Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/97

• windward, alee, anticlockwise, aweather, clockwise, counterclockwise, downwind, earthward, flanking, glancing, heavenward, homeward, landward, lateral, lee, leeward, leftward, next-beside, rightward, seaward, side, sideling, sidelong, sideward, sidewards, sideway, sideways, sidewise, skirting, to leeward, to windward, upwind, weather, weather deck, weather helm, weather sheet, weather side, weather tack, weather wheel, weatherboard, weatherward, widdershins, windward ebb, windward flood

• windy, adulterated, aeolian, air-built, airish, airy, all jaw, asinine, attenuate, attenuated, big, blasty, bloated, blown up, blowy, blustering, blusterous, blustery, bombastic, boreal, breezy, brisk, candid, catchpenny, chatty, chimerical, cloud-built, communicative, conversational, cut, de longue haleine, diffuse, dilated, dilute, diluted, distended, drafty, dreamlike, dropsical, edematous, effusive, empty, enchymatous, endless, ethereal, expansive, extended, extravagant, fanciful, fat, fatuitous, fatuous, favonian, filled out, fine, flatulent, flawy, flimsy, flip, fluent, foolish, frank, fresh, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fustian, futile, gabby, garrulous, gaseous, gassy, glib, gossamery, gossipy, gregarious, gushy, gusty, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, idle, illusory, imaginary, inane, incrassate, inflated, insubstantial, lengthy, light, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, mouthy, multiloquent, multiloquious, newsy, nugacious, nugatory, otiose, overblown, overtalkative, padded, phantomlike, plethoric, pretentious, prolix, protracted, puffed up, puffy, pursy, rare, rarefied, redundant, shadowy, shallow, silly, slender, slight, smooth, sociable, spirituous, spun-out, squally, subtile, subtle, superficial, swelled, swollen, talkative, talky, tall, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, trifling, trite, trivial, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unrelenting, unsubstantial, vacuous, vain, vapid, vaporous, ventose, verbose, voluble, watered, watered-down, wordy

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

• wine merchant, 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, vintner

• wine shop, alehouse, bar, barrel house, barroom, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro, blind tiger, cabaret, cafe, cocktail lounge, dive, dramshop, drinking saloon, gin mill, groggery, grogshop, honky-tonk, local, nightclub, pothouse, pub, public, public house, rathskeller, rumshop, saloon, saloon bar, speakeasy, taproom, tavern

• wine, Alba Flora, Algarve, Alsace, Anjou, Assmannshausen, Bad Kreuznach, Barbera, Bardolino, Barsac, Beaujolais, Beaune, Bordeaux, Bucelas, Burgundy, Cahors, Canary, Castelli Romani, Catawba, Chalonnais, Chambertin, Champagne, Chian, Chianti, Chiaretto, Chilean wine, Clairette de Die, Concord wine, Constantia, Cortese, Corton, Corvo, Deidesheimer, Delaware, Egri Bikaver, Eszencia, Etna, Fendant de Sion, Fixin, Frascati, Gamay, Geisenheimer, Gragano, Graves, Grenache, Grignolino, Grinzig, Grumello, Hattenheimer, Hermitage, Inferno, Lambrusco, Liebfraumilch, Lugana, Madeira, Malvasia, Mamertino, Manzanilla, Medoc, Meursault, Montrachet, Moroccan wine, Moselle, Muscadet, Muscat, Nackenheimer, Napa Valley, Oeil de Perdrix, Pallini, Palomino, Peruvian wine, Pinot Chardonnay, Pinot blanc, Pinot noir, Pomerol, Pommard, Pouilly-Fuisse, Pouilly-Fume, Reuilly, Rhine, Ribero, Riquewihr, Romanee Conti, Sancerre, Santa Clara Valley, Sassella, Saumur, Sekt, Semillon, Steinwein, Sylvaner, Tarragona, Tavel, Titian, Titian-red, Touraine, Traminer, Verdicchio, Vougeot, abboccato, altar wine, amoroso, blanc de noirs, bricky, bual, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, claret, consumo, cowslip wine, cream sherry, crimson, currant wine, damask, damson wine, demi-sec, dessert wine, domestic wine, extra sec, ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, glowing, gooseberry wine, gules, hock, hot, imported wine, incarmined, inflamed, infrared, iron-red, kosher wine, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, light wine, lobster-red, lurid, maroon, muscatel, must, new wine, nonvintage wine, parsnip wine, peach wine, pink wine, port, port-wine, puce, quince wine, raisin wine, red, red wine, red-dyed, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, retsina, rhubarb wine, riserva, rose, rose wine, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby port, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, sack, sage wine, sauterne, scarlet, sec, sercial, sherry, smooth wine, soave, solera sherry, sparkling Burgundy, sparkling wine, stammel, still wine, stone wine, sweet wine, table wine, thin wine, tile-red, vermilion, vermouth, vin, vin mousseux, vin ordinaire, vinaceous, vino, vintage wine, warm, white wine, wine-colored, wine-red

• winery, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, bindery, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bottling works, brewery, brickyard, cannery, creamery, dairy, defense plant, distiller, distillery, dockyard, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, flour mill, industrial park, industrial zone, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mill, mint, munitions plant, oil refinery, packing house, plant, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, refinery, sawmill, shipyard, still, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, tannery, wine press, yard, yards

• wing it, ad-lib, be getting along, buzz off, come away, cook up, dash off, depart, do offhand, exit, extemporize, fake, gang along, get along, get away, get off, get on, get under way, go, go along, go away, go off, go on, improvisate, improvise, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, leave, make up, march off, mosey, move away, move off, move out, play by ear, pull out, sashay, sashay off, scrap the plan, stagger along, strike off, take flight, take wing, throw off, throw together, toddle along, toss off, toss out, up and go, vamp, whip up, whomp up

• wing, KP, L, act drop, addition, administration, aeroplane, affiliate, age group, air arm, air corps, air force, air service, airlift, airplane, annex, appendage, arm, army, army group, asbestos, asbestos board, auspices, backdrop, balloon, band, battalion, batten, battery, battle group, be airborne, bear, bevy, block, body, border, bough, branch, branch office, breakaway group, breast, brigade, bugger, bulge, bunch, cabal, cadre, camp, care, carry, cast, castrate, caucus, chapter, charge, chicken foot, clique, cloth, cohort, column, combat command, combat team, company, complement, conduct, contingent, convey, corps, coterie, coulisse, counterweight, covey, crew, cripple, crowd, cruise, cure, curtain, curtain board, custodianship, custody, cyclorama, dark meat, de-energize, debilitate, decor, detachment, detail, disable, disenable, division, drain, drift, drop, drop curtain, drumstick, ell, emasculate, enfeeble, escadrille, ethnic group, expansion, extension, faction, ferry, field army, field train, file, fire curtain, flat, fleet, flight, flipper, flit, fly, flying column, freight, gang, garrison, giblets, glide, governance, government, group, grouping, groupment, guardianship, guidance, hamstring, hand, hands, hanging, hobble, hop, hors de combat, hover, hydroplane, imp, in-group, inactivate, incapacitate, interest, interest group, jet, joint, junta, jurisdiction, keeping, kibosh, kitchen police, lame, leg, legion, lift, limb, link, lobe, lobule, local, lodge, lug, maim, management, manhandle, maniple, member, ministry, minority group, mob, movement, navigate, neck, offshoot, organ, organization, out-group, outfit, oversight, oyster, pack, party, pastorage, pastorate, pastorship, patronage, peer group, phalanx, pinion, platoon, political party, posse, post, pressure group, projection, prolongation, protectorship, protrusion, protuberance, put, queer, queer the works, rag, ramification, rank, regiment, runner, sabotage, safe hands, sail, sailplane, salon, scene, scenery, scion, screen, seaplane, sect, section, set, side, side scene, silent majority, soar, spike, splinter, splinter group, spray, sprig, spur, squad, squadron, stable, stage screw, stewardship, strategic air force, string, sweep, switch, tab, tableau, tactical air force, tactical unit, tail, take, take the air, take wing, task force, team, teaser, tendril, thigh, tormentor, tote, train, transformation, transformation scene, transport, tribe, troop, troupe, turkey foot, tutelage, twig, unfit, unit, vocal minority, volplane, waft, ward, wardenship, wardship, watch and ward, weaken, whisk, white meat, wingcut, wishbone, woodcut, wreck

• wingding, bat, bender, binge, bout, bust, carousal, carouse, celebration, debauch, drinking bout, escapade, fling, lark, orgy, ploy, randan, randy, revel, spree, tear, toot

• winged, agile, breakneck, dashing, double-quick, eagle-winged, expeditious, express, fast, fleet, flying, galloping, hair-trigger, hasty, headlong, hustling, light of heel, light-footed, lively, mercurial, nimble, nimble-footed, precipitate, prompt, quick, quick as lightning, quick as thought, rapid, reckless, running, snappy, spanking, speedy, swift

• wings, Hershey bar, L, R, acting area, apron, apron stage, aviation badge, backstage, badge, band shell, bandstand, bar, board, bridge, chevron, chicken, coulisse, dock, dressing room, eagle, epaulet, flies, fly floor, fly gallery, forestage, greenroom, grid, gridiron, hash mark, insignia of branch, lightboard, oak leaf, orchestra, orchestra pit, organization insignia, overseas bar, parachute badge, patch, performing area, pip, pit, proscenium, proscenium stage, service stripe, shell, shoulder patch, shoulder sleeve insignia, spread eagle, stage, stage left, stage right, star, stripe, submarine badge, switchboard, the boards

• wink at, OK, abide with, accede to, accept, accord to, agree to, allow for, approve, approve of, assent, be big, be blind, be blind to, be caught out, be content with, be easy with, be inattentive, be unwary, be willing, bear, bear with, blink at, brook, condescend, condone, connive at, consent, consent to silently, countenance, deign, disregard, endorse, endure, give consent, give no heed, go along with, go blind, grant, have, have no objection, hear nothing, hear of, hold with, ignore, indulge, judge not, lean over backwards, leave unavenged, let it go, let pass, listen to reason, live with, make allowances for, make light of, miss, nod, nod assent, not attend, not heed, not listen, not notice, not refuse, not see, not write off, okay, overlook, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, pay no mind, permit, pocket the affront, put up with, ratify, regard with indulgence, sanction, say aye, say yes, see both sides, see nothing, slight, stand for, stomach, suffer, suspend judgment, take, take kindly to, think little of, tolerate, view with indulgence, vote affirmatively, vote aye, walk in darkness, wear blinkers, yield assent

• wink, Roman candle, aid to navigation, alarm, amber light, balefire, bat, bat the eyes, beacon, beacon fire, beat the drum, bell, bell buoy, blanket drill, blink, blinker, blue peter, breath, broad hint, buoy, cast, cat nap, caution light, clue, coup, crack, cue, dash, dip, exchange colors, flag, flag down, flare, flash, flutter, fog bell, fog signal, fog whistle, foghorn, forty winks, gentle hint, gesture, give a signal, give the nod, glance, glimmer, glimmering, glimpse, go light, gong buoy, green light, hail, hail and speak, half a jiffy, half a mo, half a second, half a shake, half an eye, half-mast, heliograph, high sign, hint, hoist a banner, implication, index, indication, inkling, innuendo, insinuation, instant, international alphabet flag, international numeral pennant, intimation, jiff, jiffy, kick, leer, look, make a sign, marker beacon, microsecond, millisecond, minute, moment, nap, nictitate, nod, nudge, parachute flare, peek, peep, pilot flag, poke, police whistle, prompt, quarantine flag, quick sight, radio beacon, raise a cry, rapid glance, red flag, red light, rocket, sailing aid, salute, scent, sec, second, semaphore, semaphore flag, semaphore telegraph, shade, shake, siesta, sign, signal, signal beacon, signal bell, signal fire, signal flag, signal gong, signal gun, signal lamp, signal light, signal mast, signal post, signal rocket, signal shot, signal siren, signal tower, signalize, slant, smack, snooze, sound an alarm, sound the trumpet, soupcon, spar buoy, speak, split second, spoor, spot of sleep, squinch, squint, squiz, stop light, stroke, suggestion, suspicion, symptom, telltale, the nod, the wink, tick, touch, trace, track, traffic light, traffic signal, trice, twink, twinkle, twinkling, twitch, two shakes, unfurl a flag, watch fire, wave, wave a flag, wave the hand, whisper, white flag, wigwag, wigwag flag, wink of sleep, yellow flag

• winner, activist, ball of fire, beaver, big-time operator, boast, bustler, busy bee, catch, champ, champion, cinch, comer, conquering hero, conqueror, conquistador, defeater, diamond, doer, eager beaver, easy winner, enthusiast, find, gem, go-getter, godsend, good thing, hero, human dynamo, hustler, jewel, live wire, man of action, man of deeds, master, militant, natural, new broom, operator, pancratiast, pearl, plum, political activist, powerhouse, pride, pride and joy, prize, runner-up, shoo-in, star, subduer, subjugator, success, sure bet, sure success, sure thing, sure winner, take-charge guy, top dog, treasure, triumpher, trophy, trouvaille, vanquisher, victor, wheeler-dealer, windfall

• winning streak, Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, ascendancy, championship, conquest, easy victory, grand slam, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, mastery, moral victory, picnic, pushover, runaway victory, subdual, subduing, success, total victory, triumph, victory, walkaway, walkover, win, winning

• winning, Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, acceptable, accession, acquirement, acquisition, addition, admirable, adorable, agreeable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, ascendancy, ascendant, attainment, attractive, authoritative, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, caressable, catching, championship, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coming by, conquering, conquest, consequential, coquettish, cuddlesome, defeating, delightful, desirable, dominant, dragging down, dulcet, earnings, easy victory, effective, effectual, efficacious, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, enviable, estimable, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, flushed with success, gaining, getting, getting hold of, glamorous, grand slam, heart-robbing, hypnotic, important, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, influential, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, kissable, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, likable, lovable, lovely, lovesome, luxurious, magnetic, making, mastery, mesmeric, momentous, moneygetting, moneygrubbing, moneymaking, moral victory, mouth-watering, obtainment, obtention, overcoming, personable, persuasive, picnic, piquant, pleasing, potent, powerful, prepossessing, prestigious, prevailing, procural, procurance, procuration, procurement, provocative, provoquant, pushover, ravishing, reputable, runaway victory, securement, seducing, seductive, sensuous, seraphic, siren, sirenic, spellbinding, spellful, strong, suasive, subdual, subduing, substantial, success, successful, sweet, taking, tantalizing, teasing, telling, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, to be desired, toothsome, total victory, triumph, triumphal, triumphant, trover, unobjectionable, vanquishing, victorious, victory, voluptuous, walkaway, walkover, weighty, win, winning streak, winsome, witching, worth having

• winnings, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, dividends, earnings, filthy lucre, gain, gains, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, hoard, income, increase, interest, killing, lucre, makings, neat profit, net, net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, proceeds, profit, profits, rake-off, receipts, return, returns, store, take, take-in, wealth

• winnow, aerate, air, air out, air-condition, air-cool, airify, analyze, appraise, assess, bolt, catalog, categorize, choose out, clarifier, clarify, class, classify, clear, colander, comb, contradistinguish, cordon, cordon off, cradle, cribble, cross-ventilate, cull, cull out, decide between, decrassify, demarcate, demark, depurate, differentiate, discriminate, distill, distinguish, divide, draw the line, edulcorate, elute, essentialize, evaluate, excerpt, extract, factor, fan, filter, filtrate, freshen, gauge, ghettoize, gin, glean, group, handpick, identify, insulate, isolate, keep apart, keep aside, lay aside, leach, lixiviate, lixiviator, make a selection, mark the interface, oxygenate, oxygenize, percolate, percolator, pick, pick out, purifier, purify, put aside, quarantine, rectify, refine, refiner, refinery, refresh, riddle, rocker, ruffle, screen, screen out, seclude, segregate, select, separate, set a limit, set apart, set aside, set off, sever, severalize, sieve, sieve out, sift, sift out, sifter, single out, sort, sort out, spiritualize, split hairs, strain, strainer, subdivide, sublimate, sublime, subtilize, thrash, thrash out, thresh, try, ventilate, weigh, wind, winnowing basket, winnowing fan, winnowing machine

• winsome, admirable, adorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beguiling, bewitching, blandishing, blithe, blithesome, bright, bright and sunny, cajoling, captivating, caressable, catching, charismatic, charming, cheerful, cheery, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, cuddlesome, delightful, dulcet, elated, enchanting, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, eupeptic, euphoric, exalted, exciting, exhilarated, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, flushed, genial, glad, gladsome, glamorous, glowing, happy, heart-robbing, high, hopeful, hypnotic, in good spirits, in high spirits, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irrepressible, irresistible, kissable, laughing, likable, lovable, lovely, lovesome, luxurious, mesmeric, mouth-watering, of good cheer, optimistic, piquant, pleasant, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, radiant, ravishing, riant, rosy, sanguine, sanguineous, seducing, seductive, sensuous, seraphic, siren, sirenic, smiling, sparkling, spellbinding, spellful, sunny, sweet, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, voluptuous, winning, witching

• winter, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, aestival, arctic, autumn, autumnal, bitter weather, bleak weather, boreal, brumal, buy time, canicular, cold snap, cold wave, cold weather, consume time, depth of winter, equinoctial, freeze, freezing weather, frost, hard winter, hibernal, hiemal, keep time, kill time, look for time, measure time, midsummer, midwinter, occupy time, out of season, pass time, put in time, race against time, raw weather, seasonal, snap, solstitial, spend time, spring, springlike, subzero weather, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, take time, take up time, use time, vernal, weekend, winterlike, wintertide, wintertime, wintery, wintry, wintry weather, wintry wind, work against time, zero weather

• wintry, Siberian, aestival, algid, arctic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, canicular, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting, equinoctial, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, gelid, glacial, hibernal, hiemal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, keen, midsummer, midwinter, nipping, nippy, numbing, out of season, penetrating, piercing, pinching, raw, rigorous, seasonal, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solstitial, spring, springlike, stone-cold, subzero, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, supercooled, vernal, winter, winterbound, winterlike, wintery

• wipe out, KO, abate, abolish, abscind, absolve, amputate, annihilate, annul, ban, bar, black out, blast, bleach, blot, blot out, bob, bowdlerize, bump off, call off, cancel, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, clip, complete, croak, crop, cross out, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, decimate, declare a moratorium, dele, delete, delouse, depurate, deracinate, deterge, dispose of, do in, dock, drop the curtain, dry-clean, dust, dust off, efface, eliminate, end off, enucleate, eradicate, erase, except, excise, exclude, expunge, expurgate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finalize, finish, fix, fold up, freshen, get, get it over, get over with, get through with, give the business, give the quietus, gun down, hit, ice, isolate, kayo, kibosh, kill, knock off, knock out, lay out, liquidate, lop, mutilate, nip, nullify, obliterate, off, pare, peel, perfect, pick out, polish off, prune, purge, purify, put paid to, raze, reform, remove, root out, root up, rub out, rule out, scavenge, scrag, scratch, scratch out, set apart, set aside, settle, shave, shear, shoot down, sponge, sponge out, spruce, stamp out, steam-clean, strike off, strike out, strip, strip off, sweep away, sweep out, sweeten, take care of, take off, take out, tidy, truncate, uproot, waste, whiten, wipe, wipe off, wipe up, write off, zap

• wipe, air-dry, anhydrate, bake, blackout, bleach, blocking, blot, bowdlerize, brush, burn, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear out, conk, cure, dehumidify, dehydrate, delouse, dematerialization, departure, depurate, desiccate, deterge, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, drain, dry, dry-clean, dust, dust off, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evaporate, evaporation, expurgate, exsiccate, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fire, freshen, going, hit, insolate, kerchief, kiln, knock, lick, lustrate, melting, mummify, occultation, parch, passing, purge, purify, rap, reform, rub, scavenge, scorch, sear, shrivel, smoke, soak up, sponge, spruce, steam-clean, sun, sun-dry, swab, swat, sweep out, sweeten, swipe, tidy, torrefy, towel, vanishing, vanishing point, weazen, whiten, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, wither, wizen

• wire puller, Machiavellian, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, access, bad influence, behind-the-scenes operator, big wheel, calculator, coconspirator, conniver, conspirator, conspirer, counterplotter, court, eminence grise, exploiter, finagler, five-percenter, fixer, four-percenter, friend at court, gamesman, good influence, gray eminence, heavyweight, hidden hand, influence, influence peddler, influencer, ingroup, intrigant, intriguer, key, kingmaker, lobby, lobbyist, logroller, lords of creation, machinator, man of influence, maneuverer, manipulator, open sesame, operator, opportunist, plotter, pork-barrel politician, power broker, powers that be, pressure group, schemer, sinister influence, special interests, special-interest group, strategist, tactician, the Establishment, very important person, wheeler-dealer

• wire pulling, Byzantine intrigues, artifice, backscratching, backstairs influence, behind-the-scenes influence, cabal, collusion, complicity, complot, confederacy, connections, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, counterplot, covin, deals, deep-laid plot, devices, engineering, expedients, finagling, finesse, frame-up, game, games, influence, influence peddling, intrigue, intrigues, little game, lobbying, lobbyism, logrolling, machination, maneuvering, maneuvers, manipulation, plot, plotting, ploys, political influence, public opinion, rigging, ropes, scheme, schemery, schemes, scheming, social pressure, special-interest pressure, stratagem, strings, tactical maneuvers, tactics, trick, underplot, web of intrigue, wires

• wire service, TelAutography, Teletype, Teletype network, Teletyping, advice, broadcast journalism, closed-circuit telegraphy, code, duplex telegraphy, electricity, facsimile telegraph, information, intelligence, interrupter, journalism, key, multiplex telegraphy, news, news agency, news medium, news service, news ticker, newsiness, newsletter, newsmagazine, newspaper, newsworthiness, press association, quadruplex telegraphy, radio, railroad telegraphy, receiver, reportage, sender, simplex telegraphy, single-current telegraphy, sounder, stock ticker, submarine telegraphy, telegraph agency, telegraphics, telegraphy, teleprinter, teletypewriter, teletypewriting, television, telex, the fourth estate, the press, ticker, tidings, transmitter, typotelegraph, typotelegraphy, word

• wire, BX cable, Teletype, armored cable, band, bandage, battery cable, bell wire, belt, bend, bind, bind up, brace, braid, brail, bundle, cable, cablegram, cannon, chain, cinch, coaxial cable, cord, cutpurse, day letter, dip, diver, do up, electric cable, electric cord, fast telegram, flash, gird, girdle, girt, girth, highline, hookup wire, lace, lash, lead, leash, ligament, ligation, ligature, line, night letter, power line, radio, radiogram, rope, send a wire, sign off, sign on, splice, spun yarn, strap, string, swaddle, swathe, telegram, telegraph, telegraph line, telephone line, telex, tendon, thong, three-wire cable, tie, tie up, transmission line, triaxial cable, truss, twine, twist, underground cable, wire line, wrap, wrap up, yarn

• wiredrawn, airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, dainty, delicate, diaphanous, diluted, downy, ethereal, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, flimsy, fluffy, frail, fuzzy, gauzy, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, lacy, light, misty, papery, pubescent, rare, rarefied, refined, satin, satiny, silky, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, smooth, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, vague, velutinous, velvety, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wispy

• wireless, Teletype, Wirephoto, audio-frequency, beam, broadcast, cabinet, chassis, communication, communicational, communications, console, electronics, facsimile, headphone, headset, heterodyne, high-frequency, housing, line radio, magnetotelephonic, microtelephonic, monotelephonic, newscast, phototelegraphic, radiate, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, radiobroadcast, radiophone, radiophotography, radiotelegraphic, radiotelegraphy, radiotelephone, radiotelephony, receiver, receiving set, send, set, shortwave, sign off, sign on, signal, sportscast, superheterodyne, telecommunication, telecommunicational, telegraphic, telephonic, telephotographic, television, thermotelephonic, transmit, wire wave communication, wired radio, wired wireless, wireless set, wireless telegraphy, wireless telephone, wireless telephony

• Wirephoto, Photoradiogram, Telephoto, aerial photograph, black-and-white photograph, candid photograph, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, diapositive, facsimile, heliochrome, heliograph, montage, mug, mug shot, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, pinup, portrait, radiophotograph, shot, slide, snap, snapshot, still, still photograph, telephotograph, transparency

• wiretap, attend, attend to, auscultate, be all ears, bend an ear, bug, bugging, cloak-and-dagger work, cock the ears, counterespionage, counterintelligence, eavesdrop, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, examine by ear, following, give attention, give audience to, give ear, hark, hear, hear out, hearken, heed, intelligence, intelligence work, intercept, lend an ear, listen, listen at, listen in, listen to, military intelligence, observation, secret police, secret service, shadowing, sit in on, spying, stakeout, surveillance, tailing, tap, trailing, wiretapping

• wiry, able-bodied, athletic, brawny, broad-shouldered, burly, capillary, cartilaginous, chewy, cirrose, cirrous, cohesive, coriaceous, durable, fibered, fibroid, fibrous, flagelliform, flossy, funicular, gossamery, gristly, hairlike, hairy, hard, hardy, lasting, leatherlike, leathery, ligamental, muscle-bound, muscular, resistant, ropy, silky, sinewy, stiff, stringy, strong, stubborn, taeniate, taeniform, tenacious, thewy, thickset, threadlike, thready, tough, tough as leather, untiring, vigorous, viscid, well-built, well-knit, well-set, well-set-up

• wisdom, Sophia, adage, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, apprehension, appropriateness, axiom, beneficialness, broad-mindedness, byword, catchword, clairvoyance, collected sayings, command, comprehension, conception, conceptualization, convenience, current saying, decency, depth, desirability, dictate, dictum, distich, epigram, erudition, expedience, expediency, expression, feasibility, fitness, fittingness, foreknowledge, fruitfulness, gnome, golden saying, good sense, good understanding, grasp, grip, gumption, horse sense, ideation, information, insight, intellection, intelligence, judgment, judiciousness, know-it-all, lore, mastery, maxim, mellow wisdom, mental grasp, moral, mot, motto, opportuneness, oracle, percentage, perspicacity, phrase, pithy saying, politicness, precept, precognition, prehension, prescript, profit, profitability, profoundness, profundity, propriety, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, prudence, rightness, ripe wisdom, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, saneness, sapience, savvy, saw, saying, science, seasonableness, seasoned understanding, seemliness, sentence, sententious expression, shrewdness, sloka, smart, smarty, smarty-pants, sound understanding, stock saying, suitability, sutra, teaching, text, timeliness, understanding, usefulness, verse, wisdom literature, wise guy, wise saying, wiseacre, wisecracker, wisehead, wiseness, wisenheimer, witticism, word, words of wisdom, worthwhileness

