Appendix:Moby Thesaurus II/94

valve

• valve, aerophone, ball cock, ball valve, bell, bung, bunghole, check valve, cock, cork, discharge tube, double reed, drain cock, draw cock, embouchure, faucet, gate, horn, key, lid, lip, mouthpiece, needle valve, peg, petcock, pin, pipe, plug, radio tube, reed, sea cock, slide, spigot, spike, spile, spill, stop, stopcock, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tap, tooter, tube, vacuum tube, valvula, valvule, wind, wind instrument

vamoose

• vamoose, be off, beat it, begone, blow, clear out, decamp, dog it, duck and run, duck out, flake off, get, get going, get lost, get out, git, hightail, hit the road, kite, lam, make yourself scarce, scram, shove off, skedaddle, skin out, split, take a powder, take off

vamp

• vamp, Aspasia, Circe, Delilah, Don Juan, Jezebel, Lorelei, Messalina, Parthenope, Phryne, Siren, Thais, Vorspiel, ad-lib, adventuress, allure, attract, becharm, beguile, bewitch, brighten up, brush up, cadenza, captivate, captive, carry away, cast a spell, catch, charm, charmer, concert overture, conquest, cook up, coquette, courtesan, curtain raiser, dash off, date, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, descant, do offhand, do up, dramatic overture, draw on, enamor, enchant, enchanter, enchantress, endear, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, enticer, entrance, extempore, extemporize, fake, fascinate, femme fatale, fire brigade, fire department, fire fighter, fire warden, fire-chaser, fire-eater, fireman, fix, fix up, flirt, flourish, forest fire fighter, freshen, furbish, furbish up, gold, gold digger, harem girl, hetaera, hold in thrall, honey, hot lick, houri, hypnotize, impromptu, improvisate, improvisation, improvise, infatuate, inflame with love, interpolation, intrigue, introduction, inveigler, jury-rig, knock off, lash up, lick, make up, mesmerize, odalisque, operatic overture, overhaul, overture, patch, play by ear, polish, polish up, prelude, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, refurbish, renovate, repair, retouch, revamp, revive, riff, rub up, scrap the plan, seduce, seducer, seductress, shine, siren, smokechaser, smokejumper, spell, spellbind, spruce, spruce up, steady, strike off, strumpet, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, tantalize, teaser, tempt, tempter, temptress, throw off, throw together, tone up, toss off, toss out, touch up, transport, vamp up, vampire, voluntary, volunteer fireman, whip up, whomp up, whore, wing it, witch

vampire

• vampire, Aspasia, Baba Yaga, Circe, Delilah, Don Juan, Dracula, Euryale, Frankenstein, Gorgon, Jezebel, Lilith, Lorelei, Medea, Medusa, Messalina, Parthenope, Phryne, Siren, Stheno, Thais, Wolf-man, adventuress, afreet, ape-man, barghest, bewitcher, blackmailer, bloodsucker, bogey, bogeyman, bugaboo, bugbear, cacodemon, captive, catch, charmer, conquest, coquette, courtesan, daeva, date, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, demon, devil, devil incarnate, dybbuk, enchanter, enchantress, enticer, evil genius, evil spirit, extortionist, fee-faw-fum, femme fatale, fiend, fiend from hell, flirt, frightener, genie, genius, ghost, ghoul, gyre, harem girl, harpy, hellhound, hellion, hellkite, hetaera, hobgoblin, holy terror, honey, horror, houri, incubus, inveigler, jinni, jinniyeh, lamia, leech, monster, nightmare, odalisque, ogre, ogress, phantom, predator, profiteer, racketeer, rakshasa, raptor, revenant, satan, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, seducer, seductress, shakedown artist, shark, shedu, siren, specter, spellbinder, steady, succubus, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, teaser, tempter, temptress, terror, the undead, vamp, vulture, werewolf, yogini

van

• van, Conestoga wagon, Pullman, Pullman car, advance guard, airhead, anteposition, armed guard, avant-garde, baggage car, bank guard, battle line, beachhead, boxcar, bridgehead, caboose, car, caravan, carriage, chair car, coach, coal car, coast guard, cordon, cordon sanitaire, covered waggon, covered wagon, day coach, diner, dinghy, dining car, drawing room, dray, farthest outpost, first line, flat, flatcar, forefront, foregoing, front, front line, front rank, front-runner, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, gondola, guard, guarder, guardsman, haywagon, heading, inlying picket, jailer, le pas, leading, line, local, luggage van, mail car, mail van, outguard, outpost, palace car, parlor car, passenger car, picket, pioneer, point, prairie schooner, precedence, preceding, precursor, priority, railhead, railway car, rear guard, reefer, refrigerator car, roomette, scout, security guard, sleeper, smoker, smoking car, spearhead, stockcar, tank, tender, the lead, train guard, truck, vanguard, waggon, wagon, wain, warder

vandal

• vandal, animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, hoodlum, hooligan, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, lout, man-eater, nihilist, pillager, plunderer, ravager, ruffian, ruiner, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, wild man, wrecker

vandalism

• vandalism, acuteness, animality, atrociousness, atrocity, badness, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bloodbath, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, blue ruin, breakup, brutality, brutalness, brutishness, cannibalism, carnage, consumption, cruelness, cruelty, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, devastation, discourtesy, disintegration, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disorganization, disruption, disruptiveness, dissolution, extremity, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, force, frowned-upon behavior, furiousness, harshness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, hooliganism, horseplay, impetuosity, impropriety, inclemency, inhumaneness, inhumanity, intensity, malignity, mercilessness, mindlessness, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdoing, murderousness, naughtiness, nonsanctioned behavior, perdition, pitilessness, ravage, rigor, roughhouse, roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, ruin, ruination, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, severity, shambles, sharpness, slaughter, spoliation, terrorism, truculence, undoing, ungentleness, vehemence, venial sin, venom, vice, viciousness, violence, virulence, wanton cruelty, waste, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck, wrongdoing

vandalize

• vandalize, assault, attack, barbarize, batter, bring to ruin, brutalize, burn, butcher, carry on, condemn, confound, consume, damn, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, dissolve, engorge, go on, gobble, gobble up, gut, gut with fire, hammer, havoc, incinerate, lay in ruins, lay waste, loot, maul, mug, pillage, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, riot, rip off, roar, ruin, ruinate, sack, savage, shipwreck, slaughter, sow chaos, storm, swallow up, tear, tear around, tear up, terrorize, throw into disorder, trash, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vaporize, violate, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

vanguard

• vanguard, advance guard, airhead, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, armed guard, avant-garde, bank guard, battle line, beachhead, bellwether, bridgehead, buccinator, bushwhacker, coast guard, cordon, cordon sanitaire, explorer, farthest outpost, first line, forebear, forefront, foregoer, forerunner, front, front line, front rank, front runner, front-runner, frontiersman, fugleman, garrison, goalie, goalkeeper, goaltender, groundbreaker, guard, guarder, guardsman, guide, harbinger, herald, inlying picket, innovation, innovator, jailer, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, lead runner, leader, line, messenger, new look, newfangled device, novelty, outguard, outpost, pathfinder, picket, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, railhead, rear guard, scout, security guard, spearhead, stormy petrel, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, trailblazer, trailbreaker, train guard, van, vaunt-courier, voortrekker, warder

vanish

• vanish, abandon, abscond, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, beat a retreat, bow out, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, clear, come to naught, come to nothing, conk out, dematerialize, depart, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dwindle, end, erode, evacuate, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, flee, fleet, flit, fly, go, go away, hide, leave no trace, leave the scene, melt, melt away, melt like snow, pass, pass away, pass out, peg out, perish, peter out, quit, remove, retire, retire from sight, retreat, run out, sink, sink away, succumb, suffer an eclipse, vacate, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away, withdraw

vanished

• vanished, absconded, absent, ago, all gone, annihilated, antiquated, antique, away, blown over, by, bygone, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, deleted, departed, disappeared, done for, down the drain, elapsed, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, had it, has-been, irrecoverable, kaput, kaputt, lacking, lapsed, lost, missing, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, obsolete, omitted, out of sight, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, perished, run out, subtracted, taken away, wanting, wound up

vanishing

• vanishing, blackout, blocking, dematerialization, departure, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, fleeting, flying, fugitive, going, melting, occultation, passing, transient, vanishing point, wipe

vanity case

• vanity case, base, clown white, cold cream, compact, cosmetics, drugstore complexion, eye shadow, eyebrow pencil, foundation, foundation cream, greasepaint, hand cream, hand lotion, lip rouge, lipstick, makeup, mascara, mudpack, nail polish, paint, powder, powder puff, puff, rouge, talcum, talcum powder, vanishing cream, war paint

vanity

• vanity, absurdity, aimlessness, amour propre, arrogance, autotheism, big deal, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bootlessness, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, bravado, cockiness, conceit, conceitedness, egotism, emptiness, face, fanfaronade, fatuity, fecklessness, flimsiness, folly, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, fruitlessness, futility, gasconade, gasconism, haughtiness, heroics, hollowness, idleness, impotence, inanity, independence, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, jactation, jactitation, levity, lightness, meaninglessness, narcissism, nugacity, otiosity, pardonable pride, pointlessness, pride, pridefulness, profitlessness, proudness, purposelessness, purse-pride, rat race, rodomontade, self-admiration, self-conceit, self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-importance, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-worship, shallowness, side, silliness, slenderness, slightness, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, superficiality, swagger, the absurd, triflingness, triteness, triviality, trivialness, unproductiveness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unreality, uselessness, vacuity, vacuousness, vainglory, vainness, valuelessness, vapidity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, vicious circle, worthlessness

vanquish

• vanquish, bear down, beat down, bend, break, conquer, crush, defeat, fell, flatten, humble, master, overpower, override, overturn, prostrate, put down, quell, reduce, ride down, smash, subdue, subjugate, subvert, suppress, surmount, trample, trample down, trample underfoot, tread underfoot

vanquisher

• vanquisher, champ, champion, conquering hero, conqueror, conquistador, defeater, easy winner, hero, master, pancratiast, runner-up, shoo-in, subduer, subjugator, sure winner, top dog, triumpher, victor, winner

vantage

• vantage, advantage, allowance, ambit, angle, angle of vision, bailiwick, bulge, coign of vantage, constituency, deadwood, draw, drop, edge, flying start, footing, handicap, head start, inside track, jump, mental outlook, odds, orbit, outlook, point of view, running start, something extra, something in reserve, sphere of influence, stamping ground, standpoint, start, territory, turf, upper hand, vantage ground, vantage point, viewpoint, whip hand

vapid

• vapid, airy, arid, asinine, barren, betwixt and between, blah, bland, blank, bloodless, boring, catchpenny, changeable, characterless, cold, colorless, common, commonplace, dead, dilute, diluted, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary, driveling, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty, empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled, etiolated, fade, fair, fair to middling, fairish, fatuous, flat, flavorless, flimsy, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, futile, gruelly, halfhearted, heavy, ho-hum, hollow, humdrum, idle, inane, indecisive, indifferent, inexcitable, infirm of purpose, infirm of will, innocuous, insipid, irresolute, jejune, lackluster, leaden, lifeless, light, low-spirited, matter-of-fact, mediocre, medium, middling, mild, milk-and-water, milky, moderate, modest, mundane, mushy, namby-pamby, neutral, nugacious, nugatory, of a kind, of a sort, of sorts, ordinary, otiose, pale, pallid, pappy, passable, pedestrian, plain, plodding, poetryless, pointless, poky, ponderous, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pulpy, rattlebrained, rattleheaded, respectable, sapless, savorless, scatterbrained, shallow, silly, slender, slight, slow, so-so, solemn, spiceless, spiritless, stale, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stuffy, superficial, tame, tasteless, tedious, thin, tiresome, tolerable, trifling, trite, trivial, unembellished, unflavored, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimpassioned, uninteresting, unlively, unpalatable, unpoetic, unromantic, unsavory, vacant, vacuous, vain, washy, watered, watered-down, watery, weak, wearisome, wearying, windy, wishy-washy, wooden

vapor trail

• vapor trail, backwash, condensation trail, contrail, course, exhaust, line, path, piste, scent, signs, spoor, stream, traces, track, trail, vortex, wake, wash

vapor

• vapor, Barnumize, London fog, London special, Old Faithful, air, airy nothing, apparition, autism, babble, blabber, blather, blow, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, boast, boiling water, bombast, bounce, brag, brainchild, breathe out, bubble, bull, bullshit, bully, chimera, cloud, daydream, deception, delirium, deluded belief, delusion, depression, dereism, distemper, draw the longbow, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, drisk, drivel, drizzling mist, drool, eidolon, emit, ether, evacuate, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expire, false belief, fancy, fantasque, fantasy, fiction, figment, film, flourish, fog, frost smoke, fume, gabble, gas, gasconade, gauze, geyser, gibber, gibble-gabble, give off, give out, give vent to, hallucination, haze, hector, hot spring, hot water, hypochondria, hysteria, idle fancy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imagery, imagination, imagining, inflate, insubstantial image, intimidate, invention, jabber, lay it on, let out, maggot, make-believe, misbelief, misconception, mist, morbidity, myth, nervousness, open the floodgates, open the sluices, out-herod Herod, pea soup, pea-soup fog, peasouper, phantasm, phantom, piffle, pile it on, pipe dream, pontificate, prate, prattle, puff, rage, rant, rattle, rave, reek, rheuminess, roister, rollick, romance, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, shadow, sick fancy, slang, smog, smoke, speak for Buncombe, spirit, splutter, sputter, steam, storm, swagger, swashbuckle, talk big, talk highfalutin, talk nonsense, the pip, thermae, thick-coming fancies, thin air, throw off, trick, trip, twaddle, twattle, vaunt, vision, waffle, whim, whimsy, wildest dreams, wrong impression

vaporize

• vaporize, aerate, aerify, atomize, blow to pieces, blow up, brain, bring down, bring to ruin, burn to death, carbonate, chlorinate, condemn, confound, consume, cut down, cut to pieces, damn, deal a deathblow, deal destruction, decimate, depredate, desolate, despoil, destroy, devastate, devour, disintegrate, dissolve, distill, drop, emit, engorge, etherify, etherize, evaporate, exhale, fell, fluidize, fractionate, frag, fume, fumigate, gasify, give off, give the quietus, gobble, gobble up, gun down, gut, gut with fire, havoc, hydrogenate, incinerate, jugulate, lapidate, lay in ruins, lay low, lay waste, oxygenate, perfume, pistol, poleax, ravage, reek, riddle, ruin, ruinate, send out, shipwreck, shoot, shoot down, shoot to death, shotgun, silence, smoke, spray, stab to death, steam, stone, stone to death, strike dead, sublimate, sublime, swallow up, throw into disorder, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, upheave, vandalize, volatilize, waste, wrack, wreak havoc, wreck

vaporous

• vaporous, adulterated, aerial, aerodynamic, aerostatic, aery, air-built, airy, attenuate, attenuated, chimeric, chimerical, cloud-born, cloud-built, cloud-woven, cloudy, cut, dilute, diluted, dreamlike, ethereal, fanciful, fatuitous, fatuous, fine, flimsy, foggy, fuming, fumy, gaseous, gasified, gasiform, gaslike, gassy, gossamery, illusory, imaginary, insubstantial, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, misty, mushy, oxyacetylene, oxygenous, ozonic, phantasmal, phantomlike, pneumatic, rare, rarefied, reeking, reeky, shadowy, slight, smoking, smoky, spirituous, steaming, steamy, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, unreal, unsubstantial, vague, vaporing, vaporish, vaporlike, vapory, watered, watered-down, windy, wispy

