, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, sleek, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stalwart, steaming, steamy, steely, stiff, stout, strapping, strenuous, striking, stringy, strong, strong as brandy, strong as strong, strong-willed, stubborn, sturdy, take-charge, take-over, telling, tenacious, thriving, tough, tough as leather, trenchant, unrestrained, untiring, valid, vibrant, vigil, viscid, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, wiry, zealous, zestful, zesty, zippy

• vigorously, actively, alertly, boldly, briskly, dynamically, eagerly, energetically, firmly, forcefully, forcibly, hammer and tongs, hardily, hardly, heartily, like crazy, like mad, lustily, might and main, mightily, powerfully, purposefully, resolutely, robustly, spiritedly, stalwartly, strenuously, strongly, unfalteringly, vivaciously, with a vengeance, zealously

• viking, AB, Ancient Mariner, Argonaut, Blackbeard, Captain Hook, Captain Kidd, Dylan, Flying Dutchman, Henry Morgan, Jean Lafitte, Neptune, OD, Poseidon, Varuna, able seaman, able-bodied seaman, air pirate, airplane hijacker, bluejacket, buccaneer, corsair, deep-sea man, fair-weather sailor, fisherman, hearty, jack, jack afloat, jack-tar, jacky, limey, lobsterman, mariner, matelot, navigator, picaroon, pirate, privateer, rover, sailor, salt, sea dog, sea king, sea rover, seafarer, seafaring man, seaman, shipman, skyjacker, tar, water dog, whaler, windjammer, windsailor

• vile, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, abusive, amoral, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, base-minded, bawdy, beastly, beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, blue, brackish, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious, cheap, cheesy, cloying, coarse, comminatory, common, contemptible, contumelious, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crude, crummy, cursing, damnable, damnatory, dark, debased, debauched, degenerate, degraded, degrading, denunciatory, deplorable, depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, dysphemistic, egregious, enormous, epithetic, evil, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fecal, feculent, fetid, fiendish, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, fulminatory, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gaudy, gimcracky, gloppy, grave, graveolent, grievous, gross, gunky, hateful, heinous, hellish, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble, ignominious, ill-smelling, immoral, imprecatory, improper, impure, infamous, iniquitous, ithyphallic, knavish, lamentable, lewd, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, lurid, maggoty, maledictory, malodorous, mangy, mawkish, mean, measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, mucky, musty, nasty, naughty, nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious, odorous, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, paltry, pathetic, peccant, perverted, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous, poky, poor, pornographic, profane, puky, putrid, rancid, rank, rascally, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, recreant, reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible, reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald, risque, roguish, rotten, rubbishy, sad, salacious, scabby, scampish, scandalous, scatologic, schlock, scoundrelly, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, scuzzy, servile, shabby, shameful, shameless, shitty, shocking, shoddy, sickening, sinful, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, small, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking-room, smutty, sordid, sorry, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy, sulfurous, sultry, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, ugly, unchaste, unclean, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable, unprintable, unrepeatable, unspeakable, unworthy, valueless, vicious, villainous, vituperative, vomity, vulgar, weevily, wicked, woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky

• vilification, abuse, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, calumny, character assassination, contumely, defamation, defamation of character, defilement, denigration, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad, malicious defamation, muckraking, mudslinging, name-calling, obloquy, onslaught, opprobrium, philippic, rating, revilement, screed, scurrility, smear, smear campaign, smear word, tirade, tongue-lashing, vituperation

• vilify, abuse, asperse, assail, attaint, bad-mouth, bark at, berate, besmirch, bespatter, betongue, blacken, blackguard, blaspheme, blot, blow upon, brand, call names, calumniate, censure, curse, cuss out, damn, debase, decry, defame, defile, denigrate, denounce, deprecate, depreciate, devalue, diminish, disapprove, disparage, engage in personalities, epithet, epithetize, execrate, expose, expose to infamy, fulminate against, gibbet, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, jaw, libel, load with reproaches, malign, mistreat, misuse, muckrake, outrage, pillory, rag, rail at, rate, rave against, reprimand, revile, run down, slander, slur, smear, smirch, soil, speak ill of, stain, stigmatize, sully, swear, swear at, taint, tarnish, tear down, throw mud at, thunder against, tongue-lash, traduce, vituperate, yell at, yelp at

• vilifying, abusive, back-biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, maligning, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, vituperative

• village, Kreis, archbishopric, archdiocese, arrondissement, bailiwick, bishopric, borough, burghal, canton, citified, city, civic, commune, congressional district, constablewick, country town, county, crossroads, departement, diocese, district, downtown, duchy, electoral district, electorate, government, ham, hamlet, hundred, interurban, magistracy, metropolis, metropolitan, metropolitan area, midtown, municipal, oblast, okrug, oppidan, parish, precinct, principality, province, region, riding, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, soke, stake, state, suburban, territory, thorp, town, township, uptown, urban, wapentake, ward, wick

• villager, big-city man, bourgeois, burgess, burgher, city dweller, city man, city slicker, exurbanite, oppidan, suburbanite, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman, urbanite, villageress

• villain, Roscius, SOB, actor, actress, antagonist, antihero, bad guy, bad person, barnstormer, bastard, bit, bit part, blackguard, blighter, bounder, cad, caitiff, cast, character, character actor, character man, character woman, child actor, criminal, crook, cue, cur, deceiver, delinquent, devil, diseur, diseuse, dog, dramatizer, evildoer, fat part, feeder, felon, foil, gangster, heavy, hero, heroine, histrio, histrion, ingenue, juvenile, knave, lawbreaker, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, lines, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, matinee idol, mime, mimer, mimic, miscreant, misfeasor, mobster, monologist, mummer, outlaw, pantomime, pantomimist, part, person, personage, piece, playactor, player, precious rascal, protagonist, protean actor, public enemy, racketeer, rapscallion, rascal, rat, reciter, reptile, rogue, role, rotter, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, shyster, side, sinner, sneak, soubrette, spalpeen, stage performer, stage player, stooge, straight man, straight part, stroller, strolling player, supporting character, supporting role, theatrical, thespian, thief, title role, transgressor, trouper, utility man, viper, walk-on, walking part, worker of ill, wretch, wrongdoer

• villainous, abandoned, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bent, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy, brutal, contemptible, contrary, corrupt, criminal, crooked, damnable, dark, debased, degenerate, degraded, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest, dissolute, dreadful, egregious, enormous, evil, execrable, faithless, felonious, fetid, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, improper, infamous, iniquitous, knavish, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low, miscreant, monstrous, murderous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, peccant, perfidious, perverse, perverted, pitiable, pitiful, profligate, putrid, rank, rascally, recreant, regrettable, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, roguish, rotten, sad, scampish, scandalous, schlock, scoundrelly, scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sinful, sordid, squalid, terrible, too bad, traitorous, treacherous, unclean, unforgivable, unpardonable, unscrupulous, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, wicked, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong

• villainy, abomination, atrocity, bad, baseness, chicanery, degradation, disgrace, error, evil, infamy, iniquity, knavery, knavishness, moral turpitude, obliquity, peccancy, rascality, rascalry, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, scandal, scoundrelism, shame, sin, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, wrong

• villein, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, concubine, debt slave, galley slave, helot, homager, liege, liege man, liege subject, odalisque, peon, serf, servant, slave, subject, theow, thrall, vassal

• villenage, absolutism, adverse possession, alodium, bond service, bondage, burgage, captivity, claim, colony, control, de facto, de jure, debt slavery, dependency, deprivation of freedom, derivative title, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, feudalism, feudality, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, having title to, helotism, helotry, hold, holding, indentureship, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, mandate, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, peonage, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, restraint, seisin, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, socage, squatting, subjection, subjugation, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, thrall, thralldom, title, tyranny, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, vassalage, villein socage, villeinhold, yoke

• vim, aggressiveness, amperage, animal spirits, animation, armipotence, authority, bang, beef, black power, breeziness, brio, briskness, brute force, bubbliness, capersomeness, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, coltishness, compulsion, dash, dint, drive, duress, ebullience, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, effervescence, elan, energy, enterprise, esprit, exuberance, fire, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, full blast, full force, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, get-up-and-go, ginger, gusto, heartiness, influence, initiative, kick, life, liveliness, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, oomph, pep, pepper, peppiness, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, rollicksomeness, rompishness, sinew, skittishness, snap, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spunk, starch, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, thrust, validity, vehemence, verve, vigor, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, wattage, weight, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