• wise ass, biggety, bluff, boldface, brash, brazenface, cheeky, chutzpadik, chutzpanik, cocky, contemptuous, crusty, derisive, disrespectful, facy, flip, flippant, fresh, gally, gratuitous, hussy, impertinent, impudent, malapert, minx, nervy, pert, pup, puppy, rude, sassy, saucebox, saucy, smart, smart aleck, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, swaggerer, uncalled-for, upstart, whippersnapper, wise guy

• wise guy, Gothamite, boldface, brazenface, chutzpanik, hussy, malapert, minx, pup, puppy, saucebox, smart aleck, smart ass, smart-ass, smarty, smarty-pants, swaggerer, upstart, whippersnapper, wise fool, wise-ass, wiseacre, wisehead, wiseling, wisenheimer, witling

• wise man, Brahmin, brain, brainworker, consciousness, egghead, head, highbrow, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist, intelligence, literate, mandarin, mentality, savant, scholar, thinker, white-collar intellectual

• wise to, alive to, appreciative of, apprised of, awake to, aware of, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, cognizant of, conscious of, hep to, in the know, in the secret, informed of, let into, mindful of, no stranger to, on to, privy to, seized of, sensible of, sensible to, streetwise, undeceived

• wise, MO, abstruse, acute, advantageous, advisable, alert, algorithm, all-knowing, angle, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, approach, appropriate, arrogant, artful, aspect, astute, attack, aware, becoming, befitting, biggety, bold, bold-faced, brash, bright, broad-minded, cagey, canny, cheeky, civilized, cocky, cogitative, cognizant, comprehending, configuration, congruous, conscious, contemplative, convenient, course, crafty, cultivated, cultured, cunning, decent, deep, desirable, discerning, discreet, educated, effect, eidolon, encyclopedic, erudite, expedient, facet, fashion, favorable, feasible, feature, felicitous, figure, fit, fitten, fitting, flip, flippant, foresighted, form, forward, fresh, fructuous, gestalt, gnostic, good, grasping, guise, happy, hardheaded, hep, hoaxproof, image, imago, impertinent, impression, impudent, insightful, insolent, intelligent, intuitive, judicious, keen, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, lettered, light, likely, likeness, line, line of action, lineaments, lines, lippy, literate, look, manner, manner of working, means, meet, method, methodology, mindful, mode, mode of operation, mode of procedure, modus, modus operandi, nervy, nimble-witted, not born yesterday, omniscient, on the beam, opportune, order, pansophic, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, pert, phase, phasis, politic, polyhistoric, polymath, polymathic, practical, practice, prehensile, procacious, procedure, proceeding, process, profitable, profound, proper, provident, prudent, quick, quick-witted, realistic, recommendable, reference, reflective, regard, respect, right, routine, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, sassy, saucy, scholarly, scholastic, seasonable, seeming, seemly, semblance, sensible, sensing, shape, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, side, simulacrum, slant, slick, slippery, smart, smart-alecky, smooth, sophic, sophisticated, sortable, steel-trap, studious, style, suitable, system, tack, tactical, technique, the drill, the how, the way of, thoughtful, timely, to be desired, tone, total effect, tough-minded, tricky, twist, uncullible, undeceivable, undeludable, understanding, undupable, unfoolable, ungullible, unhoaxable, unseduceable, useful, view, viewpoint, way, well-timed, wily, wise as Solomon, worthwhile

• wisecrack, aphorism, apothegm, be merry with, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, conceit, crack, crack a joke, crack wise, epigram, facetiae, flash of wit, fleer at, flight of wit, fun, gag, gibe, gibe at, happy thought, jape, jest, joke, josh, kid, kid around, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, mock, mot, nasty crack, persiflage, play of wit, play on words, pleasantry, poke fun at, pun, quip, quips and cranks, repartee, retort, ridicule, riposte, sally, scintillate, scintillation, scoff at, smart crack, smart saying, snappy comeback, sparkle, stroke of wit, turn of thought, utter a mot, waggery, witticism, yak

• wisecracker, banana, burlesquer, caricaturist, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, epigrammatist, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, humorist, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, know-it-all, lampooner, madcap, parodist, prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, satirist, smart, smarty, smarty-pants, wag, wagwit, wise guy, wiseacre, wisehead, wisenheimer, wit, witling, zany

• wisely, artfully, astutely, circumspectly, cleverly, considerately, cunningly, discerningly, discreetly, intelligently, judiciously, knowingly, providently, prudently, rationally, reasonably, sagaciously, sensibly, shrewdly, smartly, thoughtfully, understandingly

• wish for, ache for, be dying for, be hurting for, clamor for, cry for, gape for, hone for, hope for, itch for, languish for, long for, lust for, pant for, pine for, sigh for, spoil for, thirst for, weary for, yearn for, yen for

• wish fulfilling, airy, autistic, dereistic, idealistic, impractical, in the clouds, otherworldly, poetic, quixotic, romancing, romantic, romanticized, starry-eyed, storybook, transcendental, transmundane, unpractical, unrealistic, visionary

• wish fulfillment, alienation, ardor, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame-shifting, compensation, concupiscence, curiosity, decompensation, defense mechanism, dereism, dereistic thinking, desideration, desire, displacement, dissociation, dreamery, drive, eagerness, emotional insulation, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fancy, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, flight of fancy, hope, horme, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, imaginative exercise, impracticality, intellectual curiosity, isolation, libido, lust for learning, mind, need, negativism, overcompensation, passion, play of fancy, pleasure, pleasure principle, projection, psychotaxis, quixotism, quixotry, rationalization, resistance, romance, romanticism, sexual desire, sociological adjustive reactions, sublimation, substitution, thirst for knowledge, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, urge, utopianism, visionariness, want, wanting, will, will and pleasure, wish, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal

• wishbone, Tarnkappe, V, branch, breast, cap of darkness, chicken foot, crotch, crutch, dark meat, delta, drumstick, fan, fern seed, fork, furcula, furculum, giblets, groin, inguen, leg, magic belt, magic carpet, magic ring, magic spectacles, magic wand, merrythought, neck, offshoot, oyster, prong, ramification, seven-league boots, stem, thigh, trident, turkey foot, wand, white meat, wing, wish-bringer, wish-giver, wishing bone, wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well

• wishful thinker, Don Quixote, Quixote, daydreamer, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, idealist, lotus-eater, prophet, rhapsodist, romancer, romantic, romanticist, seer, utopian, utopianist, utopianizer, visionary

• wishful thinking, alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, bamboozlement, befooling, blame-shifting, blind faith, bluffing, calculated deception, circumvention, compensation, conning, credulity, credulousness, daydream, daydreaming, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, decompensation, defense mechanism, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dereism, dereistic thinking, displacement, disposition to believe, dissociation, dotage, dreamery, dupery, ease of belief, emotional insulation, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, flight of fancy, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fondness, fooling, gross credulity, hallucination, hoodwinking, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, illusion, imaginative exercise, impracticality, infatuation, isolation, kidding, mirage, negativism, nostalgia, outwitting, overcompensation, overcredulity, overcredulousness, overopenness to conviction, overreaching, overtrustfulness, phantasm, play of fancy, projection, psychotaxis, putting on, quixotism, quixotry, rash conviction, rationalization, resistance, romance, romanticism, self-deception, snow job, sociological adjustive reactions, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, sublimation, substitution, subterfuge, swindling, trickiness, tricking, trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness, unpracticalness, unquestioning belief, unrealism, unreality, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness, unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, utopianism, victimization, vision, visionariness, will to believe, willful misconception, willingness to believe, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful belief, wishfulness, wistful eye, wistfulness, withdrawal, yearnfulness

• wishy washy, adrift, afloat, alternating, amorphous, banal, betwixt and between, bland, capricious, changeable, changeful, dead, desultory, deviable, dilute, diluted, dizzy, dull, eccentric, enervated, erratic, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flat, flavorless, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fowl, freakish, giddy, gruelly, halfhearted, impetuous, impulsive, inane, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indifferent, infirm, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, insipid, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jejune, lackluster, languid, listless, mazy, mediocre, medium, mercurial, middling, mild, milk-and-water, milky, moderate, modest, moody, mushy, namby-pamby, neutral, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, pantywaist, pappy, passable, pulpy, rambling, respectable, restless, roving, sapless, savorless, scatterbrained, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, so-so, spasmodic, spiceless, spineless, spiritless, stale, tasteless, tedious, thin, tolerable, unaccountable, uncertain, uncontrolled, undependable, undisciplined, unfixed, unflavored, unpredictable, unreliable, unrestrained, unsavory, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, vagrant, vapid, variable, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, washy, watered, watered-down, waterish, watery, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, weak, whimsical

• wisp, autoluminescence, bantam, banty, batch, bioluminescence, bunch, button, cathode luminescence, chemicoluminescence, chemiluminescence, chit, clump, cluster, copse, corposant, crop, crystalloluminescence, diminutive, double corposant, electroluminescence, fata morgana, featherweight, fingerling, fluorescence, fox fire, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, ignis fatuus, knot, lightweight, lot, luciferase, luciferin, luminescence, luminophor, marshfire, mess, mini, minikin, minnow, minny, mouse, noctiluscence, nubbin, peewee, phosphor, phosphorescence, photoluminescence, pony, radioluminescence, runt, shock, shrimp, slew, slip, small fry, snip, snippet, stook, thermoluminescence, thicket, tit, tribofluorescence, triboluminescence, tribophosphorescence, tuft, tussock, wart, witch fire

• wispy, airy, attenuate, attenuated, boyish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, diaphanous, diluted, effeminate, ethereal, fine, fine-drawn, finespun, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gauzy, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamer, gossamery, gracile, insubstantial, jerry, jerry-built, lacy, light, lightweight, misty, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, puny, rare, rarefied, shattery, sissified, sleazy, slender, slenderish, slight, slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, small, subtle, svelte, sylphlike, tacky, tenuous, thin, thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinnish, threadlike, unsubstantial, vague, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, willowy, wiredrawn, womanish

• wistful, ashamed, atrabiliar, atrabilious, blue, cogitative, cognitive, concentrating, concentrative, conceptive, conceptual, conceptualized, conscience-smitten, conscience-stricken, contemplating, contemplative, deliberating, deliberative, excogitating, full of remorse, funky, hankering, homesick, honing, ideative, introspective, languishing, longing, meditating, meditative, melancholic, melancholy, mental, museful, musing, noetic, nostalgic, pensive, pining, pondering, prehensive, reflecting, reflective, regretful, remorseful, repining, rueful, ruminant, ruminating, ruminative, self-accusing, self-condemning, self-convicting, self-debasing, self-flagellating, self-humiliating, self-punishing, self-reproaching, serious, shamefaced, shamefast, shameful, sober, sorry, speculative, thinking, thought, thoughtful, tristful, unhappy about, wishful, yearnful, yearning

• wit, ESP, IQ, Italian hand, ability, acumen, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, alertness, apprehension, art, artfulness, artifice, artisanship, artistry, assume, astuteness, awareness, balance, banana, brain, brains, bravura, brilliance, burlesquer, cageyness, caliber, callidity, canniness, capability, capacity, caricaturist, clairvoyance, cleverness, clown, comedian, comic, command, competence, comprehension, conceit, conceive, conception, control, coordination, craft, craftiness, craftsmanship, cunning, cunningness, cutup, deductive power, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, discernment, discrimination, divination, droll, efficiency, epigrammatist, esemplastic power, esprit, expertise, facility, fine Italian hand, finesse, foxiness, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, gamesmanship, gather, grace, grasp, gray matter, grip, guile, handiness, head, horsemanship, humor, humorist, ideation, imagine, ingeniousness, ingenuity, insidiousness, insight, integrative power, intellect, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, inventiveness, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, keenness, know-how, knowledge, lampooner, lucidity, madcap, marbles, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, mind, mother wit, native wit, one-upmanship, parodist, penetration, perception, percipience, perspicacity, power of mind, practical ability, prankster, proficiency, prowess, prudence, punner, punster, quick-wittedness, quickness, quipster, rationality, readiness, reason, reasoning power, reckon, reparteeist, resource, resourcefulness, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, saneness, sanity, sapience, satanic cunning, satirist, savoir-faire, savvy, scope of mind, seamanship, sense, senses, sensing, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, slipperiness, slyness, smartness, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, style, subtilty, subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, suppose, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, think, thinking power, timing, trickiness, understanding, virtuosity, wag, wagwit, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wisdom, wisecracker, witlessness, witling, wizardry, workmanship, zany

• witch hunt, McCarthyism, amassing evidence, close inquiry, department of investigation, detection, detective work, exhaustive study, harassment, harrying, hearing, hounding, indagation, investigation, investigative bureau, legislative investigation, legwork, oppression, perscrutation, persecution, probe, red-baiting, research, sifting, sleuthing, tormenting, victimization, witch-hunting

• witch, Jezebel, Mafioso, Weird Sisters, Young Turk, baboon, bag, bat, battle-ax, beast, becharm, bedevil, beguile, beldam, berserk, berserker, bewitch, biddy, bitch, bitch-kitty, blemish, blot, bomber, brute, captivate, carry away, cast a spell, cat, charm, common scold, coven, crone, dame, demon, demonize, devil, diabolize, dog, dowager, drab, dragon, enchant, enchantress, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, entrance, eyesore, fascinate, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, fishwife, fright, frump, fury, gargoyle, goon, gorilla, grandam, grandmother, granny, grimalkin, gunsel, hag, hardnose, harridan, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhag, hellhound, hellion, hex, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hoodoo, hothead, hotspur, hypnotize, incendiary, infatuate, intrigue, jinx, killer, lamia, mad dog, madcap, mesmerize, mess, monster, monstrosity, mugger, no beauty, obsess, old battle-ax, old dame, old girl, old granny, old lady, old trot, old wife, old woman, overlook, possess, rapist, revolutionary, savage, scarecrow, scold, shamaness, she-devil, she-wolf, shrew, sight, siren, sorceress, spell, spellbind, spitfire, teratism, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tough, tough guy, transport, trot, ugly customer, ugly duckling, vamp, violent, virago, vixen, voodoo, war-horse, wild beast, wildcat, witchwife, witchwoman, wolf

• witchcraft, alchemy, allure, appeal, bewitchery, bewitchment, charisma, charm, divination, enchantment, fascination, fetishism, glamour, gramarye, hoodoo, incantation, juju, jujuism, magic, magnetism, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, rune, shamanism, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, sympathetic magic, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, vampirism, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, witchery, witchwork, wizardry

• witchery, agacerie, alchemy, allure, allurement, appeal, appealingness, attraction, attractiveness, bedevilment, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, delightfulness, divination, eeriness, elfdom, enchantment, enravishment, enthrallment, enticement, entrancement, entrapment, exquisiteness, faerie, fascination, fetishism, flirtation, forbidden fruit, glamour, grace, gramarye, hoodoo, illusion, incantation, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, invitingness, juju, jujuism, loveliness, luxury, magic, magnetism, maya, miraculousness, mysteriousness, mystery, natural magic, necromancy, numinousness, obeah, obsession, otherworldliness, possession, preternaturalism, rune, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, sensuousness, sex appeal, shamanism, snaring, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, superhumanity, supernaturalism, supernaturality, supernaturalness, supernature, supernormalness, superphysicalness, supersensibleness, supranaturalism, supranature, sympathetic magic, tantalization, tantalizingness, temptation, temptingness, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, the occult, the supernatural, the supersensible, theurgy, transcendentalism, unearthliness, unworldliness, vampirism, voluptuousness, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, winning ways, winningness, winsomeness, witchcraft, witchwork, wizardry, wooing

• witching, Circean, alluring, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beguiling, bewitching, bewitchment, blandishing, cajoling, captivating, catching, charismatic, charming, coaxing, come-hither, coquettish, delightful, divining rod, doodlebug, dowser, dowsing, dowsing rod, enchanting, enchantment, engaging, enravishing, enthralling, enticing, entrancing, exciting, exotic, exquisite, fascinating, fetching, flirtatious, glamorous, heart-robbing, hypnotic, illusionary, illusive, illusory, incantation, interesting, intriguing, inviting, irresistible, lovely, luxurious, mesmeric, mouth-watering, necromancy, piquant, prepossessing, provocative, provoquant, ravishing, seducing, seductive, sensuous, siren, sirenic, sorcery, spellbinding, spellful, taking, tantalizing, teasing, tempting, thrilling, tickling, titillating, titillative, voluptuous, wand, water witch, water witching, winning, winsome, witchcraft, witchery, witching stick

• with a vengeance, a outrance, a toute outrance, absolutely, all hollow, all out, all the way, all to pieces, beyond all bounds, beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, cogently, completely, dead, downright, dynamically, effectively, effectually, energetically, essentially, extremely, fiercely, flat out, forcefully, forcibly, fundamentally, furiously, immeasurably, in the extreme, incalculably, indefinitely, infinitely, like blazes, like fury, like mad, madly, mightily, most, perfectly, potently, powerfully, productively, purely, radically, rigorously, severely, strikingly, tellingly, to a fare-you-well, to good account, to good purpose, to the backbone, to the full, to the limit, to the marrow, to the skies, to the sky, to the utmost, totally, unconditionally, unequivocally, utterly, vehemently, venomously, vigorously, violently, virulently, wildly, with telling effect

• with bated breath, abjectly, anticipatingly, anticipatively, anticipatorily, anxious, apprehensive, apprehensively, aside, bashfully, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, between the teeth, covertly, diffidently, expectantly, expectingly, fearfully, for fear of, hopefully, humbly, in a corner, in a whisper, in an aside, in darkness, in hidlings, in secret, in suspense, in the background, in the dark, keyed-up, meekly, modestly, mousily, nobody the wiser, on all fours, on bended knee, on edge, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, out of earshot, quakingly, quivering, secretly, shrinkingly, shyly, sotto voce, sub rosa, submissively, taut, tense, timidly, timorously, tremblingly, tremulously, under the breath, under the rose, undercover, underground, with breathless expectation, with due deference, with muscles tense

• with child, anticipating, big with child, big-laden, breeding, carrying, carrying a fetus, expecting, gestating, gravid, great, heavy, heavy with child, knocked up, parturient, preggers, pregnant, superfetate, superimpregnated, teeming

• with it, a la mode, agreeably, by consensus, compatibly, concordantly, congenially, consonantly, fashionable, fittingly, go-go, groovy, hand in glove, harmoniously, hep, hip, in, in chorus, in concert, in keeping, in line, in step, in unison, into, just right, modish, on the beam, really into, swank, swish, tony, trendy, unanimously

• with open arms, agreeably, amiably, amicably, animatedly, anxiously, ardently, arm in arm, avidly, breathlessly, congenially, cordially, de bonne volonte, eagerly, enthusiastically, familiarly, favorably, friendliwise, friendly, genially, hand in hand, heartily, hospitably, impatiently, intimately, keenly, pleasantly, promptly, quickly, readily, vivaciously, warmly, willingly, with a will, with alacrity, with good will, with gusto, with relish, with zest, zealously, zestfully

• with, about, added to, along with, amid, amidst, among, amongst, as well as, at, at all costs, at any cost, attended by, by, by dint of, by means of, by use of, by virtue of, by way of, coupled with, despite, even with, for, from, hereby, herewith, in, in addition to, in agreement with, in association with, in company with, in conjunction with, in cooperation with, in despite of, in favor of, in keeping with, in line with, in spite of, in there with, in virtue of, including, inclusive of, irregardless, irrespective of, let alone, linked to, mid, midst, near, next to, not to mention, on, over and above, partnered with, per, plus, pro, regardless, regardless of, regardless of cost, right with, spite of, thanks to, thereby, therewith, through, to, together on, together with, toward, upon, via, whereby, wherewith, wherewithal

• withdraw, abandon, abate, abdicate, abjure, abolish, abrade, abrogate, abrupt, abscond, abstract, agree to differ, agree to disagree, alienate, annul, avulse, back down, back out, backwater, bate, be at variance, be in dissent, be pensioned, be superannuated, beat a retreat, become an individual, beg off, beg to differ, blow, bow out, cancel, cast off, cast out, climb down, countermand, counterorder, crawfish out, cringe, cry off, curtail, cut adrift, cut off, cut out, decline, decrease, deduct, delete, demit, deny, depart, depart from, depreciate, deracinate, derogate, detract, die away, differ, dig out, dig up, diminish, disagree, disagree with, disannul, disappear, disarticulate, disavow, discard, disclaim, disconnect, discord with, disengage, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, disown, disparage, dissent, dissent from, dissociate, disunite, divide, divide on, divorce, do away with, drain, draw, draw back, draw in, draw off, draw out, dredge, dredge up, drift away, drop out, duck, dwindle, eat away, eat crow, eat humble pie, ebb, eject, eradicate, erode, estrange, evacuate, evolve, evulse, excavate, excise, exit, expel, exsect, extract, extricate, fade, fade away, fall back, file away, flinch, forsake, forswear, get away, get off, get out, give back, give ground, give place, give up, give way, go, go away, go back, go back on, gouge out, grub up, impair, invalidate, isolate, jettison, jilt, keep apart, leach, leave, leave behind, leave flat, lessen, make void, maroon, mine, move away, move back, move off, not agree, nullify, oppose, override, overrule, palinode, part, pension off, pick out, pluck out, pluck up, pull, pull away, pull back, pull in, pull out, pull up, purify, quail, quarry, quit, quit cold, rake out, recall, recant, recede, recoil, reduce, refine, relinquish, remove, renege, renounce, renounce the throne, repeal, repudiate, rescind, resign, retire, retire from office, retract, retreat, retrench, retrocede, reverse, revoke, rip out, root out, root up, rub away, run along, run back, say goodbye to, secede, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, shorten, shrink, shut off, shy, sink, split, stand alone, stand aloof, stand apart, stand aside, stand back, stand down, stand off, step aside, subduct, subtract, superannuate, suspend, swallow, take away, take back, take exception, take from, take issue, take leave of, take off, take out, tear out, thin, thin out, throw off, throw out, throw over, uncouple, unearth, unravel, unsay, unyoke, uproot, vacate, vanish, void, waive, wane, wear away, weed, weed out, widen the distance, wince, withdraw from, withhold assent, wrest out, write off

• withdrawal, Jim Crow, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absentation, abstraction, abulia, agreement to disagree, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anesthesia, annulment, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apartheid, apartness, apathy, apostasy, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, avulsion, backwardness, bashfulness, blame-shifting, blankness, boredom, cancel, canceling, cancellation, carelessness, cassation, casting away, catatonia, catatonic stupor, celibacy, cessation, chill, chilliness, clearance, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, compensation, compulsion, constraint, coolness, counter-culture, countermand, counterorder, cutting out, deadpan, decampment, decompensation, defeasance, defense mechanism, dejection, demission, denial, departure, deportation, deposal, depression, deracination, dereism, dereistic thinking, desuetude, detachment, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disarticulation, disassociation, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discreetness, discretion, disengagement, disentanglement, disinterest, disinterestedness, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disowning, disownment, disparity, dispassion, dispassionateness, displacement, disposal, disposition, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissociation, distance, disunion, disuse, diversity, division, divorce, divorcement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, dropping out, dullness, egress, ejection, elation, elimination, emeritus status, emotional deadness, emotional insulation, emotionalism, emotionlessness, enucleation, eradication, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, euphoria, evacuation, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, exile, exit, exodus, expatriation, expression, expressionlessness, expulsion, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fallback, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, folie du doute, forced resignation, forsaking, forswearing, frigidity, frostiness, getaway, going, guardedness, heartlessness, heedlessness, hegira, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, incoherence, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, inexcitability, insensibility, insouciance, intellectual inertia, introversion, invalidation, isolation, isolationism, jettison, jettisoning, keeping apart, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of interest, lack of touch, leaving, lethargy, liquidation, listlessness, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, luxation, mania, melancholia, mental distress, mining, minority opinion, modesty, moving apart, negativism, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nullification, objectivity, obsession, obtuseness, opposition, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, overcompensation, palinode, palinody, parting, partition, passing, passionlessness, pathological indecisiveness, poker face, preoccupation, pressing out, privacy, privatism, privatization, projection, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, psychotaxis, pullback, pulling, pulling out, pullout, purge, quarantine, quarrying, rationalization, recall, recantation, recedence, receding, recess, recession, reclusion, reculade, recusance, recusancy, regardlessness, rejection, relinquishment, remoteness, removal, renege, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repeal, repression, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, reserve, reservedness, resignation, resistance, restraint, reticence, reticency, retiral, retirement, retractation, retractility, retraction, retreat, retrocedence, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, riddance, ripping out, rustication, secession, seclusion, secrecy, segmentation, segregation, self-absorption, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, setting aside, severance, single blessedness, sociological adjustive reactions, solitariness, solitude, soullessness, spiritlessness, splendid isolation, squeezing out, standoffishness, stolidity, straight face, stupor, subdivision, sublimation, substitution, subtraction, superannuation, suppression, suspension, throwing overboard, tic, twitching, unaffability, unapproachability, unconcern, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, underground, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unexpansiveness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unrooting, unsaying, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, uprooting, vacation, vacatur, variance, voidance, voiding, voluntary resignation, waiver, waiving, walkout, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawment, withdrawnness, wresting out, write-off, zoning

• withdrawn, Laodicean, Olympian, alienated, alone, aloof, anonymous, apart, apathetic, aseptic, backward, bashful, benumbed, blah, blank, blase, bored, careless, casual, chilled, chilly, closet, cold, comatose, companionless, constrained, cool, desensitized, detached, discreet, disinterested, distant, dull, exclusive, expressionless, forbidding, friendless, frigid, frosty, guarded, heartless, hebetudinous, heedless, homeless, hopeless, icy, impassive, impersonal, in a backwater, in a stupor, inaccessible, incognito, incurious, indifferent, inmost, innermost, insociable, insouciant, insular, interior, intimate, introverted, inward, isolated, kithless, languid, lethargic, listless, lone, lonely, lonesome, mindless, modest, nonchalant, numb, numbed, offish, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, passive, personal, phlegmatic, pluckless, private, privy, quarantined, regardless, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, resigned, restrained, reticent, retired, retiring, rootless, secluded, seclusive, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, shrinking, shut off, single-handed, slack, sluggish, solitary, solo, soporific, spiritless, spunkless, standoff, standoffish, stoic, stolid, stupefied, subdued, supine, suppressed, torpid, unabetted, unaccompanied, unaffable, unaided, unapproachable, unassisted, unattended, uncaring, uncompanionable, unconcerned, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unescorted, unexpansive, unfrequented, ungenial, uninquiring, uninterested, uninvolved, unmindful, unseconded, unsupported, unvisited