vaquero

• vaquero, broncobuster, buckaroo, caballero, cattleman, cavalier, cavalryman, chevalier, circus rider, cowboy, cowgirl, cowhand, cowherd, cowman, cowpuncher, drover, equestrian, equestrienne, gaucho, goatherd, gooseboy, gooseherd, herder, herdsman, hogherd, horse soldier, horse wrangler, horseback rider, horsebacker, horseherd, horseman, horsewoman, jockey, knight, mounted policeman, pigman, postboy, postilion, puncher, rider, roughrider, sheepherder, sheepman, shepherd, shepherdess, steeplechaser, swanherd, swineherd, trick rider, waddy, wrangler

variability

• variability, arrhythmia, brokenness, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, desultoriness, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, eccentricity, erraticism, erraticness, fibrillation, fickleness, fitfulness, fits and starts, flightiness, fluctuation, freakishness, impulsiveness, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, intermittence, irregularity, jerkiness, mercuriality, moodiness, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, patchiness, pluralism, raggedness, restlessness, roughness, shiftiness, spasticity, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unmethodicalness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsystematicness, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, versatility, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, wobble

variable

• variable, able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, adrift, afloat, agnostic, alterable, alterative, alternating, ambiguous, amorphous, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chancy, changeable, changeful, changing, checkered, choppy, desultory, deviable, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dicey, different, disconnected, discontinuous, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, dizzy, doubting, eccentric, equivocal, erose, erratic, ever-changing, fast and loose, fickle, fitful, flexible, flickering, flighty, flitting, fluctuating, fluid, freakish, giddy, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, hesitant, hesitating, heteroclite, immethodical, impermanent, impetuous, impulsive, incalculable, inconsistent, inconstant, indecisive, indemonstrable, infirm, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, irresolute, irresponsible, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, lurching, malleable, many-sided, mazy, mercurial, metamorphic, mobile, modifiable, moody, motley, movable, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, patchy, permutable, plastic, pluralistic, polysemous, protean, proteiform, ragged, rambling, resilient, restless, rough, roving, rubbery, scatterbrained, scrappy, shapeless, shifting, shifty, shuffling, skeptical, slippery, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, spineless, sporadic, spotty, staggering, supple, temperamental, ticklish, touch-and-go, transient, transitory, uncertain, unconfirmable, uncontrolled, unconvinced, undependable, undisciplined, undivinable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unfixed, unforeseeable, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unpersuaded, unpredictable, unprovable, unregular, unreliable, unrestrained, unrhythmical, unsettled, unstable, unstable as water, unstaid, unsteadfast, unsteady, unsure, unsystematic, ununiform, unverifiable, vacillating, vagrant, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, vicissitudinary, vicissitudinous, volatile, wandering, wanton, wavering, wavery, wavy, wayward, whimsical, wishy-washy, wobbling, wobbly

variably

• variably, at irregular intervals, at random, back and forth, brokenly, by catches, by fits, by jerks, by snatches, capriciously, changeably, desultorily, disconnectedly, discontinuously, eccentrically, erratically, fitfully, haltingly, in and out, in snatches, in spots, inconstantly, intermittently, irregularly, jerkily, lurchingly, nonuniformly, off and on, on and off, patchily, roughly, round and round, spasmodically, sporadically, spottily, to and fro, uncertainly, unevenly, unmethodically, unpredictably, unrhythmically, unsteadfastly, unsteadily, unsystematically, waveringly, whimsically, wobblingly

variance

• variance, agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism, apostasy, argument, argumentation, at variance, change, clashing, conflict, contention, contradiction, contrariety, contrast, controversy, counter-culture, cross-purposes, debate, departure, deviation, difference, difference of opinion, difficulty, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disconformity, discongruity, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, discreteness, disharmony, disparity, dispute, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, disunion, disunity, divergence, divergency, diversity, dividedness, division, dropping out, faction, far cry, fluctuation, heterogeneity, in disagreement, in dispute, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jarring, minority opinion, misunderstanding, mixture, negation, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, odds, opposition, oppugnancy, otherness, polarization, quarrel, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, rift, schism, secession, separateness, separation, severing, strife, unconformity, underground, unharmoniousness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, variation, variegation, variety, withdrawal

variant

• variant, altering, alternative, antagonistic, antipathetic, assorted, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, changing, clashing, contradictory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cranky, cross, departing, deviant, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disharmonious, disjoined, disparate, disproportionate, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, grating, heterogeneous, hostile, immiscible, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring, many, modification, motley, multifarious, negative, out of accord, out of whack, poles apart, poles asunder, repugnant, separate, separated, several, unconformable, uncongenial, unequal, unharmonious, unlike, unstable, variable, variation, varied, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

variation

• variation, Nachtmusik, Proteus, aberrancy, aberration, about-face, absolute music, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, altering, alternation, amelioration, anacrusis, analysis, anatomization, apostasy, arrangement, atomization, bass passage, bend, betterment, bias, bourdon, branching off, break, bridge, burden, cadence, capriciousness, chamber music, chamber orchestra, change, change of heart, change of pace, changeability, changeableness, changing, choice, choppiness, chorus, circuitousness, coda, composition, constructive change, continuity, contrariety, contrast, conversion, corner, crook, curve, dappleness, declination, defection, deflection, degeneration, degenerative change, demarcation, departure, descant, desultoriness, desynonymization, deterioration, detour, development, deviability, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, difference, differencing, differentiation, differing, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discrimination, discursion, disequalization, disjunction, disorder, disparity, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, distinguishment, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, dogleg, double, drift, drifting, eccentricity, electronic music, errantry, erraticism, etude, excursion, excursus, exercise, exorbitation, exposition, far cry, fickleness, figure, fitting, flightiness, flip-flop, fluctuation, folderol, freakishness, gradual change, hairpin, harmonic close, harmonization, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, improvement, impulsiveness, inaccordance, incidental music, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, indirection, individualization, individuation, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, instrumental music, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, invention, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, manifoldness, measure, melioration, mercuriality, mitigation, mixture, modification, modifying, modulation, moodiness, motleyness, movement, multifariousness, multiplicity, musical phrase, musical sentence, mutability, mutation, nocturne, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, novelty, obliquity, odds, omnifariousness, omniformity, opposition, opus, orchestration, ornament, oscillation, otherness, overthrow, part, particularization, passage, pendulation, pererration, period, permutation, personalization, phrase, piece, pluralism, polymorphism, production, program music, qualification, radical change, raggedness, rambling, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, refrain, remaking, renewal, reshaping, resolution, response, restlessness, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, ricercar, ritornello, score, section, seesawing, segregation, separateness, separation, severalization, severance, shapeshifter, sheer, shift, shiftiness, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shuffling, skew, slant, sonata, sonatina, specialization, stanza, statement, strain, straying, string orchestra, string quartet, study, sudden change, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, switch, tack, tailpiece, teeter-tottering, teetering, theme and variations, total change, tottering, transition, trio, turn, turnabout, turning, tutti, tutti passage, twist, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unfixedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, upheaval, vacillation, variability, variance, variegation, variety, variousness, varying, veer, versatility, verse, vicissitude, violent change, wandering, wantonness, warp, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, work, worsening, yaw, zigzag

varied

• varied, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibious, assorted, at odds, at variance, blended, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded, conglomerate, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, dappled, departing, deviating, deviative, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, eclectic, equivocal, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, heterogeneous, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, indiscriminate, inharmonious, intricate, ironic, irreconcilable, jumbled, many, many and various, many-sided, medley, mingled, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifaceted, multifarious, multinational, multiracial, of all sorts, patchy, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, promiscuous, scrambled, separate, separated, several, sundry, syncretic, thrown together, unconformable, unequal, unlike, variant, variegated, various, varying, widely apart, worlds apart

variegate

• variegate, band, bar, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blotch, break up, check, checker, dapple, differ, differentiate, dissent, disunify, divaricate, diverge, diversify, dot, flake, fleck, freckle, harlequin, iris, maculate, marble, marbleize, motley, mottle, pepper, polychrome, polychromize, rainbow, relieve, spangle, speck, speckle, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stigmatize, stipple, streak, striate, stripe, stud, tattoo, tessellate, variate, vary, vein

variegated

• variegated, assorted, at odds, at variance, bicolor, bicolored, brindled, calico, capricious, changeable, changing, checked, checkered, choppy, chromatic, cold, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, dichromatic, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discolor, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, divers-colored, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, flecked, freaked, glowing, harlequin, harmonious, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, kaleidoscopic, many, many-colored, marbled, matching, medley, mercurial, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, mottle, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolorous, multifarious, multihued, mutable, nacreous, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, opalescent, opaline, parti-color, parti-colored, piebald, pied, pigmentary, pinto, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, prismal, prismatic, ragged, rainbow, rough, separate, separated, several, shot, shot through, skewbald, spasmodic, spattered, speckled, spectral, sporadic, spotted, stippled, streaked, thunder and lightning, tinctorial, tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored, two-tone, unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varicolored, varied, variform, various, varying, versicolor, versicolored, warm, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

variegation

• variegation, Dalmatian, Proteus, allotropism, allotropy, antigorite, butterfly, candy cane, capriciousness, chameleon, changeability, changeableness, cheetah, choppiness, chrysotile, confetti, contrariety, contrast, crazy quilt, dappleness, departure, deviation, difference, differentiation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disorder, disparity, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversity, far cry, firedog, harlequin, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, iris, irreconcilability, irregularity, jaguar, jerkiness, leopard, mackerel, mackerel sky, manifoldness, marble, marbled paper, mercuriality, mixture, moire, mother-of-pearl, motleyness, multifariousness, multiplicity, mutability, nacre, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, ocelot, odds, omnifariousness, omniformity, opal, ophite, opposition, otherness, patchwork quilt, peacock, pluralism, polymorphism, raggedness, rainbow, separateness, serpentine, serpentine marble, shapeshifter, shot silk, spectrum, tortoise shell, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variance, variation, variety, variousness, versatility, wavering, zebra

variety store

• variety store, boutique, chain store, co-op, concession, cooperative, countinghouse, country store, department store, dime store, discount house, discount store, emporium, establishment, five-and-ten, general store, house, magasin, mail-order house, market, mart, post, retail store, salon, shop, store, supermarket, trading post, variety shop, warehouse, wareroom, wholesale house

variety

• variety, Broadway, Proteus, a certain number, a few, about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, affiliation, allotropism, allotropy, alteration, amelioration, apostasy, assortment, betterment, biotype, blood, body, branch, brand, break, breed, burlesque, capriciousness, cast, category, change, change of heart, changeability, changeableness, character, choice, choppiness, church, circus, clan, class, classification, collectanea, collection, color, communion, community, conglomerate, conglomeration, constructive change, continuity, contrariety, contrast, conversion, dappleness, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, denomination, departure, description, designation, desultoriness, deterioration, deviability, deviation, difference, differentiation, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discontinuity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disorder, disparity, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, diversion, diversity, division, drama, eccentricity, entertainment industry, erraticism, faction, family, far cry, feather, fellowship, fickleness, fitting, flightiness, flip-flop, form, freakishness, genotype, genre, genus, grade, gradual change, grain, group, her infinite variety, heterogeneity, heteromorphism, hodgepodge, ilk, improvement, impulsiveness, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inconstancy, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, instability, irreconcilability, irregularity, jerkiness, kidney, kin, kind, kingdom, label, legit, legitimate stage, line, lot, make, manifoldness, manner, mark, medley, melioration, mercuriality, miscellanea, miscellany, mitigation, mix, mixture, modification, modulation, mold, moodiness, more, motleyness, multifariousness, multiformity, multiplicity, mutability, nature, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, nonuniqueness, number, numerousness, oddments, odds, odds and ends, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, offshoot, omnifariousness, omniformity, omnium-gatherum, opposition, order, organization, otherness, overthrow, party, persuasion, phylum, playland, pluralism, plurality, pluralness, polymorphism, qualification, race, radical change, raggedness, range, rank, re-creation, realignment, redesign, reform, reformation, religious order, remaking, renewal, repertory drama, reshaping, restlessness, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, schism, school, sect, sectarism, section, segment, selection, separateness, series, several, shape, shapeshifter, shift, shiftiness, show biz, show business, society, sort, species, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stamp, stock, strain, strawhat, strawhat circuit, stripe, style, subclass, subfamily, subgenus, subkingdom, suborder, subspecies, subtribe, sudden change, summer stock, sundries, superclass, superfamily, superorder, superspecies, switch, the boards, the footlights, the like of, the likes of, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, total change, transition, tribe, turn, turnabout, type, uncertainty, unconformism, unconformity, undependability, unevenness, unfixedness, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unpredictability, unreliability, unsettledness, unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, upheaval, variability, variance, variation, variegation, variousness, vaudeville, versatility, version, violent change, wantonness, wavering, waywardness, whimsicality, worsening

variform

• variform, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, irregular, jagged, jerky, mercurial, motley, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, pluralistic, ragged, rough, spasmodic, sporadic, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, various, varying, wavering

various

• various, assorted, at odds, at variance, capricious, certain, changeable, changing, choppy, composite, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, individual, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, legion, many, many and various, mercurial, miscellaneous, more, more than one, motley, multifarious, multitudinal, multitudinous, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, not singular, numerous, of all sorts, peculiar, plural, pluralistic, plurative, poles apart, poles asunder, populous, ragged, rough, separate, separated, several, some, spasmodic, sporadic, sundry, unalike, unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, upwards of, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, varying, voluminous, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

varmint

• varmint, amphibian, animal, aquatic, beast, biped, brute, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite, creature, creeping thing, critter, cur, dog, dumb animal, dumb friend, feline, gnawer, herbivore, hound, hyena, insect, insectivore, invertebrate, living being, living thing, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, mongrel, omnivore, pig, polecat, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, serpent, skunk, snake, swine, ungulate, vermin, vertebrate, viper, whelp, worm

