Putnam's Word Book - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
worthless, a. valueless, good-for-nothing, futile, trashy, unworthy, trumpery, scurvy, contemptible.
worthy, a. meritorious, excellent, estimable, deserving, reputable, exemplary, upright.
would-be, a. self-styled, _soi-disant_, presumptuous.
wound, n. hurt, injury, scath, lesion, trauma; traumatism.
a.s.sociated Words: vulnerable, vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, vulnerary, vulnific, sanies, sanious, pledget, spleget, dossil, ichor, probe, antiseptic, inviolable, violable, tent, autoplasty.
wound, v. injure, scath, hurt, maim, disable.
wrangle, n. altercation, dispute, squabble, brawl, bickering, quarrel.
wrangle, v. altercate, dispute, squabble, bicker, quarrel.
wrangler, n. disputant.
wrap, v. infold, swathe, bem.u.f.fle, envelop, m.u.f.fle, swaddle.
wrapper, n. house-dress; negligee, kimono, peignoir; envelope, wrap, covering, capsule; tillot.
wrath, n. See anger.
wreath, n. garland, chaplet, festoon, crown.
wreck, n. desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris, derelict.
wreck, v. demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo, raze.
wrest, v. wrench, wring, extort; distort, pervert, garble, falsify, misconstrue.
wretch, n. outcast, pariah, pilgarlic, vagabond, knave, rogue, scoundrel, caitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rake, scullion, poltroon, varlet, ronion, libertine, blackguard, cullion, bezonian.
wretched, a. miserable, unhappy; contemptible, abject, despicable, paltry.
wring, v. writhe, squeeze, pinch; distort, pervert, wrest, exact, extort.
wrinkle, n. corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle, ruck; (Colloq.) notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey; pl. crow's feet.
wrinkle, v. rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, c.o.c.kle, ruck, crumple.
wrinkled, a. corrugated, rumpled, puckered, c.o.c.kled, creased, rugous.
wrist, n. carpus. a.s.sociated Words: carpal, carpale.
write, v. inscribe, indite; superscribe (write on the top or outside of anything); subscribe.
writer, n. scribe, scrivener, penman, secretary, amanuensis, correspondent, essayist, clerk, copyist, author, hack, calligrapher.
writing, n. handwriting, chirography, penmans.h.i.+p, hand, calligraphy; doc.u.ment, writ, indenture, debenture, certificate, charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription. a.s.sociated Words: graphology, agraphia, graphomania, _cacoethes scribendi_, cursive, uncial, clerical, stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.
writing-desk, n. secretary, escritoire.
writing-room, n. scriptorium.
written above. superscript, suprascript.
written under. subscript, subscribed.
wrong, a. immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, evil, improper, criminal, vicious, unjust, contraband, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy, reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, mistaken, untrue, false, inaccurate, inexact, incorrect; inappropriate, unsuitable; reverse.
wrong, n. injustice, inequity, oppression, disservice, trespa.s.s, transgression, injury, tort, offense, grievance, detriment; error, falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt, misdoing, malpractice, offense, delinquency, peccancy, dereliction, mischief, obliquity, misdemeanor.--adv. amiss, erroneously.
wrong, v. cheat, d.a.m.nify, defraud, maltreat, abuse.
wrong-doer, n. sinner, criminal, culprit, delinquent, offender, malefactor, transgressor, miscreant, profligate, pervert, crook, prevaricator.
wrong-doing, n. misdemeanor, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, dereliction, iniquity, sin, immorality, wickedness, indiscretion, prevarication, chicanery, delinquency, transgression, graft, malfaction, demerit, default.
wrong-timed, a. ill-timed, inopportune, unseasonable.
wrought, a. worked, elaborated, finished.
wrought up. excited, perturbed, distracted, discomposed, agitated.
wry, a. twisted, distorted, awry; wrested, perverted.
wryneck, n. torticollis.
X
X-ray, n. the Rontgen ray. a.s.sociated Words: fluoroscope, fluoroscopy, cryptoscopy, cryptoscope.
Y
Y. a.s.sociated Words: ypsiloid, ypsiliform.
yank, n. (Colloq.) pull, jerk, twitch.--v. pull, jerk, twitch, s.n.a.t.c.h.
yap, n. bark, yelp.
yard, n. three feet; enclosure, court, area, garth, courtyard, quadrangle, curtilage (Law).