• wither, Sanforize, age, air-dry, anhydrate, attenuate, bake, blot, brush, burn, cave in, cheat the undertaker, collapse, constrict, consume, contract, cure, decline, deflate, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, diminish, dodder, drain, droop, dry, dry up, dwindle, emacerate, emaciate, evaporate, exsiccate, fade, fade away, fail, fire, flag, fold, get along, get on, grow old, insolate, kiln, languish, lose strength, macerate, mummify, mummy, parch, peak, pine, preshrink, rub, run down, scorch, sear, shake, shrink, shrivel, sink, smoke, soak up, sponge, sun, sun-dry, swab, thin, torrefy, totter, towel, turn gray, turn white, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, weazen, welter, wilt, wipe, wither away, wizen, wrinkle

• withered, Sanforized, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, hollow-eyed, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, ravaged with age, rickety, run to seed, rusty, scorched, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, starved, starveling, stricken in years, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, wasted, wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, wizen, wizen-faced, wizened, wraithlike, wrinkled

• withering, Sanforizing, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, air-drying, anhydration, arrogant, atrophy, attenuation, baneful, biting, bitter, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, caustic, clannish, cliquish, coming apart, consuming, consumption, consumptive, contemptuous, contumelious, corroding, corrosive, cracking, crumbling, cutting, deadly, decadent, declining, degenerate, dehumidification, dehydration, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desiccation, desolating, destroying, destructive, deteriorating, devastating, disastrous, disdainful, disintegrating, doomful, drainage, draining, drooping, drying, drying up, dwindling, ebbing, effete, emaceration, emaciation, evaporation, exclusive, fading, failing, falling, fatal, fateful, flagging, fragmenting, fratricidal, going to pieces, haughty, incisive, insolation, internecine, keen, languishing, marcescence, marcescent, mordacious, mordant, mummification, nihilist, nihilistic, parching, penetrating, piercing, pining, preshrinkage, ravaging, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, ruining, ruinous, scathing, scorching, scornful, searing, self-destructive, sharp, shrinkage, shrinking, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, stabbing, stinging, subsiding, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, supercilious, tabetic, tart, thinning, toploftical, toplofty, trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, waning, wastage, waste, wasteful, wasting, wilting, worsening

• withhold, abstain, abstain from, arrest, avoid, begrudge, bit, bosom, bridle, check, classify, close the hand, conceal, conserve, constrain, contain, control, cool, cool off, curb, curtail, decelerate, deny, detain, disallow, do without, dompt, enjoin, eschew, file and forget, forbear, forgo, govern, grudge, guard, hinder, hold, hold aloof from, hold at bay, hold back, hold down, hold fast, hold in, hold in check, hold in leash, hold out on, hold up, husband, in petto, inhibit, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep by one, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep in, keep in check, keep in ignorance, keep in reserve, keep in store, keep mum, keep on hand, keep out, keep secret, keep snug, keep under control, keep under wraps, lay by, lay under restraint, let alone, let go by, make no sign, never let on, never touch, not give away, not tell, not touch, pass up, play dumb, preserve, prohibit, pull, pull in, put apart, put aside, put by, refrain, refrain from, refuse, rein, rein in, reserve, restrain, retain, retard, retrench, save, save up, secrete, set apart, set aside, set back, set by, shun, slow down, snub, spare, stand aloof from, straiten, veil

• within bounds, analytically, calmly, composedly, conservatively, coolly, dispassionately, equably, evenly, frugally, in all conscience, in all reason, in balance, in moderation, in reason, judiciously, logically, moderately, prudently, rationally, reasonably, restrainedly, sanely, sensibly, serenely, soberly, soothingly, soundly, sparingly, steadily, stintingly, subduedly, syllogistically, temperately, tranquilly, within compass, within reason, within reasonable limitations

• within reach, about, accessible, along toward, approachable, around, at close quarters, at hand, attainable, attendant, available, close, close about, close at hand, close by, come-at-able, fast by, findable, getatable, gettable, hard, hard by, hereabout, hereabouts, immanent, immediate, in spitting distance, in view, indwelling, inherent, near, near at hand, nearabout, nearabouts, nearby, nigh, nigh about, not far, obtainable, on board, on deck, on hand, only a step, open, open to, penetrable, pervious, present, procurable, reachable, securable, thereabout, thereabouts, to be had, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within sight

• without delay, PDQ, all at once, all together, apace, at a blow, at a stroke, at once, at one blow, at one jump, at one stroke, at one swoop, at one time, decisively, directly, expeditiously, forthwith, immediately, in a hurry, in no time, instanter, instantly, now, on the instant, on the spot, per saltum, pretty damned quick, promptly, pronto, quickly, right away, right now, right off, simultaneously, smartly, speedily, straightaway, straightway, subito, summarily, swiftly, then and there, this minute, this very minute, uno saltu, with all speed, without further delay

• without doubt, actually, admittedly, assuredly, believingly, beyond doubt, beyond question, certainly, clearly, decidedly, demonstrably, devoutly, doubtless, doubtlessly, for a certainty, for real, in all conscience, incontestably, indeed, indisputably, indubitably, irrefragably, irrefutably, manifestly, no doubt, noticeably, observably, obviously, on faith, on trust, out of question, patently, piously, positively, quite, really, sensibly, seriously, truly, trustfully, trustingly, unambiguously, undeniably, undoubtedly, undoubtfully, undoubtingly, unmistakably, unquestionably, unquestioningly, unsuspectingly, unsuspiciously, upon trust, verily, visibly, with confidence, with faith

• without exception, absolute, across-the-board, admitting no exception, all along, all over, all the time, all the while, all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, all-out, always, at all times, at every turn, blanket, categorical, clear, compendious, complete, comprehensive, conclusive, constantly, continually, cosmically, decided, decisive, definite, definitive, determinate, downright, encyclopedic, entire, ever and always, everywhere, explicit, express, final, fixed, flat, flat-out, galactically, global, implicit, in every instance, inappealable, indisputable, internationally, invariably, like clockwork, methodically, never otherwise, omnibus, orderly, out-and-out, outright, over-all, panoramic, peremptory, perfect, positive, regularly, round, steadily, straight, straight-out, sweeping, synoptic, systematically, the world over, total, uncircumscribed, unconditional, unconditioned, undoubting, unequivocal, unhampered, unhesitating, universal, universally, unlimited, unmistakable, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestioning, unreserved, unrestricted, unwaivable, utter, whole, without omission, without reserve

• without foundation, baseless, built on sand, empty, groundless, idle, ill-founded, not well-founded, unbased, unfounded, ungrounded, unsupportable, unsupported, unsustainable, unsustained, untenable, unwarranted, vain, without basis

• without rhyme or reason, absonant, aimless, arbitrarily, capriciously, contradictory, contrary to reason, designless, empty, fallacious, fancifully, faulty, flawed, flightily, garbled, illogical, importless, inane, inauthentic, inconclusive, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsistent, insignificant, invalid, irrational, lightly, loose, meaningless, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonscientific, not following, null, paralogical, phatic, purportless, purposeless, reasonless, scrambled, self-annulling, self-contradictory, self-refuting, senseless, unauthentic, unconnected, unmeaning, unphilosophical, unreasonable, unreasonably, unscientific, unsignificant, whimsically, without reason

• without stopping, ad infinitum, again and again, always, at a stretch, at all times, ceaselessly, connectedly, constantly, continually, continuously, cumulatively, cyclically, daily, daily and hourly, day after day, day and night, endlessly, ever, ever and anon, every day, every hour, every moment, hour after hour, hourly, incessantly, interminably, monotonously, month after month, night and day, on a stretch, on and on, on end, perennially, perpetually, rapidly, regularly, repetitively, right along, round the clock, steadily, sustainedly, together, unbrokenly, unceasingly, unintermittently, uninterruptedly, unrelievedly, unvaryingly, without a break, without cease, without letup, year after year

• without warning, abruptly, bang, by surprise, dash, hastily, impetuously, implausibly, improbably, impulsively, like a flash, like a thunderbolt, of a sudden, on short notice, plop, plump, plunk, pop, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, sharp, slap, smack, startlingly, sudden, suddenly, surprisingly, unanticipatedly, unawares, unexpectedly, unforeseeably, unpredictably, without notice

• without, after, apparently, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, discounting, empty of, ex, except, except for, excepting, exception taken of, excluding, exclusive of, exteriorly, externally, free of, from, lacking, leaving out, less, let alone, minus, not counting, off, omitting, on the outside, on the surface, open, open air, openly, out, out of doors, out-of-doors, outside, outside of, outwardly, outwards, past, precluding, publically, sans, save, save and except, saving, superficially, than, to all appearances, unless, void of, wanting

• withstand, be at cross-purposes, be proof against, bear, bear up, bear up against, buck, challenge, combat, complain, complain loudly, confront, contend with, contest, counter, counteract, countervail, counterwork, cross, defy, dispute, dissent, duel, endure, face down, face out, face up to, fight, front, go against, hold out, hold up, join the opposition, kick against, make a stand, meet head-on, not abide, object, offer resistance, oppose, play at cross-purposes, protest, rebuff, recalcitrate, reluct, remonstrate, repel, repulse, resist, revolt, run against, run counter to, show fight, stand, stand at bay, stand up, stand up against, stand up to, strive against, suffer, take issue with, tolerate, traverse, vote against

• witless, a stranger to, abnormal, apish, asinine, asleep, batty, bedlamite, befooled, beguiled, bereft of reason, besotted, blind to, brainless, brainsick, buffoonish, caught napping, cockeyed, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed, dead to, deaf to, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, dizzy, doting, dumb, empty-headed, fatuitous, fatuous, featherbrained, featherheaded, flaky, flighty, fluttery, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, frivolous, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, giddy-brained, giddy-headed, giddy-pated, giddy-witted, goofy, gulled, hallucinated, harebrain, harebrained, headless, idiotic, ignorant, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-gauged, ill-judged, imbecile, impercipient, impolitic, imprudent, in ignorance of, inadvisable, inane, incognizant, inconsiderate, indiscreet, inept, inexpedient, infatuated, injudicious, insane, insensate, insensible, insensible to, irrational, kooky, lackbrained, lean-minded, lean-witted, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, maudlin, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah, mindless, misadvised, misguided, moon-struck, moronic, myopic, napping, nitwitted, non compos, non compos mentis, nonconceiving, not all there, not bright, not right, not with it, nutty, odd, of little brain, of unsound mind, off, out of it, pea-brained, pin-brained, psycho, queer, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, rattlepated, reasonless, reckless, sappy, scatterbrained, scramblebrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shatterbrained, shortsighted, sick, silly, slackminded, slackwitted, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, stupid, tetched, thoughtless, touched, unadvised, unaware, unaware of, unbalanced, unconscious, unconscious of, unconsidered, undiscerning, unforeseeing, ungifted, unhearing, unhinged, uninsightful, unintellectual, unintelligent, unknowing, unmindful, unmindful of, unperceiving, unprehensive, unrealizing, unreasonable, unreasoning, unreflecting, unreflective, unsane, unseeing, unsensible, unsettled, unsound, unsuspecting, untalented, unthinking, unthoughtful, unwise, unwitting, unwitty, wacky, wandering, weak-minded, wet

• witling, Boeotian, Gothamite, banana, block, burlesquer, caricaturist, clod, clown, comedian, comic, cutup, dimwit, dolt, donkey, dope, dullard, dumb cluck, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, epigrammatist, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, gowk, humorist, ironist, jester, jobbernowl, joker, jokesmith, jokester, lackwit, lamebrain, lampooner, lightweight, looby, loon, madcap, niais, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, noddy, parodist, prankster, punner, punster, put, quipster, reparteeist, satirist, smart ass, stupid, thickwit, wag, wagwit, wise fool, wise guy, wiseacre, wisecracker, wisehead, wiseling, wisenheimer, wit, zany

• witness, TV-viewer, accessory, acknowledge, admission, adviser, affidavit, affirm, affirmation, allegation, allege, announce, announcer, annunciator, appear, argue, assertion, asseverate, asseveration, assister, attend, attest, attestant, attestation, attestator, attester, authority, authorization, aver, averment, avouch, avouchment, avow, avowal, be at, be present at, bear witness, behold, beholder, bespeak, betoken, bill of health, bird-watcher, bystander, catch, catch sight of, certificate, certificate of proficiency, certification, certify, channel, clap eyes on, cojuror, come to, communicant, communicator, compurgation, compurgator, confirmation, credential, declaration, defendant, depone, deponent, depose, deposition, descry, diploma, discern, disclose, disclosure, discover, distinguish, do, drugstore cowboy, earwitness, endorse, enlightener, espy, evidence, examinant, examinate, examinee, expert witness, eyewitness, gaper, gazer, gazer-on, girl-watcher, give evidence, glimpse, go to, goggler, gossipmonger, grapevine, have in sight, informant, information center, information medium, informer, instrument in proof, interviewee, ken, kibitzer, lay eyes on, legal evidence, litigant, litigationist, litigator, look on, look upon, looker, looker-on, make out, monitor, mouthpiece, navicert, newsmonger, notarized statement, note, notice, notifier, observe, observer, ogler, onlooker, panel, parties litigant, party, passerby, perceive, perceiver, percipient, pick out, plaintiff, press, profession, proof, public relations officer, publisher, questionee, quizzee, radio, recognize, reporter, see, seer, sheepskin, show up, sidewalk superintendent, sight, sit in, source, spectator, spectatress, spectatrix, spokesman, spot, spy, statement, subject, subscribe, suitor, swear, swearer, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, take in, televiewer, television, television-viewer, teller, testament, testamur, testifier, testify, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, ticket, tipster, tout, turn up, twig, video-gazer, view, viewer, visa, vise, visit, vouch, voucher, warrant, warranty, watch, watcher, word

• witticism, adage, ana, analects, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bon mot, boutade, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, byword, catchword, collected sayings, conceit, crack, current saying, dictate, dictum, distich, drollery, epigram, expression, facetiae, flash of wit, flight of wit, gag, gibe, gnome, golden saying, happy thought, jape, jest, maxim, moral, mot, motto, nasty crack, oracle, persiflage, phrase, pithy saying, play of wit, pleasantry, precept, prescript, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quip, quips and cranks, repartee, retort, riposte, sally, saw, saying, scintillation, sentence, sententious expression, sloka, smart crack, smart saying, snappy comeback, stock saying, stroke of wit, sutra, teaching, text, turn of thought, verse, waggery, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, wisecrack, word, words of wisdom, yak

• wittiness, brilliance, cleverness, comedy, comicality, comicalness, drollery, drollness, facetiousness, funniness, humorousness, jocoseness, jocularity, joking, joshing, keen-wittedness, keenness, nimble-wittedness, pleasantry, pungency, quick-wittedness, saltiness, sharpness, smartness

• wittingly, advisedly, by design, calculatedly, consciously, contemplatedly, deliberately, designedly, eruditely, in cold blood, intelligently, intentionally, knowingly, learnedly, meditatedly, on purpose, pointedly, premeditatedly, purposefully, purposely, purposively, studiously, understandingly, voluntarily, willfully, with forethought, with full intent, with intent, with malice aforethought, with purpose

• witty, Attic, absurd, amusing, biting, bizarre, brilliant, clever, diverting, droll, eccentric, entertaining, facetious, funny, hilarious, humorous, humorsome, incongruous, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen-witted, laughable, ludicrous, mordant, nimble-witted, penetrating, piercing, pointed, priceless, probing, pungent, quaint, quick-witted, quizzical, rapier-like, rich, ridiculous, risible, salt, salty, scintillating, screaming, sharp, smart, sparkling, sprightly, whimsical

• wizard, Comus, Faust, OK, ace, ace-high, artist, authority, bad, bang-up, bonzer, boss, bully, but good, conjurer, cool, corking, crackerjack, dandy, delicious, diabolist, diviner, dowser, ducky, enchanter, fab, fine and dandy, first-rater, gear, genius, good hand, great, groovy, heavy, hot, hunky-dory, jam-up, just dandy, keen, mage, magician, magus, mahatma, man of genius, marvy, master, master hand, mastermind, mean, miracle-worker, neat, necromancer, nifty, nobby, okay, out of sight, past master, peachy, peachy-keen, practiced hand, prodigy, professional, proficient, ripping, rum, sage, scrumptious, skilled hand, slap-up, smashing, solid, something else, sorcerer, spiffing, spiffy, star, stunning, superstar, swell, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, theurgist, topnotcher, tough, virtuoso, warlock, water witch, whiz

• wizardry, ability, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, alchemy, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bewitchery, bewitchment, bravura, brilliance, capability, capacity, charm, cleverness, command, competence, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, divination, efficiency, enchantment, expertise, facility, fetishism, finesse, glamour, grace, gramarye, grip, handiness, hoodoo, horsemanship, incantation, ingeniousness, ingenuity, juju, jujuism, know-how, magic, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, natural magic, necromancy, obeah, practical ability, proficiency, prowess, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, rune, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, shamanism, skill, skillfulness, sorcery, sortilege, spell, spellbinding, spellcasting, style, sympathetic magic, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, thaumaturgia, thaumaturgics, thaumaturgism, thaumaturgy, theurgy, timing, vampirism, virtuosity, voodoo, voodooism, wanga, white magic, wit, witchcraft, witchery, witchwork, workmanship

• wizen, Sanforize, age, air-dry, anhydrate, attenuate, bake, blot, brush, burn, cheat the undertaker, consume, cure, decline, decrease, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, diminish, dodder, drain, droop, dry, dry up, dwindle, emacerate, emaciate, evaporate, exsiccate, fade, fade away, fail, fire, flag, get along, get on, grow old, insolate, kiln, languish, macerate, mummify, mummy, parch, pine, preshrink, reduce, rub, scorch, sear, shake, shrink, shrivel, sink, smoke, soak up, sponge, sun, sun-dry, swab, thin, torrefy, totter, towel, turn gray, turn white, wane, waste, waste away, weazen, welter, wilt, wipe, wither, wrinkle

• wizened, Lilliputian, Sanforized, Tom Thumb, adust, anile, atrophied, attenuated, baked, brittle, burnt, cadaverous, consumed, corky, corpselike, crabbed, debilitated, decrepit, dehydrated, desiccated, doddered, doddering, doddery, dried, dried-up, dumpy, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, elfin, emacerated, emaciate, emaciated, evaporated, exsiccated, feeble, fossilized, gerontal, gerontic, haggard, hollow-eyed, incipient, infirm, jejune, marantic, marasmic, meager, midget, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummified, mummylike, nanoid, palsied, papery, papery-skinned, parched, parchmenty, peaked, peaky, pinched, poor, preshrunk, puny, pygmy, ravaged with age, rickety, rudimental, rudimentary, run to seed, runty, rusty, scorched, scraggy, scrubby, sear, seared, senile, sere, shaky, shriveled, shriveled up, shrunk, shrunken, skeletal, squat, starved, starveling, stricken in years, stunted, sun-dried, sunbaked, tabetic, tabid, thin, timeworn, tottering, tottery, underfed, undernourished, undersize, undersized, wasted, wasted away, weak, weazened, weazeny, wilted, wind-dried, withered, wizen, wizen-faced, wraithlike, wrinkled

• wobble, alternate, amble, arrhythmia, back and fill, barge, bob, bobble, bounce, bowl along, brokenness, bump, bundle, capriciousness, careen, change, chatter, choppiness, clump, coggle, dangle, desultoriness, didder, disconnectedness, discontinuity, dither, drag, ebb and flow, eccentricity, equivocate, erraticness, falter, fibrillation, fitfulness, fits and starts, flounce, flounder, fluctuate, fluctuation, flutter, foot, footslog, go through phases, grimace, halt, have an ague, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, hustle, inconstancy, intermittence, irregularity, jactitate, jar, jerk, jerkiness, jig, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump, librate, limp, lumber, lunge, lurch, mince, nonuniformity, nutate, oscillate, pace, paddle, patchiness, peg, pendulate, piaffe, piaffer, pitch, plod, prance, quake, quaver, quiver, rack, reel, resonate, rictus, ring the changes, rock, roll, roughness, sashay, saunter, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, seesaw, shake, shamble, shift, shilly-shally, shimmy, shiver, shock, shudder, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, stalk, stammer, stamp, stomp, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swag, swagger, sway, swing, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, tic, tittup, toddle, topple, toss, totter, traipse, tremble, tremor, trip, trudge, turn, twitch, twitter, uncertainty, unevenness, unmethodicalness, unpredictability, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, vacillate, variability, vary, vibrate, waddle, wag, waggle, wamble, wave, waver, wax and wane, weave, whimsicality, wiggle

• wobbly, aspen, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chattering, choppy, desultory, deviative, dickey, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous, doddering, eccentric, erratic, faltering, fitful, flickering, fluctuant, fluctuating, groggy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, hesitant, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, insecure, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, jerky, lurching, nonuniform, oscillating, oscillatory, palsied, patchy, pendulating, quaking, quavering, quavery, quivering, quivery, rachitic, rackety, rambling, ramshackle, rattletrap, ricketish, rickety, rocky, rootless, rough, scrappy, shaking, shaky, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shivering, shivery, shuddering, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spidery, spindly, sporadic, spotty, staggering, succussatory, succussive, teetering, teetery, tentative, tottering, tottery, trembling, trembly, tremulous, tumbledown, uncertain, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, vacillating, vacillatory, variable, veering, vibrating, wandering, wavering, weak, wobbling

• woe, abomination, aching heart, affliction, agony, agony of mind, anguish, atrocity, bad, bale, bane, befoulment, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter cup, bitter draft, bitter draught, bitter pill, bitterness, bleeding heart, blight, broken heart, bugbear, burden, burden of care, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, carking care, cataclysm, catastrophe, corruption, cross, crown of thorns, crushing, crushing burden, crying evil, curse, damage, death, defilement, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, despoliation, destruction, detriment, disease, distress, dole, encumbrance, evil, extremity, gall, gall and wormwood, grief, grievance, harm, havoc, heartache, heartbreak, heartfelt grief, heartgrief, heavy heart, hurt, ill, infection, infelicity, infliction, injury, lamentation, languishment, load, melancholia, melancholy, misadventure, mischief, misery, nemesis, open wound, oppression, outrage, pack of troubles, peck of troubles, pest, pestilence, pining, plague, poison, pollution, prostration, regret, rue, running sore, sadness, scourge, sea of troubles, sorrow, sorrowing, suicidal despair, the worst, thorn, torment, toxin, tragedy, trouble, unhappiness, venom, vexation, visitation, waters of bitterness, weight, wretchedness, wrong

• woebegone, affecting, afflictive, bitter, black, bleak, blue, bowed-down, cast down, cheerless, comfortless, crestfallen, crushed, cut up, dashed, deep-troubled, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, despondent, desponding, dilapidated, discomforting, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, down, downcast, downhearted, dreary, drooping, droopy, feeling low, funereal, grievous, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartless, heartsick, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, joyless, lamentable, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, moving, oppressive, outworn, painful, pathetic, pessimistic, pining, piteous, pitiable, poignant, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, shabby, sharp, sore, sorrowful, spiritless, stricken, subdued, suicidal, touching, uncomfortable, weary of life, woeful, world-weary, worn, wretched

• woeful, abominable, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, calamitous, careworn, cheerless, comfortless, contemptible, crushed, cut up, deep-troubled, dejected, deplorable, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, despicable, detestable, dire, discomforting, disconsolate, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, downcast, downhearted, dreadful, dreary, dumb with grief, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grave, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, gross, harrowed, hateful, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartbreaking, heartsick, heinous, horrible, horrid, in grief, in the dumps, inconsolable, infamous, joyless, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low-spirited, lugubrious, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, on the rack, outrageous, overcome, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, poignant, racked, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sore, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, squalid, stricken, suicidal, tearful, terrible, too bad, tortured, touching, unclean, uncomfortable, unfortunate, unprecedented, vile, villainous, woebegone, worst, worthless, wretched, wrung

• Wolf man, Dracula, Frankenstein, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, fee-faw-fum, frightener, ghost, ghoul, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror, incubus, monster, nightmare, ogre, ogress, phantom, revenant, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, specter, succubus, terror, vampire, werewolf

• wolf, African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, Mafioso, Young Turk, amorist, atonalism, atonality, batten, beast, beldam, bolt, bolt down, bomber, brush wolf, brute, cacophony, chaser, clinker, coyote, cram, debauchee, demon, devil, devour, dingo, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissonance, dissonancy, dissonant chord, dragon, engorge, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, flatness, fool around, fox, fury, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goon, gorge, gorilla, gormandize, gulp, gulp down, gunsel, guttle, guzzle, hardnose, heartbreaker, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, hyena, incendiary, ingurgitate, inharmoniousness, inharmony, jackal, killer, lady-killer, lecher, libertine, live to eat, lobo, lover-boy, mad dog, madcap, masher, medicine wolf, mess around, monster, mugger, off note, philander, philanderer, play around, prairie wolf, profligate, rake, rakehell, rapist, raven, revolutionary, reynard, rip, roue, rounder, savage, seducer, sharpness, she-wolf, skirt chaser, slop, slosh, sour note, sourness, spitfire, stridor, stuff, swinger, termagant, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, timber wolf, tough, tough guy, tunelessness, ugly customer, unharmoniousness, unmusicality, untunefulness, violent, virago, vixen, walking phallus, wanton, wild beast, witch, wolf down, woman chaser, womanize, womanizer

• wolfish, Draconian, Tartarean, all-devouring, all-engulfing, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodsucking, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody-minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish, canine, cannibalistic, cruel, cruel-hearted, demoniac, demoniacal, devilish, diabolic, dog-hungry, doggy, empty, extortionate, famished, famishing, fasting, fell, feral, ferocious, fiendish, fiendlike, fierce, foxlike, foxy, grabby, grasping, grim, half-famished, half-starved, hellish, hungering, hungry, infernal, inhuman, inhumane, lupine, murderous, parasitic, peckish, pinched with hunger, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, ruthless, sadistic, sanguinary, sanguineous, satanic, savage, sharkish, sharp-set, slavering, starved, starving, subhuman, truculent, unchristian, uncivilized, unfilled, unhuman, vicious, voracious, vulpine, vulturine, vulturous

• wolverine, Cape polecat, ape, bar, bear, cavy, chimp, chimpanzee, coon, ferret, foumart, glutton, groundhog, guinea pig, hedgehog, monk, monkey, mousehound, opossum, polecat, porcupine, possum, prairie dog, quill pig, raccoon, skunk, weasel, whistle-pig, woodchuck, zoril

• woman, Eve, Frau, adult, better half, common-law wife, concubine, dame, daughter of Eve, distaff, distaff side, domina, donna, dowager, doxy, fair sex, female sex, feme, feme covert, femininity, femme, frow, gentlewoman, girl, goodwife, goody, grown man, grownup, helpmate, helpmeet, kept mistress, kept woman, lady, lass, legalis homo, little, major, man, married woman, matron, mature man, milady, mistress, no chicken, old lady, old woman, paramour, playmate, rib, second sex, softer sex, squaw, unofficial wife, vrouw, wahine, weaker sex, weaker vessel, wedded wife, wife, womanhood, womankind, women, womenfolk, womenfolks