varnish

• varnish, acting, adorn, affectation, air brush, alibi, allow for, allowance, apology, appearance, apply paint, art paper, attitudinizing, becloud, bedaub, bedizen, befog, begild, belie, besmear, bias, blanket, blind, bluff, bluffing, brush, brush on paint, buff, burnish, calcimine, camera lucida, camera obscura, camouflage, canvas, chalk, charcoal, cheating, cloak, cloud, coat, coating, color, coloring, complexion, conceal, convolute, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, crayon, curtain, dab, daub, deception, decontamination, decorate, deep-dye, delusion, device, diminish, dip, disguise, dissemblance, dissemble, dissembling, dissimulation, distemper, distort, distract attention from, double-dye, drawing paper, drawing pencil, dress up, drier, dye, ease, easel, eclipse, elaborate, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enamel, engild, enrich, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, excuse, extenuate, extenuating circumstances, extenuation, extenuative, facade, face, facing, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsify, falsity, fast-dye, feigning, feint, festoon, film, finish, fixative, flourish, four-flushing, fraud, fresco, front, fudge, fur, furbish, garble, gild, gilding, gilt, glance, glaze, gloss, gloss over, grain, ground, guise, handle, hide, hue, humbug, humbuggery, ignore, illuminate, imbue, imposture, ingrain, involve, japan, keep under cover, lacquer, lame excuse, lay figure, lay on color, lessen, load with ornament, locus standi, luster, make allowance for, mask, masquerade, maulstick, medium, meretriciousness, mince, miscite, miscolor, misconstrue, misdirect, misinterpret, misquote, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, misuse, mitigate, mitigation, obfuscate, obscure, occult, ornament, ostensible motive, ostentation, outward show, overcharge, overlay, overload, overstate, paint, paintbrush, palette, palette knife, palliate, palliation, palliative, parget, pastel, pellicle, pencil, pervert, pigment, pigments, playacting, polish, poor excuse, pose, posing, posture, pretense, pretension, pretext, prime, protestation, public motive, put-off, qualification, refuge, representation, revetment, rub, scale, scour, scratchboard, screen, scum, seeming, semblance, shade, shadow, sham, shellac, shine, show, shroud, siccative, simulacrum, simulation, sketchbook, sketchpad, skin, slant, sleek, slick, slick down, slop on paint, slur over, smear, smoke screen, soft-pedal, soften, softening, spatula, speciousness, spray gun, stain, stalking-horse, stipple, strain, stratagem, stump, subterfuge, sugarcoat, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, titivate, tone, torture, trick, trick out, twist, undercoat, understate, veil, veneer, warp, wash, wax, white, whiten, whitewash, whitewashing, window dressing

varsity

• varsity, academe, academia, alma mater, cast, college, college of engineering, community college, company, complement, crew, degree-granting institution, eight, eleven, first string, first team, five, four-year college, graduate school, institute of technology, ivied halls, journalism school, junior college, law school, medical school, multiversity, nine, normal, normal school, platoon, postgraduate school, reserves, rowing crew, school of communications, school of education, second string, second team, squad, string, team, third string, two-year college, university, university college

vary

• vary, accommodate, adapt, adjust, agree to disagree, alter, alternate, ameliorate, analyze, anatomize, atomize, back and fill, be at cross-purposes, be changed, be converted into, be distinct, be distinguished, be renewed, bear off, bend, better, bottom out, branch off, break, break off, break up, camouflage, change, change the bearing, checker, chop, chop and change, chop logic, clash, clash with, collide, come about, come around, come round, conflict, conflict with, contradict, contrast with, convert, counter, curve, deform, degenerate, denature, depart, depart from, desynonymize, deteriorate, detour, deviate, deviate from, differ, difference, differentiate, digress, disaccord, disaccord with, disagree, disagree with, discord, discriminate, disequalize, disguise, disjoin, dissent, dissimilate, distinguish, disunify, dither, divagate, divaricate, divaricate from, diverge, diverge from, diversify, divide, ebb and flow, equivocate, extend, fit, flop, flounder, fluctuate, go, go through phases, haul around, heel, improve, individualize, individuate, intermit, jangle, jar, jar with, jibe, jostle, lack regularity, make a distinction, mark, mark off, mark out, meliorate, mismatch, mismate, mitigate, modify, modulate, mutate, negate, not accord with, not square with, object, oscillate, overthrow, part, particularize, pendulate, personalize, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, refashion, refine a distinction, refit, reform, relieve, remake, remodel, renew, reorganize, reshape, restructure, revamp, revive, ring changes, ring the changes, run, seesaw, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, sever, severalize, sheer, shift, shift the scene, shilly-shally, shuffle, shuffle the cards, specialize, split hairs, stagger, stand apart, stand over against, subvert, sway, swerve, swing, switch, tack, take a turn, teeter, teeter-totter, tergiversate, totter, transform, trend, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, undergo a change, vacillate, variate, variegate, veer, warp, waver, wax and wane, wobble, work a change, worsen

varying

• varying, assorted, at odds, at variance, capricious, changeable, changing, choppy, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, dissimilar, dissonant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, erose, erratic, heterogeneous, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inharmonious, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, many, mercurial, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonuniform, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rough, separate, separated, several, spasmodic, sporadic, unconformable, unequable, unequal, uneven, unlike, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, wavering, widely apart, worlds apart

vase

• vase, adobe, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, crock, crockery, enamelware, firebrick, glass, jug, porcelain, pot, pottery, refractory, tile, tiling, urn

vasectomy

• vasectomy, adenoidectomy, appendectomy, arteriectomy, castration, cholecystectomy, craniectomy, cricoidectomy, cystectomy, enterectomy, gastrectomy, hemorrhoidectomy, hysterectomy, mammectomy, mastectomy, mastoidectomy, nephrectomy, omphalectomy, oophorectomy, oophorocystectomy, orchidectomy, ovariectomy, pancreatectomy, penectomy, pericardiectomy, phrenicectomy, pneumonectomy, prostatectomy, salpingectomy, stapedectomy, tonsillectomy, ureterectomy, urethrectomy, venectomy

vassal

• vassal, bondmaid, bondman, bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, captive, chattel, chattel slave, churl, client, concubine, creature, debt slave, dependent, feudal, feudatory, flunky, follower, galley slave, hanger-on, helot, homager, inferior, lackey, liege, liege man, liege subject, minion, myrmidon, odalisque, peon, retainer, serf, servant, servile, slave, stooge, subject, subordinate, subservient, theow, thrall, tributary, underling, understrapper, villein, yeoman

vassalage

• vassalage, absolutism, bond service, bondage, captivity, control, debt slavery, deprivation of freedom, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, feudalism, feudality, helotism, helotry, indentureship, peonage, restraint, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, subjection, subjugation, thrall, thralldom, tyranny, villenage

vast

• vast, Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, abysmal, ample, amplitudinous, astronomic, astronomical, awesome, behemoth, big, boundless, broad, bulky, capacious, colossal, commodious, cosmic, deep, elephantine, endless, enormous, epic, expansive, extended, extending, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, galactic, giant, giantlike, gigantic, great, heroic, huge, humongous, immeasurable, immense, incalculable, indeterminate, inexhaustible, infinite, interminable, jumbo, king-size, large, limitless, mammoth, massive, massy, measureless, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, never-ending, outsize, overgrown, prodigious, profound, roomy, sizable, spacious, spreading, stupendous, titanic, towering, tremendous, unbounded, unlimited, voluminous, weighty, whopping, wide, widespread

vastly

• vastly, abroad, almost entirely, broadly, colossally, considerably, enormously, exceedingly, extensively, extremely, far and near, far and wide, gigantically, greatly, hugely, immensely, infinitely, on all sides, on every side, prodigiously, right and left, stupendously, substantially, titanically, tremendously, very much, widely, worlds

vastness

• vastness, ampleness, amplitude, boundlessness, bulk, enormity, enormousness, expanse, formidableness, fullness, gigantism, grandeur, grandness, great scope, greatness, hugeness, immensity, infinity, intensity, largeness, magnitude, might, mightiness, monstrosity, monstrousness, muchness, plenitude, power, prodigiousness, strength, stupendousness, tremendousness

vat

• vat, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank, basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker, buttery, cargo dock, cellar, chest, closet, conservatory, crate, crib, cupboard, depository, depot, dock, drawer, dump, exchequer, glory hole, godown, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, rack, repertory, repository, reservoir, rick, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tank, treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vault, warehouse, wine cellar

vaudeville

• vaudeville, Broadway, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, antimasque, audience success, ballet, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque, burlesque show, carnival, charade, circus, cliff hanger, closet drama, comedy drama, critical success, daytime serial, dialogue, documentary drama, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, duodrama, duologue, entertainment industry, epic theater, experimental theater, extravaganza, failure, flop, gasser, giveaway, happening, hit, hit show, improvisational drama, legit, legitimate drama, legitimate stage, masque, melodrama, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, off Broadway, off-off-Broadway, opera, pageant, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, piece, play, playland, playlet, problem play, psychodrama, quiz show, radio drama, repertory drama, review, revue, sensational play, serial, show, show biz, show business, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, spectacle, stage play, stage show, stage world, stagedom, stageland, stock, straight drama, strawhat, strawhat circuit, success, summer stock, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, the boards, the footlights, the scenes, the stage, the theater, theater of cruelty, theater world, theatromania, theatrophobia, total theater, variety, variety show, vaudeville show, vehicle, word-of-mouth success, work

vaudevillian

• vaudevillian, actor-proof, all-star, artist, artiste, ballet, balletic, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, cinematic, cinematographic, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, ecdysiast, entertainer, exotic dancer, female impersonator, film, filmic, geisha, geisha girl, guisard, guiser, ham, hammy, histrionic, hoofer, impersonator, legitimate, magician, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, mountebank, movie, mummer, musician, nautch girl, operatic, overacted, overplayed, peeler, performer, prestidigitator, public entertainer, scenic, show girl, singer, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, stripper, stripteaser, stripteuse, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillist

vault

• vault, Caelus, Fort Knox, Highland fling, air, anabasis, and jump, apse, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, archives, archway, armory, arsenal, ascend, ascension, ascent, attic, azure, bank, barrow, basement, bay, beehive tomb, bend, bend back, bin, blue sky, bob up, bonded warehouse, bone house, bookcase, booth, bounce, bound, bow, box, box grave, break water, broad jump, buck, buckjump, bunker, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bursary, buttery, caelum, camber, canopy, canopy of heaven, capriole, cargo dock, cash register, cashbox, catacomb, catacombs, cavity, ceilinged roof, cell, cellar, cellule, cenotaph, cerulean, chamber, charnel house, chest, cist, cist grave, clamber, clear, climb, climbing, closet, coffer, coin box, compartment, concameration, concha, conservatory, cope, cove, crate, crib, cromlech, crook, crypt, cupboard, cupola, curl, curve, curvet, decurve, deep six, deflect, demivolt, depository, depot, dock, dokhma, dolmen, dome, drawer, dump, elevation, embow, empyrean, enclosed space, escalade, ether, exchequer, firmament, fisc, flex, float up, fly up, flying jump, fountain, galliard, gelandesprung, geodesic dome, glory hole, godown, gold depository, grand jete, grave, gush, gyring up, handspring, heaven, heavens, high jump, hippety-hop, hold, hole, hollow, hook, hop, house of death, hump, hunch, hurdle, hutch, hyaline, igloo, increase, incurvate, incurve, inflect, jet, jete, jig, jump, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump up, jump-hop, jump-off, keystone, last home, lavolta, leap, leap over, leap up, leapfrog, levitation, library, lift, lifts, locker, long home, long jump, loop, lop, low green tent, low house, lumber room, lumberyard, magasin, magazine, manger, mastaba, mausoleum, money chest, monstrance, morris, mount, mounting, mummy chamber, narrow house, negotiate, ogive, ossuarium, ossuary, over, overjump, overleap, overskip, passage grave, penny bank, pew, piggy bank, pit, pole vault, pop up, pork barrel, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, public crib, public till, public treasury, public trough, pyramid, rack, recurve, reflect, reflex, reliquary, repertory, repository, reservoir, resting place, retroflex, rick, rise, rising, rocket, rocketing up, round, running broad jump, running high jump, safe, safe-deposit box, sag, saltation, saut de basque, sepulcher, shaft grave, shelf, shoot up, shooting up, shrine, skewback, ski jump, skip, sky, skyrocket, soar, soaring, span, spout, spring, spring up, spurt, stack, stack room, stall, starry heaven, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase, stock room, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, strong room, strongbox, stupa, subtreasury, supply base, supply depot, surface, surge, surmount, swag, sweep, takeoff, taking off, tank, the blue, the blue serene, till, tomb, tope, tour jete, tower of silence, treasure house, treasure room, treasure-house, treasury, tumulus, turn, upclimb, upcoming, updive, updraft, upgang, upgo, upgoing, upgrade, upgrowth, uphill, upleap, uplift, upping, uprisal, uprise, uprising, uprush, upshoot, upslope, upspear, upspring, upstart, upsurge, upsurgence, upsweep, upswing, vat, vault of heaven, vault up, vaulting, voussoir, warehouse, welkin, wind, wine cellar, zooming

vaulted

• vaulted, arched, arciform, arclike, arcual, bandy, bowed, bowlike, concave, convex, embowed, gibbose, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunched, hunchy, oxbow

vaulter

• vaulter, broad jumper, bucking bronco, buckjumper, flea, frog, gazelle, goat, grasshopper, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, jackrabbit, jumper, jumping bean, jumping jack, kangaroo, leaper, pole vaulter, salmon, stag, sunfisher, timber topper

vaulting

• vaulting, aduncity, apse, aquilinity, arcade, arcature, arch, arched roof, arching, archway, arcuation, aspiring, bouncing, bounding, camber, capering, ceilinged roof, circularity, concameration, concavity, concha, convexity, convolution, cove, crookedness, cupola, curvation, curvature, curving, curvity, decurvation, decurvature, dome, emulous, enthusiastic, excurvation, excurvature, geodesic dome, hookedness, hopping, hurdle race, hurdling, igloo, incurvation, incurvature, incurvity, jumping, keystone, leaping, ogive, pole vaulting, prancing, recurvation, recurvature, recurvity, rondure, rotundity, saltation, sinuosity, sinuousness, skewback, skipping, span, springing, steeplechase, the hurdles, timber topping, tortuosity, tortuousness, vault, voussoir

vaunt

• vaunt, advertise, air, blazon, blazon forth, blow, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, brandish, bravado, bravura, brilliancy, cock-a-doodle-doo, conceit, crow, dangle, daring, dash, demonstrate, demonstration, display, dramatics, draw the longbow, eclat, emblazon, etalage, exhibit, exhibition, exhibitionism, false front, fanfaronade, figure, flair, flash, flaunt, flaunting, flourish, gasconade, gasconism, heroics, histrionics, hold up, jactation, jactitation, manifest, manifestation, mouth, pageant, pageantry, parade, prate, puff, put forth, put forward, rodomontade, sham, show, show off, showing-off, side, speak for Buncombe, spectacle, splash, splurge, sport, staginess, swagger, theatrics, trumpet, trumpet forth, vanity, vapor, vauntery, vaunting, wave

Vayu

• Vayu, Agni, Asvins, Avalokita, Bhairava, Bhairavi, Brahma, Chandi, Daksha, Devaki, Devi, Dharma, Dharti Mai, Durga, Dyaus, Ganapati, Ganesa, Ganesha, Garuda, Hanuman, Himavat, Indra, Kali, Kama, Kamsa, Karttikeya, Lakshmi, Parjanya, Parvati, Pushan, Rahu, Rhibhus, Rudra, Sarasvati, Savitar, Shiva, Sita, Soma, Surya, Uma, Ushas, Vaja, Varuna, Varuni, Vishnu, Yama, Zephyr, Zephyrus

