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yarn, n. worsted, warp, abb, spinel. a.s.sociated Word: skein.
yawn, v. gape, oscitate.
yawn, n. gape, gaping, yawning, oscitation, oscitancy.
yawning, a. gaping, oscitant.
yearbook, n. annual.
yearly, a. annual, anniversary.--adv. annually.
yearn, v. long, desire, hanker after, pine.
yearning, n. longing, hankering, pining.
yeast, n. harm, leaven, ferment.
yeasty, a. barmy.
yell, n. outcry, scream, shriek, howl, yowl, vociferation.
yell, v. scream, shriek, screech, bawl, howl, yowl, vociferate, hoot.
yellow, a. golden, sallow, tawny, ecru, amber, fallow, fulvous, croconic, jaundiced, fulvid, buff, luteous, saffron, ocherous, lurid.
yellowbird, n. goldfinch.
yellow race. Mongols, Mongolians.
yellows, n. jaundice; jeterus.
yelp, n. bark, yap, yaup.
yes, adv. yea, aye, ay.--n. affirmative, consent.
yield, v. produce, pay, return; submit, surrender, succ.u.mb, give up, capitulate; resign, relinquish, cede, forego, waive; concede, admit, grant, allow. Antonyms: resist, retain, withhold, refuse, withstand.
yield, n. product, crop, harvest.
yielding, n. production, bearing, surrender, relinquishment, submission, compliance, acquiescence, succ.u.mbing.
yielding, a. compliant, tractable, submissive, amenable, unresisting, docile, indulgent, irresolute, facile; plastic, fictile, pliant, flexible.
Antonyms: See unyielding.
yoke, n. oxbow and bar, crosspiece; team, span, pair, couple; bond, link, chain, coupling.
yoke, v. couple, join, unite, link, hitch together; subject, enslave.
yokel, n. b.u.mpkin, boor, rustic.
yolk, n. yelk, vitellus, oviplasma.
young, a. juvenile, youthful, immature, adolescent.
young, n. offspring. a.s.sociated Words: beget, prolific, fecundity, procreation, fetus, brood, generation, fetiferous, pregnant, pregnancy.
younger, a. junior.
youngest born. a.s.sociated Word: postremogeniture.
youth, n. juvenility, youthfulness; adolescence, teens, minority, nonage, juniority; young man, lad, boy, stipling, cadet, minor, juvenile, adolescent. a.s.sociated Words: rejuvenescence, rejuvenation, rejuvenate, rejuvenescent, rejuvenating, juvenescence, juvenescent.
youthful, a. immature, juvenile, adolescent, boyish. Antonyms: adult, manly, mature.
Z
Z. izzard, zed.
zany, n. jester, buffoon, clown, harlequin, merry-an-drew.
zanyism, n. harlequinism, buffoonery, clownishness.
zeal, n. fervor, ardor, zealotry, intensity, pa.s.sion, devotion, devotedness.
zealot, n. enthusiast, partisan, devotee, fanatic.
zealous, a. ardent, eager, strenuous, fervent, pa.s.sionate, intense, devoted, impa.s.sioned.
zenith, n. culmination, pinnacle, acme, summit, apex. Antonym: nadir.
zero, n. cipher, nothing, naught.
zest, n. relish, flavor, taste; enjoyment, relish, gusto.
zinc, n. spelter.
zip, n. hissing, sibilance, sibilation.--v. hiss, sibilate.
zone, n. clime, region; girdle, belt, band, girth.
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