• womanhood, adulthood, adultness, age of consent, distaff side, driving age, fair sex, female sex, femaleness, feminacy, feminality, femineity, feminineness, femininity, flower of age, full age, full bloom, full growth, fullgrownness, gentlewomanliness, girlishness, grown-upness, ladylikeness, legal age, legalis homo, little-girlishness, maidenhood, maidenliness, majority, manhood, manlihood, matronage, matronhood, matronliness, matronship, mature age, maturity, muliebrity, prime, prime of life, ripe age, riper years, second sex, softer sex, the eternal feminine, toga virilis, virility, weaker sex, weaker vessel, woman, womanishness, womanity, womankind, womanlihood, womanlikeness, womanliness, women, womenfolk, womenfolks, years of discretion

• womanish, breakable, brittle, cheap-jack, chicken, cobwebby, crumbly, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, distaff, effeminate, female, feminine, flimsy, fragile, frail, frangible, gentlewomanlike, gimcrack, gimcracky, girlish, gossamery, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, jerry, jerry-built, kittenish, ladylike, light, lightweight, little-girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, muliebrous, namby-pamby, old-womanish, papery, pasteboardy, petticoat, prissy, puny, shattery, sissified, sissy, sissyish, sleazy, slight, soft, tacky, unmanly, unsubstantial, wispy, womanlike, womanly

• womanize, be promiscuous, castrate, chase women, commit adultery, debauch, demasculinize, dissipate, effeminate, effeminatize, effeminize, emasculate, fool around, fornicate, geld, grovel, mess around, philander, play around, rake, sissify, sleep around, soften, swing, wallow, wanton, whore, wolf

• womanizer, Casanova, Don Juan, Lothario, chaser, debauchee, gallant, gay deceiver, gay dog, lady-killer, libertine, lover-boy, masher, philander, philanderer, profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue, rounder, skirt chaser, swinger, walking phallus, wanton, wolf, woman chaser

• womanly, distaff, female, feminine, gentlewomanlike, girlish, gynecic, gynecoid, gynic, kittenish, ladylike, little-girlish, maidenly, matronal, matronlike, matronly, muliebral, petticoat, womanish, womanlike

• womb, bag, ballocks, balls, basket, beard, breasts, cervix, clitoris, cod, cods, cullions, family jewels, female organs, genitalia, genitals, gonads, labia, labia majora, labia minora, lingam, lips, male organs, matrix, meat, nuts, nymphae, ovary, penis, phallus, private parts, privates, privy parts, pubic hair, pudenda, reproductive organs, rocks, scrotum, secondary sex characteristic, sex organs, spermary, testes, testicles, uterus, vagina, venter, vulva, yoni

• wonder, admiration, agonize over, amaze, amazement, assailability, astonishing thing, astonishment, awe, be amazed, be astonished, be at sea, be innocent of, be uncertain, beat about, bewilderment, concern, coquet with, curiosity, cynosure, dabble, doubt, dubiety, enchantment, exception, fantasy, fear, feel unsure, ferlie, first-rater, flounder, gape, gawk, gaze, gazingstock, genius, give up, grope, have no idea, incertitude, know a little, know not, know not what, know nothing of, leading light, luminary, marvel, marveling, marvelment, miracle, mistrust, nonesuch, not know, not rightly know, pass, perplexity, phenomenon, portent, prodigy, puzzle over, puzzlement, question, quite a thing, rarity, reverence, scratch the surface, sensation, shock, sight, sign, skepticism, smatter, something else, spectacle, stand aghast, star, stare, stare openmouthed, stunner, superstar, suspicion, thrash about, topnotcher, toy with, virtuoso, vulnerability, wonder whether, wonderful thing, wonderment, wonderwork, wot not of

• wonderful, amazing, appalling, astonishing, astounding, beguiling, bewildering, conspicuous, cool, divine, egregious, enigmatic, exceptional, exquisite, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, formidable, gilt-edged, glorious, golden, groovy, heavenly, immense, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, legendary, magnificent, marked, marvelous, miraculous, mythical, notable, noteworthy, noticeable, of mark, outlandish, outstanding, passing strange, peachy, phenomenal, portentous, prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, signal, splendid, splendiferous, staggering, sterling, strange, striking, stupefying, stupendous, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superior, surprising, swell, terrific, tremendous, uncommon, unexampled, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unparalleled, unprecedented, unspeakable, wondrous

• wonderfully, abundantly, acutely, amazingly, amply, astonishingly, awesomely, beguilingly, bewilderingly, conspicuously, copiously, divinely, eminently, emphatically, enigmatically, exceptionally, exquisitely, extraordinarily, exuberantly, fabulously, famously, fantastically, fascinatingly, generously, glaringly, gloriously, immensely, impressively, incomprehensibly, inconceivably, incredibly, ineffably, intensely, magically, magnanimously, magnificently, markedly, marvelously, miraculously, nobly, notably, outlandishly, particularly, peculiarly, phenomenally, pointedly, preeminently, prodigiously, profusely, prominently, pronouncedly, puzzlingly, remarkably, richly, sensationally, signally, singularly, splendidly, strangely, strikingly, stupendously, superbly, superlatively, surpassingly, surprisingly, terrifically, tremendously, uncommonly, unimaginably, unspeakably, unusually, wondrous, wondrously, worthily

• wonderfulness, awesomeness, beguilingness, enchantingness, enticingness, extraordinariness, fascination, glamorousness, marvelousness, miraculousness, mysteriousness, mystery, numinousness, phenomenalness, prodigiousness, remarkableness, seductiveness, stupendousness, wondrousness

• wondering, agape, aghast, agog, all agog, amazed, astonished, astounded, at gaze, awed, awestruck, beguiled, bewildered, bewitched, breathless, captivated, confounded, dumbfounded, dumbstruck, enchanted, enraptured, enravished, enthralled, entranced, fascinated, flabbergasted, gaping, gauping, gazing, hypnotized, in awe, in awe of, lost in wonder, marveling, mesmerized, open-eyed, openmouthed, overwhelmed, popeyed, puzzled, rapt in wonder, spellbound, staggered, staring, stupefied, surprised, thunderstruck, under a charm, wide-eyed, wonder-struck

• wonderland, Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, arcadia, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, faerie, fairyland, heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, paradise, promised land, utopia

• wondrous, amazing, astonishing, astounding, beguiling, bewildering, bewitched, enchanted, enigmatic, exceptional, extraordinary, fabulous, fantastic, fascinating, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible, magical, marvelous, miraculous, necromantic, outlandish, passing strange, phenomenal, prodigious, puzzling, rare, remarkable, sensational, spectacular, strange, striking, stupendous, surprising, thaumaturgic, unheard-of, unimaginable, unique, unprecedented, wonder-working, wonderful

• wont, acclimate, acclimated, acclimatize, acclimatized, accommodate, accommodated, accustom, accustomed, adapt, adapted, adjust, adjusted, automatism, bad habit, be used to, be wont, bon ton, break, break in, case harden, case-hardened, characteristic, condition, conditioned, confirm, conformity, consuetude, convention, creature of habit, custom, domesticate, domesticize, establish, established way, etiquette, experienced, familiarize, familiarized, fashion, fix, folkway, force of habit, gentle, get used to, habit, habit pattern, habituate, habitude, harden, hardened, housebreak, inure, inured, manner, manners, mores, naturalize, naturalized, observance, orient, orientate, orientated, oriented, pattern, peculiarity, practice, praxis, prescription, proper thing, ritual, run-in, season, seasoned, second nature, social convention, standard behavior, standard usage, standing custom, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, take to, tame, time-honored practice, tradition, train, trained, trick, usage, use, used to, way, what is done, wonted, wonting

• wonted, accepted, acclimated, acclimatized, accommodated, accustomed, adapted, adjusted, average, case-hardened, chronic, common, commonplace, conditioned, conformable, consuetudinary, conventional, current, customary, established, everyday, experienced, familiar, familiarized, generally accepted, habitual, hardened, household, inured, naturalized, normal, normative, obtaining, ordinary, orientated, oriented, popular, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, received, regular, regulation, routine, run-in, seasoned, set, standard, stock, time-honored, traditional, trained, universal, used to, usual, vernacular, widespread, wont

• woo, address, allure, angle for, bait, bait the hook, beau, bid for, bill and coo, blandish, cajole, canvass, chase, coax, court, decoy, draw, draw in, draw on, ensnare, entice, esquire, fish for, flirt, flirt with, follow, give the come-on, inveigle, lay siege to, lead on, look for, lure, make suit to, make up to, offer bait to, pay attention to, pay court to, pop the question, pursue, rope in, seduce, seek, serenade, solicit, spark, squire, suck in, sue, sue for, swain, sweetheart

• wood carving, CYSP sculpture, anaglyptics, anaglyptography, architectural sculpture, bone-carving, bust, carving, casting, ceroplastics, chasing, clay sculpture, decorative sculpture, doll, dolly, dummy, earth art, embossing, engraving, fantoccini, figure, figurehead, figurine, founding, garden sculpture, gem-cutting, gingerbread man, glass sculpture, glyptic, ivory-carving, lay figure, lost-wax process, man of straw, manikin, mannequin, marionette, metal sculpture, model, modeling, molding, monument, monumental sculpture, paper sculpture, plaster casting, plastic art, portrait bust, portrait sculpture, puppet, relief, relief-carving, relievo, scarecrow, sculptor, sculpture, sculpturing, shell-carving, snowman, statuary, statue, statuette, stone sculpture, stonecutting, wax figure, waxwork, whittling, wire sculpture, xyloglyphy

• wood pulp, butter, cataplasm, crush, dental pulp, mash, mush, paper pulp, paste, pith, plaster, porridge, poultice, pudding, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, rag pulp, sauce, smash, sponge, squash, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, white lead

• wood, acacia, afforestation, alder, arboretum, ash, backlog, balsa, balsam, banyan, bass, basswood, bavin, beam, beech, beechwood, billet, birch, board, boarding, boondocks, brush, brushwood, burl, bush, bushveld, buttonwood, chase, cherry, chestnut, clapboard, climax forest, cloud forest, cord, cordwood, cork, cypress, deal, dendrology, dogwood, driftwood, ebony, elm, eucalyptus, fagot, fir, firewood, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, fringing forest, gallery forest, greenwood, gum, gumwood, hanger, hardwood, hazel, hemlock, hickory, index forest, ironwood, jungle, jungles, juniper, kindling, kindlings, lancewood, larch, lath, lathing, lathwork, linden, locust, log, logwood, lumber, magnolia, mahogany, maple, national forest, oak, olive, palmetto barrens, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, park, park forest, pecan, pine, pine barrens, plank, planking, plyboard, plywood, pole, poplar, post, primeval forest, protection forest, puncheon, rain forest, redwood, reforestation, sandalwood, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shake, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shrubland, sideboard, siding, silviculture, slab, slat, softwood, splat, sprout forest, spruce, stand of timber, state forest, stave, stick, stick of wood, stovewood, sumac, sycamore, teak, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberland, timberwork, tree veld, two-by-four, virgin forest, walnut, weatherboard, wildwood, woodland, woods, yew, yule clog, yule log

• woodblock, aquatint, autolithograph, block, block print, chromolithograph, color print, copperplate, copperplate print, crayon engraving, cut, engravement, engraving, etching, graphotype, impress, impression, imprint, linoleum-block print, lithograph, mezzotint, negative, print, rubber-block print, vignette, wood engraving, woodcut, woodprint, xylograph

• woodcraft, Christmas tree farming, afforestation, arboriculture, artisan work, artisanship, craft, craftwork, forest management, forestation, forestry, handicraft, industrial art, industrial design, logging, lumbering, manual art, metalcraft, reforestation, silviculture, stonecraft, tree farming

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• woods, English horn, Pandean pipe, afforestation, arboretum, aulos, back country, backwoods, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bombard, boondock, boondocks, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, chase, clarinet, climax forest, cloud forest, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, cromorne, dendrology, double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestry, forests, fringing forest, frontier, gallery forest, greenwood, hanger, hautboy, heckelphone, hinterland, hornpipe, index forest, jungle, jungles, licorice stick, musette, national forest, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, outback, outpost, palmetto barrens, panpipe, park, park forest, penny-whistle, piccolo, pine barrens, pipe, pommer, primeval forest, protection forest, rain forest, recorder, reed, reed instrument, reforestation, sax, saxophone, scrub, scrubland, selection forest, shawm, shrubland, silviculture, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tenoroon, the bush, timber, timberland, timbers, tin-whistle, tree veld, uninhabited region, up-country, virgin forest, virgin land, virgin territory, wasteland, weald, whistle, wild West, wilderness, wilds, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlands, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument

• woodsman, arboriculturist, backwoodsman, briar-hopper, brush ape, bushman, clam digger, conservationist, cracker, desert rat, forest ranger, forester, frontiersman, hillbilly, hinterlander, logger, lumberjack, lumberman, mountain man, mountaineer, piny, ranger, redneck, ridge runner, silviculturist, timberman, tree farmer, wood chopper, woodcraftsman, woodcutter, woodlander, woodman

• woodsy, afforestational, arboreous, backwoodsman, bosky, braky, bumpkin, bushy, clodhopper, copsy, dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, reforestational, rube, scrubby, shrubby, silvicultural, sylvan, timbered, wooded, woodland, woody

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• woody, afforestational, arboreous, bosky, braky, bushy, copsy, dendrologic, forest, forestal, forested, reforestational, scrubby, shrubby, silvicultural, sylvan, timbered, wooded, woodland, woodsy

• woof, cloth, drapery, etoffe, fabric, feel, felt, filling, finish, goods, grain, granular texture, indentation, knub, lace, material, nap, napery, nub, pick, pile, pit, pock, protuberance, rag, shag, shoot, silk, structure, stuff, surface, surface texture, textile, textile fabric, texture, tissu, tissue, wale, warp, weave, web, weft, wool

• woofer, acoustical network, capacitor speaker, coaxial speaker, cone, crossover network, diaphragm, dynamic speaker, earphone, electrodynamic speaker, electromagnetic speaker, electrostatic speaker, excited-field speaker, full-fidelity speaker, headphone, headset, high-fidelity speaker, high-frequency speaker, horn, loudspeaker, low-frequency speaker, midrange speaker, monorange speaker, moving-coil speaker, permanent magnet speaker, speaker, speaker system, speaker unit, triaxial speaker, tweeter, voice coil

• wooing, addresses, agacerie, allure, allurement, amorous pursuit, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, beguilement, beguiling, bewitchery, bewitchment, blandishment, cajolery, canvass, captivation, charisma, charm, charmingness, come-hither, court, courting, enchantment, enthrallment, enticement, entrapment, fascination, flirtation, forbidden fruit, gallantry, glamour, inducement, interest, inveiglement, invitation, magnetism, seducement, seduction, seductiveness, serenade, sex appeal, snaring, solicitation, suing, suit, tantalization, temptation, winning ways, winsomeness, witchery

• wool, Aralac, Avisco, Celanese, Chemstrand, Dacron, Dynel, Lastex, Manila, Orlon, Terylene, Velon, Vicara, acetate rayon, alpaca, angora, bast, blubber, breeze, bristle, butter, capillament, cashmere, cilium, clay, cloth, coat, coir, cotton, cushion, dough, down, drapery, eiderdown, etoffe, fabric, feather bed, feathers, felt, flax, fleece, floss, flue, fluff, foam, fur, goods, hair, hemp, horsehair, jute, kapok, lace, linen, llama hair, mane, material, merino, mohair, napery, near-silk, nylon, oakum, pelt, pile, pillow, plush, pubescence, pubic hair, pudding, puff, putty, raffia, rag, rayon, rubber, satin, setula, shag, silk, sisal, spandex, spun rayon, stuff, swansdown, textile, textile fabric, texture, thistledown, tissu, tissue, tussah, velvet, wax, weave, web, weft, woof, worsted, yarn, zephyr

• woolgathering, Walter Mitty, absence of mind, absent, absentminded, absentmindedness, absorbed, absorption, abstracted, abstractedness, abstraction, bemused, bemusement, brown study, castle-building, daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming, daydreamy, depth of thought, dream, dreaming, dreamy, drowsing, ecstatic, elsewhere, engrossed, engrossment, fantasy, fantasying, faraway, fit of abstraction, half-awake, in a reverie, in the clouds, lost, lost in thought, meditative, mooning, moonraking, muse, museful, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, napping, nodding, oblivious, pensive, pipe dream, pipe-dreaming, preoccupation, preoccupied, rapt, reverie, somewhere else, stargazing, study, taken up, trance, transported, unconscious, wrapped in thought

• woolly, bristly, bushy, cirrose, downy, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, pilose, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, unshorn, whiskered

• word for word, absolutely, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, dead, definitely, dinkum, direct, directly, even, exactly, expressly, 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, precisely, pure, real, realistic, right, rightful, rigidly, rigorously, simon-pure, simple, sincere, square, squarely, sterling, straight, 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, verbatim et litteratim, veridical, verisimilar, word by word, word-for-word

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• work stoppage, arrest, bell, boycott, boycottage, check, checkmate, cutoff, dead stop, deadlock, end, endgame, ending, final whistle, full stop, grinding halt, gun, halt, job action, lockout, outlaw strike, revolt, rulebook slowdown, sick-in, sit-down, sit-down strike, slowdown, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, strike, sympathy strike, tie-up, turnout, walkout, wildcat strike

• work toward, bend to, bias, conduce, contribute, dispose, go, have a tendency, head, incline, lead, lean, look to, point, point to, redound to, serve, set, set toward, show a tendency, tend, trend, turn, verge, warp

• work up, Pap test, aggravate, agitate, anatomic diagnosis, annoy, arouse, arrange, awake, awaken, beat, beat up, biological diagnosis, biopsy, blow the coals, blow up, breed, bristle, calculate, call forth, call up, cast, cause, chafe, churn, churn up, clinical diagnosis, concert, contrive, convulse, cut out, cytodiagnosis, design, devise, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, digital examination, disarrange, discompose, disquiet, disturb, electrocardiography, electroencephalography, electromyography, embitter, engender, enkindle, enrage, examination, exasperate, excite, fan, fan the fire, fan the flame, feed the fire, ferment, figure, fire, flame, flurry, foment, forecast, frame, frenzy, fret, get up, hatch, heat, heat up, huff, impassion, incense, incite, induce, inflame, infuriate, instigate, intend, irritate, key up, kindle, laboratory diagnosis, lather up, lay plans, light the fuse, light up, madden, make a projection, make arrangements, mammography, methodize, miff, move, muster up, nettle, occasion, oral examination, organize, overexcite, paddle, peeve, perturb, perturbate, physical diagnosis, physical examination, pique, plan, plan ahead, postmortem diagnosis, prearrange, produce, program, project, provoke, put up to, rally, rankle, rationalize, rile, ripple, roil, roughen, rouse, ruffle, rumple, schedule, schematize, serodiagnosis, set astir, set fire to, set on, set on fire, set up, shake, shake up, shape, sic on, smear, steam up, stir, stir the blood, stir the embers, stir the feelings, stir up, study, summon up, swirl, systematize, test, tickle, trouble, turn on, upset, urinalysis, uroscopy, vex, wake, wake up, waken, warm, warm the blood, whet, whip, whip up, whisk, work into, work out

• work well, be blooded, be effortless, be painless, be successful, catch on, click, coast, come off, connect, farewell, flow, give no trouble, glide, go, go easily, go great guns, go like clockwork, go off, go over, go over big, go to town, graduate, make a hit, meet with success, pass, present no difficulties, prevail, prosper, qualify, roll, run smoothly, sail, slide, succeed, sweep, take, work wonders

• work wonders, be blooded, be successful, catch on, click, come off, connect, farewell, go, go great guns, go off, go over, go over big, go to town, graduate, make a hit, meet with success, pass, prevail, prosper, qualify, succeed, take, work well

• work, Grand Guignol, Nachtmusik, Passion play, Tom show, abatis, absolute music, accomplish, accomplished fact, accomplishment, acetify, achieve, achievement, acidify, acidulate, act, acta, acting, action, activism, activities, activity, adaptation, admix, advance, advanced work, advantage, adventure, affair, affairs, affect, agency, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, alkalify, alkalize, alloy, amalgamate, answer, antimasque, arch dam, arrangement, art, art object, article, artifact, assignment, attain, attempt, audience success, author, autograph, avail, backset, backstop, bag, balistraria, ballet, bamboo curtain, bank, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, bartizan, bastion, battlement, be busy, be effective, be employed, be equal to, be in action, be productive, be responsible for, be right, bear, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, befit, befitting, beget, behave, behavior, bemingle, bend, benefit, best seller, bias, blend, block out, blow, blubber, boil, boil over, bomb, book, boom, borate, bottom, bound book, brainchild, breakwater, breastwork, breed, bric-a-brac, brick wall, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, bring to effect, bring to fruition, bring to pass, broadcast drama, bubble, bubble over, bubble up, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, burble, burden, burlesque show, business, busy, busywork, calling, carbonate, career, career building, careerism, carry on, carry on business, carry out, carry through, carve, casemate, cast, catalyze, cause, chamber music, chamber orchestra, char, charade, chare, charge, chemical, cheval-de-frise, child, chisel, chlorinate, chore, circumvallation, classic, clear up, cliff hanger, closet drama, coalesce, cofferdam, coinage, color, coloring book, combine, comedy drama, commerce, commingle, commission, commitment, commix, compass, compose, composition, compound, computer printout, conceive, concern, concernment, concoct, concoction, conduct, conglomerate, consummate, contract, contravallation, copy, counterscarp, coup, crack, craft, create, creation, creature, critical success, crowning achievement, cultivate, culture, curtain, cut, dam, daytime serial, deal, deal with, dealings, debug, decipher, decode, deed, defense, definitive work, delve, demibastion, descant, design, dialogue, dig, dike, direct, direction, dirty work, discharge, disentangle, dispatch, dispose, dispose of, distillation, ditch, divine, do, do business, do chars, do it, do the chores, do the job, do the trick, do with, document, documentary drama, doing, doings, donkeywork, dope, dope out, draft, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, drawbridge, dress, drive, driving, drudge, drudgery, duodrama, duologue, duty, earthwork, edited version, effect, effectuate, effervesce, efform, effort, electrolyze, electronic music, embankment, employ, employment, emulsify, enact, enclosure, end product, end use, endeavor, engagement, engender, engineer, engrossment, entanglement, enterprise, epic theater, errand, escarp, escarpment, essay, essence, establish, etude, execute, execution, exercise, exert, exertion, experimental theater, explain, exploit, extract, extravaganza, fag, failure, fair copy, fait accompli, fallow, fashion, father, fathom, fatigue, feat, fence, ferment, fertilize, fetch, fiction, fieldwork, figure, figure out, fill the bill, final draft, find out, find the answer, find the solution, finished version, first draft, fish to fry, fit, fix, fizz, fizzle, flimsy, flop, folio, follow a trade, force, forge, form, formalize, fortalice, fortification, forward, found, frame, fruit, fulfill, function, functioning, fuse, game, gasser, gate, generate, gest, gestate, get, get by, get right, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to, giveaway, glacis, go, go around, gravity dam, great work, grind, groin, grotesque, guess, guess right, guggle, gurgle, hack it, hand, handicraft, handiwork, handle, handling, handwork, happening, hardback, harmonization, harrow, hash, have a job, have effect, have free play, have it, have play, hew, hiss, hit, hit it, hit show, hoe, hold, holograph, homework, homogenize, homopolymerize, hydrate, hydraulic-fill dam, hydrogenate, hydroxylate, immediate purpose, immingle, immix, improvisational drama, inaugurate, incidental music, incline, induce, industrialize, industry, influence, institute, instrumental music, integrate, interblend, interest, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, interpret, intertwine, interweave, invention, iron curtain, isomerize, issue, jam, jetty, job, job of work, jumble, just do, juvenile, juvenile book, keep busy, keep up, kitsch, knead, knock off, knock out, labor, lay out, lead, leaping weir, legitimate drama, letter, levee, lick, lick into shape, lick of work, lifework, limp-cover book, line, line of business, line of work, list, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, logjam, lookout, loophole, lucubration, lunette, machicolation, magnum opus, make, make go, make out, make the grade, make use of, make-work, manage, management, maneuver, manipulate, manipulation, mantelet, manual labor, manufactory, manufacture, manuscript, masque, mass-produce, master, masterpiece, masterwork, matter, matters in hand, measure, meet, meet requirements, melodrama, merge, merlon, metier, militate, mill, milldam, mingle, mingle-mangle, minstrel show, mint, mintage, miracle, miracle play, mission, mix, mix up, moat, mobile, moil, mold, mole, monodrama, monologue, moonlight, morality, morality play, mound, move, movements, mulch, museum piece, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, new mintage, nitrate, nocturne, nonbook, nonfiction, not come amiss, notebook, novel, nude, number, obligation, occasion, occupation, odd job, office, offspring, old master, open the lock, opera, operancy, operate, operation, operational purpose, operations, oppress, opus, opuscule, opusculum, orchestration, original, originate, origination, outcome, outgrowth, outwork, overdrive, overproduce, overt act, overtask, overtax, overwork, oxidize, pageant, pains, palisade, panel show, pantomime, paper, paperback, parados, parapet, parchment, pass, pass muster, passage, pasticcio, pastiche, pastoral, pastoral drama, penscript, pepsinate, percolate, perform, perform on, performance, performing, perk, peroxidize, persuade, phosphatize, picture book, piece, piece of virtu, piece of work, piece of writing, pilot, plan, plant, play, playbook, playlet, plop, plow, plugging, plumb, ply, pocket book, poem, polish off, polymerize, portcullis, postern gate, practice, practice a profession, praxis, prayer book, predispose, printed matter, printout, problem play, proceed, proceeding, produce, product, production, profession, profit, program, program music, project, promote, prompt, proposition, prune, psalmbook, psalter, psych, psych out, psychodrama, publication, purpose, pursuit, put away, puzzle out, qualify, quiz show, racket, radio drama, rake, rampart, rat race, ravel, ravel out, ravelin, reach, react, reading matter, realize, recension, redan, redoubt, reduce, res gestae, resolve, responsibility, result, review, revue, ricercar, riddle, roadblock, rock-fill dam, role, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, run, running, sally port, satisfy, scarp, sconce, score, scramble, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, sculpt, sculpture, scut work, seawall, second draft, see to, seethe, sensational play, serial, serve, serve the purpose, service, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up, set up shop, shape, show, shuffle, shutter dam, simmer, sire, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, sketchbook, skit, slavery, slogging, soap, soap opera, soft-cover, soften up, solve, sonata, sonatina, songbook, sort out, spade, spadework, sparkle, specialization, specialty, spectacle, stabile, stage play, stage show, stamp, stand, stand up, standard work, statue, stay employed, steer, steering, step, still life, stint, stir up, stockade, stone wall, storybook, straight drama, strain, stretch, string orchestra, string quartet, strive, striving, stroke, stroke of work, study, stunt, suffice, suit the occasion, sulfate, sulfatize, sulfonate, suspense drama, sway, sweat, swing, syncretize, tableau, tableau vivant, tailor, take, take care of, take effect, take it, talk show, task, tax, teleplay, television drama, television play, tenaille, tend, the written word, theater of cruelty, theme and variations, thermoform, thin, thin out, thing, thing done, things to do, throw together, tick, till, till the soil, tinge, tiresome work, title, toil, tome, tone, toss together, total theater, tour de force, trade, trade book, transact business, transaction, transcript, transcription, travail, treadmill, trio, trouble, tug, turn, turn a hand, turn the trick, typescript, ultimate purpose, undertaking, undo, unlock, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, untangle, untwist, unweave, use, utilize, vallation, vallum, variation, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, vehicle, venture, version, virtu, vocation, volume, volume-produce, walk, walk of life, wall, wear down, weed, weed out, weigh with, weir, wicket dam, wield, word-of-mouth success, work at, work for, work of art, work out, working, workings, works, writing