VD

• VD, French disease, Spanish pox, acquired syphilis, balanitis gangrenosa, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, dose, dose of clap, fifth venereal disease, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, hard chancre, latent syphilis, locomotor ataxia, morbus Gallicus, paralytic dementia, paresis, pox, pudendal ulcer, simple chancre, social disease, soft chancre, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, venereal disease

vector

• vector, aerial infection, air line, airborne infection, axis, azimuth, beeline, biological vector, carrier, chord, communicability, compass bearing, compass direction, contagion, contagiousness, contamination, course, cryptogenic infection, diagonal, diameter, direct infection, direct line, directrix, droplet infection, dust infection, edge, epidemiology, great-circle course, hand infection, heading, indirect infection, infection, infectiousness, lee side, magnetic bearing, mechanical vector, normal, perpendicular, phytogenic infection, primary infection, pyogenic infection, radius, radius vector, relative bearing, right line, secant, secondary infection, segment, shortcut, side, straight, straight course, straight line, straight stretch, straightaway, streamline, subclinical infection, tack, taint, tangent, transversal, true bearing, vehicle, virus, waterborne infection, weather side, zoogenic infection

veer

• veer, L, aberrancy, aberration, about ship, alter, ameliorate, angle, angle off, apex, avert, back and fill, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bend, bent, bias, bifurcate, bifurcation, bight, bottom out, box off, branch, branch off, branching off, break, bring about, bring round, cant, cant round, cast, cast about, change, change course, change the bearing, change the heading, checker, chevron, chop, chop and change, circuitousness, coin, come about, come around, come round, corner, crank, crook, crotchet, curve, declination, deflect, deflection, degenerate, depart from, departure, deteriorate, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviate, deviation, deviousness, digress, digression, discursion, divagate, divagation, divaricate, divarication, diverge, divergence, diversify, diversion, divert, dogleg, double, double a point, draw aside, drift, drifting, ease off, edge, edge off, elbow, ell, errantry, excursion, excursus, exorbitation, fetch about, flop, fly off, fork, furcate, furcation, gee, glance, glance off, go about, go crabwise, go off, go sideways, gybe, hairpin, haul around, haw, head off, heave round, heel, hook, improve, indirection, inflection, jib, jibe, jibe all standing, knee, lateral, lateralize, lurch, make leeway, make way for, meliorate, miss stays, mitigate, modulate, move aside, mutate, nook, oblique, obliquity, pererration, pivot, pivot about, ply, point, put about, put back, quoin, rambling, revive, round, round a point, sheer, sheer off, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, shove aside, shunt, shy, shy off, side, sideslip, sidestep, sidetrack, sidle, skew, skid, slant, slew, slue, spin, steer clear of, step aside, straying, sway, sweep, swerve, swerving, swing, swing round, swing the stern, swinging, switch, swivel, tack, take a turn, throw about, trend, turn, turn about, turn around, turn aside, turn away, turn back, turn into, turn round, turn tail, turn the corner, turning, twist, undergo a change, variation, vary, veer around, veer off, vertex, wandering, warp, wear, wear ship, wheel, wheel about, whirl, wind, worsen, yaw, zag, zig, zigzag

veering

• veering, aberrant, aberrative, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, choppy, circuitous, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, disconnected, discontinuous, discursive, eccentric, errant, erratic, excursive, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, immethodical, inconstant, indirect, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jerky, labyrinthine, lurching, mazy, meandering, nonuniform, out-of-the-way, patchy, planetary, rambling, rough, roving, scrappy, serpentine, shifting, snaky, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, stray, swerving, turning, twisting, uncertain, undirected, unequal, uneven, unmethodical, unmetrical, unregular, unrhythmical, unsettled, unsteady, unsystematic, vagrant, variable, wandering, wavering, winding, wobbling, wobbly, zigzag

vegetable kingdom

• vegetable kingdom, animal kingdom, botany, chain of being, class structure, domain, establishment, flora, flowerage, greenery, greens, herbage, hierarchy, kingdom, mineral kingdom, natural hierarchy, pecking order, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, power structure, pyramid, realm, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, verdure

vegetable oil

• vegetable oil, Macassar oil, absinthe, animal oil, avocado oil, bay oil, beechnut oil, camphor, candlenut oil, carapa oil, castor oil, cedarwood oil, cerate, clove oil, cocoa butter, copaiba, copra oil, corn oil, croton oil, drying oil, edible oil, essential oil, ester, eucalyptus oil, fat, fatty oil, fixed oil, flaxseed oil, grease, gum spirit, hempseed oil, hydrogenated fat, kekuna oil, laurel butter, lemon oil, linseed oil, lipid, mineral oil, nut oil, oil, oil of almonds, oleoresin, oleum, olive oil, palm oil, palm-kernel oil, peanut oil, perilla oil, pine oil, pine tar, pine-tar oil, polyunsaturated fat, poppyseed oil, rape oil, ricinus oil, rosin grease, rosin oil, sebum, sesame oil, soybean oil, spikenard, tallow, turpentine, unsaturated fat, volatile oil, wood oil

vegetable

• vegetable, Boston lettuce, Chinese cabbage, French bean, Irish potato, Kraut, Swiss chard, amphibian, angiosperm, annual, apathetic, aquatic plant, asparagus, aubergine, bean, bean sprout, beans, beet, beet greens, beetroot, bell pepper, benumbed, biennial, blase, bored, botanic, broccoli, bulbous, butter bean, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, celery, celery cabbage, celery root, celtuce, cereal, chard, chick-pea, chicory, collards, contemplative, corn, cosmopolite, cress, cucumber, cutting, dead, debilitated, deciduous plant, dicot, dicotyledon, do-nothing, dopey, dormant, droopy, drugged, dull, eggplant, enervated, ephemeral, evergreen, exanimate, exotic, farinaceous, flowering plant, fruitlike, fruity, fungus, gametophyte, garlic, green bean, green onion, green pea, green pepper, greens, gumbo, gymnosperm, heavy, hebetudinous, herbaceous, herbal, herbose, herbous, herby, hominy, horseradish, hydrophyte, idle, immobile, inactive, inanimate, inert, jaded, kale, kidney beans, kohlrabi, lackadaisical, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, languid, languorous, leaden, leek, legumes, leguminose, leguminous, lentil, lethargic, lettuce, lifeless, listless, love apple, lumpish, mad apple, maize, meditative, monocot, monocotyl, moribund, motionless, mushroom, navy bean, neuter, neutral, numb, onion, oyster plant, paralytic, paralyzed, parsley, parsnip, passive, pea, pepper, perennial, phlegmatic, pieplant, pimento, pinto bean, plant, plantlike, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, pooped, popcorn, potato, potherbs, procrastinating, produce, pumpkin, quiescent, quietist, quietistic, radicated, radiciform, radicular, radish, red cabbage, red pepper, rhizoid, rhubarb, rootlike, sated, scallion, seed plant, seedling, shallot, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, sorrel, soy, soya, spermatophyte, spinach, sporophyte, spud, squash, stagnant, stagnating, standpat, static, stationary, stultified, succory, sugar beet, supine, swede, sweet potato, taro, tater, thallophyte, tomato, torpid, triennial, truffle, tuberous, turnip, vascular plant, vegetables, vegetal, vegetarian, vegetational, vegetative, wan, water chestnut, weary, weed, weedy, white potato, world-weary, yam

vegetarian

• vegetarian, Apostolic, Apostolici, Brillat-Savarin, Encratic, Encratite, Lenten, Lucullus, Pythagorean, Pythagorist, Rechabite, Shaker, Spartan, Stoic, abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, ascetic, banian, board-and-roomer, boarder, bon vivant, botanic, bulbous, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivore, carnivorous, celibate, cereal, chaste, commensal, connoisseur of food, consumer, continent, dietetic, diner, diner-out, dining, eater, eater-out, eating, epicure, farinaceous, feeder, feeding, flesh-eater, flesh-eating, fruitarian, fruitlike, fruity, gastronome, gastronomic, glutton, gluttonous, gourmand, gourmet, grain-eater, grain-eating, graminivore, graminivorous, granivore, granivorous, grass-eating, gymnosophist, herbaceous, herbal, herbivore, herbivorous, herbose, herbous, herby, high liver, hungry mouth, hydropot, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian, leguminose, leguminous, luncher, man-eater, man-eating, meat-eater, meat-eating, mensal, mouth, nephalist, nephalistic, nourishing, nutritious, omnivore, omnivorous, omophagist, omophagous, on the wagon, pantophagist, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophage, phytophagous, picnicker, plant-eater, plant-eating, plantlike, postprandial, prandial, predacean, predacious, preprandial, radicated, radiciform, radicular, rhizoid, rootlike, sexually abstinent, sworn off, teetotal, teetotaler, teetotalist, trencherman, tuberous, vegetable, vegetable-eating, vegetal, vegetational, vegetative, water-drinker, weedy

vegetarianism

• vegetarianism, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, acid-ash diet, allergy diet, appetite, asceticism, avoidance, banyan day, bland diet, calorie chart, calorie counter, cannibalism, carnivorism, carnivority, carnivorousness, celibacy, chastity, chewing, consumption, continence, cropping, deglutition, devouring, devourment, diabetic diet, diet, diet book, dietary, dietetics, dieting, dining, eating, epulation, eschewal, fast, feasting, feeding, fish day, fruitarianism, gluttony, gobbling, grazing, gymnosophy, herbivorism, herbivority, herbivorousness, high-protein diet, high-vitamin diet, hunger, ingestion, licking, low-carbohydrate diet, low-salt diet, macrobiotic diet, manducation, mastication, messing, munching, nephalism, nibbling, nutrition, omnivorism, omnivorousness, omophagy, pantophagy, pap, pasture, pasturing, pecking, plain living, refraining, refrainment, regalement, regime, regimen, relishing, rumination, salt-free diet, savoring, sexual abstinence, simple diet, soft diet, spare diet, spoon victuals, tasting, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, ulcer diet, vitamin-deficiency diet, wolfing

vegetate

• vegetate, be a sideliner, be still, blossom, brew, bud, burgeon, burst forth, coast, delay, develop, do nothing, drift, flourish, fust, gather, gemmate, germinate, grow, grow rank, grow up, hang fire, hibernate, hypertrophy, idle, increase, just be, languish, leaf, leaf out, leave, lie dormant, luxuriate, mature, merely exist, mushroom, not budge, not stir, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overrun, overtop, pass the time, procreate, pullulate, put forth, put forth leaves, put out buds, reproduce, rest, riot, root, shoot, shoot up, sit back, sit it out, sleep, slumber, smolder, spring up, sprout, sprout up, stagnate, strike root, take root, thrive, tower, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, wait and see, watch and wait, wax

vegetation

• vegetation, a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, botany, budding, burgeoning, catalepsy, catatonia, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, development, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, entropy, excrescence, flora, flowerage, gemmation, germination, greenery, greens, growth, herbage, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, just being, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, latency, lotus-eating, luxuriation, maturation, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, outgrowth, overgrowth, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, policy, procrastination, procreation, pullulation, quiescence, quietism, reproduction, sloth, sprouting, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, torpor, upgrowth, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation spirit, verdure, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting

vehemence

• vehemence, Alecto, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, abandon, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, amperage, animality, application, ardency, ardor, armipotence, assiduity, assiduousness, astringency, atrocity, authority, barbarity, beef, bite, bitterness, black power, bloodlust, brutality, brute force, burning rage, causticity, charge, charisma, clout, cogence, cogency, commitment, committedness, compulsion, concentration, dedication, destructiveness, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, diligence, dint, drive, duress, earnestness, ecstasy, edge, effect, effectiveness, effectuality, energeticalness, energy, enthusiasm, excitement, extremity, faith, faithfulness, ferociousness, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fidelity, fierceness, fieriness, fire, flower power, force, force majeure, forcefulness, full blast, full force, furious rage, furiousness, furor, fury, glow, grip, gusto, harshness, heart, heartiness, heat, heatedness, impassionedness, impetuosity, inclemency, indefatigability, industriousness, industry, influence, inhumanity, intensity, intentness, keenness, laboriousness, liveliness, loyalty, main force, main strength, malignity, mana, mercilessness, might, might and main, mightiness, mindlessness, mordacity, mordancy, moxie, murderousness, muscle power, passion, passionateness, pitilessness, pizzazz, poignancy, point, poop, potence, potency, potentiality, power, power pack, power structure, power struggle, powerfulness, prepotency, productiveness, productivity, puissance, pull, punch, push, rage, relentlessness, relish, resolution, rigor, roughness, savagery, savor, sedulity, sedulousness, seriousness, severity, sharpness, sincerity, sinew, soul, spirit, steam, sting, strength, strenuousness, stridency, stringency, strong arm, superiority, superpower, tartness, tearing passion, teeth, terrorism, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, tirelessness, towering rage, trenchancy, ungentleness, unsparingness, validity, vandalism, venom, verve, viciousness, vigor, vim, violence, virility, virtue, virulence, vitality, warmth, warmth of feeling, wattage, weight, zeal, zealousness

vehement

• vehement, abandoned, acid, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afire, ardent, assiduous, astringent, biting, bitter, burning, caustic, committed, concentrated, cutting, dedicated, delirious, desperate, devoted, devout, diligent, double-edged, drastic, earnest, edged, emphatic, energetic, enthusiastic, escharotic, excessive, exciting, exorbitant, exquisite, extravagant, extreme, faithful, fervent, fervid, fierce, fiery, flaming, forceful, frantic, furious, glowing, great, hard, hardworking, harsh, hearty, heated, hot, hot-blooded, hotheaded, immoderate, impassioned, impetuous, in earnest, incisive, indefatigable, industrious, intemperate, intense, intent, intent on, keen, laborious, lively, loyal, mordacious, mordant, never idle, on fire, outrageous, passionate, penetrating, perfervid, piercing, poignant, potent, powerful, pronounced, provoking, rabid, red-hot, relentless, resolute, rigorous, rough, scathing, sedulous, serious, severe, sharp, simmering, sincere, sleepless, spirited, splitting, stabbing, stimulating, stinging, stirring, stormy, strenuous, strident, stringent, tart, tempestuous, terrible, tireless, trenchant, unconscionable, unflagging, unremitting, unsleeping, unsparing, unwearied, urgent, venomous, vicious, violent, virulent, vitriolic, volcanic, warm, white-hot, wild, zealous

vehicle

• vehicle, Charlie McCarthy, Grand Guignol, Passion play, Tom show, agency, agent, ancilla, antimasque, appliance, audience success, backing, ballet, bibliofilm, bipack, black-and-white film, bomb, broadcast drama, burlesque show, carrier, cartridge, channel, charade, chromogen, cliff hanger, closet drama, coat, coat of paint, coating, color, color film, color filter, color gelatin, color negative film, colorant, coloring, comedy drama, conduit, contrivance, conveyance, creature, critical success, daytime serial, dead-color, device, dialogue, distemper, documentary drama, dope, drama, dramalogue, dramatic play, dramatic series, drier, dry plate, dummy, duodrama, duologue, dupe, dye, dyestuff, emulsion, epic theater, experimental theater, exterior paint, extravaganza, failure, film, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, flop, frame, gasser, giveaway, go-between, ground, handmaid, handmaiden, happening, hit, hit show, implement, improvisational drama, instrument, instrumentality, interagent, interior paint, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, legitimate drama, lever, masque, mean, means, mechanism, mediator, medium, melodrama, microfilm, midwife, minion, ministry, minstrel show, miracle, miracle play, monochromatic film, monodrama, monologue, morality, morality play, motion-picture film, music drama, musical revue, mystery, mystery play, negative, opaque color, opera, organ, orthochromatic film, pack, pageant, paint, panchromatic film, panel show, pantomime, pastoral, pastoral drama, pawn, photographic paper, piece, pigment, plate, play, playlet, plaything, prime coat, primer, priming, printing paper, problem play, psychodrama, puppet, quiz show, radio drama, review, revue, roll, sensational play, serial, servant, show, sitcom, situation comedy, sketch, skit, slave, soap, soap opera, sociodrama, sound film, sound track, sound-on-film, soundstripe, spectacle, stage play, stage show, stain, stooge, straight drama, success, suspense drama, tableau, tableau vivant, talk show, teleplay, television drama, television play, tempera, theater of cruelty, thinner, tinction, tincture, tool, total theater, toy, transparent color, transport, transportation, tripack, turpentine, turps, undercoat, undercoating, variety show, vaudeville, vaudeville show, wash, wash coat, word-of-mouth success, work

