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venereal disease. gonorrhea, clap; syphilis.
venereal sore. chancre, chancroid (soft chancre).
venery, n. amorousness, amativeness; s.e.xual intercourse, coition.
vengeance, n. retribution, avengement, revenge; Nemesis, retaliation.
a.s.sociated Word: wreak.
venial, a. pardonable. Antonyms: See unpardonable.
vent, n. airhole, aperture, venthole; touchhole; spiracle blowhole; outlet, emission, escape.
vent, v. emit, utter, say, discharge.
venthole, n. touchhole, vent, bung, orifice, spiracle.
ventriloquism, n. ventriloquy, gastriloquy.
ventriloquist, n. gastriloquist, polyphonist.
venture, n. chance, risk, hazard, contingency.
venture, v. dare, hazard, risk.
venturesome, a. daring, bold, intrepid, undaunted, temerarious.
Venus, n. Aphrodite, Cytherea; Morning Star, Lucifer Phosphor; Evening Star, Hesper, Hesperus.
veracious, a. truthful.
veracity, n. truthfulness. a.s.sociated Words: compurgation, compurgator, compurgatorial.
veranda, n. porch, piazza.
verbal, a. oral.
verbiage, n. wordiness, verbosity, perissology, prolixity, pleonasm.
verdant, a. See green.
verdict, n. finding, decision.
verification, n. confirmation, corroboration, authentication, attestation, proof.
verify, v. corroborate, confirm, attest, authenticate, prove.
vermifuge, n. anthelmintic, helminthagogue.
verse, n. st.i.tch; poetry, versification; stanza, stave, staff, text; l'envoi.
versed, a. acquainted, skilled, proficient, conversant.
versification, n. orthometry.
version, n. rendition, translation.
vertex, n. apex, top, summit, crown, zenith.
vertical, a. upright, perpendicular, plumb. Antonyms: horizontal, flat, level.
very, a. veritable, true, real, actual, unquestionable, identical, same, selfsame.
very, adv. exceedingly, highly, greatly, extremely, excessively, surpa.s.singly.
vessel, n. dish, utensil, receptacle; boat, s.h.i.+p; duct, ca.n.a.l, tube.
vest, n. waistcoat.
vest, v. invest.
vestibule, n. hall, antechamber, lobby.
vestige, n. trace, sign, mark.
vestments, n. pl. canonicals (priestly garments); pontificals; ca.s.sock, cotta (choir vestments). a.s.sociated Words: vested, vestiarian, vestiary, vestry.
vestry, n. vestry-room, sacristy.
veterinarian, n. veterinary surgeon, horse doctor, farrier, horse leech.
veterinary art. farriery.
veterinary surgeon. veterinarian, farrier.
vex, v. tease, plague, hara.s.s, torment, tantalize, hector, annoy, irritate, trouble, bother, distress.
vexation, n. discomfiture, irritation, chagrin, mortification, annoyance.
vexatious, a. annoying, troublesome, carking, irritating, provoking, aggravating, afflictive, burdensome, anxious.
vibrate, v. brandish, flourish, swing; oscillate, librate; quiver, shake; fluctuate, vacillate.
vibration, n. oscillation, swinging, vacillation, libration.
vibratory, a. vibratile, oscillatory, swinging, fluctuating, oscillating, libratory.
vicar, n. deputy, lieutenant, vicegerent.