• vindicate, absolve, account for, acquit, advocate, amnesty, argue, assert, bear out, claim, clear, confute, contend, cry sour grapes, decontaminate, defend, destigmatize, discharge, dismiss, dispense from, disprove, do justice to, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exempt from, exonerate, explain, forgive, free, give absolution, grant amnesty to, grant immunity, grant remission, guard, justify, let go, let off, nonpros, pardon, plead for, protect, prove, purge, quash the charge, rationalize, redress, refute, rehabilitate, reinstate, release, remit, restore, revenge, second, set free, shield, shrive, spiteful, support, uphold, warrant, whitewash, withdraw the charge

• vindication, absolution, acquittal, acquittance, clearance, clearing, compurgation, destigmatization, destigmatizing, discharge, disculpation, dismissal, exculpation, excuse, exoneration, explanation, forgiveness, justification, pardon, purgation, purging, quietus, quittance, rationalization, rehabilitation, reinstatement, release, remission, restoration, verdict of acquittal

• vindicator, Nemesis, advocate, apologete, apologist, apologizer, avenger, champion, defender, guard, justifier, paladin, pleader, proponent, protector, revanchist, successful advocate, supporter, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, upholder, whitewasher

• vine, algae, autophyte, bean, bittersweet, bracken, brown algae, clematis, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, dewberry, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grape, grapevine, green algae, greenbrier, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, honeysuckle, hop, ivy, jasmine, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, poison ivy, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, trumpet creeper, vetch, wisteria, wort, wrack

• vinegar, acid, acidulant, bread-and-butter pickle, brine, chokecherry, crab apple, dill pickle, embalming fluid, formaldehyde, green apple, lemon, lime, pickle, preservative, preservative medium, salt, sour, sour balls, sour cream, sour grapes, sour pickle, sourdough, verjuice, yogurt

• vinegarish, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, bearish, bilious, bitter, cankered, choleric, crab, crabbed, cranky, cross-grained, crotchety, dry, dyspeptic, embittered, green, jaundiced, ornery, pickled, pungent, sec, sour, sour as vinegar, sour-tempered, soured, sourish, tart, tartish, unripe, unsweet, unsweetened, vinegary, waspish

• vineyard, Japanese garden, alpine garden, arboretum, bed, bog garden, border, botanical garden, dry garden, flower bed, flower garden, garden, garden spot, grape ranch, grapery, herbarium, hortus siccus, jardin, kitchen garden, market garden, ornamental garden, paradise, pinetum, rock garden, roof garden, shrubbery, sunken garden, tea garden, truck garden, vegetable garden, victory garden, vinery

• vintage, aftermath, aged, antiquated, antique, archaic, bearing, best, better, bumper crop, bygone, choice, classic, classical, collector, crop, dated, demode, fruit, generation, good, harvest, make, matured, mellowed, old, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-time, origin, outdated, outmoded, output, over the hill, passe, proceeds, produce, product, production, quality, seasoned, second crop, select, superior, year, yield

• vintner, baker, barkeep, barkeeper, barmaid, barman, bartender, bookdealer, bookseller, bootlegger, brewer, brewmaster, butcher, chandler, clothing merchant, confectioner, distiller, draper, drysalter, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hardwareman, ironmonger, jeweler, liquor dealer, liquor merchant, liquor store owner, mixologist, moonshiner, newsdealer, perfumer, poulterer, publican, saddler, stationer, tapster, tapstress, tobacconist, wine merchant

• viol, baritone, bass viol, descant viol, rebec, tenor viol, treble viol, tromba marina, trumpet marine, vielle, viol family, viola bastarda, viola da braccio, viola da gamba, viola da spalla, viola di bordone, viola di fagotto, viola pomposa, violette

• viola, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, English horn, G string, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, bass, bass viol, bassoon, block flute, bombard, bourdon, bow, bridge, bull fiddle, cello, claribel, clarinet, clarion, concert flute, contrabass, cornet, cornopean, cromorna, crowd, cymbel, diapason, double bass, dulciana, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fingerboard, flute stop, foundation stop, fourniture, gamba, gedeckt, gemshorn, harmonic flute, hybrid stop, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, koppel flute, larigot, melodia, mixture, mutation stop, nazard, oboe, octave, organ stop, piccolo, plein jeu, posaune, principal, quint, quintaten, rank, ranket, reed stop, register, rohr flute, scroll, sesquialtera, shawm, soundboard, spitz flute, stop, stopped diapason, stopped flute, string, string diapason, string stop, tenor violin, tierce, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, tuning peg, twelfth, unda maris, vibrato, violin, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta, voix celeste, vox angelica, vox humana

• violate, abuse, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, assault, assault sexually, attack, barbarize, batter, befoul, betray, bewitch, blight, breach, breach the law, break, break the law, brutalize, burn, butcher, canker, care naught for, carry on, cheapen, circumvent the law, coarsen, commit a crime, condemn, confound, contaminate, contravene, convert, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, debase, debauch, deceive, defalcate, defile, deflorate, deflower, defy, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, destroy, devalue, devirginate, disadvantage, dishonor, disobey, disobey the law, disregard, disregard the law, disserve, distort, distress, divert, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, embezzle, envenom, err, flout, force, foul, get into trouble, go counter to, go on, hammer, harass, harm, hex, hurt, ignore, impair, infect, infract, infringe, injure, jinx, lay waste, lead astray, loot, maladminister, maltreat, maul, menace, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mislead, mismanage, mistreat, misuse, molest, mug, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not observe, offend, outrage, overpass, peculate, persecute, pervert, pilfer, pillage, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, possess sexually, prejudice, profane, prostitute, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, ravish, refuse to cooperate, riot, roar, ruin, sack, savage, scathe, scoff at, seduce, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, sin, slaughter, soil, sow chaos, spoil, storm, sully, taint, take, tear, tear around, terrorize, threaten, torment, torture, trample, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon, transgress, trespass, twist, ulcerate, vandalize, violate the law, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

• violation, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, abomination, abuse, abuse of office, abusing, assault, atrocity, attack, bad faith, battering, befoulment, betrayal, blasphemy, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, break, breaking, butchery, civil disobedience, contravention, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, criminal assault, criminality, debasement, debasing, debauchment, defacement, defalcation, defilement, defiling, defloration, deflowering, deflowerment, degradation, degrading, delict, delinquency, desecrating, desecration, despoilment, deviance, deviancy, devirgination, disgrace, dishonor, dishonoring, disobedience, disorderliness, disregard, diversion, embezzlement, encroachment, felony, forcible seizure, fouling, frowardness, ignominy, ignoring, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, illegality, improperness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, indiscipline, indocility, infamy, infraction, infringement, infringing, injury, insubordination, intractability, killing, lawbreaking, lawlessness, laying waste, looting, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, maltreatment, malversation, massacre, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdemeanor, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, mistreatment, misusage, misuse, molestation, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, obstreperousness, offense, onslaught, outrage, passive resistance, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pillaging, pity, pollution, poor stewardship, priapism, profanation, profaning, prostitution, rape, ravage, ravishment, recusancy, riot, rioting, sacking, sacrilege, scandal, seducement, seduction, sexual assault, sexual possession, shame, sinfulness, slaughter, sowing with salt, taking, terrible thing, tort, transgression, trespass, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unfitness, unfittingness, unlawfulness, unrighteousness, unruliness, unseemliness, unsubmissiveness, unsuitability, violating, violence, waywardness, wickedness, willful disobedience, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness

• violence, Alecto, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, abuse, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, agitability, animality, argumentum baculinum, assault, astringency, atrociousness, atrocity, attack, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bite, bitterness, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brute force, brutishness, burning rage, cannibalism, causticity, clash, coercion, combustibility, compulsion, constraint, cruelness, cruelty, damage, destructiveness, distort, do violence to, duress, edge, edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, energy, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, foul, frenzy, furious rage, furor, fury, grip, harm, harshness, high pressure, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, inflammability, inhumaneness, inhumanity, injure, injury, intensity, intimidation, irascibility, irritability, keenness, latent violence, maltreatment, might, mightiness, mistreatment, molestation, mordacity, mordancy, murderousness, nervousness, outrage, passion, perturbability, physical force, poignancy, point, power, pressure, prickliness, rage, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, sensitivity, severity, sharpness, skittishness, startlishness, sting, strength, stridency, stringency, strong-arm tactics, tartness, tearing passion, teeth, tempestuousness, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, the big stick, the bludgeon, the club, the jackboot, the mailed fist, the strong arm, the sword, touchiness, towering rage, trenchancy, truculence, twist, uproar, vandalism, vehemence, viciousness, vigor, violation, virulence, wanton cruelty, warp, wildness