veil

• veil, alibi, apology, apply to, awning, bamboo curtain, barrier of secrecy, beach umbrella, becloud, befog, blackout, blanket, blind, block, bosom, camouflage, canopy, censorship, classify, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, color, coloring, conceal, cope, cover, cover story, cover up, cover-up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, device, disguise, dissemble, distract attention from, drape, drapery, draw the curtains, eclipse, enclose, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, enwrap, excuse, facade, false front, feint, file and forget, film, front, gloss, gloss over, guise, handle, hanging, hide, hold out on, hood, housing, hush-up, in petto, invest, iron curtain, ironbound security, keep, keep back, keep between us, keep buttoned up, keep close, keep dark, keep from, keep in ignorance, keep mum, keep secret, keep snug, keep under cover, keep under wraps, lame excuse, lay on, lay over, light shield, locus standi, make no sign, mantilla, mantle, mask, muffle, never let on, not give away, not tell, oath of secrecy, obduce, obfuscate, obscure, occult, official secrecy, ostensible motive, overlay, overshadow, overspread, pall, parasol, play dumb, poor excuse, pretense, pretension, pretext, protestation, public motive, put on, put-off, refuge, repression, screen, scum, seal of secrecy, secrete, security, semblance, shade, shader, shadow, sham, shelter, shield, show, shroud, shutter, slur over, smoke screen, smothering, spread over, stalking-horse, stifling, stratagem, subterfuge, sunblind, sunshade, superimpose, superpose, suppression, trick, umbrella, varnish, veil of secrecy, veiler, veiling, vestment, whitewash, withhold, wrap, wraps, yashmak

veiled

• veiled, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphous, armored, between the lines, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, cased, ceiled, chance, chancy, chaotic, cloaked, clouded, coated, concealed, confused, coped, covered, covert, cowled, cryptic, curtained, delitescent, disguised, disordered, dormant, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, esoteric, filmed, floored, foggy, fuzzy, general, hazy, hibernating, hidden, hit-or-miss, hooded, housed, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, latent, lax, loose, loricate, loricated, lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mystic, nonspecific, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, orderless, packaged, paved, possible, potential, random, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secret, shaded, shadowed forth, shadowy, shady, shapeless, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shrouded, sleeping, stochastic, sub rosa, submerged, subtle, swathed, sweeping, tented, unclear, undefined, under cover, under the surface, underlying, undestined, undetermined, unmanifested, unplain, unrevealed, unspecified, vague, virtual, walled, walled-in, wrapped

vein

• vein, affectation, aorta, arteriole, artery, attitude, band, bar, bed, bespangle, bespeckle, bespot, blood vessel, blotch, body-build, bonanza, brand, capillary, carotid, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, check, checker, chimney, chute, command of language, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, cornucopia, country rock, course, crasis, cue, dapple, deposit, dharma, diathesis, dike, disposition, dot, ethos, exaggeration, expression of ideas, fashion, feeling, feeling for words, fettle, fiber, flake, fleck, font, form of speech, fount, fountain, frame, frame of mind, freckle, gangue, genius, gold mine, grace of expression, grain, grandiloquence, gruel, habit, harlequin, heart, hint, hue, humor, humors, ilk, inflation, iris, jugular vein, kind, lath, line, literary style, lode, lodestuff, maculate, makeup, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, marble, marbleize, matrix, mere shadow, mind, mine, mineral deposit, mode, mode of expression, mold, mood, morale, motley, mottle, nature, note, ore bed, paper, pattern, pay dirt, peculiarity, pepper, personal style, physique, polychrome, polychromize, portal vein, property, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, quality, quarry, rail, rainbow, rake, resource, rhetoric, seam, sense of language, shade, shadow, shaving, shoot, skeleton, slat, slip, somatotype, sort, soup, source, source of supply, spangle, speck, speckle, spirit, spirits, splinter, splotch, spot, spring, sprinkle, stamp, staple, state of mind, stigmatize, stipple, stock, strain, stratum, streak, stria, striate, striation, stripe, stud, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, suchness, suggestion, suspicion, system, tattoo, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, tessellate, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, thread, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, trace, trick, type, variegate, veinlet, vena cava, venation, venule, wafer, way, well, wellspring

veld

• veld, agricultural region, alkali flat, alluvial plain, arable land, basin, black belt, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, citrus belt, coastal plain, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, delta, desert, down, downs, dust bowl, farm belt, farm country, farmland, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, fruit belt, grass, grass roots, grass veld, grassland, grazing, grazing region, haugh, haughland, heath, highlands, lande, lea, level, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mead, meadow, meadow land, meadows and pastures, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, moors, open country, pampa, pampas, park, pasturage, pasture, pasture land, peneplain, plain, plains, plateau, playa, prairie, prairies, province, provinces, range, rural district, rustic region, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, savanna, sebkha, steppe, steppeland, steppes, swale, table, tableland, the country, the soil, the sticks, tobacco belt, tree veld, tundra, upland, uplands, vega, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wold, woodland, woods and fields, yokeldom

velocity

• velocity, activity, actuation, alacrity, amble, bat, briskness, celerity, dispatch, drag, droop, dynamics, expedition, fleetness, flounce, gait, gallop, going, haste, headway, hitch, hobble, hurry, impetus, jog, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis, kinesitherapy, kinetics, limp, lock step, lurch, miles per hour, mince, mincing steps, mobilization, momentum, motion, motivation, move, movement, moving, pace, paddle, piaffer, prance, quickness, rack, rapidity, restlessness, roll, running, saunter, scuttle, shamble, shuffle, sidle, single-foot, slink, slither, slouch, slowness, speed, stagger, stalk, step, stir, stirring, stride, stroll, strolling gait, strut, swagger, swiftness, swing, toddle, totter, tread, trot, unrest, waddle, walk

velvet

• velvet, Easy Street, affluence, alabaster, bed of roses, billiard table, blubber, bowling alley, bowling green, breeze, butter, cinch, clay, clover, comfort, contentment, cushion, daintiness, delicacy, dough, down, downiness, ease, easy circumstances, easy target, easy thing, eiderdown, feather bed, feathers, felicity, filminess, fine-grainedness, fineness, flat, fleece, fleshpots, floss, flue, fluff, fluffiness, foam, fuzz, fuzziness, glass, gossameriness, gracious life, gracious living, happiness, ice, ivory, kapok, lap of luxury, level, life of ease, loaves and fishes, luxury, mahogany, marble, peach fuzz, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pillow, plane, plush, prosperity, prosperousness, pubescence, pudding, puff, pushover, putty, refinement, rubber, satin, satininess, security, setup, silk, silkiness, sinecure, sitting duck, slide, smooth, smoothness, snap, softness, solid comfort, success, swansdown, tennis court, the affluent life, the good life, thistledown, thriving condition, upward mobility, velvetiness, wax, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being, wool, zephyr

velvety

• velvety, attenuate, attenuated, buffed, burnished, cottony, dainty, delicate, downy, feathery, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained, finespun, finished, flossy, fluffy, furbished, furry, fuzzy, gauzy, glace, glassy, glazed, gleaming, glossy, gossamer, gossamery, hirsute, lacquered, nappy, peachy, pinnate, plush, plushy, polished, pubescent, refined, rubbed, satin, satinlike, satiny, sericeous, shellacked, shiny, silken, silklike, silky, sleek, slick, smooth, soft, soft as silk, thin-spun, varnished, velutinous, velvetlike, wiredrawn

venal

• venal, a hog for, acquisitive, all-devouring, approachable, avaricious, avid, bent, bottomless, bribable, bribeable, buyable, corrupt, corruptible, coveting, covetous, crooked, devouring, dishonorable, esurient, fixable, flagitious, gluttonous, gobbling, grabby, grasping, greedy, hack, hireling, hoggish, ignoble, infamous, iniquitous, insatiable, insatiate, limitless, mercenary, miserly, money-hungry, money-mad, nefarious, omnivorous, on the pad, on the take, overgreedy, paid, piggish, purchasable, quenchless, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, slakeless, sordid, swinish, unappeasable, unappeased, unethical, unprincipled, unquenchable, unsated, unsatisfied, unscrupulous, unslakeable, unslaked, vicious, voracious

vendetta

• vendetta, acrimony, altercation, animosity, animus, argument, avengement, bad blood, bicker, bitter feeling, bitterness, blood feud, brawl, broil, conflict, contention, controversy, dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, embroilment, enmity, feud, fight, fliting, fracas, fuss, getting even, hard feelings, hatred, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, imbroglio, logomachy, open quarrel, polemic, quarrel, rancor, reprisal, retaliation, revanche, revanchism, revenge, rhubarb, rivalry, row, set-to, sharp words, slanging match, snarl, soreness, sourness, spat, squabble, strife, sweet revenge, tiff, tussle, vengeance, venom, virulence, vitriol, words, wrangle

vending

• vending, consumer preference study, consumer research, consumer survey, direct-mail selling, hard sell, hawking, high-pressure salesmanship, huckstering, jobbing, low-pressure salesmanship, mail-order selling, market research, marketing, marketing research, merchandising, peddling, promotion, retailing, sales campaign, sales promotion, salesmanship, selling, sellout, soft sell, wholesaling

vendor

• vendor, arab, automat, cadger, chapman, cheap-jack, cheap-john, cheapjack, coin machine, coin-operated machine, colporteur, coster, costermonger, duffer, hawker, higgler, huckster, peddler, roadman, sidewalk salesman, slot machine, vending machine

veneer

• veneer, appearance, aspect, board, brick, clapboard, coat, coating, collop, cover, covering, cursoriness, cut, deal, disguise, disk, enamel, epidermis, extenuate, exteriority, facade, face, facing, false front, feuille, film, finish, flap, foil, fold, front, fur, glass, glaze, gloss, gloss over, guise, lacquer, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lath, leaf, mask, membrane, mere scratch, no depth, no water, outward show, paint, pane, panel, paper, patina, peel, pellicle, pinprick, plait, plank, plate, plating, ply, plywood, rasher, revet, revetment, rind, safety glass, scale, scratch, scum, shake, shallowness, sheathe, sheet, shingle, shoaliness, show, skin, slab, slat, slate, slice, slightness, stone, sugarcoat, superficiality, superficies, surface, table, tablet, thatch, tile, triviality, varnish, wafer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, weatherboard, white, whiten, whitewash, window dressing

venerable

• venerable, acknowledged, admirable, admitted, advanced, advanced in life, advanced in years, age-old, aged, ageless, along in years, ancient, antediluvian, antique, aristocratic, august, auld, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, conventional, courtly, creditable, customary, dateless, dignified, divine, dreadful, elderly, established, esteemed, estimable, fixed, folk, grand, grave, gray, gray with age, gray-haired, gray-headed, grown old, hallowed, handed down, heavenly, held in esteem, heroic, highly esteemed, highly regarded, highly reputed, highly respectable, hoar, hoary, holy, honorable, honored, immemorial, imposing, impressive, in favor, in good odor, in high favor, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, inveterate, inviolable, inviolate, kingly, legendary, long-established, long-standing, lordly, magisterial, majestic, meritorious, mythological, noble, numinous, of long standing, of old, of the folk, of yore, old, old as Methuselah, old as history, old as time, old-time, olden, oral, patriarchal, prescriptive, prestigious, princely, queenly, received, recognized, regal, religious, reputable, respectable, respected, revered, reverenced, reverend, reverential, rooted, royal, sacred, sacrosanct, sedate, senectuous, sober, solemn, spiritual, stately, statuesque, time-honored, timeless, timeworn, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, unspeakable, untouchable, unutterable, unwritten, venerated, well-thought-of, white, white with age, white-bearded, white-crowned, white-haired, worshipful, worthy, wrinkled, wrinkly, years old

venerate

• venerate, accord respect to, admire, adore, apotheosize, appreciate, defer to, deify, do homage to, do service, entertain respect for, esteem, exalt, favor, hallow, hero-worship, hold in esteem, hold in reverence, honor, idolize, look up to, pay homage to, prize, regard, respect, revere, reverence, think highly of, think much of, think well of, value, worship

veneration

• veneration, admiration, adoration, apotheosis, appreciation, approbation, approval, awe, breathless adoration, churchgoing, co-worship, conformity, consideration, courtesy, cult, cultism, cultus, deference, deification, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, dulia, dutifulness, duty, esteem, estimation, exaggerated respect, faith, faithfulness, favor, great respect, hero worship, high regard, homage, honor, hyperdulia, idolatry, idolization, latria, love of God, observance, pietism, piety, piousness, prestige, prostration, regard, religion, religionism, religiousness, respect, reverence, reverential regard, theism, transcendent wonder, worship, worshipfulness, worshiping

venerative

• venerative, Christian, Christianlike, Christianly, admiring, adorant, adoring, apotheosizing, awed, awestricken, awestruck, believing, cultish, cultist, cultistic, deifying, devoted, devotional, devout, dutiful, faithful, hero-worshiping, idolatrous, idolizing, imploring, in awe, in the dust, on bended knee, pietistic, pious, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, religious, reverent, reverential, solemn, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory, theistic, venerational, worshipful, worshiping

venereal disease

• venereal disease, African lethargy, Asiatic cholera, Chagres fever, French disease, German measles, Haverhill fever, Spanish pox, VD, acquired syphilis, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, balanitis gangrenosa, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, chicken pox, cholera, clap, claps, climatic bubo, congenital syphilis, constitutional syphilis, cowpox, dandy fever, deer fly fever, dengue, dengue fever, diphtheria, dose, dose of clap, dumdum fever, dysentery, elephantiasis, encephalitis lethargica, enteric fever, erysipelas, famine fever, fifth venereal disease, five-day fever, flu, frambesia, general paresis, glandular fever, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, grippe, hansenosis, hard chancre, hepatitis, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, histoplasmosis, hookworm, hydrophobia, infantile paralysis, infectious mononucleosis, inflammatory rheumatism, influenza, jail fever, jungle rot, kala azar, kissing disease, latent syphilis, lepra, leprosy, leptospirosis, loa loa, loaiasis, lockjaw, locomotor ataxia, madness, malaria, malarial fever, marsh fever, measles, meningitis, milzbrand, morbus Gallicus, mumps, ornithosis, osteomyelitis, paralytic dementia, paratyphoid fever, paresis, parotitis, parrot fever, pertussis, pneumonia, polio, poliomyelitis, polyarthritis rheumatism, ponos, pox, psittacosis, pudendal ulcer, rabbit fever, rabies, rat-bite fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, rickettsialpox, ringworm, rubella, rubeola, scarlatina, scarlet fever, schistosomiasis, septic sore throat, shingles, simple chancre, sleeping sickness, sleepy sickness, smallpox, snail fever, social disease, soft chancre, splenic fever, spotted fever, strep throat, swamp fever, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes, tabes dorsales, tertiary syphilis, tetanus, thrush, tinea, trench fever, trench mouth, tropical bubo, tuberculosis, tularemia, typhoid, typhoid fever, typhus, typhus fever, undulant fever, vaccinia, varicella, variola, viral dysentery, whooping cough, yaws, yellow fever, yellow jack, zona, zoster

