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warfare, n. war, hostilities; crusade, struggle, strife, militancy.
war-horse, n. charger; Bucephalus.
warlike, a. military, martial, belligerent, bellicose.
warm, a. lukewarm, tepid, thermal; zealous, ardent, fervent, sanguine, fervid, glowing, eager, enthusiastic; temperate, genial; irascible, choleric, irritable, peppery, fiery; vehement, violent, heated, pa.s.sionate, animated, spirited; sultry, muggy; incalescent.
warm, v. heat.
warm-blooded, a. h.o.m.othermous, h.o.m.oiothermal.
warmed over. _rechauffe_.
warm room of Roman baths. tepidarium.
warmth, n. heat; ardor, fervor, pa.s.sion, earnestness, fervency, cordiality, vehemence, enthusiasm, zeal, empress.e.m.e.nt.
warn, v. admonish, caution, notify, premonish, apprise, advise, forewarn, signal.
warner, n. admonisher, monitor, sentinel, sentry, mentor.
warning, a. cautioning, monitory, mentorial, monitorial, ominous, admonitory, admonis.h.i.+ng.
warning, n. premonition, forewarning; caution, admonition, monition; portent, omen, beacon.
warp, v. twist, bend, bulge; pervert, distort, bias.
warped, a. twisted, bent, bulging, protuberant, distorted.
warp thread. stamen.
warrant, v. guarantee, a.s.sure, insure; justify, defend; affirm, attest, vouch.
warrant, n. commission, authority; guaranty, surety; voucher, attestation.
warrantable, a. justifiable, defensible.
warranty, n. guaranty, guarantee, security, warrant.
wart, n. excrescence, ecphyma, verruca; condyloma (venereal wart).
a.s.sociated Word: catheretic.
warty, a. excrescent, verrucose, verruciform.
wary, a. guarded, cautious, circ.u.mspect, careful, vigilant.
wash, v. lave, bathe, absterge, foment, rinse; launder.
wash, n. lotion.
washbowl, n. lavatory, washbasin, laver.
washerwoman, n. laundress.
washhouse, n. laundry.
was.h.i.+ng, n. ablution, bath, bathing, lavement; abstersion, detersion, fomentation; laundering, laundry.
was.h.i.+ng away. detergent, abluent.
was.h.i.+ng soda. sodium carbonate.
washstand, n. commode.
wasp, n. a.s.sociated Words: vespid, vespiform, vespine, vespoid.
waspish, a. irascible, irritable, snappish, touchy, petulant.
wasp nest. vespiary.
waste, v. squander, misspend, fritter away, dissipate, dawdle; desolate, devastate, despoil, sack, pillage, ravage, strip; decline, decay, pine, wither, dwindle, molder.
waste, a. refuse, rejected, unused, unproductive, untilled, inarable, worthless; desolate, devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged; superfluous, exuberant, unnecessary; excrement.i.tious.
waste, n. wasting, squandering, dissipation, decrement, prodigality; wilderness, wild, desert; remnants, offal, recrement, garbage, refuse, rubbish; desolation, devastation rapine, ravage, havoc, destruction, sacking, pillage, despoliation.
wasteful, a. extravagant, prodigal, unthrifty, improvident infrugal, lavish, thriftless.
waster, n. spendthrift, prodigal, squanderer.
wasting, n. squandering, dissipation, prodigality, improvidence; emaciation, decline.
watch, n. vigil, outlook, attention; watcher, patrol, watchman, sentry, perdue, picket, guard, sentinel, vedette, guardsman, Argus.
watch, n. horologe.
watch, v. keep vigil, be on the lookout, keep guard.
watchful, a. vigilant, heedful, attentive, alert, circ.u.mspect wary, Argus-eyed.
watchfulness, n. vigilance, circ.u.mspection, wariness, heedfulness.
watching, n. vigil, vigilance; espionage, surveillance.
watchmaker, n. horologer, horologist.
watchmaking, n. horology, horography.