• violent, Dionysiac, Mafioso, Young Turk, abandoned, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, amok, astringent, bacchic, barbarous, beast, beastly, beldam, bellowing, berserk, berserker, biting, bitter, bomber, brutal, brute, brutish, bulldozer, carried away, cataclysmic, catastrophic, caustic, coercive, concentrated, corybantic, crazed, cruel, cutting, damaging, deleterious, delirious, demon, demoniac, desperate, destructive, detrimental, devastating, devil, distracted, double-edged, dragon, drastic, ecstatic, edged, energetic, enraptured, escharotic, excessive, exorbitant, exquisite, extravagant, extreme, feral, ferocious, fiend, fierce, fiery, fire-eater, firebrand, forceful, forcible, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, fury, goon, gorilla, great, gunsel, haggard, hardnose, harmful, harsh, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hog-wild, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotheaded, hotspur, howling, hysterical, immoderate, impetuous, in a transport, in hysterics, incendiary, incisive, inhuman, injurious, inordinate, insane, intemperate, intense, intoxicated, irrational, keen, killer, like one possessed, mad, mad dog, madcap, madding, maenadic, maniac, maniacal, mean, mighty, monster, mordacious, mordant, mugger, nasty, orgasmic, orgiastic, outrageous, passionate, penetrating, physical, piercing, poignant, possessed, potent, powerful, rabid, raging, ramping, ranting, rapist, raving, raving mad, ravished, revolutionary, rigorous, roaring, rough, ruinous, running mad, running wild, savage, scathing, serious, severe, sharp, she-wolf, simmering, sledgehammer, spitfire, splitting, stabbing, stark-raving mad, steamroller, stinging, storming, stormy, strident, stringent, strong, strong-arm, tart, tempestuous, termagant, terrible, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tornadic, tough, tough guy, transported, trenchant, ugly customer, unconscionable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, untamed, vehement, venomous, vicious, virago, virulent, vitriolic, vixen, volcanic, wild, wild beast, wild-eyed, wild-looking, witch, wolf

• violently, all to pieces, deliriously, demonically, desperately, destructively, distractedly, fanatically, fiercely, frantically, frenetically, frenziedly, furiously, hotly, like blazes, like fury, like mad, like one possessed, madly, rabidly, rigorously, severely, stormily, turbulently, uncontrollably, vehemently, venomously, virulently, wildly, with a vengeance

• violet, amethystine, lavender, lilac, livid, magenta, mauve, mulberry, orchid, pansy-purple, plum-colored, plum-purple, purple, purplescent, purplish, purply, purpurate, purpure, purpureal, purpurean, purpureous, raisin-colored, violaceous

• violin, A string, Amati, Cremona, D string, E string, G string, Strad, Stradivari, Stradivarius, bass, bass viol, bow, bridge, bull fiddle, cello, contrabass, crowd, double bass, fiddle, fiddlebow, fiddlestick, fingerboard, kit, kit fiddle, kit violin, scroll, soundboard, string, tenor violin, tuning peg, viola, violinette, violoncello, violoncello piccolo, violone, violotta

• VIP, Establishment, Rasputin, Svengali, access, aristocracy, bad influence, baron, barons, big cheese, big gun, big man, big name, big shot, big wheel, bigwig, brass, brass hat, celebrity, court, cream, dignitary, dignity, elder, elite, eminence grise, establishment, fat cat, father, figure, five-percenter, friend at court, good influence, gray eminence, great man, heavyweight, hidden hand, important person, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, interests, key, kingmaker, leader, lion, lobby, lobbyist, lords of creation, luminary, magnate, man of influence, man of mark, manipulator, mogul, nabob, name, nobility, notability, notable, open sesame, overlapping, panjandrum, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, power, power elite, power structure, powers that be, pressure group, ruling circle, ruling circles, ruling class, sachem, sinister influence, somebody, something, special interests, special-interest group, the Establishment, the best, the best people, the brass, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, upper class, upper crust, very important person, wheeler-dealer, wire-puller, worthy

• viper, animal, beast, cur, dog, hound, hyena, insect, mongrel, ophidian, pig, pit viper, polecat, reptile, sea snake, serpent, skunk, snake, swine, varmint, vermin, whelp, worm

• virago, Jezebel, Mafioso, Xanthippe, Young Turk, amazon, androgyne, battle-ax, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, bitch, bitch-kitty, bomber, brute, butch, cat, common scold, demon, devil, dragon, dyke, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, fury, goon, gorilla, grimalkin, gunsel, hag, hardnose, harpy, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hoyden, incendiary, killer, lesbian, mad dog, madcap, monster, mugger, ogress, rapist, revolutionary, romp, savage, scold, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, siren, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tomboy, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, vixen, wild beast, wildcat, witch, wolf

• virgin, Platonic, able, abstinent, acarpous, arid, artless, babe, baby, bachelor girl, bachelorlike, back, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, barren, bright, broad, callow, celibate, chick, childless, colleen, continent, cutie, dame, damoiselle, damsel, demoiselle, desert, desolate, dewy, doll, drained, dried-up, dry, enigmatic, ever-new, evergreen, exhausted, fallow, feme sole, filly, firsthand, fledgling, frail, fresh, fruitless, gal, gaunt, gelded, girl, girlie, green, harmless, heifer, hinterland, hoyden, husbandless, immature, impotent, in the raw, inartificial, incalculable, incognizable, ineffectual, infecund, infertile, innocent, intact, inviolate, issueless, jejune, jeune fille, jill, junior miss, lass, lassie, leached, little missy, lone woman, mademoiselle, maid, maiden, maiden lady, maidenly, menopausal, mint, miss, missy, mysterious, native, natural, neoteric, nestling, new, nonfertile, nonproducing, nonproductive, nonprolific, nymphet, old maid, old-maidish, original, outback, piece, primeval, pristine, puzzling, raw, romp, scatheless, schoolgirl, schoolmaid, schoolmiss, sealed, sempervirent, sine prole, single, single girl, skirt, slip, sole, spinster, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, spinstress, spouseless, sterile, strange, subdeb, subdebutante, subteen, subteener, sucked dry, sylvan, teemless, teenybopper, tomato, tomboy, unapparent, unapprehended, unascertained, unbeaten, unbeknown, unbroken, unbruised, uncharted, unclassified, uncultivated, undamaged, undefaced, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, undeveloped, undisclosed, undiscoverable, undiscovered, undivulged, unexplained, unexplored, unexposed, unfaded, unfamiliar, unfathomed, unfertile, unfledged, unfruitful, unhandled, unharmed, unheard, unheard-of, unhurt, unidentified, unimpaired, uninjured, uninvestigated, unknowable, unknown, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred, unmarried, unperceived, unplowed, unplumbed, unproductive, unprolific, unrevealed, unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unsown, unspoiled, unsullied, unsuspected, untapped, untilled, untorn, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unwed, unwedded, unwithered, unworn, up-country, vernal, vestal, vestal virgin, virginal, waste, wasted, wench, wild, wilderness, without issue, woodland, young, young creature, young thing

• virginal, Platonic, abstinent, artless, bachelorlike, budding, callow, celibate, continent, dewy, ever-new, evergreen, firsthand, fledgling, fresh, green, growing, husbandless, immature, impubic, in the raw, inartificial, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, juicy, maiden, maidenly, minor, naive, native, natural, neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, old-maidish, original, pristine, raw, ripening, sappy, sempervirent, single, sole, spinsterish, spinsterlike, spinsterly, spouseless, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmarried, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, unspoiled, unsullied, untapped, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, unwed, unwedded, vernal, vestal, virgin, young

• virginity, Platonic love, abstinence, artlessness, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, berry, brand-newness, callowness, celibacy, chasteness, chastity, continence, continency, dewiness, freshness, gloss of novelty, greenness, immaturity, inartificiality, intactness, lateness, maidenhead, maidenhood, mint condition, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, natural man, natural state, naturalness, nature, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, presentness, pristineness, purity, rawness, recency, recentness, single blessedness, single state, singleness, spinsterhood, state of nature, strangeness, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unusualness, unwed state, virgin state

• virgule, band, bar, bend, bias, cross-hatching, dash, delineation, diagonal, dotted line, hachure, hairline, hatching, line, lineation, oblique, oblique angle, oblique figure, oblique line, rhomboid, score, scratch comma, separatrix, slant, slash, solidus, streak, streaking, striation, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, sublineation, transverse, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring

