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vision, n. sight; apparition, dream, phantasm, specter, phantom, hallucination, illusion.
visionary, a. dreamy, imaginative, romantic, fanciful, illusory, chimerical, Utopian.
visionary, n. castle-builder, dreamer, illusionist.
visitor, n. guest. Antonym: host.
vitiate, v. debase, corrupt, demoralize, contaminate, deprave, spoil.
vitiation, n. debas.e.m.e.nt, corruption, demoralization, depravation, contamination.
vixen, n. virago, scold, shrew, termagant, Tartar, Xantippe, spitfire.
voice, n. utterance, speech; vote, choice, election, suffrage.
a.s.sociated Words: phonology, phonetics, phonation, phonography, oral, vocal, non-vocal, aphonic, arsis, ictus, vocalize, modulate, modulation, inflection.
void, a. vacant, empty, vacuous; dest.i.tute, devoid, lacking; ineffectual, invalid, nugatory, vain.
void, v. evacuate, eject, discharge, egest, pa.s.s; nullify, abrogate, annul.
voidance, n. evacuation, discharge, egestion.
volatile, a. See changeable.
volcano, n. a.s.sociated Words: crater, lapilli, lava, scoria, obsidian, volcanic, eruption, belch.
volley, n. salvo; outpouring, storm, discharge.
voluble, a. glib, fluent, oily, talkative.
volume, n. book, tome; dimensions, compa.s.s, size, bulk, ma.s.s.
voluntary, a. free, volitional, unforced, spontaneous. Antonyms: See involuntary.
volunteer, n. Antonym: conscript.
voluptuary, n. sensualist, epicure, sybarite, _bon vivant_.
Antonym: ascetic.
voluptuous, a. sensual, epicurean, sybaritic. Antonyms: ascetic, abstemious, austere.
vomit, v. puke; spew, emit, belch, disgorge, eject.
vomiting, n. emesis, vomition, puking, spew. a.s.sociated Words: emetic, antemetic, qualmish, gag, retch, nausea, nauseate.
voracious, a. rapacious, ravenous, insatiable, fierce, gluttonous, cormorant.
voracity, n. rapacity, voraciousness, greediness.
votary, n. devotee, votarist.
vote, n. suffrage; ballot, ticket; referendum, plebiscite.
a.s.sociated Words: enfranchise, enfranchis.e.m.e.nt, disenfranchise, disenfranchis.e.m.e.nt, suffragist, elect, election electoral, electorate, acclamation, franchise, poll.
vote, v. (Colloq.) declare.
voter, n. elector, suffragist.
voters, n. pl. electorate.
voting place. poll.
vouch, v. attest, corroborate, warrant.
voucher, n. attestator.
vow, n. pledge. a.s.sociated Words: votary, votive.
vowel, n. a.s.sociated Words: macron, breve, diaeresis.
vulgar, a. unrefined, plebeian, ign.o.ble, low-born, coa.r.s.e, inelegant, ribald, risque, broad, gross. Antonyms: refined, dainty, pure, chaste.
vulgarity, n. unrefinement, dowdiness.
vulgar-looking, a. dowdy.
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Wabble, v. stagger, vacillate, reel.
waddle, v. toddle, totter.
wade, v. ford.
wading birds. Grallatores, Grallae.
wading place. ford.
wage, v. stake, bet, wager.
wager, v. bet, stake, pledge, hazard, speculate.
wages, n. compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary.