venereal

• venereal, amorous, aphrodisiac, aphroditous, arousing, carnal, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticizing, erotogenic, fleshly, gamic, genital, heterosexual, libidinal, nuptial, oversexed, potent, procreative, sensual, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, social, stimulating, straight, syphilitic, undersexed, voluptuous

venery

• venery, act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, ass, balling, beasts of venery, big game, carnal knowledge, chase, chevy, chivy, climax, cohabitation, coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress, connection, copula, copulation, coupling, coursing, cynegetics, debauchery, debauchment, diddling, dissipation, dissoluteness, falconry, fastness, fornication, fox hunting, gallantry, game, gunning, hawking, hunt, hunting, intercourse, intimacy, kill, libertinage, libertinism, license, licentiousness, lovemaking, making it with, marital relations, marriage act, mating, meat, onanism, orgasm, ovum, pareunia, prey, procreation, profligacy, quarry, rakishness, relations, screwing, sex, sex act, sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, shikar, shooting, sleeping with, sperm, sport, sporting, stalking, still hunt, the hunted, unbridledness, victim, wenching, whoring, wildness

vengeance

• vengeance, avengement, avenging, blood feud, counterblow, energetically, enthusiastically, ferociously, feud, fiercely, forcefully, furiously, getting even, repayment, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, return, revanche, revanchism, revenge, revengefulness, sweet revenge, vehemently, vendetta, vengefulness, violently, wholeheartedly, wildly, with a vengeance

venial

• venial, admissible, allowable, condonable, defensible, dispensable, excusable, exemptible, expiable, forgivable, harmless, inoffensive, insignificant, justifiable, legitimate, minor, pardonable, petty, reasonable, remissible, tolerable, tolerated, trifling, trivial, unimportant, unobjectionable, vindicable, warrantable

venire

• venire, blue-ribbon jury, certiorari, citation, country, garnishment, grand jury, habeas corpus, hung jury, impanelment, inquest, jury, jury list, jury of inquest, jury of matrons, jury panel, jury selection, monition, panel, petit jury, police jury, sessions, special jury, subpoena, summons, trial jury, venire de novo, venire facias, writ of summons

venison

• venison, aspic, barbecue, boiled meat, bouilli, civet, flesh, forcemeat, game, hachis, hash, jerky, joint, jugged hare, meat, menue viande, mince, pemmican, pot roast, roast, sausage meat, scrapple, viande

venom

• venom, abomination, acaricide, acrimony, acuteness, animality, animosity, animus, antagonism, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, atrocity, bad, bad blood, bane, barbarity, befoulment, bitter feeling, bitterness, blight, bloodlust, brutality, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, communicability, contact poison, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, crying evil, damage, deadliness, defilement, defoliant, despoliation, destruction, destructiveness, detriment, disinfectant, eradicant, evil, extremity, ferociousness, feud, fierceness, force, fumigant, fungicide, furiousness, gall, germicide, grievance, hard feelings, harm, harshness, hate, hatred, havoc, herbicide, hostility, hurt, ill, ill blood, ill feeling, ill will, impetuosity, inclemency, infection, infectiousness, infectivity, inhumanity, injury, insect powder, insecticide, intensity, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mercilessness, microbicide, mindlessness, mischief, miticide, murderousness, noxiousness, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, outrage, pesticide, pitilessness, poison, poisonousness, pollution, rancor, rat poison, rigor, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, roughness, savagery, severity, sharpness, soreness, sourness, spite, spitefulness, spleen, stomach poison, systemic, systemic insecticide, terrorism, the worst, toxic, toxicant, toxicity, toxin, ungentleness, vandalism, vehemence, vendetta, venin, venomousness, vermicide, vexation, viciousness, violence, virulence, virulency, virus, vitriol, weed killer, woe, wrong

venomous

• venomous, acerbic, acrid, acute, antagonistic, antipathetic, baleful, baneful, belligerent, bitter, catching, caustic, clashing, colliding, communicable, conflicting, contagious, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, despiteful, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, drastic, embittered, envenomed, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fierce, full of hate, furious, great, harmful, hateful, hostile, hurtful, immoderate, infectious, infective, injurious, intemperate, intense, keen, lethal, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, outrageous, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, piercing, poison, poisonous, prejudicial, quarrelsome, rancorous, repugnant, rigorous, rough, savage, scatheful, set against, severe, sharp, sore, spiteful, splenetic, splitting, tough, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, unconscionable, vehement, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, vicious, violent, viperish, viperlike, viperous, virulent, vitriolic

vent

• vent, air, air duct, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, announce, aperture, armhole, articulate, articulation, assert, avenue, blow, blow out, blowhole, blurt out, break, break it to, break the news, breakout, breathe, breathing hole, broadcast, brolly, bullet-hole, bunghole, cast out, channel, chute, clean out, clear, clear away, clear off, clear out, clear the decks, come out with, communicate, confide, confide to, cringle, deadeye, debouch, declare, defecate, deliverance, delivery, deplete, discharge, divulgate, divulge, door, drain, drogue chute, duct, dump, egress, eject, eliminate, emanation, emergence, emersion, emission, emit, empty, empty out, emunctory, enunciate, escape, escapism, estuary, evacuate, evasion, evulgate, exhaust, exit, expel, express, extrication, extrusion, eye, eyelet, fissure, flight, floodgate, flue, flume, freeing, fumarole, funnel, gasket, getaway, give, give off, give out, give vent to, grommet, guide, harness, hole, inlet, issuance, issue, jailbreak, keyhole, knothole, leak, leakage, let get around, let go, let in on, let loose, let out, liberation, loop, loophole, loose, louver, louverwork, make known, make public, manhole, mousehole, naris, nostril, opening, orifice, out, out with, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pack, parachute, parachute jump, passage, peephole, pigeonhole, pinhole, pipe, placket, placket hole, pore, port, porthole, prisonbreak, proclaim, pronounce, publish, punch-hole, purge, put, release, remove, rescue, reveal, riddance, sally port, scour out, setting-free, shaft, shroud lines, sky dive, slit, slot, sluice, spilehole, spiracle, spout, state, statement, surfacing, sweep out, tap, tell, throw off, throw out, touchhole, transom, umbrella, unclog, unfoul, unleash, utter, utterance, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilate, ventilating shaft, ventilator, verbalization, verbalize, vocalization, voice, void, vomitory, way out, weir, wind tunnel

ventilate

• ventilate, aerate, air, air out, air-condition, air-cool, airify, analyze, break it to, break the news, breathe, bring up, broach, canvass, chew the fat, chill, come out with, comment upon, confide, confide to, consider, controvert, cool, cross-ventilate, deal with, debate, deliberate, deliberate upon, discourse, discourse about, discuss, display, divulgate, divulge, evulgate, examine, exchange views, fan, freshen, freshen the air, fumigate, give, give out, give vent to, go into, handle, ice, ice-cool, infrigidate, introduce, investigate, knock around, let get around, let in on, let out, make known, make public, moot, open up, out with, oxygenate, oxygenize, pass under review, publish, put, put out, rap, reason, reason about, reason the point, refresh, refrigerate, reveal, review, sift, state, study, take up, talk, talk about, talk of, talk over, tell, thresh out, treat, utter, vent, wind, winnow

ventilation

• ventilation, aerage, aeration, air conditioning, air cooling, airing, analysis, bandying, book, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, buzz session, canvassing, circulation, colloquium, confabulation, conference, consideration, cross-ventilation, debate, debating, deliberation, deodorization, deodorizing, dialectic, dialogue, diffusion, discussion, display, dissemination, evulgation, examination, exchange of views, forum, fumigation, investigation, issuance, issue, joint discussion, logical analysis, logical discussion, open discussion, open forum, oxygenation, oxygenization, panel discussion, perflation, periodical, printing, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, rap, rap session, refreshment, review, seminar, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, study, symposium, telecasting, town meeting, treatment

ventilator

• ventilator, aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air duct, air filter, air hole, air passage, air shaft, air tube, airway, blower, blowhole, breathing hole, chiller, cold pack, cooler, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, flabellum, ice bag, ice bucket, ice cube, ice pack, ice pail, louver, louverwork, naris, nostril, punkah, shaft, spilehole, spiracle, surface cooler, thermantidote, touchhole, transom, vent, ventage, venthole, ventiduct, ventilating shaft, water cooler, wind tunnel, windcatcher, windsail, windscoop, wine cooler

venture

• venture, accept, advance, adventure, affair, agiotage, approach, arbitrage, assay, assume, attack, attempt, banter, be a man, be caught short, be short, beard, belong, bet, brave, broach, bucket, bucketshop, buckle to, business, buy in, buy into, buying in, calculated risk, challenge, chance, chance it, commitment, contract, crack, dare, daresay, deal, defy, deposit margin, effort, embark in, embark upon, emprise, endanger, endeavor, engage, engage in, engagement, enter on, enter upon, enterprise, equity capital, essay, experiment, exploit, expose, face, fall into, fall to, feat, financier, flier, fling, flutter, fortune, front, gamble, gamble on, gest, get under way, go about, go at, go in for, go into, go long, go upon, have at, have the guts, have the nerve, hazard, hold on, imperil, invest, invest in, investment, jeopard, jeopardize, jeopardy, launch forth, launch into, lay about, lay open, lay out money, lift a finger, liquidation, luck, make a killing, make a scoop, make an attempt, make an effort, make an investment, make bold, make bold to, make free, margin up, miss the market, move into, obligation, offer, operate, operation, outdare, outface, overstay the market, peril, pitch into, place, plan, play, play the market, plow back into, plunge, plunge into, presume, pretend, prime investment, proceed to, proffer, profit taking, program, project, proposition, put, put down, put forward, pyramid, reinvest, rely on fortune, risk, round trade, run a chance, run the risk, scalp, scalping, scoop the market, set about, set at, set at hazard, set forward, set going, set to, sink, sink money in, speculate, speculation, spot sale, stag, stag the market, stake, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, tackle, take a chance, take a flier, take chances, take on, take the liberty, take up, task, tempt fortune, tender, trade on margin, trust to chance, try, try the chance, turn, turn to, uncertainty, undertake, undertaking, venture capital, venture on, venture upon, volunteer, wager, work

venturesome

• venturesome, adventuresome, adventurous, aggressive, aleatory, ambitious, audacious, bold, brave, chancy, courageous, daredevil, daring, determined, dicey, doughty, driving, dynamic, enterprising, experimental, fearless, foolhardy, forceful, full of risk, game, go-ahead, hazardous, hustling, intrepid, overbold, plucky, pushful, pushing, pushy, rash, reckless, resolute, riskful, risky, speculative, spirited, sporting, stalwart, stout, sturdy, temerarious, tentative, trial, up-and-coming, venturous, wildcat, willing

Venus

• Venus, Adonis, Agdistis, Aldebaran, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollo Belvedere, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Balder, Canicula, Ceres, Cleopatra, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Dog Star, Earth, Eros, Freya, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Hebe, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hesper, Hesperus, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kama, Kore, Kronos, Love, Lucifer, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Narcissus, Neptune, Nike, North Star, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Phosphor, Phosphorus, Pluto, Polaris, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Sirius, Tellus, Uranus, Venus de Milo, Vesper, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, asteroid, celestial body, comet, daystar, evening star, fixed stars, heavenly body, houri, inferior planet, living sapphires, lodestar, major planet, minor planet, morning star, orb, peri, planet, planetoid, polar star, polestar, secondary planet, solar system, sphere, starry host, stars, superior planet, terrestrial planet, the Graces, wanderer

veracious

• veracious, actual, ascertained, attested, authenticated, categorically true, certain, certified, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, direct, documentary, effectual, established, factual, historical, not in error, objectively true, proved, real, substantiated, sure-enough, true, true as gospel, true-meaning, true-speaking, true-tongued, truth-bearing, truth-declaring, truth-desiring, truth-filled, truth-guarding, truth-loving, truth-passing, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthful, unconfuted, undeceitful, undeceptive, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, valid, validated, veridical, verified, veritable

veracity

• veracity, absolute credibility, accuracy, actuality, correctness, credibility, eternal verities, exactness, fact, factualness, frankness, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, honesty, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth, truth-loving, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veraciousness, veridicality, verisimilitude, verity, very truth

verbal

• verbal, adjectival, adverbial, answering, articulated, attributive, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, colloquial, communicating, communicational, communional, conjunctive, conversational, copulative, correct, dinkum, enunciated, expressed, following the letter, formal, functional, genuine, glossematic, good, grammatic, honest, honest-to-God, iconic, inartificial, interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive, interrogative, interrogatory, intransitive, lawful, legitimate, lexemic, lexical, lifelike, lingual, linguistic, linking, literal, morphemic, natural, naturalistic, nominal, nuncupative, oral, original, parol, participial, phrasal, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, pronounced, pure, questioning, real, realistic, responsive, rightful, said, semantic, semantological, semasiological, sememic, semiotic, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sounded, speech, spoken, sterling, structural, substantive, sure-enough, symbolic, syntactic, tagmemic, telepathic, traditional, transitive, transmissional, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, unwritten, uttered, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, viva voce, vocabular, vocabulary, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word, word-for-word, word-of-mouth

verbalize

• verbalize, air, articulate, breathe, chime, chorus, come out with, communicate, convey, couch in terms, deliver, disclose, emit, enunciate, express, fling off, formulate, give, give expression, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, impart, let out, lip, out with, phonate, phrase, pour forth, present, pronounce, put forth, put in words, raise, say, set forth, sound, state, talk, tell, throw off, utter, vent, ventilate, vocalize, voice, whisper, word

verbatim

• verbatim, absolutely, accurate, accurately, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, close, dead, definitely, dinkum, direct, directly, even, exact, exactly, expressly, faithful, faithfully, following the letter, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, in all respects, in every respect, inartificial, ipsissimis verbis, just, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, literally, literatim, natural, naturalistic, original, plumb, point-blank, positively, precise, precisely, pure, real, realistic, right, rightful, rigidly, rigorously, simon-pure, simple, sincere, square, squarely, sterling, straight, strict, strictly, sure-enough, to the letter, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undeviatingly, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unerringly, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbally, verbatim et litteratim, veridical, verisimilar, word by word, word for word, word-for-word

verbiage

• verbiage, choice of words, circumambages, circumbendibus, circumlocution, cloud of words, composition, dialect, diction, expansiveness, expression, floridity, floridness, flow of words, flux of words, formulation, grammar, idiom, language, lexicon, lexis, locution, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, nimiety, parlance, periphrase, periphrasis, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, repetition, rhetoric, roundabout, speech, stock of words, talk, talkativeness, tautology, thesaurus, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbalism, verbality, verbosity, vocabulary, wordage, wordhoard, wordiness, wording, words