• virile, broad-shouldered, decisive, driving, energetic, forceful, hairychested, he-mannish, macho, male, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, masculine, potent, robust, ultramasculine, viripotent

• virility, adulthood, adultness, age of consent, amperage, armipotence, authority, beef, black power, brute force, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, dint, drive, driving age, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, flower of age, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full age, full blast, full bloom, full force, full growth, fullgrownness, grown-upness, influence, legal age, legalis homo, machismo, main force, main strength, majority, mana, manhood, manlihood, manly vigor, mature age, maturity, might, might and main, mightiness, moxie, muscle power, pizzazz, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, prime, prime of life, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, ripe age, riper years, sexual power, sinew, steam, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, toga virilis, ultramasculinity, validity, vehemence, vigor, vim, virileness, virtue, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, womanhood, womanlihood, years of discretion

• virtu, aesthetics, art, art object, artistic skill, artistic taste, artistry, arty-craftiness, brainchild, bric-a-brac, classic, composition, connoisseurship, creation, design, dilettantism, epicureanism, epicurism, expertise, expertism, flair, friandise, gastronomy, grotesque, kitsch, master, masterpiece, masterwork, mobile, museum piece, nude, old master, pasticcio, pastiche, piece, piece of virtu, stabile, statue, still life, study, talent, virtuosity, work, work of art

• virtual, accepted, basic, between the lines, constructive, covert, cryptic, delitescent, dormant, effective, esoteric, essential, fundamental, hibernating, hidden, latent, lurking, muffled, mystic, obfuscated, obscured, occult, possible, potential, practical, sleeping, submerged, under the surface, underlying, understood, unmanifested, veiled

• virtually, absolutely, actually, all in all, almost, almost entirely, approximately, as good as, basically, by and large, chiefly, effectively, effectually, essentially, fundamentally, in effect, in essence, in substance, in the main, latently, mainly, morally, more or less, mostly, nearly, on balance, on the whole, potentially, practically, substantially, underlyingly

• virtue, Dutch courage, advantageousness, affection, agreeableness, amperage, arete, armipotence, asset, assured probity, attribute, auspiciousness, authority, because of, beef, beneficialness, benevolence, benignity, black power, blamelessness, blotlessness, boldness, braveness, bravery, brute force, by dint of, by reason of, by virtue of, caliber, character, characteristic, charge, charisma, chasteness, chastity, chivalrousness, chivalry, class, cleanliness, cleanness, clout, cogence, cogency, compulsion, conspicuous gallantry, courage, courageousness, credit, decency, desert, dint, doughtiness, drive, duress, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, efficacy, energy, erectness, estimableness, ethicality, ethicalness, excellence, excellency, expedience, fairness, favorableness, fealty, feature, fidelity, fineness, first-rateness, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, gallantness, gallantry, gallantry under fire, good character, goodliness, goodness, grace, greatheartedness, healthiness, helpfulness, heroicalness, heroism, high ideals, high principles, high-mindedness, honesty, honor, honorableness, immaculacy, immaculateness, influence, innocence, integrity, intrepidity, intrepidness, irreproachability, irreproachableness, justice, justness, kindness, knightliness, lionheartedness, loyalty, main force, main strength, mana, manfulness, manhood, manliness, mark, martial spirit, merit, might, might and main, mightiness, military spirit, moral excellence, moral strength, morale, morality, morals, moxie, muscle power, niceness, nobility, on account of, owing to, perfection, piety, pizzazz, pleasantness, poop, pot-valor, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, principles, probity, productiveness, productivity, profitableness, property, prowess, puissance, pull, punch, pureness, purity, push, quality, rectitude, reputability, respectability, rewardingness, righteousness, rightness, savor, sexual innocence, sinew, skillfulness, snowiness, soldierly quality, soundness, spotlessness, stainlessness, stalwartness, stature, steam, stoutheartedness, stoutness, strength, strong arm, superiority, superpower, taintlessness, thanks to, trait, unblemishedness, unblottedness, uncorruptness, undefiledness, unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unsoiledness, unspottedness, unstainedness, unsulliedness, untaintedness, uprightness, upstandingness, usefulness, valiance, valiancy, validity, valor, valorousness, value, vehemence, vigor, vim, virginity, virility, virtuousness, virulence, vitality, wattage, weight, whiteness, wholeness, worth, worthiness

• virtuosity, ability, accomplishment, address, adeptness, adroitness, aesthetics, airmanship, artfulness, artisanship, artistic taste, artistry, ascendancy, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, connoisseurship, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, dash, deanship, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, dilettantism, diplomacy, ear for music, eclat, efficiency, elan, epicureanism, epicurism, excellence, expertise, expertism, facility, favor, finesse, flair, friandise, gastronomy, grace, greatness, grip, handiness, horsemanship, incomparability, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inimitability, know-how, lead, majority, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, musical ear, musical sense, musical talent, musicality, musicianship, one-upmanship, panache, perfect pitch, practical ability, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, prestige, priority, privilege, proficiency, prowess, pyrotechnics, quickness, readiness, relative pitch, resource, resourcefulness, right-of-way, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, seniority, sense of rhythm, show, showmanship, skill, skillfulness, staginess, style, success, superiority, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, transcendence, transcendency, virtu, wit, wizardry, workmanship

• virtuoso, A per se, Daedalian, ace, adept, adroit, amateur, apt, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, artist, artiste, artistic, authoritative, authority, bon vivant, boss, bravura, brilliant, champion, chief, clean, clever, cognoscente, collector, commander, concert artist, connaisseur, connoisseur, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, critic, cunning, cute, dabster, daedal, dazzling, dean, deft, dexterous, dextrous, dilettante, diplomatic, epicure, epicurean, excellent, exceptional, executant, expert, extraordinary, fancy, first-rate, first-rater, fugleman, genius, good, good hand, good judge, goodish, gourmand, gourmet, graceful, great, handy, head, higher-up, ingenious, interpreter, judge, laureate, leader, leading light, luminary, maestro, magician, magisterial, mahatma, man of genius, master, master hand, masterful, masterly, mastermind, matchless, maven, minstrel, minstrelsy, music maker, music-loving, musical, musically inclined, musician, musicianly, musicophile, neat, no mean, nonpareil, old hand, paragon, past master, peerless, performer, philharmonic, player, politic, practiced hand, principal, prodigious, prodigy, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, refined palate, remarkable, resourceful, ruler, sage, senior, skilled hand, skillful, slick, soloist, some, star, statesmanlike, sterling, stylish, superb, superior, superlative, superman, superstar, tactful, talent, talented, the compleat, the complete, the greatest, the most, top dog, topnotcher, tunester, virtuosa, virtuose, virtuosic, well-done, whiz, wizard, wonder, workmanlike

• virtuous, Christian, advantageous, angelic, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, blameless, blotless, bon, bonny, braw, bueno, capital, chaste, clean, cleanly, cogent, commendable, creditable, decent, effectual, efficacious, efficient, elegant, erect, estimable, ethical, excellent, exemplary, expedient, fair, fair-minded, faithful, famous, faultless, favorable, fine, full of integrity, godly, good, goodly, grand, guiltless, healthy, helpful, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honorable, immaculate, in the clear, incorruptible, inculpable, innocent, inviolate, irreproachable, just, kind, laudable, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly, moral, moralistic, nice, noble, pleasant, principled, profitable, proper, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, regal, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, royal, saintlike, saintly, scrupulous, seraphic, sexually innocent, sinless, skillful, snowy, sound, splendid, spotless, stainless, sterling, straight, taintless, true, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, trustworthy, unblamable, unblemished, unblotted, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, useful, valid, very good, virgin, virginal, white, without reproach, worthy, yeomanly