• workable, achievable, actable, answerable, applicable, ascertainable, attainable, banausic, capable of solution, compassable, decipherable, decodable, determinable, doable, effective, effectual, efficient, explainable, explicable, exploitable, feasible, manageable, maneuverable, manipulatable, negotiable, open to solution, operable, operatable, overcomable, performable, practicable, practical, pragmatic, realizable, resolvable, soluble, solvable, superable, surmountable, usable, viable

• workaday, Attic, banausic, breadwinning, businesslike, chaste, classic, classical, commercial, common, commonplace, everyday, garden, garden-variety, homely, homespun, household, lowly, materialistic, matter-of-fact, moneymaking, mundane, nondescript, ordinary, plain, practical, prosaic, prosy, pure, pure and simple, quotidian, realistic, routine, simple, unremarkable, usual, utilitarian, workday, working

• workbench, agency, ambo, atelier, bar, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, board, buffet, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, counter, desk, escritoire, establishment, facility, firm, house, installation, institution, lectern, loft, organization, parlor, secretaire, secretary, shop, stand, studio, sweatshop, table, work site, work space, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable, writing table

• workbook, Domesday Book, abecedarium, abecedary, account book, address book, adversaria, album, alphabet book, annual, appointment calendar, appointment schedule, battledore, blankbook, blotter, calendar, casebook, cashbook, catalog, classified catalog, commonplace book, court calendar, daybook, desk calendar, diary, diptych, docket, engagement book, exercise book, gradus, grammar, hornbook, journal, ledger, log, logbook, loose-leaf notebook, manual, manual of instruction, memo book, memorandum book, memory book, notebook, pad, petty cashbook, pocket notebook, pocketbook, police blotter, primer, reader, schoolbook, scrapbook, scratch pad, speller, spelling book, spiral notebook, t, table, tablet, text, triptych, writing tablet, yearbook

• worked up, agog, angered, angry, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, browned-off, bursting, carried away, cross, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, high, hopped up, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, irate, ireful, keyed up, lathered up, livid, mad, manic, moved, pissed, pissed-off, ready to burst, riled up, roused, sore, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, thrilled, ticked off, tingling, tingly, turned-on, whipped up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up, wrought-up, yeasty

• worker, actor, agent, ant, architect, army ant, artisan, assistant, author, bee, black ant, blue-collar worker, brainworker, brassworker, breadwinner, bumblebee, carpenter ant, casual, casual laborer, clothworker, common laborer, craftsman, creator, day laborer, doer, drone, emmet, employee, executant, executor, executrix, fabricator, factory worker, fieldworker, fire ant, flintworker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, garmentworker, girl Friday, glassworker, goldworker, hand, handicraftsman, hired hand, hired man, hireling, honeybee, hornet, house ant, industrial worker, ironworker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, laceworker, leatherworker, maker, man Friday, mechanic, medium, menial, mercenary, metalworker, migrant, millworker, mineworker, moiler, mover, myrmidon, navvy, needleworker, office temporary, operant, operative, operator, pensioner, performer, perpetrator, pismire, practitioner, prime mover, producer, proletarian, queen, queen bee, red ant, right-hand man, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, slave ant, soldier, stiff, subject, temporary, termite, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, wasp, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman, workman, yellow jacket

• workhorse, beast of burden, bidet, buck, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, draft horse, dray horse, driving horse, drudge, fag, fill horse, filler, galley slave, gigster, greasy grind, grind, grub, hack, hackney, horse, hunter, jument, lead, leader, mount, pack horse, palfrey, peon, plodder, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, saddler, sawbuck, shaft horse, slave, slavey, slogger, stalking-horse, sumpter, sumpter horse, swot, thill horse, thiller, toiler, trestle, wheeler, wheelhorse

• workhouse, agency, almshouse, asylum, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, foster home, halfway house, home, hospice, hospitium, house, installation, institution, loft, nursing home, organization, orphanage, parlor, poor farm, poorhouse, rest home, retreat, shop, studio, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktable

• working class, bourgeois, bourgeoisie, common people, common run, common sort, commonage, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, laborers, linendrapers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders, middle-class, ordinary people, peasantry, plain folks, plain people, proletarian, proletariat, rank and file, shopkeepers, small tradesmen, the lower cut, the other half, the third estate, toilers, toiling class, upper middle class, vulgus, working people

• working, accomplishment, acetification, acidification, acidulation, act, acting, action, active, activism, activity, agency, alive, alkalization, answer, ascertainment, at it, at work, banausic, barmy, behavior, behavioral, breadwinning, businesslike, busy, carbonation, catalysis, chemicalization, clearing up, commercial, conduct, contour plowing, cracking, cultivating, cultivation, culture, decipherment, decoding, denouement, determination, diastatic, direction, disentanglement, doing, dressing, driving, drudging, dynamic, electrolysis, employed, employment, end, end result, engaged, enzymic, execution, exercise, explanation, exploitation, fallowing, ferment, fermentation, fermenting, finding, finding-out, full of business, function, functional, functioning, furrowing, going, going on, grinding, grubbing, handling, hard at it, hard at work, hardworking, harrowing, hoeing, hydrogenation, in exercise, in force, in hand, in harness, in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, interpretation, isomerism, issue, laboring, leavening, listing, live, management, manipulation, materialistic, metamerism, metamerization, moneymaking, movements, nitration, occupation, occupied, on duty, on foot, on the fire, on the go, on the hop, on the job, on the jump, on the move, on the run, ongoing, operancy, operating, operation, operational, operations, operative, outcome, oxidation, oxidization, pegging, performance, performing, phosphatization, play, plodding, plowing, plugging, polymerism, polymerization, position isomerism, practical, practice, practicing, praxis, prosaic, pruning, raising, realistic, reason, reduction, resolution, resolving, responsibility, result, riddling, running, saturization, serving, slaving, slogging, solution, solving, sorting out, steering, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, swing, thinning, tied up, tilling, toiling, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, using, utilitarian, utilization, weeding, work, workaday, workday, working-out, workings, yeasty

• workingman, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, operative, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingwoman, workman

• workings, abysm, abyss, act, acting, action, activism, activity, agency, bank, behavior, chasm, clockworks, coal mine, colliery, conduct, dig, diggings, direction, doing, drive train, driving, employment, excavation, execution, exercise, function, functioning, gear, gold mine, gulf, handling, innards, machinery, management, manipulation, mechanism, mine, motion, movement, movements, occupation, open cut, opencast, operancy, operation, operations, performance, performing, pit, play, power train, practice, praxis, quarry, responsibility, running, servomechanism, shaft, steering, swing, watchworks, well, wheels, wheels within wheels, work, working, works

• workman, blue-collar worker, breadwinner, casual, casual laborer, common laborer, day laborer, employee, factory worker, flunky, free lance, free-lancer, full-time worker, hand, industrial worker, jobber, jobholder, laborer, laboring man, menial, migrant, moiler, navvy, office temporary, operative, proletarian, roustabout, salaried worker, self-employed person, servant, stiff, temporary, toiler, wage earner, wage slave, wageworker, worker, workgirl, workhand, working girl, workingman, workingwoman

• workmanlike, Daedalian, OK, acceptable, adept, adequate, admissible, adroit, all right, apt, artistic, authoritative, better than nothing, bravura, brilliant, clean, clever, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, decent, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, excellent, expert, fair, fairish, fancy, good, good enough, goodish, graceful, handy, ingenious, magisterial, masterful, masterly, moderate, neat, no mean, not amiss, not bad, not half bad, not so bad, okay, passable, politic, presentable, pretty, pretty good, professional, proficient, quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, respectable, satisfactory, skillful, slick, some, statesmanlike, stylish, sufficient, tactful, the compleat, the complete, tidy, tolerable, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, virtuoso, well-done, wicked

• workmanship, ability, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, architecture, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, assembly, bravura, brilliance, building, capability, capacity, casting, cleverness, command, competence, composition, construction, control, conversion, coordination, craft, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, cunning, deftness, devising, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficiency, elaboration, erection, expertise, extraction, fabrication, facility, fashioning, finesse, formation, forming, formulation, framing, grace, grip, growing, handicraft, handiness, handiwork, harvesting, horsemanship, ingeniousness, ingenuity, know-how, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, milling, mining, molding, practical ability, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, proficiency, prowess, quickness, raising, readiness, refining, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, shaping, skill, skillfulness, smelting, style, tact, tactfulness, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, timing, virtuosity, wit, wizardry

• workout, athletics, audition, bench test, breather, calisthenics, constitutional, daily dozen, drill, dry run, exercise, exercising, flight test, gymnastic exercises, gymnastics, hearing, isometrics, physical education, physical jerks, pilot plan, practical test, practice, rehearsal, road test, setting-up exercises, shakedown, shakedown cruise, stretch, test flight, test run, trial run, tryout, yoga

• workroom, agency, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, house, installation, institution, library, loft, office, organization, parlor, sail loft, shop, stacks, studio, study, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workshop, worktable

• works, abdomen, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, anus, appendix, benevolences, bleachworks, blind gut, blow, bottling works, bowels, brain, brassworks, cecum, charities, clockworks, colon, copperworks, coup, dealings, deed, doing, doings, drive train, duodenum, dye works, effort, endeavor, endocardium, enterprise, entrails, exploit, fait accompli, feat, foregut, gasworks, gear, gest, giblets, gizzard, glassworks, go, good works, guts, hand, handiwork, heart, hindgut, innards, inner mechanism, insides, internals, intestine, inwards, ironworks, jejunum, job, kidney, kishkes, large intestine, liver, liver and lights, lung, machinery, maneuver, measure, mechanism, metalworks, midgut, motion, move, movement, movements, operation, overt act, paper works, passage, performance, perineum, philanthropies, power train, printworks, proceeding, production, pump, pylorus, rectum, res gestae, saltworks, scrapworks, servomechanism, small intestine, soapworks, spleen, starchworks, steelworks, step, stomach, stroke, stunt, the works, thing, thing done, ticker, tileworks, tour de force, transaction, tripes, tryworks, tubeworks, turn, undertaking, vermiform appendix, viscera, vitals, watchworks, waterworks, wheels, wheels within wheels, whole bit, whole caboodle, whole deal, whole hog, whole megillah, whole mess, whole schmear, whole shebang, whole shooting match, whole show, whole works, wireworks, work, workings

• workshop, agency, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, house, installation, institution, loft, organization, parlor, shop, studio, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, workhouse, working space, workplace, workroom, worktable

• world shaking, big, big-league, big-name, big-time, bigwig, bigwigged, consequential, considerable, double-barreled, earthshaking, grand, great, heavyweight, high-powered, important, major, material, momentous, name, self-important, significant, substantial, superior

• world view, Weltanschauung, articles of religion, body of ideas, catechism, climate, climate of opinion, credenda, credo, creed, cult, doctrinal statement, ethos, faith, formulated belief, gospel, ideology, intellectual climate, ism, moral climate, mores, norms, philosophy, political faith, political philosophy, religion, school, spiritual climate, system of belief, system of ideas, system of theories

• world weary, blase, bowed-down, cast down, dashed, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, desponding, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, drooping, droopy, fed-up, feeling low, good and tired, heartless, hypochondriac, hypochondriacal, in low spirits, in the depths, in the doldrums, in the dumps, irked, jaded, languishing, life-weary, low, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, pessimistic, pining, satiated, sick, sick of, spiritless, splenetic, subdued, suicidal, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, wearied, weariful, weary, weary of life, weary unto death, woebegone

• world wide, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover, catholic, cosmopolitan, country-wide, ecumenic, galactic, global, heaven-wide, international, national, nondenominational, nonsectarian, planetary, total, universal

• world, Africa, America, Antipodes, Asia, Asia Major, Asia Minor, Australasia, Copernican universe, Earth, East, Eastern Hemisphere, Einsteinian universe, Eurasia, Europe, Everyman, Far East, Gaea, Ge, John Doe, Levant, Middle East, Near East, New World, Newtonian universe, Occident, Oceania, Old World, Orient, Ptolemaic universe, Public, Tellus, Terra, West, Western Hemisphere, abundance, acres, all, all being, all creation, allness, bags, barrels, biosphere, body politic, bushel, citizenry, common man, commonwealth, community, community at large, continent, copiousness, cosmos, countlessness, created nature, created universe, creation, down under, eastland, estate, everybody, everyman, everyone, everything that is, everywoman, expanding universe, flood, folk, folks, general public, gentry, geography, geosphere, globe, landmass, load, macrocosm, macrocosmos, mass, megacosm, men, metagalaxy, mother earth, mountain, much, multitude, nation, nationality, nature, numerousness, ocean, oceans, omneity, peck, people, people in general, persons, plenitude, plenty, plenum, polity, populace, population, profusion, public, pulsating universe, quantities, quantity, sea, sidereal universe, society, spate, state, steady-state universe, sum of things, superabundance, superfluity, system, terra, terrestrial globe, the blue planet, the old country, this pendent world, tons, totality, totality of being, universe, vale, vale of tears, volume, whole wide world, wide world, world without end, worlds, you and me

• worldly wise, blase, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, experienced, knowing, mature, matured, not born yesterday, old, practiced, ripe, ripened, sagacious, seasoned, sophisticated, tried, tried and true, veteran, world-wise, worldly

• worldly, Philistine, banausic, blase, bodily, carnal, carnal-minded, corporal, corporeal, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, disenchanted, disillusioned, down-to-earth, earthly, earthy, experienced, fleshly, hardheaded, hylic, knowing, material, materialistic, materiate, matter-of-fact, mature, matured, mondaine, mundane, nonsacred, nonspiritual, not born yesterday, old, physical, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, practiced, pragmatic, profane, rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, reprobate, ripe, ripened, sagacious, sane, scientific, scientistic, seasoned, secular, sensible, sensual, sober-minded, somatic, sophisticate, sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, substantial, tellurian, telluric, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, tried, tried and true, unblessed, unhallowed, unholy, unideal, unidealistic, unregenerate, unromantic, unsacred, unsanctified, unsentimental, unspiritual, veteran, world-wise, worldly-wise

• worlds apart, assorted, at odds, at variance, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, many, motley, multifarious, poles apart, poles asunder, separate, separated, several, unconformable, unequal, unlike, variant, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart

• worm eaten, blasted, blighted, blown, despoiled, flyblown, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, maggoty, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, musty, ravaged, smutted, smutty, weevily, wormy

• worm in, barge in, break in, break in upon, burst in, butt in, charge in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cut in, drag in, edge in, elbow in, encroach, entrench, foist in, fudge in, horn in, impinge, implant in, impose, impose on, impose upon, infiltrate, infringe, inject in, insert in, insinuate, insinuate in, intercalate, interfere, interjaculate, interject, interlope, interpolate, interpose, intervene, introduce in, intrude, invade, irrupt, lug in, obtrude, press in, push in, put between, put on, put upon, run in, rush in, sandwich, slink in, slip in, smash in, smuggle in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, throng in, throw in, thrust in, trench, trespass, wedge in, work in

• worm out of, alibi, alibi out of, apologize for, arouse, bring forth, bring out, bring to light, call forth, call out, call up, catechize, cover with excuses, creep out of, deduce, derive, drag out, draw forth, draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, examine, excuse, find a loophole, get from, get out of, induce, interrogate, interview, lie out of, make apology for, obtain, offer excuse for, plead ignorance, procure, pump, query, question, quiz, rouse, secure, shuffle out of, slide out of, slip away, slip out of, slip through, sneak out of, sneak through, squirm out of, stimulate, summon forth, summon up, test, wangle, wangle out of, winkle out, worm out, wriggle out of

• worm, amble, angleworm, animal, armyworm, beast, blast, blight, blighter, bollworm, bookworm, cancer, canker, claudicate, contort, corkscrew, cotton worm, crawl, creep, crinkle, cur, dog, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, dry rot, earthworm, earworm, edge in, fireworm, fishworm, foist, fungus, go dead slow, go on tiptoe, go slow, grovel, gumshoe, helminth, hobble, hound, hyena, idle, inch, inch along, inchworm, infiltrate, insect, intort, jog-trot, laze, leech, limp, looper, lowlife, meander, measuring worm, mildew, mold, mongrel, mosey, moth, moth and rust, mucker, must, nematode, night crawler, nightwalk, nightwalker, no-good, pad, pest, pig, poke, poke along, polecat, prowl, pussyfoot, reptile, rot, rust, saunter, scallop, scrabble, scramble, screw, serpent, serpentine, shuffle along, sidle, silkworm, skunk, slink, smut, snake, sneak, squiggle, squirm, stagger along, steal, steal along, stroll, swine, swirl, tapeworm, tippytoe, tiptoe, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, turn, tussah, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, varmint, vermin, viper, waddle, walk, webworm, whelp, whirl, whorl, wiggle, wind, wireworm, woodworm, work in, worm along, wring, writhe

• wormy, barfy, beset, blasted, blighted, blown, crappy, despoiled, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gloppy, grubby, gunky, icky, infested, lousy, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseating, odious, ordurous, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, puky, putrid, rank, ratty, ravaged, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted, smutty, sposhy, teeming, vermiform, vile, vomity, weevily, worm-eaten, wormlike, yecchy

• worn away, ablated, burnt up, by the board, consumed, depleted, dissipated, drained, eaten up, effete, eroded, exhausted, expended, finished, forfeit, forfeited, gone, impoverished, irretrievable, long-lost, lost, lost to, out the window, shrunken, spent, squandered, used, used up, wasted, worn-out

• worn out, abandoned, abjured, ablated, all in, antiquated, antique, archaic, ausgespielt, beat, beat up, beaten, bone-weary, burned-out, burnt up, bushed, consumed, dead, dead-and-alive, dead-tired, deadbeat, depleted, deserted, devitalized, disabled, discontinued, dissipated, disused, dog-tired, dog-weary, done, done in, done up, done with, drained, eaten up, effete, emptied, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, eviscerated, exhausted, fagged out, far-gone, fatigued, finished, frazzled, gone, impoverished, incapacitated, jaded, knocked out, laid low, not worth saving, obsolescent, obsolete, old, old-fashioned, on the shelf, out, out of use, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, outworn, past use, pensioned off, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, ready to drop, relinquished, renounced, resigned, retired, run-down, sapped, shotten, spent, superannuate, superannuated, superseded, tired, tired out, tired to death, tuckered out, used up, washed-up, wasted, weakened, weary unto death, whacked, wiped out, worn, worn away

• worn, abated, ablated, ablative, attenuated, ausgespielt, back-number, banal, bare, bated, belittled, bewhiskered, biodegradable, bromidic, burned-out, careworn, common, commonplace, consumed, contracted, corny, corrosive, crumbling, curtailed, cut-and-dried, debilitated, decomposable, decomposing, decreased, deep-worn, deflated, degradable, devitalized, dilapidated, diminished, disabled, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, dissipated, dog-eared, drained, drawn, drooping, droopy, dropped, dusty, effete, enervated, enfeebled, eroded, erosive, eviscerated, exhausted, fade, fagged, faint, fainting, fallen, familiar, fatigued, feeling faint, flagging, footsore, frazzled, fusty, gone to seed, good and tired, hackney, hackneyed, haggard, hand-me-down, hollow-eyed, incapacitated, jaded, languid, less, lesser, lower, lowered, mildewed, miniaturized, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, musty, not new, old hat, pawed-over, pinched, platitudinous, played out, ravaged, ready to drop, reduced, resolvent, retrenched, ruined, ruinous, run ragged, run-down, rusty, sagging, sapped, scaled-down, secondhand, seedy, separative, sere, set, shelfworn, shopworn, shorn, shorter, shrunk, shrunken, smaller, solvent, spent, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare, time-scarred, timeworn, tired, tired-eyed, tired-faced, tired-looking, tired-winged, toilworn, trite, truistic, unnew, unoriginal, unrefreshed, unrestored, used, used up, wan, warmed-over, wasted, watered-down, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-looking, weary-winged, weary-worn, well-known, well-worn, wilting, worn down, worn ragged, worn thin, worn to rags, worn to threads, worn-down, worn-out

• worried, annoyed, anxious, badgered, baited, bedeviled, beset, bothered, bugged, bullyragged, chivied, deviled, distracted, distrait, distressed, dogged, embarrassed, fretted, harassed, harried, haunted, heckled, hectored, hounded, inconvenienced, irked, needled, nipped at, persecuted, perturbed, pestered, picked on, plagued, put to it, puzzled, ragged, sore beset, teased, tormented, troubled, vexed, worried sick, worried stiff

• worrisome, aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, chafing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, harassing, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, teasing, tiresome, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worrying

• worry, ado, afflict, aggravate, aggravation, aggrieve, agitate, ail, anguish, annoy, annoyance, anxiety, bad news, badger, bait, be at, be the matter, bedevil, bedevilment, beleaguer, beset, besetment, bore, bother, botheration, bothersomeness, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burn up, can of worms, care, carry on, chafe, chivy, complicate matters, concern, concernment, crashing bore, despair, devil, devilment, difficulty, disadvantage, discommode, discompose, disquiet, disquietude, distemper, distress, disturb, dog, dogging, doubt, downer, drag, dun, evil, exasperate, exasperation, exercise, fash, fret, fret and fume, fretting, fuss, get, give up, gnaw, goad, great ado, gripe, harass, harassment, harry, harrying, haunt, headache, heartache, heckle, hector, hound, hounding, inconvenience, irk, matter, miff, mistrust, molest, molestation, nag, needle, nettle, nudzh, nuisance, oppress, peck of troubles, peeve, pelt, perplex, persecute, persecution, perturb, pest, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, presentiment, problem, provoke, put out, put to it, puzzle, ride, rile, roil, ruffle, sea of troubles, solicitude, stew, take on, tantalize, tease, test, torment, torture, trial, trouble, try, try the patience, tweak the nose, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, upset, vex, vexation, vexatiousness, woe, worriedness, worries and cares, worriment, worrying, wrong

• worrying, aggravating, annoying, bothering, bothersome, chafing, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, exasperating, fretting, galling, harassing, harassment, importunate, importune, irking, irksome, irritating, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, plaguesome, plaguey, plaguing, provoking, teasing, tiresome, torment, tormenting, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wearisome, worriedness, worries and cares, worriment, worrisome, worry

• worse, aggravated, altered, amplified, annoyed, augmented, better, broken, burned, burst, busted, changeable, changed, checked, chipped, converted, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, degenerate, deliberately provoked, deteriorated, deviant, divergent, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, harmed, heated up, heightened, hotted up, hurt, impaired, imperfect, improved, in bits, in pieces, in shards, increased, injured, intensified, irritated, lacerated, magnified, mangled, metamorphosed, metastasized, modified, mutant, mutilated, provoked, qualified, rebuilt, reformed, renewed, rent, revived, revolutionary, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, soured, split, sprung, subversive, the worse for, torn, transformed, translated, transmuted, unmitigated, weakened, worse off, worsened

• worsen, accommodate, adapt, adjust, agent provocateur, aggravate, alter, ameliorate, amplify, annoy, augment, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, better, blast, blight, bottom out, break, break up, build up, change, checker, chop, chop and change, come about, come around, come round, convert, corrupt, damage, debase, decline, deepen, deform, degenerate, degrade, denature, descend, deteriorate, deviate, dilapidate, disimprove, disintegrate, diverge, diversify, embitter, endamage, enhance, enlarge, exacerbate, exasperate, fall back, fit, flop, foul, get worse, grow worse, harm, haul around, heat up, heighten, hot up, humble, hurt, impair, improve, increase, injure, intensify, irritate, jibe, let down, lower, magnify, make acute, make worse, meliorate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, overthrow, provoke, put back, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refit, reform, regress, relapse, remake, renew, reshape, restructure, retrograde, retrogress, revamp, revive, ring the changes, rot, sharpen, shift, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, sicken, sink, slacken, slip back, sour, subvert, swerve, tack, taint, take a turn, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, vary, veer, warp, weaken, work a change

• worsened, aggravated, amplified, annoyed, augmented, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped, cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deliberately provoked, deteriorated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, harmed, heated up, heightened, hotted up, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, increased, injured, intensified, irritated, lacerated, magnified, mangled, mutilated, provoked, rent, ruptured, scalded, scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, soured, split, sprung, the worse for, torn, weakened, worse, worse off

• worsening, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aggravation, alteration, amelioration, amplification, annoyance, apostasy, augmentation, betterment, break, change, change of heart, changeableness, coming apart, constructive change, contentiousness, continuity, conversion, cracking, crumbling, decadent, declining, deepening, defection, degenerate, degeneration, degenerative change, deliberate aggravation, deteriorating, deterioration, deviation, difference, discontinuity, disintegrating, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, draining, drooping, dwindling, ebbing, effete, embittering, embitterment, enhancement, enlargement, exacerbation, exasperation, fading, failing, falling, fitting, flagging, flip-flop, fragmenting, going to pieces, gradual change, heightening, improvement, increase, intensification, irritation, languishing, magnification, marcescent, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, overthrow, pining, provocation, qualification, radical change, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, regressive, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, retrograde, retrogressive, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, sharpening, shift, shriveling, sinking, sliding, slipping, slumping, souring, subsiding, sudden change, switch, tabetic, total change, transition, turn, turnabout, upheaval, variation, variety, violent change, waning, wasting, wilting, withering