verbose

• verbose, all jaw, candid, chatty, circumlocutory, communicative, conversational, de longue haleine, de trop, diffuse, dispensable, effusive, endless, excess, expansive, expendable, expletive, extended, filled out, flip, flowery, fluent, frank, gabby, garrulous, gassy, glib, gossipy, grandiloquent, gratuitous, gregarious, gushy, in excess, lengthy, long, long-drawn-out, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, loquacious, magniloquent, multiloquent, multiloquious, needless, newsy, nonessential, overtalkative, padded, periphrastic, pleonastic, prolix, protracted, redundant, smooth, sociable, spare, spun-out, supererogatory, superfluous, talkative, talky, tautologic, tautologous, to spare, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unrelenting, voluble, windy, wordy

verbosity

• verbosity, bedizenment, big mouth, bombast, candor, cloud of words, communicativeness, conversableness, duplication, duplication of effort, effusion, effusiveness, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, filling, flow of words, flowing tongue, fluency, fluent tongue, flux de bouche, flux de paroles, flux of words, frankness, frill, frills, frippery, garrulity, garrulousness, gassiness, gift of gab, gingerbread, glibness, grandiloquence, gregariousness, gush, gushiness, logorrhea, long-windedness, longiloquence, loose tongue, loquaciousness, loquacity, luxury, needlessness, openness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, payroll padding, pleonasm, prolixity, redundance, redundancy, slush, sociability, spate of words, superfluity, superfluousness, talkativeness, tautology, unnecessariness, verbalism, verbality, verbiage, verboseness, volubility, windiness, wordiness

verboten

• verboten, banned, barred, contraband, disapproved, forbade, forbid, forbidden, illegal, illicit, nonpermissible, not permitted, off limits, out of bounds, outlawed, prohibited, ruled out, taboo, tabooed, unallowed, unauthorized, under the ban, unlawful, unlicensed, unpermissible, unsanctioned, untouchable, vetoed

verdant

• verdant, aestival, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, caespitose, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, emerald, foliaged, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, graminaceous, grasslike, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, holly, ivy, ivy-green, leafy, leaved, meadowy, moss-covered, moss-grown, mossy, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, porraceous, smaragdine, springlike, summerlike, summery, swardy, tufted, turflike, turfy, verdured, verdurous, vernal, vernant, vert, virescent, yellowish-green

verdict

• verdict, acquittal, action, award, condemnation, consideration, decision, decree, deliverance, determination, diagnosis, dictum, doom, finding, judgment, landmark decision, order, penalty, precedent, prognosis, pronouncement, resolution, ruling, sentence

verdure

• verdure, botany, chloranemia, chloremia, chlorophyll, chlorosis, flora, flowerage, glaucescence, glaucousness, green, greenery, greenishness, greenness, greens, greensickness, herbage, leafage, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, umbrage, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation, vegetation spirit, verdancy, virescence, viridity

verge

• verge, about to, abut, abut on, adjoin, aim, approach, armory, badge, badge of office, badges, bank, baton, be contiguous, be in contact, bear, befringe, bend to, bias, bind, blazonry, board, border, border line, border on, bordure, bound, boundaries, boundary, bounds, bourns, brassard, brim, brink, brow, butt, button, cap and gown, chain, chain of office, circumference, circumscription, class ring, coast, cockade, collar, communicate, compass, conduce, confines, conjoin, connect, contribute, coordinates, cross, decoration, dispose, draw, dress, eagle, edge, edges, emblems, enframe, ensigns, extend, fasces, featheredge, figurehead, flange, fleur-de-lis, frame, fringe, fringes, go, hammer and sickle, have a tendency, head, hem, heraldry, hold a heading, incline, insignia, join, labellum, labium, labrum, lap, lapel pin, lead, lean, ledge, lie by, limb, limbus, limitations, limits, line, lip, list, livery, look to, mace, mantle, march, marches, marge, margin, medal, metes, metes and bounds, mortarboard, move, neighbor, old school tie, outline, outlines, outskirts, pale, parameters, perimeter, periphery, pin, point, point to, purfle, purl, ragged edge, ready to, redound to, regalia, rim, ring, rose, school ring, selvage, serve, set, set off, set toward, shamrock, shore, show a tendency, side, sideline, sigillography, skirt, skirts, skull and crossbones, sphragistics, staff, stand by, steer, stretch, surround, swastika, tartan, tend, tend to, tend to go, thistle, threshold, tie, touch, trench, trend, trim, turn, uniform, verge on, verge upon, verges, wand, warp, work toward

veridical

• veridical, actual, faithful, indisputable, just, real, right, speaking, strict, true, true-tongued, truth, truth-telling, uncolored, undeniable, undistorted, unreal, unvarnished, veracious

verifiable

• verifiable, absolute, actual, admitting no question, apodictic, attestable, authenticatable, checkable, confirmable, demonstrable, demonstratable, evincible, factual, historical, inappealable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, indubitable, irrefragable, irrefutable, provable, real, self-evident, substantiatable, supportable, sustainable, testable, unanswerable, unconfutable, undeniable, unimpeachable, unquestionable, unrefutable, validatable

verification

• verification, acid test, affirmation, ascertainment, assay, assurance, attestation, authentication, backing, backing up, bearing out, blank determination, bolstering, brouillon, buttressing, certification, check, checking, circumstantiation, collation, comparative scrutiny, confirmation, corroboration, corroboratory evidence, criterion, cross-check, crucial test, crucible, determination, docimasy, documentation, ensuring, essay, establishment, feeling out, first draft, fortification, kiteflying, ordeal, probation, proof, proving, proving out, ratification, reassurance, reassurement, reinforcement, rough draft, rough sketch, sounding out, standard, strengthening, substantiation, support, supporting evidence, test, test case, touchstone, trial, try, undergirding, validation

verified

• verified, actual, ascertained, attested, authenticated, borne out, categorically true, certain, certified, circumstantiated, confirmed, corroborated, demonstrated, determined, documentary, effectual, established, factual, fixed, historical, not in error, objectively true, proved, proven, real, settled, shown, substantiated, sure-enough, tested, tried, tried and true, true, true as gospel, truthful, unconfuted, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, unmistaken, unquestionable, unrefuted, validated, veracious, veritable

verify

• verify, affirm, assay, attest, audit, authenticate, back, back up, balance, balance the books, bear out, bolster, bring to test, buttress, certify, check, check and doublecheck, check out, check over, circumstantiate, clench, clinch, collate, confirm, corroborate, cross-check, cut and try, demonstrate, document, double-check, essay, establish, experiment, fortify, give a try, give a tryout, guarantee, have a go, inventory, justify, overhaul, painstakingly match, play around with, practice upon, probate, prove, put to trial, ratify, recheck, reinforce, research, road-test, run a sample, sample, scrutinize comparatively, settle, shake down, show, strengthen, substantiate, support, sustain, take stock, taste, test, triple-check, try, try it on, try out, undergird, uphold, validate, vouch for, warrant

verily

• verily, actually, assuredly, certainly, clearly, decidedly, demonstrably, factually, for a certainty, for real, forsooth, historically, in all conscience, in fact, in reality, in truth, in very sooth, indeed, indeedy, indubitably, manifestly, nay, nothing else but, noticeably, observably, obviously, of a truth, patently, positively, quite, really, really-truly, sensibly, seriously, truly, unambiguously, undeniably, undoubtedly, unmistakably, veritably, visibly, with truth, without doubt, yea

verisimilar

• verisimilar, apt, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, dinkum, fair, following the letter, foreseeable, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, hopeful, in the cards, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, liable, lifelike, likely, literal, natural, naturalistic, odds-on, original, predictable, predictable within limits, presumable, presumptive, probable, promising, pure, real, realistic, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, statistically probable, sterling, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, word-for-word

veritable

• veritable, aboveboard, absolute, actual, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out, all-pervading, ascertained, attested, authentic, authenticated, bona fide, born, broad-based, categorically true, certain, certified, clean, clear, comprehensive, confirmed, congenital, consummate, corroborated, de facto, deep-dyed, demonstrated, determined, documentary, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, effectual, egregious, established, exhaustive, factual, fair and square, for real, foursquare, genuine, good-faith, historical, honest-to-God, indubitable, intensive, legitimate, not in error, objectively true, omnibus, omnipresent, on the level, on the square, on the up-and-up, open, open and aboveboard, out-and-out, outright, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, positive, proved, pure, radical, real, regular, sheer, single-hearted, square, square-dealing, square-shooting, straight, straight-shooting, substantial, substantiated, sure-enough, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, true, true as gospel, truthful, ubiquitous, unconditional, unconfuted, undeniable, undenied, undoubted, unerroneous, unfallacious, unfalse, universal, unmistaken, unmitigated, unqualified, unquestionable, unrefuted, unreserved, unrestricted, up-and-up, utter, validated, veracious, verified, very, virtual, wholesale

verity

• verity, absolute credibility, actuality, credibility, eternal verities, fact, good sooth, gospel, historical truth, historicity, reality, sooth, the true, trueness, truism, truth, truth-loving, truth-speaking, truth-telling, truthfulness, ultimate truth, unerroneousness, unfallaciousness, unfalseness, veraciousness, veracity, veridicality, very truth

vermicide

• vermicide, aborticide, acaricide, anthelmintic, antibiotic, antiseptic, bug bomb, carbamate insecticide, chemosterilant, chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, contact poison, defoliant, disinfectant, eradicant, fratricide, fumigant, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, infanticide, insect powder, insecticide, matricide, microbicide, miticide, organic chlorine, organic phosphate insecticide, parricide, patricide, pesticide, poison, rat poison, regicide, roach paste, roach powder, rodenticide, sororicide, stomach poison, suicide, systemic, systemic insecticide, toxic, toxicant, toxin, uxoricide, venin, venom, vermifuge, virus, weed killer, worm medicine

vermilion

• vermilion, Titian, Titian-red, bricky, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, crimson, damask, ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, glowing, gules, henna, hot, incarmined, incarnadine, inflame, inflamed, infrared, iron-red, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, lipstick, lobster-red, lurid, madder, maroon, miniate, port-wine, puce, red, red-dyed, red-ink, red-looking, redden, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, rouge, rubicund, rubify, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddle, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty, scarlet, stammel, tile-red, vinaceous, warm, wine, wine-colored, wine-red

vermin

• vermin, amphibian, animal, aquatic, beast, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cattle, chaff, cosmopolite, cur, dog, dregs, dregs of society, feline, gnawer, herbivore, hound, hyena, insect, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, mongrel, offscourings, offscum, omnivore, pig, polecat, primate, quadruped, raff, reptile, riffraff, rodent, rubbish, ruminant, scavenger, scum, serpent, skunk, snake, sordes, swine, swinish multitude, trash, ungulate, varmint, vertebrate, viper, whelp, worm

vernacular

• vernacular, Babbittish, Philistine, aboriginal, accustomed, ancient language, argot, austerity, autochthonous, average, baldness, bareness, bourgeois, campy, candor, cant, classical language, colloquial, colloquial speech, colloquial usage, colloquialism, common, common speech, commonplace, confined, conventional, conversational, conversationalism, current, customary, dead language, directness, easy, endemic, everyday, familiar, frankness, general, geographically limited, gibberish, gobbledygook, habitual, high-camp, homebred, homegrown, homely, homespun, household, household words, idiom, illiterate speech, indigenous, informal, informal English, informal language, informal speech, insular, jargon, kitschy, language, leanness, limited, lingo, living language, local, localized, low-camp, matter-of-factness, mother tongue, mumbo jumbo, natal, native, native language, native speech, native tongue, native-born, naturalness, nonstandard, normative, of a place, openness, ordinary, original, parent language, parochial, patois, patter, phraseology, plain, plain English, plain speaking, plain speech, plain style, plain words, plainness, plebeian, pop, popular, predominating, prescriptive, prevailing, primitive, prosaicness, prosiness, provincial, public, regional, regular, regulation, restrainedness, rustic style, scatology, severity, simple, simpleness, simplicity, slang, soberness, spareness, speech, spoken, spoken language, standard, starkness, stock, straightforward, straightforwardness, substandard, substandard language, taboo language, talk, topical, unadorned style, unadornedness, unaffectedness, uneducated, unimaginativeness, universal, unliterary, unpoeticalness, unstudied, usual, vernacularism, vocabulary, vulgar, vulgar language, vulgar tongue, vulgate, wonted

vernal equinox

• vernal equinox, aphelion, apogee, astronomical longitude, autumnal equinox, celestial equator, celestial longitude, celestial meridian, circle, colures, ecliptic, equator, equinoctial, equinoctial circle, equinoctial colure, equinox, galactic longitude, geocentric longitude, geodetic longitude, great circle, heliocentric longitude, longitude, meridian, orbit, perigee, perihelion, period, small circle, solstice, solstitial colure, summer solstice, trajectory, winter solstice, zodiac, zone

vernal

• vernal, aestival, arctic, autumn, autumnal, beryl-green, berylline, blue-green, bluish-green, boreal, brumal, budding, callow, canicular, chartreuse, chloranemic, chlorine, chlorotic, citrine, citrinous, dewy, emerald, equinoctial, ever-new, evergreen, firsthand, fledgling, foliaged, fresh, glaucescent, glaucous, glaucous-green, grassy, green, green as grass, green-blue, greenish, greenish-blue, greenish-yellow, greensick, growing, hibernal, hiemal, holly, immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenuous, innocent, intact, ivy, ivy-green, juicy, leafy, leaved, maiden, maidenly, midsummer, midwinter, minor, naive, neoteric, nestling, new, new-fledged, olivaceous, olive, olive-green, original, out of season, porraceous, pristine, raw, ripening, sappy, seasonal, sempervirent, smaragdine, solstitial, spring, springlike, summer, summerlike, summerly, summery, tender, unadult, unbeaten, underage, undeveloped, unfledged, unformed, unhandled, unlicked, unmellowed, unripe, unseasoned, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, verdant, verdurous, vernant, vert, virescent, virgin, virginal, winter, winterlike, wintery, wintry, yellowish-green, young

versatile

• versatile, able, accessible, accomplished, adaptable, adjustable, adroit, all-around, ambidextrous, amphibious, at hand, available, changeable, changing, convenient, conversant, coquettish, dexterous, elastic, facile, faddish, fickle, flexible, flighty, flirtatious, fluctuating, generally capable, gifted, handy, inconstant, light, many-sided, mercurial, mobile, multifaceted, of all work, on call, on deck, on hand, on tap, plastic, pliable, protean, quicksilver, ready, resourceful, skilled, skillful, skittish, supple, talented, to hand, toying, two-handed, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, vacillating, variable, volatile, well-rounded

versatility

• versatility, Renaissance man, Renaissance versatility, adaptability, adjustability, all-roundedness, ambidexterity, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, choppiness, dappleness, deviation, difference, differentiation, disorder, divarication, divergence, diversification, flexibility, inconsistency, inconstancy, inequality, instability, irregularity, jerkiness, many-sidedness, mercuriality, motleyness, mutability, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonstandardization, nonuniformity, pluralism, raggedness, unconformism, unconformity, unevenness, unorthodoxy, unsteadiness, variability, variation, variegation, variety, variousness, wavering