• virulence, acerbity, acid, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, amperage, animality, animosity, animus, antagonism, armipotence, asperity, astringency, atrocity, authority, bad blood, balefulness, banefulness, barbarity, beef, bile, bite, bitter feeling, bitter resentment, bitterness, bitterness of spirit, black power, bloodlust, brutality, brute force, causticity, charge, charisma, choler, clout, cogence, cogency, communicability, compulsion, contagiousness, deadliness, destructiveness, detrimentalness, dint, drive, duress, edge, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energy, extremity, fatality, ferociousness, feud, fierceness, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, furiousness, gall, gnashing of teeth, grip, hard feelings, harmfulness, harshness, hatred, heartburning, hostility, hurtfulness, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency, infectiousness, infectivity, influence, inhumanity, injuriousness, intensity, keenness, lethality, main force, main strength, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mana, mercilessness, might, might and main, mightiness, mindlessness, mischievousness, mordacity, mordancy, mortality, moxie, murderousness, muscle power, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness, perniciousness, pitilessness, pizzazz, poignancy, point, poison, poisonousness, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, rancor, rankling, resentment, rigor, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, sinew, slow burn, soreness, sourness, spite, spleen, steam, sting, strength, stridency, stringency, strong arm, superiority, superpower, tartness, teeth, terrorism, toxicity, trenchancy, ungentleness, unhealthiness, validity, vandalism, vehemence, vendetta, venom, venomousness, viciousness, vigor, vim, violence, virility, virtue, virulency, vitality, vitriol, wattage, weight

• virulent, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, antagonistic, antipathetic, astringent, baleful, baneful, belligerent, biting, bitter, brutal, burning, catching, caustic, choleric, clashing, colliding, communicable, conflicting, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, double-edged, drastic, edged, embittered, envenomed, escharotic, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fatal, feral, fierce, full of hate, furious, great, harmful, harsh, hateful, hostile, hurtful, immoderate, incisive, infectious, infective, injurious, intemperate, intense, internecine, keen, killing, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, mordacious, mordant, mortal, nasty, noisome, noxious, ominous, outrageous, penetrating, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, piercing, poignant, poison, poisonous, prejudicial, quarrelsome, rancorous, rankled, repugnant, resentful, resenting, rigorous, rough, sarcastic, savage, scatheful, scathing, septic, set against, severe, sharp, sore, spiteful, splenetic, splitting, stabbing, stewing, stinging, strident, stringent, tart, tough, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, trenchant, unconscionable, unfriendly, unhealthy, unwholesome, vehement, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, violent, vitriolic

• virus, acaricide, adenovirus, aerial infection, aerobe, aerobic bacteria, aerobic organism, airborne infection, amoeba, anaerobe, anaerobic bacteria, anaerobic organism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, autotrophic organism, bacillus, bacteria, bacterium, bane, being, bug, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, carrier, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, coccus, communicability, contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, corruption, creature, cryptogenic infection, defoliant, direct infection, disease-producing microorganism, disinfectant, droplet infection, dust infection, echovirus, enterovirus, epidemiology, eradicant, filterable virus, fumigant, fungicide, fungus, genetic individual, germ, germicide, gram-negative bacteria, gram-positive bacteria, hand infection, herbicide, heterotrophic organism, indirect infection, individual, infection, infectiousness, insect powder, insecticide, living being, living thing, microbe, microbicide, microorganism, miticide, mold, morphological individual, nonfilterable virus, ont, organic being, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, organism, organization, pathogen, pesticide, physiological individual, phytogenic infection, picornavirus, poison, primary infection, protozoa, protozoon, pyogenic infection, rat poison, reovirus, rhinovirus, rickettsia, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, secondary infection, spirillum, spirochete, spore, staphylococcus, stomach poison, streptococcus, subclinical infection, systemic, systemic insecticide, taint, toxic, toxicant, toxin, trypanosome, vector, venin, venom, vermicide, vibrio, waterborne infection, weed killer, zoogenic infection, zooid, zoon

• visa, John Hancock, OK, X, acceptance, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, approbation, approval, attestation, authentication, authority, authorization, autograph, bill of health, certificate, certificate of proficiency, certification, christcross, cipher, clearance, confirmation, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, credential, cross, deposition, device, diploma, endorsement, full pratique, go-ahead, green light, hand, imprimatur, initials, mark, mark of signature, monogram, navicert, nod, notarization, notarized statement, note, okay, pass, passport, permission, pratique, protection, ratification, rubber stamp, safe-conduct, safeguard, sanction, seal, sheepskin, sigil, sign manual, signature, signet, stamp, stamp of approval, subscription, sworn statement, testamur, testimonial, the nod, ticket, validation, vise, voucher, warrant, warranty, witness

• visage, air, bearing, brow, carriage, cast, cast of countenance, color, complexion, countenance, demeanor, dial, expression, face, facial appearance, facies, favor, feature, features, garb, guise, kisser, lineaments, lines, looks, map, mien, mug, mush, pan, phiz, physiognomy, port, posture, presence, puss, stance, traits, turn

• viscera, abdomen, anus, appendix, being, blind gut, bones, bosom, bowels, brain, breast, cecum, colon, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, esprit, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, heart of hearts, heartstrings, hindgut, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner mechanism, innermost being, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, perineum, pump, pylorus, rectum, secret places, small intestine, soul, spirit, spleen, stomach, stuffing, ticker, tripes, vermiform appendix, vitals, works

• visceral, abdominal, affectional, affective, anal, appendical, cardiac, cecal, colic, colonic, coronary, demonstrative, duodenal, emotiometabolic, emotiomotor, emotional, emotiovascular, emotive, enteric, feeling, gastric, glandular, gut, ileac, instinctual, interior, internal, intestinal, intimate, intuitive, jejunal, mesogastric, of soul, overdemonstrative, pyloric, rectal, soulful, splanchnic

• viscid, adherent, adhesive, amylaceous, bulldogged, bulldoggish, bulldoggy, bullheaded, cartilaginous, chewy, clabbered, clammy, clingy, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clotted, coagulated, cohesive, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, coriaceous, crammed, crammed full, crowded, curdled, dense, doughy, durable, fibrous, firm, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gristly, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hard, hardy, heavy, impenetrable, impermeable, inspissated, jam-packed, jammed, jelled, jellied, jellylike, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, massive, mucilaginous, nonporous, obstinate, packed, pasty, persistent, resistant, ropy, self-adhesive, serried, sinewy, slabby, slimy, slithery, solid, starchy, stickable, sticky, stiff, stodgy, stringy, strong, stubborn, substantial, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thick-growing, thickened, thickset, tough, tough as leather, tremelloid, tremellose, untiring, vigorous, viscose, viscous, wiry

• viscosity, adhesiveness, bullheadedness, clabbering, clamminess, closeness, clotting, coagulation, cohesiveness, colloidality, compactness, congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, crowdedness, curdling, denseness, density, doughiness, firmness, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, gumlikeness, gumminess, hardness, heaviness, impenetrability, impermeability, imporosity, incompressibility, incrassation, inspissation, jammedness, jellification, jellylikeness, lentor, mucilaginousness, obstinacy, pastiness, persistence, persistency, relative density, retention, ropiness, slabbiness, sliminess, snugness, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, stick-to-itiveness, stickiness, stodginess, stringiness, stubbornness, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, thickening, thickness, tightness, toughness, treacliness, viscidity, viscousness

• viscount, Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, count, daimio, duke, earl, esquire, gentleman, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, optimate, palsgrave, patrician, peer, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper-cruster, waldgrave

• viscous, adhesive, amylaceous, broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, clabbered, clammy, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clotted, coagulated, coarse, compact, compacted, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congested, consolidated, corpulent, crammed, crammed full, crass, crowded, curdled, dense, doughy, fat, firm, full, full-bodied, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, gross, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, hard, heavy, heavyset, impenetrable, impermeable, inspissated, jam-packed, jammed, jelled, jellied, jellylike, massive, mucilaginous, nonporous, packed, pasty, ropy, semifluid, serried, slab, slabby, slimy, slithery, solid, starchy, sticky, stiff, stodgy, stringy, substantial, syrupy, tacky, tenacious, thick, thick-bodied, thick-growing, thickened, thickset, three-dimensional, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, viscid, viscose

• Vishnu, Agni, Asvins, Atman, Avalokita, Bhairava, Bhairavi, Brahma, Buddha, Chandi, Daksha, Devaki, Devi, Dharma, Dharti Mai, Durga, Dyaus, Ganapati, Ganesa, Ganesha, Garuda, Hanuman, Himavat, Indra, Jagannath, Juggernaut, Kali, Kama, Kamsa, Karttikeya, Kurma, Lakshmi, Matsya, Narsinh, Parjanya, Parshuram, Parvati, Pushan, Rahu, Rama, Rhibhus, Rudra, Sarasvati, Savitar, Shiva, Sita, Siva, Soma, Surya, Uma, Ushas, Vaja, Vaman, Varah, Varuna, Varuni, Vayu, Yama, the Destroyer, the Preserver, the Regenerator, the Supreme Soul, the Universal Ego