• worship, Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, accord respect to, admiration, admire, adoration, adore, affection, agape, apotheosis, apotheosize, appreciate, appreciation, approbation, approval, ardency, ardor, attachment, awe, bodily love, breathless adoration, brotherly love, caritas, charity, cherish, churchgoing, conformity, conjugal love, consideration, courtesy, cultism, dearly love, defer to, deference, deification, deify, desire, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, do homage to, do service, dote, dutifulness, duty, entertain respect for, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, exalt, faith, faithful love, faithfulness, fancy, favor, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, great respect, heart, hero worship, hero-worship, high regard, hold dear, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, homage, honor, idolatry, idolism, idolization, idolize, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, look up to, love, love of God, love to distraction, lovemaking, married love, observance, passion, pay homage to, physical love, pietism, piety, piousness, popular regard, popularity, prestige, prize, regard, religion, religionism, religiousness, respect, revere, reverence, reverential regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, theism, think highly of, think much of, think well of, treasure, truelove, uxoriousness, value, venerate, veneration, weakness, worshipfulness, yearning

• worshiper, admirer, adorer, amateur, beadsman, booster, buff, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoer, collector, communicant, congregation, daily communicant, devotee, dilettante, evangelist, fan, fancier, follower, groupie, idolater, idolizer, petitioner, prayer, revivalist, rooter, suppliant, supplicant, supplicator, venerator, votary

• worshipful, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, acknowledged, admiring, admitted, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, august, awe-inspiring, awed, awesome, awestricken, awestruck, awful, believing, conventional, creditable, cultish, cultist, cultistic, customary, deifying, devoted, devotional, devout, dreadful, dutiful, established, esteemed, estimable, faithful, fixed, folk, hallowed, handed down, held in esteem, hero-worshiping, heroic, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, hoary, honorable, honored, idolatrous, idolizing, immemorial, imploring, in awe, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, in the dust, inveterate, legendary, long-established, long-standing, meritorious, mythological, noble, of long standing, of the folk, on bended knee, oral, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory, prescriptive, prestigious, prostrate before, received, recognized, religious, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverend, reverent, reverential, rooted, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, theistic, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unwritten, venerable, venerated, venerational, venerative, well-thought-of, worshiping, worthy

• worshiping, admiring, adorant, adoration, adoring, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, co-worship, cult, cultism, cultus, deifying, devotion, devotional, devout, dulia, hero-worshiping, homage, hyperdulia, idolatrous, idolatry, idolizing, imploring, in awe, in the dust, latria, on bended knee, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, prostration, reverence, reverent, reverential, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, transcendent wonder, veneration, venerational, venerative, worship, worshipful

• worst, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, bear the palm, beastly, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beneath contempt, best, blameworthy, brutal, clobber, contemptible, defeat, deplorable, despicable, destroy, detestable, dire, disgusting, do in, down, dreadful, drub, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, fix, flagrant, foul, fulsome, grievous, gross, hateful, heinous, hide, horrible, horrid, hors de combat, infamous, lambaste, lamentable, lather, lick, loathsome, lousy, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrageous, outrun, outsail, outshine, pip, pitiable, pitiful, put, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, ruin, sad, scandalous, schlock, scurvy, settle, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, skin, skin alive, sordid, squalid, take the cake, terrible, thrash, too bad, trim, triumph, triumph over, trounce, unclean, undo, vile, villainous, whip, win, woeful, worthless, wretched

• worsted, all up with, beat, beaten, bested, confounded, defeated, discomfited, done for, done in, down, fallen, fixed, floored, hors de combat, lambasted, lathered, licked, on the skids, outdone, overborne, overcome, overmastered, overmatched, overpowered, overridden, overthrown, overturned, overwhelmed, panicked, put to rout, routed, ruined, scattered, settled, silenced, skinned, skinned alive, stampeded, trimmed, trounced, undone, upset, whelmed, whipped

• wort, 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, vetch, vine, wrack

• worth, accent, account, ad valorem, advantage, advantageousness, agreeableness, appraised, approbation, approval, assessed, auspiciousness, avail, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignity, blessed with, caliber, class, cogency, concern, concernment, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, convenience, conversion factor, credit, dearness, desert, emphasis, enfeoffed, esteem, estimation, evaluated, excellence, expedience, extraordinary worth, face, face value, fairness, favor, favorableness, fineness, first-rateness, fortune, good for, goodliness, goodness, grace, great price, great value, having, having and holding, healthiness, helpfulness, high order, high rank, holding, honor, import, importance, in possession of, interest, invaluableness, kindness, landed, landholding, landowning, mark, market value, master of, materiality, merit, moment, net worth, niceness, note, occupying, owning, par value, paramountcy, pennyworth, percentage, perfection, pleasantness, point, possessed of, possessing, precedence, preciousness, preeminence, price, priced, pricelessness, primacy, priority, prized, pro rata, profit, profitableness, propertied, property, property-owning, quality, rate, rated, regard, resources, respect, rewardingness, riches, seized of, self-importance, service, significance, skillfulness, soundness, stature, stress, substance, superiority, supremacy, tenured, use, usefulness, utility, validity, valuableness, valuation, value, value received, valued, valued at, virtue, virtuousness, weight, wholeness

• worthless, NG, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath notice, blameworthy, bootless, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, defective, deleterious, deplorable, despicable, detestable, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disgusting, disserviceable, dreadful, dusty, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, flawed, foul, fulsome, fustian, gaudy, gimcracky, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, grievous, gross, harmful, hateful, heinous, horrible, horrid, imperfect, incapable, incompetent, ineffectual, infamous, inferior, injurious, junk, junky, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, mean, meaningless, mediocre, meretricious, meritless, miserable, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, no-account, no-good, noisome, not worth having, not worth mentioning, not worthwhile, nothing, notorious, nugacious, nugatory, obnoxious, odious, offensive, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, prejudicial, purposeless, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-rate, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, trashy, trivial, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unadvantageous, unavailing, unclean, unfavorable, unprofitable, unpurposed, unqualified, unrewarding, unworthy, unworthy of regard, useless, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, wretched

• worthwhile, advantageous, advisable, appropriate, banausic, becoming, befitting, breadwinning, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, expedient, fat, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitten, fitting, fructuous, gainful, good, happy, likely, lucrative, meet, moneymaking, of value, opportune, paying, politic, productive, profitable, proper, recommendable, remunerative, rewarding, right, seasonable, seemly, sortable, suitable, timely, to be desired, useful, valuable, well-paying, well-spent, well-timed, wise, yielding a return

• worthy, Christian, Establishment, VIP, able, acceptable, acceptable person, admirable, admissible, aristocratic, au fait, august, baron, beyond all praise, beyond price, big gun, big man, big name, bigwig, blameless, brass, brass hat, capable, capital fellow, celebrity, clean, commendable, competent, constellation, courtly, creditable, cynosure, dear, decent, deserved, deserving, desirable, diamond, dignified, dignitary, dignity, divine, earned, efficient, elder, eligible, enfranchised, entitled, equal to, erect, esteemed, estimable, ethical, exemplary, fair, father, figure, fit, fitted, fitted for, folk hero, full of integrity, galaxy, gem, gentleman, golden, good, good as gold, good fellow, good lot, good man, good person, good sort, good woman, grand, grave, great man, held in esteem, hero, heroine, high-minded, high-principled, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, honest, honest man, honorable, honored, idol, immaculate, immortal, important person, imposing, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, inestimable, interests, invaluable, inviolate, irreproachable, jewel, journeyman, just, justified, kingly, lady, laudable, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lion, lordly, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magisterial, magnate, majestic, man of mark, manly, master spirit, mensch, merited, meritorious, model, mogul, moral, nabob, name, noble, notability, notable, of great price, panjandrum, pearl, perfect gentleman, perfect lady, person of note, person of renown, persona grata, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleasing, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, praiseworthy, precious, prestigious, priceless, prince, princely, principled, public figure, pure, qualified, queenly, real man, regal, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverend, rich, right, right sort, right-minded, righteous, rough diamond, royal, ruling circle, sachem, satisfying, sedate, sober, social lion, solemn, somebody, something, spotless, stainless, star, stately, statuesque, sterling, suitable, suited, superstar, the great, the top, top brass, top people, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, tycoon, unblemished, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, up to, up to snuff, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, valuable, venerable, venerated, very important person, virtuous, warranted, well-deserving, well-earned, well-fitted, well-qualified, well-suited, well-thought-of, with voice, with vote, worshipful, yeomanly

• Wotan, Aesir, Ares, Athena, Balder, Bellona, Bor, Bori, Bragi, Donar, Enyo, Forseti, Frey, Freya, Freyja, Freyr, Frigg, Frigga, Heimdall, Hel, Hertha, Hoenir, Idun, Ing, Ithunn, Loki, Mars, Minerva, Nanna, Nerthus, Njord, Njorth, Odin, Reimthursen, Sif, Sigyn, Thor, Tiu, Tyr, Ull, Ullr, Vali, Vanir, Vidar, Vitharr, Wayland, Weland, Woden, Wyrd

• would be, assuming, byname, cognominal, diminutive, epithetic, formal, honorific, hypocoristic, in name only, insolent, nominal, nominative, overweening, presuming, presumptuous, quasi, self-appointed, self-called, self-christened, self-elect, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, titular

• wound up, SOL, ago, all bets off, all off, all over, all up, antiquated, antique, at an end, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, canceled, cleaned up, complete, completed, concluded, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, decided, defunct, deleted, departed, done, done for, done with, elapsed, ended, expired, expunged, extinct, fini, finished, finished up, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, irrecoverable, kaput, lapsed, no more, obsolete, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, perfected, perfective, run out, set at rest, settled, shot, terminated, through, through with, vanished, washed up, wiped out, wrapped up, zapped

• wound, abrade, abrasion, abscess, abuse, ache, aching, afflict, affront, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, aposteme, barb the dart, bark, bed sore, befoul, bewitch, bite, blain, bleb, blemish, blight, blister, bloody, blow, boil, break, bruise, bubo, bulla, bunion, burn, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chafe, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chip, claw, cold sore, concussion, condemn, convulse, corrupt, crack, crackle, cramp, craze, crucify, curse, cut, cut up, damage, defile, deprave, despoil, destroy, disadvantage, disserve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, dolor, doom, envenom, eschar, excruciate, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flash burn, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, furuncle, furunculus, gall, gash, gathering, get into trouble, give offense, give pain, give umbrage, gnaw, grate, grief, grieve, grind, gripe, gumboil, harass, harm, harrow, hemorrhoids, hex, hurt, hurt the feelings, impair, incise, incision, infect, inflame, inflict pain, injure, injury, irritate, jinx, kibe, kill by inches, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mincemeat of, maltreat, martyr, martyrize, maul, menace, mistreat, molest, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, nasty blow, nip, offend, outrage, pain, pang, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, passion, persecute, petechia, pierce, piles, pimple, pinch, play havoc with, play hob with, pock, poison, pollute, polyp, prejudice, prick, prolong the agony, puncture, pustule, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, rend, rent, rip, rising, rub, run, rupture, savage, scab, scald, scathe, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, second-degree burn, shock, skin, slash, slit, soft chancre, sore, sore spot, spasm, sprain, stab, stab wound, stick, stigma, sting, strain, stress, stress of life, stroke, sty, suffering, suppuration, swelling, taint, tear, tender spot, third-degree burn, threaten, throes, torment, torture, trauma, traumatize, tubercle, tweak, twist, twist the knife, ulcer, ulceration, violate, wale, welt, wheal, whelk, whitlow, wounds immedicable, wreak havoc on, wrench, wring, wrong

• wounded, aching, afflicted, aggrieved, agonized, anguished, bleeding, bruised, convulsed, crucified, cut, distressed, grieved, harrowed, hurt, hurting, in distress, in pain, injured, lacerated, martyred, martyrized, mauled, on the rack, pained, racked, stung, suffering, tormented, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, wrung

• woven, braided, enlaced, entwined, fretted, handwoven, interknit, interlaced, interthreaded, intertied, intertissued, intertwined, interwoven, knit, laced, loomed, plaited, platted, pleached, raddled, textile, twined, web-footed, webbed, webby, weblike, wreathed

• wow, amuse, bang, becharm, beguile, belly laugh, best seller, bewitch, big hit, birdies, blooping, blue story, blurping, brilliant success, captivate, carry away, charm, convulse, delectate, delight, dirty joke, dirty story, distortion, divert, double entendre, enchant, enliven, enrapture, enravish, entertain, enthrall, entrance, ethnic joke, exhilarate, fad, fascinate, feedback, flutter, fluttering, fracture one, freak out, fun, funny story, gag, gas, gasser, good one, good story, goody, great success, hissing, hit, howler, howling, hum, imparadise, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, kill, killing, knock dead, knock out, laugh, loosen up, meteoric success, momentary success, motorboating, panic, play, point, raise a laugh, raise a smile, ravish, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, resounding triumph, rib tickler, riot, roaring success, rumble, scratching, scream, send, sensation, shredding, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, slay, smash, smash hit, solace, sport, squeals, static, story, successful, thrill, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, transport, triumph, visual joke, wheeze, whistles, woomping, wowwows, yarn

• wrack and ruin, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, perdition, ravage, ruin, ruination, shambles, slaughter, spoliation, undoing, vandalism, waste, wrack, wreck

• wrack up, atomize, break to pieces, cleave, demolish, disassemble, disintegrate, dismantle, fragment, make mincemeat of, pick to pieces, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, reduce to rubble, rend, shatter, smash, split, sunder, take apart, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, total, unbuild, undo, unmake, wreck

• wrack, algae, autophyte, bean, bloodbath, blue ruin, bracken, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, brown algae, carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, climber, collapse, condemn, conferva, confervoid, confound, consume, consumption, crack-up, crash, creeper, damn, damnation, deal destruction, debacle, decimate, decimation, demolish, depredate, depredation, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, devastate, devastation, devour, diatom, disaster, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, engorge, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, gobble, gobble up, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, gut, gut with fire, havoc, hecatomb, herb, heterophyte, holocaust, incinerate, ivy, kelp, lay in ruins, lay waste, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perdition, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, ravage, raze, red algae, rockweed, ruin, ruinate, ruination, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, shambles, shipwreck, slaughter, smash, smashup, smut, spoliation, succulent, swallow up, throw into disorder, toadstool, total loss, unbuild, undo, undoing, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmake, upheave, vandalism, vandalize, vaporize, vetch, vine, washout, waste, wort, wrack and ruin, wreak havoc, wreck

• wraith, Doppelganger, Masan, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit, banshee, co-walker, control, departed spirit, disembodied spirit, double, doubleganger, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, etheric double, fantasy, fetch, figure, form, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum, image, immateriality, incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, larva, lemures, manes, materialization, oni, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom, poltergeist, presence, revenant, shade, shadow, shape, shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite, theophany, unsubstantiality, vision, waking dream, walking dead man, wandering soul, wildest dream, zombie

• wrangle, altercate, altercation, argue, argufy, argument, bandy words, bicker, bicker over, bickering, blood feud, brawl, broil, cage, caterwaul, cavil, choplogic, contend, contend about, contention, contest, controversy, corral, cross swords, cut and thrust, differ, discept, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drive, drove, embroilment, fall out, feud, fight, fight over, flite, fliting, fracas, fuss, give and take, goad, hassle, have it out, have words, herd, imbroglio, join issue, lash, lock horns, logomachize, logomachy, moot, open quarrel, pettifog, plead, polemic, polemicize, polemize, prick, punch cattle, quarrel, quarrel over, quibble, ride herd on, round up, row, sharp words, shepherd, slanging match, snarl, spar, spat, spur, squabble, squabble over, strife, take issue with, take sides, thrash out, tiff, try conclusions, tussle, vendetta, whip, words, wrangle over

• wrangler, Philadelphia lawyer, apologist, arguer, argufier, battler, belligerent, belted knight, bickerer, bitter-ender, blade, bravo, brawler, bully, bullyboy, casuist, cattleman, combatant, commoner, competitor, contender, contestant, controversialist, cowboy, cowgirl, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpuncher, debater, defendant, diehard, disceptator, disputant, dissentient, dissident, drover, duelist, enforcer, exhibitioner, fencer, feuder, fighter, fighting cock, foilsman, gamecock, gaucho, gladiator, goatherd, goon, gooseboy, gooseherd, gorilla, guardhouse lawyer, hatchet man, herder, herdsman, hogherd, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, horse wrangler, horseherd, intransigent, irreconcilable, jouster, knight, last-ditcher, litigant, logomacher, logomachist, militant, mooter, naysayer, negativist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, opposer, oppositionist, optime, passman, pensioner, pigman, pilpulist, plaintiff, plug-ugly, polemic, polemicist, polemist, protester, puncher, quarreler, questionist, resister, rioter, rival, rough, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, scrapper, scuffler, servitor, sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd, shepherdess, sizar, sophister, squabbler, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler, swanherd, swashbuckler, swineherd, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, thug, tilter, tough, tussler, vaquero, waddy

• wrangling, Kilkenny cats, aggressive, altercation, apologetics, apologia, apology, argument, argumentation, bellicose, belligerent, bicker, bickering, casuistry, cat-and-dog life, combat, combative, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contest, contestation, controversy, cut and thrust, debate, defense, disputation, disputatious, dispute, divisive, enmity, eristic, factional, factious, fighting, flyting, hassle, hostility, hubbub, irascible, irritable, litigation, litigious, logomachy, paper war, partisan, passage of arms, polarizing, polemic, polemics, pugnacious, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsome, quarrelsomeness, rhubarb, scrapping, set-to, shrewish, squabbling, strife, struggle, verbal engagement, war, war of words, warfare, words

• wrap up, apparel, array, attire, bale, band, bandage, bedeck, bedrape, belt, bend, bind, bind up, box, brace, bundle, bundle up, button up, cap, carry to completion, case, chain, cinch, clean up, climax, close out, close up, clothe, complete, conclude, crate, crown, culminate, deck, determine, dight, do up, drape, dress, dud, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, enclothe, end, endue, enfold, enrobe, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, finalize, finish, finish off, finish up, garb, garment, get done, get it over, get through, get through with, gird, girdle, girt, girth, habilitate, halt, hap, invest, lace, lap, lash, leash, mop up, muffle, muffle up, pack, package, parcel, perfect, rag out, raiment, robe, roll, roll up, rope, round out, sheathe, shroud, smother, splice, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, terminate, tie, tie up, tire, top off, top out, truss, truss up, ultimate, wind up, wire, wrap, wrap about

• wrap, apparel, array, attire, bale, band, bandage, bandaging, bedeck, bedrape, beleaguer, belt, bend, beset, besiege, bind, bind up, binder, binding, blockade, bound, box, box in, brace, bundle, bundle up, cage, camouflage, case, casual clothes, chain, chamber, cinch, cloak, close, close in, clothe, compass, compass about, contain, coop, coop in, coop up, cordon, cordon off, corral, crate, deck, dight, dishabille, do up, drape, dress, dud, dust jacket, embay, embosom, embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, encircle, enclasp, enclose, enclothe, encompass, endue, enfold, enrobe, enshrine, enshroud, envelop, envelope, envelopment, environ, enwrap, fence in, garb, garment, gift wrapping, gird, girdle, girt, girth, go around, go round, habilitate, hedge in, hem in, house in, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, invest, involve, jacket, jail, kennel, lace, lap, lash, leaguer, leash, mask, mew, mew up, muffle up, neglige, negligee, pack, package, parcel, pen, pen in, pocket, quarantine, rag out, rail in, raiment, robe, roll up, rope, sheathe, shrine, shroud, shut in, shut up, smother, something comfortable, splice, sport clothes, stable, strap, surround, swaddle, swathe, tie, tie up, tire, truss, truss up, undress, veil, wall in, wire, wrap about, wrap up, wrapper, wrapping, yard, yard up

• wrapped up in, absorbed, absorbed in, attached to, buried in, caught up in, contemplating, contemplative, crazy about, devoted, devoted to, enamored of, engaged, engrossed, engrossed in, enmeshed in, entangled in, far gone on, far-gone, fond of, gone on, hipped on, immersed in, implicated in, in love with, intent, intent on, involved, involved in, lost in, mad about, meditating, meditative, monomaniacal, monopolized, nuts about, obsessed, occupied, partial to, preoccupied, single-minded, smitten with, struck with, stuck on, studious, studying, submerged in, sweet on, swept up, taken up with, taken with, tied up in, totally absorbed, wedded to, wild about, wrapped in

• wrapped up, absorbed, accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, amassed, assembled, bunched, bundled, cleaned up, clumped, clustered, collected, combined, completed, concluded, conglomerate, congregate, congregated, cumulate, deep, done, done with, ended, engaged, engrossed, fascicled, fasciculated, finished, finished up, gathered, glomerate, heaped, immersed, in session, joined, joint, knotted, leagued, lumped, massed, meeting, packaged, perfective, piled, preoccupied, rapt, stacked, terminated, through, washed up, wound up, wrapped

• wrapped, absorbed, armored, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, compassed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, deep, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enclosed, encompassed, enfolded, engaged, engrossed, enveloped, environed, enwrapped, filmed, floored, hooded, housed, immersed, lapped, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, preoccupied, rapt, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, surrounded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped up, wreathed

• wrapper, Smyth sewing, backing, bandage, bandaging, bibliopegy, binder, binder board, binding, book cloth, book cover, book jacket, bookbinding, bookcase, case, casemaking, casing-in, casual clothes, collating, collating mark, cover, dishabille, dust cover, dust jacket, envelope, envelopment, folding, footband, gathering, gift wrapping, gluing-off, hard binding, headband, jacket, library binding, lining, lining-up, mechanical binding, neglige, negligee, niggerhead, perfect binding, plastic binding, rounding, saddle stitching, sewing, side sewing, signature, slipcase, slipcover, smashing, soft binding, something comfortable, spiral binding, sport clothes, stamping, stapling, tailband, tipping, trimming, undress, wire stitching, wrap, wrapping

• wrapping, ambient, bandage, bandaging, binder, binding, blanketing, blocking, blotting out, cementwork, circling, circumambient, circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous, circumjacent, cloaking, clouding, coating, coverage, covering, curtaining, dust jacket, eclipse, eclipsing, embracing, encircling, enclosing, encompassing, enfolding, envelope, enveloping, envelopment, environing, enwrapment, enwrapping, gift wrapping, hiding, incrustation, jacket, laying on, mantling, masking, neighboring, obduction, obscuring, occultation, overlaying, overspreading, pargeting, peripheral, plasterwork, roundabout, screening, sheathing, shielding, shrouding, stuccowork, suburban, superimposition, superposition, surrounding, upholstering, upholstery, veiling, wrap, wrapper

• wraps, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, blackout, censorship, cover, curtain, disguise, hush-up, iron curtain, ironbound security, oath of secrecy, official secrecy, pall, repression, screen, seal of secrecy, security, smothering, stifling, suppression, veil, veil of secrecy

• wrath, a transient madness, acedia, acerbity, acrimony, anger, angriness, asperity, avarice, avaritia, deadly sin, enragement, envy, fury, gluttony, grapes of wrath, greed, gula, heat, indignation, infuriation, invidia, ira, irateness, ire, lust, luxuria, mad, offense, pride, rage, resentment, saeva indignatio, sloth, soreness, superbia, vials of wrath, wrathfulness

• wrathful, angered, angry, browned-off, cross, heated, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, livid, mad, pissed, pissed-off, riled up, sore, ticked off, waxy, worked up, wrathy, wroth, wrought-up

• wreak havoc, abuse, afflict, aggrieve, befoul, bewitch, blight, bring to ruin, condemn, confound, consume, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, damn, deal destruction, decimate, defile, deprave, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, disadvantage, disserve, dissolve, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, engorge, envenom, get into trouble, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, harass, harm, havoc, hex, hurt, impair, incinerate, infect, injure, jinx, lay in ruins, lay waste, maltreat, menace, mistreat, molest, outrage, persecute, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, prejudice, ravage, ruin, ruinate, savage, scathe, shipwreck, swallow up, taint, threaten, throw into disorder, torment, torture, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, vaporize, violate, waste, wound, wrack, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong

• wreak, accomplish, achieve, bring, bring about, bring off, bring to pass, bring upon, commit, do, do to, effect, effectuate, force, go and do, impose, inflict, make, pay, perpetrate, produce, pull off, realize, render, take and do, up and do, visit, visit upon, wreck

• wreath, O, Old Mug, achievement, alerion, animal charge, annular muscle, annulet, annulus, areola, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, aureole, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bays, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, boughpot, bouquet, boutonniere, braid, broad arrow, buttonhole, cadency mark, canton, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, circle, circuit, circumference, circus, civic crown, closed circle, coat of arms, cockatrice, corona, coronal, coronet, corsage, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cup, cycle, device, diadem, difference, differencing, discus, disk, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, eternal return, fairy ring, falcon, fess, fess point, festoon, field, file, flanch, fleur-de-lis, flower arrangement, fret, fur, fusil, garland, glory, griffin, gules, gyron, halo, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lasso, laurel, laurels, lei, lion, logical circle, loop, looplet, loving cup, lozenge, magic circle, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, noose, nosegay, octofoil, or, orbit, ordinary, orle, pale, palm, palms, paly, pean, pheon, plait, posy, pot, purpure, quarter, quartering, radius, ring, rondelle, rose, round, roundel, sable, saltire, saucer, scutcheon, shield, sphincter, spray, spread eagle, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, trophy, unicorn, vair, vert, vicious circle, wheel, wreathwork, yale

• wreathe, band, bead, begird, bejewel, belt, belt in, beribbon, bespangle, braid, cincture, circle, coil, corkscrew, curl, diamond, encincture, encircle, engird, engrave, enlace, ensphere, entwine, feather, figure, filigree, flag, flounce, flower, garland, gem, gird, girdle, illuminate, interknit, interlace, intertie, intertissue, intertwine, intertwist, interweave, intort, jewel, knit, lace, loom, loop, mat, net, noose, paint, plait, pleach, plume, raddle, ribbon, ring, spangle, spiral, splice, tinsel, tissue, twill, twine, twine around, twist, wattle, weave, web, wreathe around, zone

• wreathed, adorned, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, braided, compassed, decked out, decorated, embellished, enclosed, encompassed, enfolded, enlaced, entwined, enveloped, environed, feathered, festooned, figured, flowered, fretted, garnished, handwoven, interknit, interlaced, interthreaded, intertied, intertissued, intertwined, interwoven, jeweled, knit, laced, lapped, loomed, ornamented, plaited, platted, pleached, plumed, raddled, spangled, spangly, studded, surrounded, textile, tricked out, trimmed, twined, woven, wrapped