• visibility, CAT, aerospace, aerosphere, air hole, air pocket, airspace, apparentness, bump, ceiling, clearness, crosswind, crystal-clearness, distinctness, empty space, evidence, evidentness, favorable wind, fog, front, head wind, high-pressure area, hole, ionosphere, jetstream, low-pressure area, manifestness, obviousness, openness, openness to sight, overcast, overtness, palpability, patentness, perspicuity, plainness, pocket, roughness, soup, space, stratosphere, substratosphere, tail wind, tangibility, tropopause, troposphere, trough, turbulence, unmistakableness, unquestionability, visibility zero, visuality

• visible, apparent, appearing, beholdable, clear, clear as crystal, conspicuous, crystal-clear, detectable, discernible, disclosed, discoverable, distinct, evident, explicit, exposed, exposed to view, express, eyeball, hanging out, identifiable, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, indisputable, indubitable, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, obvious, ocular, open, open to view, open-and-shut, ophthalmic, optic, ostensible, outcropping, outward, palpable, patent, perceivable, perceptible, perspicuous, plain, plain as day, prominent, recognizable, revealed, seeable, seeing, seeming, seen, self-evident, self-explaining, self-explanatory, showing, superficial, surface, tangible, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, unmistakable, viewable, visual, well-defined, witnessable

• visibly, actually, after a fashion, apparently, appreciably, as seen, assuredly, at a glance, at any rate, at best, at first sight, at least, at most, at sight, at the least, at the most, at the outside, at worst, by eyeball, by sight, certainly, clearly, comparatively, conspicuously, decidedly, definitely, demonstrably, detectably, discernibly, distinctly, evidently, explicitly, expressly, fairly, for a certainty, for real, glaringly, in a manner, in a way, in all conscience, in part, in some measure, incompletely, indeed, indubitably, leastwise, manifestly, markedly, merely, mildly, moderately, modestly, not comprehensively, not exhaustively, noticeably, observably, obviously, only, palpably, part, partially, partly, patently, perceivably, perceptibly, plainly, positively, prima facie, pro tanto, prominently, pronouncedly, purely, quite, really, recognizably, relatively, seeably, sensibly, seriously, simply, so far, somewhat, staringly, starkly, thus far, to a degree, to some degree, tolerably, truly, unambiguously, unconcealedly, undeniably, undisguisedly, unmistakably, verily, visually, with clarity, without doubt

• vision, Masan, Vorstellung, apocalypse, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, bad dream, bamboozlement, banshee, befooling, bluffing, brainchild, brown study, bubble, calculated deception, chimera, circumvention, conceive, concept, conception, conceptualization, conning, control, daydream, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delirium, delusion, delusiveness, departed spirit, disembodied spirit, dream, dupery, duppy, dybbuk, eidetic image, eidolon, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, envisage, envisaging, envision, envisioning, epitome, eye, eyeful, eyesight, fallaciousness, fallacy, false image, falseness, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, feature, fiction, figment, figure, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, foresight, foresightedness, form, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hallucination, hant, haunt, hoodwinking, idea, idle fancy, idolum, illusion, image, imagery, imagery study, imagination, imagine, imaging, imagining, imagism, imagistic poetry, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus, insight, insubstantial image, invention, kidding, larva, lemures, lifelike image, maggot, make-believe, manes, materialization, mental image, mental picture, mental representation, mirage, muse, myth, nightmare, objectification, oni, oracle, outwitting, overreaching, perception, perspective, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, phasm, phenomenon, picture, picturing, pipe dream, plan, poem, poetic imagery, poltergeist, presence, prophecy, putting on, realize, revenant, reverie, romance, scheme, seeing, self-deception, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, sick fancy, sight, snow job, song and dance, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spoofery, spoofing, spook, sprite, subterfuge, swindling, theophany, thick-coming fancies, thing of beauty, trickiness, tricking, trip, understanding, unsubstantiality, vapor, victimization, view, visual image, visualization, visualize, waking dream, walking dead man, wandering soul, whim, whimsy, wildest dream, wildest dreams, willful misconception, wishful thinking, word-painting, wraith, zombie

• visionary, Barmecidal, Barmecide, Don Quixote, Quixote, Utopian, abstracted, addict, airy, apparent, apparitional, astral, autistic, bug, chimeric, collector, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, deceptive, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, demon, dereistic, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, dreamlike, dreamy, eager beaver, energumen, enthusiast, erroneous, escapist, exalted, faddist, fallacious, false, fanatic, fanciful, fantast, fantastic, fiend, freak, grandiose, great one for, hobbyist, hound, idealist, idealistic, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, impractical, in the clouds, infatuate, introspective, lofty, lotus-eater, misleading, musing, noble, nut, ostensible, otherworldly, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, poetic, pretentious, prophet, pursuer, quixotic, radical, rhapsodist, romancer, romancing, romantic, romanticist, romanticized, seeming, seer, self-deceptive, self-deluding, specious, spectral, speculative, starry-eyed, storybook, sucker for, supposititious, transcendental, transmundane, unactual, unfounded, unpractical, unreal, unrealistic, unsubstantial, unworkable, unworldly, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, wish-fulfilling, wishful thinker, zealot

• visit upon, bring, bring to account, bring to book, bring upon, call to account, castigate, chasten, chastise, correct, deal with, discipline, do to, inflict, inflict upon, masthead, penalize, pillory, punish, settle with, square accounts, take to task, wreak

• visit, admit, affect, afflict, appear, assail, assister, attack, attend, avenge, barge in, be admitted, be at, be closeted with, be present at, befall, bother, break in, breeze in, burst in, bust in, call, call on, call upon, catch, causerie, chat, chin, colloque, come barging in, come breezing in, come busting in, come by, come in, come over, come to, coze, cozy chat, creep in, cross the threshold, crowd in, descend upon, do, drop in, drop in on, duty visit, edge in, enter, fall upon, force, formal visit, frequent, friendly chat, gain admittance, gam, get in, go in, go into, go to, gossip, have an entree, have an in, heart-to-heart talk, hie to, hop in, impose, inflict, insert, intrude, irrupt, jam in, jump in, little talk, look in, look on, look up, mad round, make conversation, make the scene, pack in, pain, pay a visit, pop in, prattle, press in, prittle-prattle, punish, push in, put in, repair to, required visit, reside, resort to, run in, scourge, see, seize, set foot in, show up, sit in, slip in, smite, social call, social round, social whirl, sojourn, squeeze in, stay, step in, stop, stop by, stop off, stop over, stopover, take in, talk, tarriance, tarry, tete-a-tete, thrust in, tittle-tattle, trouble, turn up, visitation, visiting, watch, wedge in, witness, work in, wreak, wreck, yarn

• visitation, Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, affliction, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bane, blight, blockage, bugbear, burden, calamity, call, calling, calvary, cardiac epilepsy, cataclysm, catastrophe, clonic spasm, clonus, convulsion, cortical epilepsy, cramp, cross, crucible, crushing burden, curse, cursive epilepsy, death, destruction, disaster, disease, diurnal epilepsy, duty visit, eclampsia, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, evil, examination, falling sickness, fit, focal epilepsy, formal visit, frenzy, grand mal, grievance, harm, haute mal, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, infliction, inspection, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lockjaw, mad round, matutinal epilepsy, menstrual epilepsy, mischance, musicogenic epilepsy, myoclonous epilepsy, nemesis, nocturnal epilepsy, occlusion, open wound, ordeal, overhaul, overhauling, paroxysm, perlustration, perusal, pest, pestilence, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, plague, psychic epilepsy, psychomotor epilepsy, punishment, quality control, reflex epilepsy, required visit, review, rotatoria, run-through, running sore, scan, scourge, scrutiny, seizure, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, social call, social round, social whirl, sojourning, spasm, staying, stoppage, stroke, study, survey, tardy epilepsy, tetanus, tetany, thorn, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, torment, torsion spasm, tragedy, traumatic epilepsy, trial, tribulation, trismus, ucinate epilepsy, vexation, visit, visiting, woe

• visitor, Big Brother, aficionado, arrival, attender, audience, auditor, boatswain, boss, buff, caller, chief, comer, company, comptroller, controller, entrant, examinant, examiner, fan, floor manager, floorman, floorwalker, foreman, freeloader, frequenter, gaffer, ganger, gate-crasher, guest, guests, habitue, haunter, head, headman, immigrant, in-migrant, incomer, inspector, intruder, investigator, monitor, moocher, newcomer, noncommissioned officer, observer, overman, overseer, patron, proctor, scrutineer, settler, sirdar, slave driver, spectator, straw boss, subforeman, super, superintendent, supervisor, surveyor, taskmaster, tester, theatergoer, uninvited guest, visitant, visitator

• visor, bill, camouflage, dark glasses, disguise, domino, eyeshade, eyeshield, false colors, false face, false front, goggles, incognito, mask, masque, masquerade, mummery, peak, protective coloration, shades, smoke screen, smoked glasses, sunglasses, vizard, vizard mask

• vista, airscape, cityscape, cloudscape, command, domination, eyereach, eyeshot, eyesight, field of view, field of vision, horizon, ken, landscape, limit of vision, line of sight, lookout, naked eye, outlook, outlook over, panorama, perspective, prospect, range, riverscape, scan, scape, scene, scenery, scenic view, scope, scope of vision, seascape, sight, sightliness, skyscape, survey, sweep, townscape, view, waterscape

• visual, apparent, beholdable, detectable, discernible, disclosed, evident, exposed, exposed to view, eyeball, hanging out, in evidence, in full view, in plain sight, in view, insight, manifest, naked, noticeable, observable, ocular, open, open to view, ophthalmic, optic, optical, outcropping, perceivable, perceptible, recognizable, revealed, seeable, seeing, showing, to be seen, unclouded, unconcealed, undisguised, unhidden, viewable, visible, visional, witnessable

• visualization, Vorstellung, concept, conception, conceptualization, eidetic image, envisaging, envisioning, image, imagery, imagery study, imaging, imagism, imagistic poetry, lifelike image, mental image, mental picture, mental representation, objectification, picture, picturing, poetic imagery, vision, visual image, word-painting

• visualize, anticipate, apprehend, bring to mind, call to mind, call up, conceive, conjure up, contemplate, divine, envisage, envision, fancy, feature, foreknow, image, imagine, just see, look upon, objectify, picture, prevision, realize, regard, represent, see, summon up, view, vision

• vital, abiding, aboveground, acid, age-long, aged, agog, alacritous, alive, alive and kicking, all agog, among the living, ancient, animate, animated, animating, antic, antique, anxious, armipotent, authoritative, avid, bang, basic, bedrock, biological, biotic, biting, bouncing, breathing, breathless, brisk, bursting to, called for, capable of life, capersome, cardinal, central, chronic, cogent, coltish, compulsory, conscious, constant, constitutive, continuing, corrosive, critical, crucial, cutting, desirous, diuturnal, drive, driving, durable, dynamic, eager, effective, endowed with life, enduring, energetic, enlivened, enlivening, essential, evergreen, existent, exuberant, flush, focal, forceful, forcible, forward, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of life, fundamental, gamesome, gay, getup, gutsy, hale, hale and hearty, hardy, hearty, high-potency, high-powered, high-pressure, high-tension, immutable, impatient, imperative, important, impressive, in force, in power, in the flesh, incisive, indicated, indispensable, inspirited, instinct with life, integral, intransient, inveterate, invigorating, irreducible, irreductible, irreplaceable, irresistible, keen, key, lasting, life-and-death, life-giving, life-or-death, live, lively, living, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, long-term, longeval, longevous, lusty, macrobiotic, main, mandatory, material, mighty, mighty in battle, mordant, necessary, needed, needful, nervous, of long duration, of long standing, of vital importance, operative, organic, organized, panting, paramount, penetrating, perdurable, perduring, perennial, permanent, perpetual, persistent, persisting, physiological, piercing, pivotal, playful, poignant, potent, powerful, prepotent, prerequisite, prompt, puissant, punchy, quick, quickening, raring to, ready, ready and willing, red-blooded, rejuvenating, remaining, required, requisite, reviving, robust, robustious, robustuous, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, rude, rugged, ruling, sempervirent, sensational, sinewed, sinewy, skittish, slashing, spirited, sportive, sprightly, stable, stalwart, staying, steadfast, stout, strenuous, striking, strong, sturdy, substantive, telling, tenacious of life, tough, trenchant, unfading, unforgoable, valid, very much alive, viable, vigorous, vim, vitality, vitalizing, vivacious, vivid, vivified, vivifying, wanted, zestful, zippy, zoetic

• vitality, alacrity, amperage, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, armipotence, authority, avidity, avidness, beef, being alive, birth, bite, bitingness, black power, breathless impatience, brute force, capersomeness, charge, charisma, cheerful readiness, clout, cogence, cogency, cohesiveness, coltishness, compulsion, cuttingness, decisiveness, demonic energy, dint, drive, durability, duress, dynamism, eagerness, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, elan, endurance, energy, ergal, esprit, existence, exuberance, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, fortitude, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, full blast, full force, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, get-up-and-go, gust, gusto, guts, gutsiness, haleness, hardiness, hardness, having life, heartiness, immortality, impatience, impressiveness, incisiveness, influence, infrangibility, intensity, intestinal fortitude, keen desire, keenness, kinetic energy, lastingness, leatherlikeness, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, lustihood, lustiness, main force, main strength, mana, might, might and main, mightiness, mordancy, moxie, muscle power, nervosity, nervousness, obstinacy, oomph, pep, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, poop, potence, potency, potential energy, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, promptness, puissance, pull, punch, push, quickness, readiness, resistance, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, ropiness, ruggedness, sinew, sinewiness, skittishness, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spriteliness, stalwartness, stamina, staying power, steam, sticking power, stiffness, stoutness, strength, strength of will, strenuousness, stringiness, strong arm, strong language, stubbornness, sturdiness, superiority, superpower, tenacity, toughness, trenchancy, unbreakability, unbreakableness, validity, vehemence, verve, viability, vigor, vigorousness, vim, virility, virtue, virulence, viscidity, vivaciousness, vivacity, wattage, weight, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

• vitalize, activate, animate, arouse, awaken, boost, breathe life into, brighten, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to life, buoy up, call into being, call into existence, cheer, conceive, dynamize, electrify, encourage, endow with life, energize, enliven, excite, exhilarate, fire, fortify, galvanize, give a lift, give birth, give life to, gladden, hearten, inflame, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, jazz up, kindle, liven, pep up, perk up, pick up, provoke, quicken, refresh, reinvigorate, rejoice, rejoice the heart, rejuvenate, renew, revive, rouse, snap up, stimulate, strengthen, vivify, warm, zip up

• vitals, abdomen, anus, appendix, blind gut, bosom, bowels, brain, breast, cecum, center, center of life, colon, core, deepest recesses, duodenum, endocardium, entrails, esoteric reality, foregut, giblets, gizzard, guts, heart, heart of hearts, hindgut, inmost heart, inmost soul, innards, inner, inner landscape, inner life, inner man, inner mechanism, inner nature, inner recess, inner self, inside, insides, interior, interior man, intern, internal, internals, intestine, intrados, inward, inwards, jejunum, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, midgut, nerve center, penetralia, perineum, pump, pylorus, quick, recesses, rectum, secret heart, secret place, secret places, small intestine, soul, spirit, spleen, stomach, ticker, tripes, true being, true inwardness, vermiform appendix, viscera, vital center, vital principle, works

• vitamin deficiency, Lombardy leprosy, anemia, ariboflavinosis, beriberi, cachexia, chlorosis, deficiency anemia, dermatitis, dietary deficiency, goiter, greensickness, keratomalacia, kwashiorkor, maidism, malnutrition, night blindness, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, pellagra, pernicious anemia, protein deficiency, rachitis, rickets, scurvy, struma, xerophthalmia

• vitamin, adermin, adjuvant, aneurin, antiberi-beri factor, ascorbic acid, axerophthol, biotin, carminative, carotene, cholecalciferol, choline, cobalamin, counterirritant, cryptoxanthin, cyanocobalamin, emmenagogue, ergocalciferol, expectorant, folic acid, hepatoflavin, hormone, inositol, lactoflavin, maturative, menadione, naphthoquinone, niacin, nicotinic acid, ovoflavin, pyridoxine, tocopherol, vasodilator, vitamin B, vitamin Bc, vitamin D, vitamin G, vitamin H, vitamin K, vitamin M