• wreck, accident, assault, atomize, attack, auto, autocar, automobile, bankrupt, barbarize, batter, beach, blight, bloodbath, blow, blue ruin, boat, botch, break to pieces, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, brutalize, bugger, buggy, burn, bus, butcher, calamity, car, carcass, carnage, carry on, cast away, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, cleave, collapse, collision, condemn, confound, consume, consumption, contretemps, crack-up, crash, crate, cripple, damn, damnation, de-energize, deal destruction, debacle, debilitate, decimate, decimation, demolish, depredate, depredation, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, devastate, devastation, devour, dilapidate, disable, disassemble, disaster, disenable, disintegrate, disintegration, dismantle, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, do in, dog, drain, enfeeble, engorge, force, fragment, go on, gobble, gobble up, grief, ground, gut, gut with fire, hammer, hamstring, havoc, heap, hecatomb, holocaust, hors de combat, hulk, ill hap, impose, inactivate, incapacitate, incinerate, jalopy, kibosh, lame, lay in ruins, lay waste, loot, machine, maim, make mincemeat of, mar, maul, mere wreck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorized vehicle, mug, nasty blow, nervous wreck, perdition, pick to pieces, pile up, pileup, pillage, play havoc with, plunder, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, put, queer, queer the works, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rattletrap, ravage, rave, raze, reduce to rubble, rend, riot, roar, ruin, ruinate, ruination, ruins, run aground, sabotage, sack, savage, shambles, shatter, shipwreck, shock, skeleton, slaughter, smash, smashup, sow chaos, spike, split, spoil, spoliation, staggering blow, storm, strand, subvert, sunder, swallow up, take apart, take the ground, tear, tear apart, tear around, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, terrorize, throw into disorder, total, total loss, tragedy, trash, tub, unbuild, undermine, undo, undoing, unfit, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmake, upheave, vandalism, vandalize, vaporize, violate, visit, voiture, washout, waste, weaken, wheels, wing, wrack, wrack and ruin, wrack up, wreak, wreak havoc

• wrecked, aground, ausgespielt, bankrupt, blasted, blighted, botched, broken, castaway, desolated, destroyed, devastated, done for, done in, down-and-out, fallen, finished, foundered, gone to pot, grounded, high and dry, in ruins, irremediable, kaput, marooned, marred, on the rocks, overthrown, ravaged, ruined, ruinous, set fast, shipwrecked, spoiled, spoilt, stranded, stuck, stuck fast, swamped, undone, wasted

• wrecker, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, depredator, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, forager, forayer, freebooter, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, man-eater, marauder, nihilist, pillager, plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler, ruiner, sacker, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, vandal, wild man

• wrench, Allen wrench, Stillson wrench, abrade, abrasion, ache, aching, acute pain, adjustable wrench, alligator wrench, anamorphism, anamorphosis, asymmetry, badger, bark, belie, bend, bite, blackmail, blemish, bloody, blow, bob, boring pain, box wrench, break, buckle, burlesque, burn, camouflage, caricature, carriage wrench, chafe, chain wrench, charley horse, check, chip, claim, claw, coerce, color, compel, concussion, confuse, constrain, contort, contortion, crack, crackle, cramp, cramps, craze, crick, crook, crookedness, crumple, cut, darting pain, demand, detorsion, deviation, disguise, disproportion, distort, distortion, distress, dolor, drag, exact, exaction, exaggerate, extort, extortion, falsify, flash burn, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, force, force from, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fulgurant pain, gall, garble, gash, get one wrong, get wrong, girdle pain, gloss, gnarl, gnawing, gouge, grief, griping, hitch, hurt, imbalance, incise, incision, injure, injury, irregularity, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jumping pain, kink, knot, lacerate, laceration, lancinating pain, lesion, levy blackmail, lopsidedness, lug wrench, maim, make mincemeat of, maul, misapply, misapprehend, miscite, miscolor, misconceive, misconstrue, misdeem, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misinterpret, misjudge, misquote, misread, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, mistake, misteach, mistranslate, misunderstand, monkey wrench, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, nasty blow, nip, overdraw, overstate, pain, pang, parody, paroxysm, passion, pervert, pierce, pinch, pipe wrench, pluck, prick, pry loose from, puncture, quirk, rend, rend from, rending, rent, rick, rip, rip from, ripping, run, rupture, savage, scald, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, screw, screw key, scuff, second-degree burn, seizure, shake down, sharp pain, shock, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, skin, slant, slash, slit, snake, snatch, snatch from, socket wrench, sore, sore spot, spanner, spark-plug wrench, spasm, sprain, spring, squeeze, stab, stab wound, stabbing pain, start, stick, stitch, strain, strain the sense, stress, stress of life, stroke, sudden pull, suffering, tap wrench, tappet wrench, tear, tear from, tearing, tender spot, third-degree burn, thrill, throes, tormen, torsion, tortuosity, torture, trauma, traumatize, travesty, turn, turn awry, tweak, twinge, twist, twist the words, twitch, understate, unsymmetry, warp, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench from, wrenching, wrest, wresting, wring, wring from, wringing, writhe, wry, yank, yerk

• wrest, anamorphism, anamorphosis, arrogate, asymmetry, avulse, badger, bend, blackmail, buckle, claim, color, confiscate, confuse, contort, contortion, crook, crookedness, crumple, cut out, demand, deracinate, detorsion, deviation, dig out, dig up, disentangle, disproportion, distort, distortion, draw, draw out, dredge, dredge up, elicit, eradicate, evolve, evulse, exact, exaction, excavate, excise, exsect, extort, extortion, extract, extricate, force from, garble, get out, gnarl, gouge, gouge out, grub up, imbalance, irregularity, knot, levy blackmail, lopsidedness, mine, miscolor, pervert, pick out, pinch, pluck out, pluck up, pry loose from, pull, pull out, pull up, quarry, quirk, rake out, remove, rend, rend from, rending, rip, rip from, rip out, ripping, root out, root up, screw, shake down, snatch from, spring, squeeze, take out, tear from, tear out, tearing, torsion, tortuosity, turn, turn awry, twist, unearth, unravel, unsymmetry, uproot, usurp, warp, weed out, withdraw, wrench, wrench from, wrenching, wrest out, wresting, wring, wring from, wringing, writhe, wry

• wrestle, agonize, battle, box, brawl, broil, buffet, clash, close, collide, combat, come to blows, contend, contest, cut and thrust, duel, endeavor, essay, exchange blows, exert, fence, feud, fight, fight a duel, give and take, give satisfaction, grapple, grapple with, grunt and sweat, hassle, huff and puff, jostle, joust, labor, mix it up, moil, quarrel, rassle, riot, run a tilt, scramble, scuffle, skirmish, spar, strain, stretch, strive, struggle, thrust and parry, tilt, toil, tourney, travail, tussle, wage war, war, work

• wrestler, amateur athlete, archer, athlete, ballplayer, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, bowman, catcher, center, coach, competitor, cricketer, defensive lineman, end, footballer, games-player, gamester, grappler, guard, infielder, jock, jumper, lineman, matman, offensive lineman, outfield, outfielder, player, poloist, professional athlete, pugilist, quarterback, racer, scuffler, skater, sport, sportsman, tackle, tailback, toxophilite, wingback

• wretch, Bowery bum, beachcomber, beggar, beggarly fellow, blackguard, blighter, budmash, bum, bummer, caitiff, cur, derelict, devil, dog, drifter, drunkard, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, hobo, human wreck, knave, lowlife, martyr, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, mucker, no-good, object of compassion, pauvre diable, pilgarlic, poor creature, poor devil, prey, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rotter, sad case, sad sack, scalawag, scoundrel, scum, skid-row bum, skunk, snake, stiff, stinkard, stinker, sufferer, sundowner, swagman, toad, tramp, truant, vag, vagabond, vagrant, vaurien, victim, villain, wastrel, worm, worthless fellow

• wretched, abject, abominable, adverse, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, antagonistic, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, comfortless, common, conflicting, contemptible, contrary, counter, counteractive, crummy, crushed, cut up, debased, deep-troubled, degraded, deplorable, depraved, depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, despicable, despondent, detestable, detrimental, difficult, dire, dirty, discomforting, disconsolate, discontented, disgusting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreadful, dreary, egregious, enormous, execrable, fetid, filthy, flagrant, forlorn, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grievous, grim, gross, hard, harmful, hateful, heart-stricken, heart-struck, heartsick, heinous, hopeless, horrible, horrid, hostile, humorless, ignoble, in bad humor, in opposition, indolent, infamous, infestive, inimical, joyless, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, melancholy, meretricious, mirthless, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, not easy, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opposed, opposing, opposite, out of humor, out of sorts, outrageous, painful, paltry, pathetic, petty, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pleasureless, poignant, poky, poor, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, reptilian, repulsive, rigorous, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, ruthful, sad, saddening, scabby, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, servile, shabby, shameful, sharp, shocking, shoddy, sinister, slumlike, slummy, small, sordid, sore, sorrowful, sorry, sorryish, squalid, stressful, stricken, suicidal, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, troublesome, troublous, trumpery, trying, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncheerful, uncheery, unclean, uncomfortable, unfavorable, unhappy, unjoyful, unmentionable, unmirthful, unsmiling, untoward, valueless, vile, villainous, woebegone, woeful, worst, worthless

• wriggle, fidget, flip out, flow, flutter, freak out on, get high on, glide, glow, go pitapat, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, jerk, ooze, palpitate, pant, quake, quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, slide, slip, squiggle, squirm, swell, swell with emotion, thrill, thrill to, throb, tingle, tingle with excitement, toss, toss and turn, tremble, tumble, turn on to, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, wag, waggle, wiggle, worm, writhe

• wright, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artisan, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, craftswoman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, father, founder, generator, grower, handicraftsman, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master carpenter, master craftsman, mechanic, mother, organizer, originator, past master, planner, playwright, precursor, prentice, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, scenewright, shaper, shipwright, sire, smith, technician, wagonwright, wheelwright

• wring, afflict, agonize, ail, anamorphism, anamorphosis, asymmetry, badger, bend, bite, blackmail, bloody, buckle, burn, chafe, claim, claw, concentrate, contort, contortion, convulse, corkscrew, crinkle, crook, crookedness, crucify, crumple, cut, decoct, demand, detorsion, deviation, disproportion, distill, distort, distortion, distress, essentialize, exact, exaction, excruciate, express, extort, extortion, fester, force from, fret, gall, give pain, gnarl, gnaw, gouge, grate, grind, gripe, harrow, hurt, imbalance, impale, inflame, inflict pain, infuse, intort, irregularity, irritate, kill by inches, knot, lacerate, lancinate, levy blackmail, lopsidedness, macerate, martyr, martyrize, meander, melt down, nip, pain, pierce, pinch, press, press out, prick, prolong the agony, pry loose from, punish, put to torture, quirk, rack, rankle, rasp, refine, rend, rend from, render, rending, rip, rip from, ripping, rub, savage, scallop, scarify, screw, serpentine, shake down, slink, snake, snatch from, soak, spring, squeeze, stab, steep, sting, swirl, tear from, tearing, torment, torsion, tortuosity, torture, try, turn, turn awry, tweak, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, unsymmetry, warp, whirl, whorl, wind, worm, wound, wrench, wrench from, wrenching, wrest, wresting, wring from, wring out, wringing, writhe, wry

• wrinkle, abbreviate, age, bezel, bonus, bristle, canal, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chase, cheat the undertaker, chink, chisel, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate, constrict, constringe, contract, corrugate, corrugation, crack, cramp, crankle, cranny, craze, crease, crimp, crimple, crinkle, crumple, curtail, cut, dado, decline, decoration, decrease, dike, ditch, dodder, draw, draw in, draw together, engrave, engraving, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, fad, faddiness, faddishness, faddism, faddist, fade, fail, filigree, filling, fillip, flourish, flute, fluting, fold, frill, furrow, gash, get along, get on, goffer, gouge, groove, grow old, gully, incise, incision, knit, knot, lagniappe, microgroove, narrow, novelty, ornament, padding, pleat, plica, plow, premium, pucker, pucker up, purse, rabbet, rage, reduce, ridge, rifle, rifling, rimple, ripple, rivel, ruck, ruckle, ruffle, rumple, rut, score, scratch, screw, scrunch, set on edge, shake, shirr, shorten, shrivel, sink, slit, solidify, something extra, strangle, strangulate, streak, stria, striate, striation, stuffing, sulcation, sulcus, superaddition, totter, trench, trimming, trough, turn gray, turn white, twist, wane, waste away, well-worn groove, wimple, wither, wizen

• wrinkled, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, along in years, ancient, atrophied, brittle, canaliculate, canaliculated, chamfered, channeled, clamped, cockled, cockly, compressed, concentrated, condensed, consolidated, constricted, contracted, corduroy, corduroyed, corrugate, corrugated, costate, cragged, craggy, cramped, creased, crimped, crimpy, crinkled, crinkly, crumpled, cut, dadoed, desiccated, dried-up, elderly, emaciated, engraved, fluted, furrowed, gashed, goffered, gouged, gravelly, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grooved, grown old, harsh, hoar, hoary, incised, ironbound, jagged, jaggy, knitted, knotted, nipped, old, old as Methuselah, papery, parchmenty, patriarchal, pinched, pinched-in, pleated, puckered, puckery, pursed, pursy, rabbeted, ragged, ribbed, ridged, rifled, rimpled, rippled, rockbound, rocky, rucked, rugged, rugose, rugous, rumpled, rutted, rutty, saw-toothed, sawtooth, scored, scragged, scraggly, scraggy, scratched, senectuous, sere, serrate, serrated, shriveled, shrunken, slit, snagged, snaggled, snaggy, solidified, squeezed, stony, strangled, strangulated, striated, sulcate, sulcated, troughed, venerable, wasp-waisted, wasted, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, wilted, withered, wizened, wrinkly, years old

• wrist, ankle, arm, articulation, biceps, boundary, butt, cervix, clinch, closure, connecting link, connecting rod, connection, coupling, dovetail, elbow, embrace, forearm, gliding joint, hinge, hinged joint, hip, interface, join, joining, joint, juncture, knee, knuckle, link, miter, mortise, neck, pivot, pivot joint, rabbet, scarf, seam, shoulder, stitch, suture, symphysis, tie rod, toggle, toggle joint, union, upper arm, weld

• wristband, anklet, armlet, band, bangle, beads, belt, bijou, bracelet, breastpin, brooch, chain, chaplet, charm, chatelaine, cincture, cingulum, circle, collar, collarband, coronet, crown, diadem, earring, ecliptic, equator, fascia, fillet, finger ring, fob, gem, girdle, girt, girth, great circle, hoop, jewel, locket, neckband, necklace, nose ring, pin, precious stone, quoit, rhinestone, ring, stickpin, stone, tiara, torque, wampum, wristlet, zodiac, zone

• writ, bench warrant, blank, capias, caveat, chirograph, death warrant, docket, document, dossier, fieri facias, file, form, habere facias possessionem, holograph, injunction, instrument, interdict, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, mandamus, mandate, mandatory injunction, mittimus, nisi prius, notice, notification, official document, paper, papers, parchment, personal file, precept, process, prohibitory injunction, roll, scrip, script, scroll, search warrant, subpoena, summons, warrant, warrant of arrest, warrant of attorney, writing

• write in, Australian ballot, Hare system, aye, ballot, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, counting heads, cumulative voting, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement, fagot vote, franchise, graveyard vote, hand vote, list system, nay, no, nontransferable vote, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, record vote, referendum, representation, right to vote, rising vote, say, secret ballot, show of hands, single vote, snap vote, straw vote, suffrage, transferable vote, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, voting, voting right, write-in vote, yea, yeas and nays, yes

• write off, abate, abatement, abolish, abolishment, abolition, abrogate, abrogation, absolve, agio, allow, allowance, annul, annulment, bank discount, bate, belittle, breakage, bury the hatchet, cancel, canceling, cancellation, cash discount, cassation, chain discount, charge off, charge to experience, charge-off, concession, countermand, counterorder, cut, declare a moratorium, decry, deduct, deduction, defeasance, depreciate, depreciation, derogate, detract from, devaluate, devalue, disannul, discount, disparage, do away with, downgrade, drawback, forget, forgive and forget, grace period, invalidate, invalidation, kick back, kickback, let it go, let it pass, lower, make allowance, make void, mark down, minimize, moratorium, nullification, nullify, obliterate, obliteration, override, overrule, penalty, penalty clause, percentage, premium, price reduction, price-cut, rebate, rebatement, recall, recant, recantation, reduce, reduction, refund, renege, repeal, rescind, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, retract, retraction, reversal, reverse, revocation, revoke, revokement, rollback, run down, salvage, set aside, setoff, setting aside, suspend, suspension, take a premium, take off, tare, time discount, trade discount, tret, underrate, underselling, undervalue, vacate, vacation, vacatur, void, voidance, voiding, waive, waiver, waiving, wipe out, withdraw, withdrawal, write down

• write out, book, calendar, carve, catalog, chalk, chalk up, check in, chronicle, copy, copy out, cut, docket, draft, draw up, edit, enface, engrave, engross, enroll, enscroll, enter, file, fill out, grave, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insert, jot down, list, log, make a memorandum, make a note, make a recension, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, minute, note, note down, orthographize, outspell, pen, pencil, place upon record, poll, post, post up, push the pen, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, recense, record, reduce to writing, register, revise, rewrite, scribe, scrive, scroll, set down, spell, spell backward, spell out, spill ink, spoil paper, superscribe, syllabize, syllable, tabulate, take down, tape, tape-record, trace, trace out, transcribe, type, videotape, write, write down, write in, write up

• write up, PR, advertise, analysis, announce, ballyhoo, bark, bill, blurb, book, boost, break the news, bright light, bring word, build up, bulletin, calendar, carve, catalog, celebrity, chalk, chalk up, check in, chronicle, circularize, comment, comment upon, commentary, commentation, common knowledge, critical review, criticism, criticize, critique, cry, cry up, currency, cut, daylight, deal with, descant, discourse, discuss, dissert, dissertate, docket, eclat, editorial, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, establish, exposure, fame, famousness, file, fill out, give a report, give a write-up, give publicity, give tidings of, glare, gloss, go into, grave, handle, hoopla, hue and cry, impanel, incise, index, inform, inquire into, inscribe, insert, jot down, leader, leading article, limelight, list, log, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, mark down, matriculate, maximum dissemination, minute, note, note down, notice, notoriety, placard, place upon record, plug, poll, post, post bills, post up, press notice, press-agent, promote, public eye, public knowledge, public relations, public report, publicity, publicity story, publicize, publicness, puff, puffing, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, reclame, record, reduce to writing, register, rehearse, relate, remark, remark upon, report, review, rumor, running commentary, sell, set down, spiel, spotlight, survey, tabulate, take down, take up, tape, tape-record, tell, touch upon, treat, treat of, videotape, write, write down, write in, write out

• write, adapt, arrange, assemble, author, book, bring to life, build, calendar, carve, cast, catalog, catch a likeness, chalk, chalk up, character, characterize, chart, check in, chronicle, coauthor, collaborate, communicate with, compose, compound, concoct, construct, copy, copy out, correspond, correspond with, create, cut, dash off, delineate, depict, describe, devise, diagram, docket, draft, draw, draw up, drop a line, edit, editorialize, elaborate, enface, engrave, engross, enroll, enscroll, enter, erect, evoke, evolve, exchange letters, express, extrude, fabricate, fashion, file, fill out, form, formulate, frame, free-lance, fudge together, get up, ghost, ghostwrite, give words to, grave, harmonize, hit off, impanel, incise, index, indite, inscribe, insert, instrument, instrumentate, jot, jot down, knock off, knock out, limn, list, log, make, make a memorandum, make a note, make a recension, make an adaptation, make an entry, make out, make up, manufacture, map, mark down, matriculate, mature, melodize, minute, mold, musicalize, notate, note, note down, novelize, orchestrate, outline, paint, pamphleteer, patch together, pen, pencil, picture, picturize, piece together, place upon record, poll, portray, post, post up, prefabricate, prepare, print, produce, push the pen, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, put to music, put together, put up, raise, rear, recense, record, reduce to writing, register, render, represent, revise, rewrite, rub, run up, scenarize, schematize, score, scratch, scrawl, scribble, scribe, scrive, scroll, send a note, set, set down, set forth, set to music, set up, shape, sketch, spill ink, spoil paper, superscribe, symbolize, tabulate, take a rubbing, take down, tape, tape-record, throw on paper, trace, trace out, trace over, transcribe, transpose, type, use the mails, videotape, whomp up, write down, write in, write out, write to, write up

• writer, addressee, advertising writer, amanuensis, annalist, art critic, author, authoress, belletrist, bibliographer, calligrapher, chirographer, clerk, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, communicator, compiler, composer, copier, copyist, copywriter, correspondent, creative writer, critic, dance critic, descanter, diarist, discourser, disquisitor, drama critic, dramatist, encyclopedist, essayist, expositor, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, inditer, ink spiller, inkslinger, letter writer, letterer, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, magazine writer, man of letters, monographer, monographist, music critic, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, pamphleteer, pen, pen pal, pencil driver, penman, penner, penwoman, poet, prose writer, recording secretary, reviewer, scenario writer, scenarist, scribbler, scribe, scriptwriter, scrivener, secretary, short-story writer, storyteller, technical writer, tractation, transcriber, word painter, word-slinger, wordsmith

• writhe, ache, agonize, ail, anguish, bend, blanch, bleed, blench, buckle, contort, crook, crumple, distort, feel pain, feel the pangs, fidget, flinch, flip out, flutter, freak out on, get high on, glow, gnarl, go hard with, go pitapat, grimace, have a misery, have the fidgets, have the shakes, heave, hurt, jerk, knot, palpitate, pant, pound, quake, quaver, quiver, recoil, screw, shake, shiver, shoot, shrink, smart, spring, squiggle, squirm, suffer, suffer anguish, swell, swell with emotion, thrash, thrill, thrill to, throb, tingle, tingle with excitement, toss, toss and turn, tremble, tumble, turn, turn awry, turn on to, twinge, twist, twist and turn, twitch, twitter, wag, waggle, warp, wiggle, wince, worm, wrench, wrest, wriggle, wring

• writing system, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Avestan, Babylonian, Berber, Chalcidian, Cherokee, Coptic, Cretan, Cyrillic, Elamitic, Etruscan, Georgian, Gothic, Greek, Hebrew, IPA, ITA, Iberian, Initial Teaching Alphabet, International Phonetic Alphabet, Irish, Kalmuck, Korean, Latin, Lemnian, Libyan, Linear A, Linear B, Lycian, Lydian, Manchu, Mayan, Minoan, Mitannic, Mongolian, Nubian, Oscan, Pahlavi, Permian, Persian, Phoenician, Phrygian, Sanskrit, Scandinavian, Semitic, Sinaitic, Sogdian, Sumerian, Szeklian, Tuareg, Uighur, Umbrian, Vietnamese, alphabet, alphabetics, futhark, graphemics, hiragana, kana, kanji, katakana, letter, letters, ogham, paleography, punctuation, runic, runic alphabet, script, syllabary, written character

• writing, alphabet, alphabetic character, art, article, artistry, authorcraft, authorship, autograph, automatic writing, best seller, black and white, blank, blueprint, book, bound book, brainchild, cacoethes scribendi, character, charactering, characterization, chart, chirograph, choreography, cipher, classic, coloring book, composition, computer printout, conventional representation, copy, creative writing, dance notation, definitive work, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, device, diagram, docket, document, dossier, draft, drama, drama-writing, drawing, edited version, editorial-writing, engrossment, essay, essay-writing, exemplification, expository writing, facility in writing, fair copy, feature-writing, fiction, figuration, file, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, folio, form, graph, grapheme, graphomania, graphorrhea, graphospasm, great work, hardback, hieroglyphic, holograph, iconography, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, inditement, instrument, journalism, juvenile, juvenile book, legal document, legal instrument, legal paper, letter, lexigraphic character, libretto-writing, limning, limp-cover book, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary artistry, literary composition, literary power, literary production, literary talent, literature, logogram, logograph, lucubration, magnum opus, manuscript, map, matter, monogram, musical notation, nonbook, nonfiction, notation, notebook, novel, novel-writing, official document, opus, opuscule, opusculum, original, paper, paperback, papers, parchment, pen, pencraft, penscript, personal file, phonetic character, phonetic symbol, pictogram, pictographic character, picture book, picturization, piece, piece of writing, plan, play, playbook, playwriting, pocket book, poem, portraiture, portrayal, prayer book, prefigurement, presentment, printed matter, printing, printout, production, projection, psalmbook, psalter, publication, reading matter, ready pen, realization, recension, rendering, rendition, representation, rewriting, roll, schema, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, serial, short-story writing, sign, sketchbook, skill with words, soft-cover, songbook, standard work, storybook, syllabary, syllabic, symbol, tablature, technical writing, the written word, title, tome, trade book, transcript, transcription, typescript, verse-writing, version, volume, work, writ, written character

• written down, booked, documented, down, enrolled, entered, filed, indexed, inscribed, legal, logged, minuted, of record, official, on file, on record, on the books, posted, recorded, registered

• written, appointed, autograph, autographic, calligraphic, chirographic, cursive, destined, devoted, doomed, engrossed, fatal, fated, fateful, flowing, foredoomed, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, holograph, holographic, in longhand, in shorthand, in store, in the cards, in writing, inevitable, inscribed, italic, italicized, longhand, manuscript, marked, on paper, ordained, penciled, penned, printed, running, scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, stylographic

• wrong impression, airy nothing, autism, bubble, chimera, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, error, error in judgment, false belief, ignis fatuus, illusion, injudiciousness, misappreciation, misbelief, miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception, misconjecture, misconstruction, misestimation, misevaluation, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misvaluation, pipe dream, poor judgment, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, skewed judgment, trick, trip, vapor, wrong construction