• vitiate, abate, abolish, abrogate, adulterate, alloy, annihilate, annul, bastardize, blemish, bring to nothing, brutalize, buffer, cancel, cancel out, canker, cheapen, coarsen, come to nothing, confound, contaminate, corrupt, corrupted, counterbalance, damage, debase, debauch, debauched, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, delete, demoralize, denature, deprave, depraved, depreciate, depress, desecrate, despoil, destroy, devalue, diminish, distort, downgrade, frustrate, harm, hurt, impair, infect, invalidate, lower, mar, misuse, negate, negativate, negative, neutralize, nullify, offset, pervert, perverted, poison, pollute, prejudice, prostitute, quash, ravage, ravish, reduce, revoke, ruin, soil, spoil, stultify, sully, suppress, taint, tarnish, thwart, twist, ulcerate, undermine, undo, violate, vitiated, void, vulgarize, warp, weaken, withdraw

• vitrified, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case-hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, ossified, petrified, reinforced, rigidified, sclerotic, set, solidified, steeled, stiffened, strengthened, toughened

• vitriol, acrimony, animosity, animus, bad blood, bitter feeling, bitterness, feud, gall, hard feelings, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, rancor, soreness, sourness, vendetta, venom, venomousness, virulence

• vitriolic, acerbic, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, antagonistic, antipathetic, asperous, astringent, belligerent, biting, bitter, caustic, clashing, colliding, conflicting, cutting, despiteful, double-edged, edged, envenomed, escharotic, fierce, full of hate, harsh, hateful, hostile, incisive, irritating, keen, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mordacious, mordant, nose-tickling, penetrating, piercing, piquant, poignant, pungent, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, rigorous, rough, scathing, set against, severe, sharp, sore, sour, spiteful, stabbing, stinging, strident, stringent, tart, trenchant, vehement, venenate, venomous, violent, virulent

• vittles, board, bread, bread and butter, cheer, comestibles, creature comfort, cuisine, daily bread, eatables, edibles, fare, fast food, feast, food, food and drink, foodstuff, health food, ingesta, junk food, kitchen stuff, meat, provender, provision, spread, sustenance, table, tucker, viands, victuals

• vituperate, abuse, asperse, assail, attack, bark at, bawl out, berate, betongue, blacken, blackguard, blame, call names, calumniate, castigate, censure, chasten, chew out, chide, condemn, curse, cuss out, damn, decry, denounce, deprecate, depreciate, devaluate, devalue, diminish, disparage, epithet, epithetize, execrate, fulminate against, inculpate, jaw, lambaste, lash, load with reproaches, malign, put down, rag, rail, rail at, rate, rave against, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, revile, run down, scold, swear at, thunder against, tongue-lash, traduce, upbraid, vilify, yell at, yelp at

• vituperation, abuse, assailing, assault, attack, berating, billingsgate, bitter words, blackening, blame, calumny, censure, contumely, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad, obloquy, onslaught, opprobrium, philippic, rating, revilement, scolding, screed, scurrility, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification

• vituperative, Rabelaisian, abusive, acid, belittling, biting, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, critical, cursing, damnatory, damning, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derogatory, detractory, dirty, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrating, execrative, execratory, foul, fulminatory, harsh, imprecatory, insulting, invective, inveighing, judgmental, maledictory, malign, objurgatory, obscene, opprobrious, priggish, profane, railing, raw, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ribald, ridiculing, risque, sarcastic, sardonic, scatologic, scoffing, scolding, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, severe, slanderous, truculent, vile, vilifying, withering

• viva voce, articulate, articulated, enunciated, lingual, linguistic, nuncupative, oral, orally, parol, pronounced, said, sonant, sounded, speech, spoken, unwritten, uttered, verbal, verbally, vocal, vocalized, vocally, voiced, voiceful

• vivacious, active, activist, activistic, acute, aggressive, agog, alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, animate, animated, antic, anxious, avid, blithe, bouncing, bouncy, breathless, breezy, brisk, bubbly, buoyant, bursting to, cant, capersome, cheerful, chipper, coltish, desirous, dynamic, eager, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, exuberant, forceful, forcible, forward, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gamesome, gay, go-go, happy, hearty, high-spirited, impatient, impetuous, incisive, intense, jaunty, keen, kinetic, light-hearted, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, militant, panting, peppy, perky, pert, piquant, playful, poignant, prompt, pungent, quick, quicksilver, racy, raring to, ready, ready and willing, robust, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, strenuous, strong, sunny, take-charge, take-over, trenchant, up, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivid, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy

• vivacity, activity, alacrity, animal spirits, animate existence, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardor, avidity, avidness, being alive, birth, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, eagerness, ebullience, effervescence, elan, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, existence, exuberance, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, glow, gust, gusto, having life, heartiness, immortality, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, joie de vivre, keen desire, keenness, life, lifetime, liveliness, living, long life, longevity, lustiness, mettle, moxie, pep, peppiness, perkiness, pertness, piquancy, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, promptness, pungency, quickness, raciness, readiness, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, skittishness, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spriteliness, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vitality, vivaciousness, vividness, warmth, zest, zestfulness, zip

• vivid, active, acute, aggressive, agog, alacritous, alive, all agog, animate, animated, anxious, apish, avid, bedazzling, blinding, brave, breathless, bright, bright and shining, bright-hued, brilliant, brisk, burning, bursting to, clear, colorful, colory, creative, dazzling, deep-colored, delineative, delineatory, depictive, descriptive, desirous, detailed, distinct, dramatic, dynamic, eager, echoic, effulgent, eidetic, eloquent, embodying, enduring, energetic, enliven, enterprising, enthusiastic, excite, excruciating, exotic, expositive, expressive, exquisite, extreme, faithful, fecund, fertile, figurative, flamboyant, flaming, forceful, forcible, forward, fresh, fruitful, fulgent, fulgid, full of life, full of pep, galvanize, garish, gay, gay-colored, give life to, glaring, glary, glowing, go-go, gorgeous, graphic, green, hearty, high-colored, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imaginative, imitative, impatient, impetuous, incarnating, incisive, intense, inventive, keen, kept in remembrance, kinetic, lasting, lifelike, limning, lively, liven, living, lucid, lusty, meaningful, memorable, mettlesome, mimetic, mimish, naturalistic, onomatopoeic, panting, peppy, personifying, photographic, pictographic, pictorial, picturesque, poignant, powerful, prolific, quick, raring to, ready, ready and willing, realistic, recalled, recollected, refresh, refulgent, remembered, renew, representational, representative, representing, resplendent, restore, retained, rich, rich-colored, robust, sharp, simulative, smacking, snappy, spanking, spirited, splendent, splendid, splendorous, strenuous, striking, strong, suggestive, symbolizing, take-charge, take-over, theatrical, trenchant, true to life, typifying, unforgotten, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious, vivify, well-drawn, zestful, zesty, zippy

• vivify, animate, brace, brace up, breathe life into, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to life, brisk, brisken, buck up, call into being, call into existence, cheer, chirk up, conceive, endow with life, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, give birth, give life to, inspirit, invigorate, perk up, pick up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, renew, revive, revivify, set up, stimulate, vitalize

• vixen, Jezebel, Mafioso, Partlet, Xanthippe, Young Turk, amazon, battle-ax, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, biddy, bitch, bitch-kitty, bomber, bossy, brood mare, brute, cat, common scold, cow, demon, devil, doe, dragon, ewe, ewe lamb, fiend, filly, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, fury, goon, gorilla, grimalkin, guinea hen, gunsel, gyp, hag, hardnose, harpy, heifer, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, hen, hind, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, incendiary, jenny, killer, lioness, mad dog, madcap, mare, monster, mugger, nanny, nanny goat, ogress, peahen, rapist, revolutionary, roe, savage, scold, she-bear, she-devil, she-goat, she-lion, she-wolf, shrew, siren, slut, sow, spitfire, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, ugly customer, violent, virago, wild beast, wildcat, witch, wolf

• vocable, allophone, alveolar, antonym, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, bilabial, cacuminal, cerebral, check, consonant, continuant, dental, diphthong, dissimilation, epenthetic vowel, explosive, expression, free form, glide, glottal, glottalization, guttural, homograph, homonym, homophone, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lexeme, lingual, linguistic act, linguistic form, liquid, locution, logos, manner of articulation, metonym, minimum free form, modification, monophthong, monosyllable, morphophoneme, mute, nasal, occlusive, palatal, parasitic vowel, parol, parole, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, phonation, phone, phoneme, plosive, polysyllable, prothetic vowel, retroflex, segmental phoneme, semivowel, sequence of phonemes, sonant, sonority, speaking, speech act, speech sound, stop, string, surd, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, synonym, term, the spoken word, tongue, transition sound, triphthong, usage, utterance, utterance string, velar, verbalism, verbum, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced sound, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, word, word of mouth