• wrong, abandoned, aberrancy, aberrant, aberration, abnormal, abominable, abomination, abroad, abuse, accursed, adrift, afflict, afield, aggrieve, all abroad, all off, all wet, all wrong, amiss, arrant, askew, astray, at fault, atrocious, atrocity, awry, bad, badly, bane, base, batty, befoul, befoulment, beside the mark, bewitch, black, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, blight, breach, bum, censurable, commit an atrocity, condemn, corrupt, corruption, cracked, crappy, crazed, crazy, crime, crime against humanity, criminal, crucify, crying evil, curse, daft, damage, damnable, dark, deadly sin, debauched, debt, deceptive, defective, defectiveness, defile, defilement, delict, delinquency, delinquent, delusion, delusive, demented, deprave, depraved, deranged, dereliction, despoil, despoliation, destroy, destruction, detriment, deviancy, deviant, deviational, deviative, diablerie, disadvantage, disgrace, disgraceful, dissatisfactory, disserve, disservice, dissolute, distorted, distortion, distress, do a disservice, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, do wrong to, doom, enormity, envenom, errancy, errant, erring, erroneous, erroneously, erroneousness, error, evil, evildoing, evilly, execrable, failure, fallacious, fallaciously, fallaciousness, fallacy, false, falsely, falseness, falsity, fault, faultful, faultfully, faultily, faultiness, faulty, felonious, felony, flagitious, flagrant, flaw, flawed, flawedness, foul, futile, genocide, get into trouble, great wrong, grievance, gross injustice, guilty act, hamartia, harass, hardly the thing, harm, havoc, heavy sin, heinous, heresy, heretical, heterodox, heterodoxy, hex, hurt, ignominious, ill, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-suited, ill-timed, ill-treat, illegal, illegality, illogical, illusion, illusory, immoral, impair, impolitic, imposition, improper, improperly, improperness, impropriety, in error, inaccurate, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, incorrectly, indecorous, indecorously, indiscretion, inept, inequitable, inequitableness, inequity, inexpedient, inexpiable sin, infamous, infamy, infect, infection, infelicitous, inferior, iniquitous, iniquitousness, iniquity, injure, injury, injustice, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, invalid, irrelevant, jinx, knavery, knavish, lapse, late, low, lunatic, mal a propos, malapropos, malefaction, malefactory, malevolent, malfeasance, malfeasant, maltreat, malum, menace, minor wrong, misapplication, miscarriage of justice, mischief, misconstruction, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, misfeasance, misguided, misinterpretation, misjudgment, mistaken, mistakenly, mistimed, mistreat, molest, monstrous, mortal sin, naughty, nefarious, nonfeasance, not done, not right, not the thing, not true, obliquity, off, off base, off the track, off-base, off-color, offend, offense, omission, oppress, out, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of time, out-of-line, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, peccant, persecute, perverse, perversion, perverted, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, pollution, poor, prejudice, premature, punk, rank, raw deal, reprehensible, reprobacy, reprobate, rotten, sacrilegious, savage, scandal, scandalous, scathe, self-contradiction, self-contradictory, shame, shameful, shameless, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful, sinful act, sinfulness, sinister, slip, specious, straying, taint, terrible, the worst, threaten, too late, too soon, torment, tort, torture, toxin, transgression, trespass, trip, unbalanced, unbefitting, unblessed, under an error, undeserved, undesirable, undue, undueness, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfactual, unfairness, unfavorable, unfavorably, unfit, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unhealthy, unholy, unjust, unjustness, unkind, unlawful, unlawfulness, unlucky, unmeet, unmeetness, unmerited, unorthodox, unorthodoxy, unpardonable, unpleasant, unprofitable, unpropitious, unproved, unready, unrighteous, unrightful, unripe, unsatisfactory, unseasonable, unseemly, unskillful, unsound, unspeakable, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, untrue, untrueness, untruly, untruth, untruthfulness, unutterable sin, unwise, unworthy, up, venial sin, venom, vexation, vicious, vile, villainous, villainy, violate, violation, wicked, wickedness, wide, woe, wound, wreak havoc on, wrongdoing, wrongful, wrongfully, wrongfulness, wrongly, wrongness

• wrongdoer, bad person, criminal, crook, culprit, deceiver, delinquent, evil man, evil person, evildoer, felon, gangster, lawbreaker, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, misdemeanant, misdemeanist, misfeasor, mobster, offender, outlaw, public enemy, racketeer, sinner, thief, transgressor, villain, worker of ill

• wrongdoing, amorality, backsliding, bad policy, badness, carnality, crime, criminality, delict, delinquency, diablerie, discourtesy, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, evil, evil nature, felony, frowned-upon behavior, hooliganism, horseplay, illegality, immorality, impolicy, impropriety, impurity, inexpedience, inexpediency, iniquity, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, misadministration, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdirection, misdoing, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, moral delinquency, naughtiness, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, nonsanctioned behavior, offense, omission, peccability, prodigality, recidivism, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, sin, tort, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vandalism, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wantonness, waywardness, wrong

• wrongful, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, felonious, flawed, hardly the thing, ignominious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable, infamous, iniquitous, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, punishable, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unbalanced, unconstitutional, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unmeet, unmerited, unofficial, unrighteous, unrightful, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, wicked, wrong

• wrongheaded, Boeotian, asinine, balky, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, bullheaded, cantankerous, chumpish, cloddish, contrary, cowish, crass, cross-grained, dense, difficult, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, froward, gross, headstrong, ineducable, irascible, klutzy, lumpish, mulish, oafish, opaque, ornery, perverse, pigheaded, restive, self-willed, sottish, stiff-necked, stubborn, stuffy, stupid, sulky, sullen, thick, unteachable, wayward

• wroth, angered, angry, browned-off, cross, heated, incensed, indignant, irate, ireful, livid, mad, pissed, pissed-off, riled up, sore, ticked off, waxy, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wrought-up

• wrought up, agog, angered, angry, aquiver, aroused, atingle, atwitter, browned-off, bursting, carried away, cross, ebullient, effervescent, excited, exhilarated, fired, high, hopped up, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, irate, ireful, keyed up, lathered up, livid, mad, manic, moved, pissed, pissed-off, ready to burst, riled up, roused, sore, steamed up, stimulated, stirred, stirred up, thrilled, ticked off, tingling, tingly, turned-on, whipped up, worked up, wrathful, wrathy, wroth, wrought up, yeasty

• wrung, afflicted, agonized, clawed, convulsed, crucified, distressed, harrowed, hurt, hurting, in distress, in pain, lacerated, lancinated, martyred, martyrized, on the rack, pained, racked, ripped, savaged, suffering, tormented, tortured, twisted, under the harrow, wounded

• wry, agee, agee-jawed, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, awry, catawampous, catawamptious, cockeyed, crooked, cynical, ironic, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, squinting, wamper-jawed, wrest, wring, yaw-ways

• wryneck, adenoiditis, adrenitis, appendicitis, arteritis, arthritis deformans, arthritis fungosa, arthritis pauperum, atrophic arthritis, atrophic inflammation, blennorrhagic arthritis, bowlegs, brain fever, bronchitis, bunion, bursitis, camelback, capillaritis, carditis, catarrh, catarrhal inflammation, cerebellitis, cerebral meningitis, cerebritis, cerebrospinal meningitis, chronic infectious arthritis, chronic inflammation, cirrhotic inflammation, cleft palate, climactic arthritis, clitoritis, clubfoot, colitis, collagen disease, conjunctivitis, crookback, cystitis, defacement, deformation, deformity, degenerative arthritis, diffuse inflammation, disfigurement, encephalitis, endocarditis, enteritis, equine encephalomyelitis, exudative inflammation, fibroid inflammation, flatfoot, focal inflammation, freakishness, gastritis, gingivitis, glossitis, gonococcal arthritis, gonorrheal arthritis, gonorrheal rheumatism, gout, gouty arthritis, harelip, hemophilic arthritis, hepatitis, humpback, hunchback, hyperplastic inflammation, hypertrophic arthritis, hypertrophic inflammation, infectional arthritis, infectious hepatitis, inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, knock-knee, kyphosis, laryngitis, lordosis, lumbago, lumbar rheumatism, malconformation, malformation, mastoiditis, meningitis, menopausal arthritis, metastatic inflammation, metritis, milk leg, misproportion, misshape, monstrosity, mucous colitis, mumps meningitis, mutilation, myelitis, necrotic inflammation, nephritis, neuritis, obliterative inflammation, ophthalitis, ophthalmia, orchitis, osseous rheumatism, osteitis, osteoarthritis, osteomyelitis, otitis, ovaritis, paradental pyorrhea, periodontitis, peritonitis, pharyngitis, phlebitis, podagra, proliferative arthritis, prostatitis, pyonephritis, pyorrhea, pyorrhea alveolaris, reactive inflammation, rheumatism, rheumatiz, rheumatoid arthritis, rhinitis, sclerosing inflammation, seroplastic inflammation, serous inflammation, serum hepatitis, simple inflammation, sinusitis, spastic colon, specific inflammation, splayfoot, subacute rheumatism, suppurative arthritis, suppurative inflammation, swayback, syphilitic arthritis, talipes, tennis elbow, teratology, testitis, thrombophlebitis, tonsilitis, torticollis, toxic inflammation, traumatic inflammation, truncation, tuberculous arthritis, tuberculous rheumatism, ulcerative colitis, uratic arthritis, ureteritis, urethral arthritis, urethritis, uteritis, vaginitis, valgus, vertebral arthritis, visceral rheumatism, vulvitis

• X ray, Becquerel ray, ECG, EEG, EKG, Grenz ray, Photostat, Roentgen ray, X radiation, X-ray movie, Xerox, actinic ray, actinism, alpha radiation, alpha ray, anode ray, atomic beam, atomic ray, beam, beam of light, beta radiation, beta ray, blood bank, calotype, canal ray, capture on film, cathode ray, charity ward, chest X-ray, clinic, consultation room, cosmic radiation, cosmic ray, cosmic ray bombardment, delivery room, dispensary, electrocardiogram, electrocorticogram, electroencephalogram, electroencephalograph, electromyogram, electron emission, emergency, encephalogram, encephalograph, examining room, fever ward, film, gamma radiation, gamma ray, gleam, hospital room, infrared ray, infraroentgen ray, intensive care, invisible radiation, irradiate, isolation, labor room, laboratory, leam, maternity ward, microfilm, mug, nuclear rays, nursery, operating room, orthodiagram, pan, patch, pencil, pharmacy, photofluorogram, photofluorograph, photogram, photograph, photomap, photon, positive ray, prison ward, private room, pyelogram, radiation, radiogram, radiograph, radiorays, radiumize, ray, ray of light, recovery room, ribbon, ribbon of light, roentgenize, roentgenogram, roentgenograph, scotograph, semi-private room, shadowgram, shadowgraph, shoot, skiagram, skiagraph, snap, snapshoot, snapshot, solar rays, streak, stream, stream of light, streamer, surgery, take a photograph, talbotype, therapy, treatment room, ultraviolet ray, violet ray, ward

• X, Calvary cross, Christogram, Decalogue, Greek cross, Jerusalem cross, John Hancock, Latin cross, Maltese cross, Russian cross, T, Ten Commandments, ankh, autograph, avellan cross, chi, chi-rho, christcross, cipher, countermark, countersign, countersignature, counterstamp, crisscross, cross, cross ancre, cross botonee, cross bourdonee, cross fitche, cross fleury, cross formee, cross fourchee, cross grignolee, cross moline, cross of Cleves, cross of Lorraine, cross patee, cross recercelee, cross-crosslet, crossbones, crosslet, crucifix, cruciform, crux, crux ansata, crux capitata, crux decussata, crux gammata, crux immissa, crux ordinaria, dagger, decade, decagon, decagram, decahedron, decaliter, decameter, decare, decastere, decastyle, decasyllable, decemvir, decemvirate, decennary, decennium, decigram, deciliter, decimeter, decurion, device, endorsement, ex, exing, fork cross, gammadion, hand, initials, inverted cross, long cross, mark, mark of signature, monogram, papal cross, pectoral cross, potent cross, rood, saltire, seal, sigil, sign manual, signature, signet, subscription, swastika, tau, ten, tenner, trefled cross, visa, vise, voided cross

• x, dark horse, enigma, frontier, frontiers of knowledge, matter of ignorance, mistake, mystery, n, puzzle, riddle, sealed book, terra incognita, the incalculable, the strange, the unfamiliar, the unknowable, the unknown, unexplored ground, unexplored territory, unknown quantity, z

• xenophobia, Anglophobia, Francophobia, Germanophobia, Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, agoraphobia, alien, anti-Semitism, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bigotry, black power, black supremacy, chauvinism, class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred, class prejudice, class war, color bar, color line, demonophobia, despitefulness, detestation, discrimination, dislike, division, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, execration, fascism, foreigner, hate, hatred, insularity, insulation, isolation, know-nothingism, loathing, male chauvinist, malevolence, malice, malignity, minority prejudice, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, narrowness, odium, out-group, outcast, outsider, parochialism, persona non grata, quarantine, race hatred, race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racial segregation, racialism, racism, red-baiting, repugnance, seclusion, segregation, separation, sex discrimination, sexism, snobbishness, social barrier, social discrimination, spite, spitefulness, stranger, superpatriotism, tightness, ultranationalism, vials of hate, vials of wrath, white power, white supremacy

• xerography, albertype, book printing, chromotypography, chromotypy, chromoxylography, collotype, color printing, duplication, electronography, electrostatic printing, graphic arts, gravure, halftone engraving, hectography, history of printing, job printing, letterpress, letterpress photoengraving, line engraving, lithography, lithogravure, lithophotogravure, mimeograph, mimeography, offset, offset lithography, onset, palaeotypography, photo-offset, photochemical process, photoengraving, photogelatin process, photographic reproduction, photography, photolithography, phototypography, phototypy, photozincography, planographic printing, planography, printing, printmaking, publication, publishing, reduplication, relief printing, reproduction, reprography, rotary photogravure, rotogravure, rubbing, sheetwork, stencil, three-color printing, tracing, transcription, two-color printing, typography, typolithography, wood-block printing, xeroprinting, xylotypography, zincography

• Xerox, Ditto copy, Photostat, X-ray, Xerox copy, blowup, blueprint, calotype, capture on film, clone, contact print, contact printing, copy, cyanotype, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, enlargement, facsimile, film, glossy, hectograph, hectograph copy, hologram, impress, impression, lantern slide, manifold, matte, microcopy, microfilm, microprint, mimeo, mimeograph, mimeograph copy, mug, multigraph, negative, offprint, pan, photocopy, photograph, photogravure, photomap, photostatic copy, positive, print, projection printing, proof, quadruplicate, radiograph, reduplicate, replicate, reprint, reproduce, roentgenograph, semi-matte, shoot, slide, snap, snapshoot, snapshot, stat, take a photograph, talbotype, trace, transcribe, transparency, triplicate

• xylophone, 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, vibraphone

• Y shaped, V-shaped, akimbo, angular, arboreal, arborescent, arboriform, bent, biforked, bifurcate, bifurcated, branched, branching, branchlike, cornered, crooked, crotched, dendriform, dendritic, forked, forking, forklike, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, hooked, jagged, knee-shaped, pointed, pronged, ramous, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serrate, sharp, sharp-cornered, tree-shaped, treelike, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, zigzag

• yacht, bark, bawley, bilander, boat, brig, brigantine, bully, buss, canoe, caravel, carry sail, cat, catamaran, circumnavigate, clipper, coast, corsair, corvette, cross, cruise, cutter, dandy, dhow, dromond, fishing smack, flattie, four-masted bark, four-master, frigate, galiot, galleass, galleon, go by ship, go on shipboard, go to sea, hooker, hoy, ice yacht, junk, keelboat, ketch, knockabout, lateen, lateener, lorcha, lugger, make a passage, motorboat, navigate, nobby, ocean racer, outrigger, pilot boat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue, ply, pram, pungy, racing yacht, rigger, row, run, sail, sail round, sail the sea, sailing auxiliary, sailing canoe, sailing dinghy, sailing packet, sailing trawler, sampan, sandbagger, schooner, scooter, scull, seafare, shallop, sharpie, shipentine, skipjack, sloop, smack, smack boat, snow, steam, steamboat, take a voyage, tartan, topsail schooner, traverse, trimaran, voyage, well smack, whaler, wool-clipper, xebec, yawl

• yachting, boating, canoeing, circumnavigation, coasting, cruising, gunkholing, motorboating, navigability, navigating, navigation, passage-making, periplus, rowing, sailing, sculling, sea travel, seafaring, steaming, travel by water, voyaging, water travel

• yachtsman, bargee, bargeman, barger, boat-handler, boater, boatman, boatsman, ferrier, ferryman, galley slave, gondolier, lighterman, oar, oarsman, punter, rower, waterman, yachter

• yak, Brahman, Indian buffalo, aurochs, babble, babblement, bat the breeze, bavardage, beat the gums, beef, beef cattle, beeves, bibble-babble, bison, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bossy, bovine, bovine animal, buffalo, bull, bullock, cackle, calf, caquet, caqueterie, carabao, cattle, chat, chatter, chin, chitter-chatter, clack, clatter, cow, crack, critter, dairy cattle, dairy cow, dither, dogie, gab, gabble, gag, gas, gibber, gibble-gabble, go on, gossip, guff, gush, haver, heifer, hornless cow, hot air, idle talk, jabber, jape, jaw, jest, kine, leppy, maverick, mere talk, milch cow, milcher, milk cow, milker, muley cow, muley head, musk-ox, natter, neat, nonsense talk, ox, oxen, palaver, patter, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, quip, ramble on, rattle, rattle on, reel off, run on, shoot the breeze, spiel, spout, spout off, steer, stirk, stot, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, twaddle, twattle, waffle, waggery, wisecrack, wisent, witticism, yakkety-yak, yap, yearling, zebu

• yammer, babble, bark, battle cry, bawl, bellow, call, caterwaul, chat, chatter, cheer, clack, creak, cry, gab, gabble, hail, halloo, holler, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, jaw, keen, pipe, prattle, pule, rallying cry, roar, screak, scream, screech, shout, shriek, shrill, skirl, skreigh, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, ululate, ululation, wail, war cry, war whoop, whimper, whine, whistle, whoop, wrawl, yak, yap, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yo-ho, yowl

• yammering, bawling, blatant, boanergean, brawling, clamorous, clamoursome, crying, loudmouthed, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, screaming, shouting, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, yapping, yelling, yelping

• yank, bob, clutch, evulse, flick, flip, flirt, flounce, grab, hitch, jerk, jig, jigger, jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, lug, lurch, pluck, pull, snake, snap, snatch, start, sudden pull, tear, tug, tweak, twitch, vellicate, wrench, yerk

• Yankee, Acadian, Anglo-Indian, Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Brooklynese, Cajun, Canadian French, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite, Charley, Cockney, Communist, Cong, Down-Easter Yankee, Easterner, Fenian, French Canadian, Guevarist, Gullah, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Mau-Mau, Midland, Midland dialect, New England dialect, New Englander, Northener, Northman, Pennsylvania Dutch, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Westerner, Yankee Doodle, Yorkshire, anarch, anarchist, bonnet rouge, bundle of isoglosses, class dialect, criminal syndicalist, dialect, dialect atlas, dialect dictionary, eastlander, idiom, isogloss, linguistic atlas, linguistic community, linguistic island, local dialect, localism, northlander, patois, provincialism, rebel, red, regional accent, regionalism, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, southlander, speech community, subdialect, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist, westlander

• yap, air a grievance, backwoodsman, bark, bat the breeze, battle cry, bawl, bay, bazoo, beat the gums, beef, bell, bellow, bellyache, bitch, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, bug, bumpkin, buzz, cackle, call, carp at, caterwaul, chant, chaps, cheer, chin, chirp, chops, clamor, clodhopper, clown, complain, coo, crab, croak, crow, cry, drawl, embouchure, exclaim, flute, fret, fret and fume, fret at, fuss, fuss at, gab, gasp, give tongue, give voice, gob, gripe, groan, grouch, grouse, growl, grumble, grunt, hail, halloo, hassle, hayseed, henpeck, hick, hiss, holler, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, jaw, jaws, jowls, keen, kick, kisser, lilt, lips, lodge a complaint, low, mandibles, maw, maxilla, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moo, mouth, mug, mumble, murmur, mush, mutter, muzzle, nag, neigh, nibble at, nicker, niggle, oral cavity, pant, peck at, pester, pick at, pick on, pipe, premaxilla, provincial, pule, raise a howl, rallying cry, register a complaint, roar, row, rumble, screak, scream, screech, shoot the breeze, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snort, sob, spiel, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, take on, thunder, trap, troat, trumpet, twang, ululate, wail, war cry, war whoop, warble, whicker, whine, whinny, whisper, whoop, yak, yakkety-yak, yammer, yap at, yawl, yawp, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl

• yapping, bawling, beef, beefing, bellyache, bellyaching, bitch, bitching, blatant, boanergean, brawling, clamorous, clamoursome, complaining, complaint, crying, destructive criticism, dissent, faultfinding, grievance, gripe, griping, groan, groaning, grouse, grousing, grumbling, holler, howl, kick, kicking, loudmouthed, murmuring, noisy, obstreperous, openmouthed, peeve, peevishness, pet peeve, petulance, protest, querulousness, scolding, screaming, shouting, sniping, squawk, squawking, vociferant, vociferating, vociferous, whining, yammering, yelling, yelping

• yard, C, C-note, G, G-note, M, arena, armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, beleaguer, beset, besiege, bindery, blockade, boatyard, boilery, bookbindery, bound, box in, brewery, brickyard, buck, cage, cannery, cartwheel, cent, century, chamber, chiliad, chiliagon, chiliahedron, chiliarch, chiliarchia, cincture, close, close in, compass, confine, contain, container, coop, coop in, coop up, copper, cordon, cordon off, corral, court, courtyard, creamery, curtilage, dairy, defense plant, delimited field, dime, distillery, dockyard, dollar, dollar bill, encircle, enclave, enclose, enclosure, encompass, enshrine, factory, factory belt, factory district, feeder plant, fence in, field, fifty cents, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, flour mill, fold, four bits, frogskin, grand, ground, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, hedge in, hem in, house in, hundred-dollar bill, impound, imprison, incarcerate, include, industrial park, industrial zone, iron man, jail, kennel, kilo, kilocycle, kilogram, kilohertz, kiloliter, kilometer, lakh, leaguer, list, main plant, manufactory, manufacturing plant, manufacturing quarter, mew, mew up, mill, millennium, millepede, milligram, milliliter, mint, munitions plant, myriad, nickel, oil refinery, one hundred thousand, packing house, pale, paling, park, pen, pen in, penny, plant, pocket, pottery, power plant, production line, push-button plant, quad, quadrangle, quarantine, quarter, rail in, red cent, refinery, sawbuck, sawmill, shipyard, shrine, shut in, shut up, silver dollar, skin, smacker, square, stable, subassembly plant, sugar refinery, surround, tannery, ten cents, ten thousand, ten-spot, tenner, theater, thou, thousand, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, toft, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, wall in, winery, wrap, yard up, yards

• yardman, baggage man, bakehead, brakeman, brakie, butcher, conductor, dispatcher, fireman, footplate man, guard, lineman, porter, railroad man, railroader, redcap, smoke agent, stationmaster, stoker, switchman, trainboy, trainman, trainmaster, yardmaster

• yardstick, barometer, basis, benchmark, canon, check, criterion, degree, exemplar, gauge, graduated scale, measure, model, norm, parameter, pattern, quantity, reading, readout, rule, scale, standard, test, touchstone, type, value

• yarn, account, anecdotage, anecdote, belly laugh, blague, blue story, braid, brail, cable, causerie, chat, chin, chronicle, cock-and-bull story, colloque, cord, dirty joke, dirty story, double entendre, epic, epos, ethnic joke, exaggeration, fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, farfetched story, farrago, fib, fiction, fish story, flam, flimflam, fun, funny story, gag, ghost story, good one, good story, half-truth, howler, jape, jest, jestbook, joke, laugh, legal fiction, lie, ligament, ligation, ligature, line, little white lie, mendacity, narration, narrative, panic, pious fiction, play, point, prevarication, prose, rap, rib tickler, riot, rope, saga, scream, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, slight stretching, sport, spun yarn, story, strand, string, tale, talk, tall story, tall tale, taradiddle, tendon, thong, thread, trumped-up story, twine, twist, untruth, visit, visual joke, wheeze, white lie, whopper, wire, wow

• yaw, aberrancy, aberration, about ship, back and fill, bank, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bias, box off, branching off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change course, change the heading, circuitousness, come about, corner, crab, crook, curve, declination, deflection, departure, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, digression, dip, discursion, divagation, divarication, divergence, diversion, dogleg, double, double a point, drift, drift off course, drifting, drive, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fall down, feather, fetch about, fetch away, fishtail, flounder, gape, go about, gybe, hairpin, heave, heave round, hobbyhorse, horizontal axis, indirection, jibe, jibe all standing, loop, lurch, make heavy weather, make leeway, miss stays, obliquity, pay off, pererration, pitch, pitch and toss, plow, plunge, ply, porpoise, pound, pull out, pull up, push down, put about, put back, rambling, rear, reel, rock, roll, round a point, sag, scend, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sideslip, skew, skid, slant, slew, spin, spiral, straying, stunt, swag, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swing, swing round, swing the stern, swinging, tack, throw about, tilt, tilter, toss, toss and tumble, tumble, turn, turn back, turning, twist, undulate, variation, veer, wallow, wandering, warp, wear, wear ship, welter, wind, yaw off, zigzag

• yawn, aperture, boredom, broaching, cavity, chasm, check, clearing, cleft, crack, dehisce, dehiscence, disclosure, doldrums, doze, drowse, ennui, fenestra, fistula, fontanel, foramen, gap, gape, gaping, gat, gulf, hang open, hiatus, hole, hollow, inlet, interval, lacuna, laying open, leak, nap, opening, opening up, orifice, oscitancy, oscitate, oscitation, outlet, pandiculation, passageway, pore, slot, snooze, space, split, stoma, the gapes, throwing open, uncorking, unstopping, yaw, yawning

• yawning, abysmal, abyssal, agape, ajar, anesthetized, bottomless, cataleptic, cavernous, comatose, deep as hell, dehiscence, dehiscent, doped, doziness, dozy, dreamy, drowsiness, drowsy, drugged, drugged with sleep, fathomless, gape, gaping, half asleep, heaviness, heavy, heavy with sleep, heavy-eyed, in a stupor, languid, languor, lethargic, lethargy, napping, narcoleptic, narcose, narcotized, narcous, nodding, openmouthed, oscitancy, oscitant, oscitation, out of it, pandiculation, plumbless, plunging, ringent, sedated, slack-jawed, sleep-drowned, sleep-drunk, sleep-filled, sleep-swollen, sleepful, sleepiness, sleepy, slumberous, slumbery, snoozy, somnolence, somnolency, somnolent, soporific, soundless, stretching, stretchy, stuporose, stuporous, the gapes, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, without bottom, yawn, yawny

• yawp, bark, battle cry, bawl, bay, beef, bell, bellow, bellyache, bitch, blare, blat, blate, bleat, blow off, blubber, boom, bray, breathe, buzz, cackle, call, caterwaul, caw, chant, cheer, chirp, coo, crab, crow, cry, cry out, dolorous tirade, drawl, exclaim, flute, fuss, gasp, give tongue, give voice, groan, growl, grunt, hail, halloo, hiss, holler, hollo, hoot, howl, hurrah, jeremiad, keen, lament, lilt, low, make an outcry, meow, mew, mewl, miaow, moan, moo, mumble, murmur, mutter, neigh, nicker, outcry, pant, pipe, plaint, planctus, pule, rallying cry, roar, rumble, screak, scream, screech, shout, shriek, sibilate, sigh, sing, snap, snarl, snort, sob, squall, squawk, squeak, squeal, thunder, tirade, troat, trumpet, twang, ululate, ululation, wail, wail of woe, war cry, war whoop, warble, whicker, whimper, whine, whinny, whisper, whoop, yammer, yap, yawl, yell, yelp, yip, yo-ho, yowl