verse

• verse, English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, Spenserian stanza, acquaint, adage, advertise, advertise of, advise, alba, ana, anacreontic, anacrusis, analects, antistrophe, aphorism, apothegm, apprise, article, avant-propos, axiom, back matter, balada, ballad, ballade, bass passage, book, bourdon, breakthrough, bridge, brief, bring word, bucolic, burden, byword, cadence, canso, canto, catchword, chanson, chapter, chorus, clause, clerihew, climb Parnassus, coda, collected sayings, column, communicate, compose poetry, couplet, current saying, development, dictate, dictum, dirge, disclose, distich, dithyramb, division, eclogue, elegize, elegy, enlighten, envoi, epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, exordium, exposition, expression, familiarize, fascicle, figure, folderol, folio, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, gathering, georgic, ghazel, give notice, give the facts, give word, gnome, golden saying, haiku, harmonic close, heptastich, hexastich, idyll, inform, innovation, installment, instruct, interlude, intermezzo, introduction, introductory phrase, jingle, lay, leap, leave word, let know, limerick, line, lisp in numbers, livraison, lyric, madrigal, make immortal verse, maxim, measure, mention to, monody, monostich, moral, mot, motto, mount Pegasus, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, musical thought, narrative poem, notify, number, nursery rhyme, octastich, octave, octet, ode, oracle, ornament, ottava rima, overture, page, palinode, paragraph, part, passage, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, pentastich, period, phrase, pithy saying, poem, poesy, poetize, poetry, postulate, preamble, precept, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, prescript, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, prothalamium, proverb, proverbial saying, proverbs, quatrain, refrain, report, resolution, response, rhyme, rhyme royal, ritornello, rondeau, rondel, roundel, roundelay, rune, satire, saw, saying, section, send word, sentence, sententious expression, septet, serial, serve notice, sestet, sestina, sextet, sheet, signature, sing, sing deathless songs, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, speak, stanza, statement, stave, stock saying, strain, strophe, sutra, syllable, tailpiece, tanka, teaching, tell, tenso, tenzone, tercet, terza rima, tetrastich, text, the supreme fiction, threnody, triolet, triplet, tristich, troubadour poem, tutti, tutti passage, variation, verselet, versicle, versify, villanelle, virelay, volume, voluntary, wisdom, wisdom literature, wise saying, witticism, word, words of wisdom, write poetry

versed in

• versed in, acquainted with, adept in, at home in, at home with, conversant with, expert at, familiar with, good at, handy at, informed in, intimate with, master of, proficient in, skilled in, strong in, up on, well up on, well-read in, well-versed

versification

• versification, Stabreim, alliterative meter, ars poetica, measure, meter, metrical pattern, metrics, numbers, poetcraft, poetic justice, poetic language, poetic license, poeticism, poetics, prosodic pattern, prosody, quantitative meter, scanning, scansion, syllabic meter, vers libre, versecraft, versemaking

version

• version, account, adaptation, affiliation, arrangement, article, autograph, body, brainchild, branch, burlesque, chronicle, church, clarification, communion, community, composite reading, composition, computer printout, conception, condensation, conflation, construct, construction, copy, critical edition, denomination, diplomatic text, division, document, draft, dummy, duplication, edited text, edited version, edition, engrossment, essay, facsimile, faction, fair copy, fellowship, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, form, group, history, holograph, hymnal, hymnbook, idea, imitation, instrumental score, interpretation, kind, knockoff, lection, letter, libretto, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, lute tablature, manifestation, manuscript, matter, mock-up, model, music, music paper, music roll, musical notation, musical score, narrative, nonfiction, normalized text, notation, offshoot, opera, opera score, opus, orchestral score, order, organization, original, paper, paraphrase, parchment, parody, part, party, penscript, persuasion, piano score, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, portrayal, printed matter, printout, production, reading, reading matter, recension, religious order, rendering, rendition, replica, report, representation, reproduction, restatement, rewording, schism, scholarly edition, school, score, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, sect, sectarism, segment, sheet music, short score, side, simplification, society, songbook, songster, story, style, tablature, tale, text, the written word, transcript, transcription, translation, travesty, type, typescript, understanding, variant, variation, variety, view, vocal score, work, writing, written music

verso

• verso, Gospel side, acknowledgments, back, back matter, bastard title, bibliography, cantorial side, catch line, catchword, colophon, contents, contents page, copyright page, dedication, endleaf, endpaper, endsheet, errata, flyleaf, folio, fore edge, foreword, front matter, half-title page, head, imprint, index, inscription, introduction, larboard, leaf, left, left hand, left wing, left-hand side, left-winger, liberal, makeup, near side, page, port, port tack, portside, preface, preliminaries, radical, recto, reverso, running title, signature, subtitle, table of contents, tail, text, title, title page, trim size, type page, wrong side

versus

• versus, across, adverse to, against, at cross-purposes with, athwart, con, confronting, contra, counter to, dead against, en route to, facing, fronting, headed for, in conflict with, in front of, in opposition to, in passage to, in transit to, on, on route to, opposed to, opposite to, over against, to, toward, towards, up, upon, vis-a-vis

vertebrate

• vertebrate, amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cetacean, chordate, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, omnivore, primate, quadruped, reptile, rodent, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate, varmint, vermin

vertex

• vertex, L, acme, angle, apex, apogee, bend, bifurcation, bight, brow, cant, cap, chevron, climax, cloud nine, coin, corner, crank, crest, crook, crotchet, crown, culmen, culmination, deflection, dogleg, edge, elbow, ell, extreme limit, extremity, fork, furcation, heaven, heavens, height, heights, high noon, highest pitch, highest point, hook, inflection, knee, limit, maximum, meridian, mountaintop, ne plus ultra, no place higher, nook, noon, peak, pinnacle, pitch, point, pole, quoin, ridge, roof, seventh heaven, sky, spire, summit, swerve, tip, tip-top, top, upmost, upper extremity, uppermost, utmost, veer, very top, zag, zenith, zig, zigzag

vertical

• vertical, abrupt, acmatic, apical, arrowlike, azimuth circle, bluff, bold, bolt upright, breakneck, capital, chief, consummate, dead straight, direct, downright, erect, even, flat, head, headlong, headmost, highest, horizontal, in a line, level, lineal, linear, maximal, maximum, meridian, meridional, normal, orthodiagonal, overmost, paramount, perpendicular, plumb, plunging, precipitous, preeminent, rampant, rapid, rearing, rectilineal, rectilinear, right, right angle, ruler-straight, sharp, sheer, smooth, stand-up, standing up, steep, straight, straight-cut, straight-front, straight-side, straight-up, streamlined, summital, supreme, tip-top, top, topmost, true, ultimate, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, uncurved, undeflected, undeviating, undistorted, uninterrupted, unswerving, unturned, up-and-down, upended, upmost, uppermost, upraised, upreared, upright, upstanding, vertical circle, zenithal

vertigo

• vertigo, abscess, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, backache, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dropsy, drunkenness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, flux, giddiness, growth, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, instability, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, lightheadedness, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, pruritus, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, skin eruption, sneezing, sore, spasm, spinning head, swimming, tabes, tachycardia, tumor, upset stomach, vertiginousness, vomiting, wasting, wooziness

verve

• verve, active fancy, aggressiveness, alacrity, animal spirits, animation, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardency, ardor, avidity, avidness, bang, bounce, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, buoyancy, capersomeness, cheerful readiness, coltishness, dash, drive, eagerness, ebullience, ecstasy, effervescence, elan, elasticity, energy, enterprise, enthusiasm, esprit, excited imagination, excitement, exuberance, fervency, fervent imagination, fervidness, fervor, fire, flair, flourish, forwardness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, furor, fury, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, get-up-and-go, ginger, gust, gusto, heart, heartiness, heat, heated imagination, impassionedness, impatience, initiative, keen desire, keenness, kick, life, liveliness, lively imagination, lurid imagination, moxie, oomph, panache, passion, passionateness, pep, pepper, peppiness, piquancy, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, poignancy, poop, promptness, punch, pungency, push, quickness, raciness, readiness, relish, resiliency, rollicksomeness, rompishness, savor, skittishness, snap, soul, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spring, spunk, starch, thrust, vehemence, vigor, vim, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, vivacity of imagination, vivid imagination, vividness, warmth, warmth of feeling, wild imagination, zeal, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

very

• very, a bit, a little, absolutely, actually, acutely, almighty, almost, altogether, awful, awfully, bare, barest, big, bleeding, bloody, bona fide, certainly, completely, correct, crazy, damned, danged, darned, de facto, decidedly, deeply, definitely, dreadful, dreadfully, eminently, entirely, especial, exact, exactly, exceedingly, exceptionally, express, extraordinarily, extremely, fairly, genuine, genuinely, greatly, highly, hugely, hundred-percent, ideal, identical, in a measure, in a way, in some measure, in truth, indubitable, jolly, just, kind of, larruping, least, main, mere, mightily, mighty, model, monstrous, mortally, most, much, nearly, notably, only too, parlous, particular, passing, perfect, perfectly, pesky, plumb, powerful, powerfully, practically, precise, precisely, pretty, profoundly, pure, quite, rather, rattling, real, really, remarkably, right, same, scarcely, selfsame, seriously, sheer, significantly, simple, slightly, snapping, so, somewhat, sort of, spanking, special, strikingly, super, sure-enough, surely, surpassingly, tellingly, terribly, terrifically, thoroughly, to a degree, to some extent, too, totally, true, truly, uncommonly, undoubted, unequivocally, unquestionable, unquestionably, unusually, utter, vastly, veritable, veritably, very much, vitally, whacking, whopping

vesicle

• vesicle, air bubble, balloon, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, blood blister, boss, bow, bubble, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, check, chine, cicatrix, clump, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, fault, fever blister, flange, flap, flaw, freckle, gall, globule, gnarl, handle, hemangioma, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lentigo, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, soap bubble, spine, split, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, tab, track, tubercle, tubercule, twist, verruca, wale, warp, wart, weal, welt, wen, whitehead

vesicular

• vesicular, arterial, beaten, blebby, blistered, blistering, blistery, bubbling, bubbly, burbling, burbly, camerated, capillary, capsular, carbonated, cellular, chiffon, cystic, ebullient, effervescent, fizzy, locular, marsupial, puffed, saccular, siliquose, souffle, souffleed, sparkling, spumescent, vascular, veinous, venose, venous, vesicant, vesicated, vesicatory, whipped

vesper

• vesper, Mass, bedtime prayer, camp meeting, church, church service, close of day, cockshut, compline, crepuscular, devotions, divine service, dusk, dusky, duty, eve, even, evening, evening devotions, evensong, eventide, exercises, grayness, lauds, liturgy, matins, meeting, morning devotions, night song, nightfall, none, nones, novena, office, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting, prayers, prime, prime song, public worship, revival, revival meeting, service, setting sun, sext, shut of day, sundown, sunset, sunsetty, tent meeting, the expiring day, tierce, twilight, twilighty, undersong, vespers, vespertine, vigils, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service

vessel

• vessel, Eustachian tube, Fallopian tube, LC, LSD, LSM, SC, aircraft carrier, aircraft tender, ammunition ship, argosy, ark, assault transport, bark, battleship, bawley, beaker, bilander, blackjack, boat, bomb ketch, bottom, bowl, brig, brigantine, bucket, bully, buss, canal, capital ship, caravel, carrier, cat, catamaran, chalice, clipper, coast guard cutter, coffee cup, communications ship, container, convoy, corsair, corvette, craft, cruiser, cutter, dandy, depot ship, destroyer, destroyer leader, destroyer tender, dhow, dispatch boat, dreadnought, dromond, duct, eagle boat, eggcup, emunctory, escort carrier, escort vessel, fire ship, first-rate, fishing smack, fistula, flagship, flattie, flattop, four-masted bark, four-master, frigate, fuel ship, galiot, galleass, galleon, glass, goblet, guided missile cruiser, gunboat, heavy cruiser, highball glass, holder, hooker, horn, hospital ship, hoy, hulk, hull, ice yacht, intestines, ironclad, jigger, junk, keel, keelboat, ketch, knockabout, landing craft, lateen, lateener, leviathan, liberty boat, light cruiser, line-of-battle ship, lorcha, loving cup, lugger, meatus, mine sweeper, minisub, monitor, mosquito boat, mug, nobby, noggin, ocean racer, ostium, outrigger, oviduct, packet, patrol boat, picketboat, pilot boat, pinnace, piragua, pirogue, pony, pore, pram, privateer, protected cruiser, pungy, racing yacht, raider, ram, receiver, receiving ship, receptacle, reconnaissance ship, rigger, rocket boat, sailing auxiliary, sailing canoe, sailing dinghy, sailing packet, sailing trawler, salpinx, sampan, sandbagger, schooner, schooper, scooter, scout, scout cruiser, seaplane carrier, shallop, sharpie, shell, ship, ship of war, shipentine, shipplane carrier, shot glass, skipjack, sloop, smack, smack boat, snow, spy ship, stein, storeship, storm boat, submarine, submarine chaser, submarine patrol boat, submarine tender, submersible, superdreadnought, sweeper, tankard, tanker, tartan, tassie, teacup, tender, thoracic duct, topsail schooner, transport, trimaran, troopship, tub, tumbler, turret ship, ureter, urethra, utensil, vagina, vas, warship, watercraft, well smack, whaler, wineglass, wool-clipper, xebec, yacht, yawl

vest pocket

• vest pocket, baby, baby-sized, bantam, banty, compact, diminutive, duodecimo, handy, miniature, miniaturized, minikin, minimal, minuscule, pocket, pocket-sized, pony, small-scale, subminiature, toy, twelvemo

vest

• vest, appertain, appertain to, authorize, base, belong to, bless with, build, build in, dower, empower, endow, endow with, establish, favor with, fix, found, grace with, ground, install, invest, lay the foundation, pertain, pertain to, pitch, plant, put in, put up, seat, set, set up, settle on, settle upon, vest in, vest with, waistcoat

Vesta

• Vesta, Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vulcan, Zeus, lares and penates

vestal

• vestal, Platonic, abstinent, bachelor girl, celibate, continent, feme sole, intact, lone woman, maid, maiden, maiden lady, maidenly, old maid, single girl, spinster, spinstress, vestal virgin, virgin, virginal

vested interest

• vested interest, Black Power, Italian vote, Jewish vote, Polish Power, White Power, absolute interest, appurtenance, authority, benefit, birthright, black vote, claim, common, conjugal right, contingent interest, demand, divine right, droit, due, easement, equitable interest, equity, estate, faculty, farm interests, financial interests, holding, inalienable right, interest, interest group, labor interests, limitation, natural right, part, percentage, power, prerogative, prescription, pressure group, presumptive right, pretense, pretension, proper claim, property right, right, right of entry, settlement, special interests, special-interest group, stake, strict settlement, title, trust, use, vested interests, vested right

vested

• vested, appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, confirmed, costumed, decked, deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dight, disguised, dressed, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, endued, engrafted, engraved, entrenched, established, etched, firmly established, garbed, garmented, gowned, graven, habilimented, habited, hooded, implanted, impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed, ingrained, ingrown, invested, inveterate, inwrought, liveried, long-established, mantled, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock, pantalooned, raimented, rigged out, robed, rooted, set, settled, shod, shoed, stabilized, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vestmented, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded, well-set, well-settled

vestibule

• vestibule, Eustachian tube, access, adit, air lock, antechamber, anteroom, anvil, approach, auditory apparatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, auditory nerve, auditory ossicles, auditory tube, auricle, basilar membrane, bony labyrinth, cauliflower ear, cochlea, conch, concha, corridor, drumhead, ear, ear lobe, eardrum, endolymph, entrance, entrance hall, entranceway, entry, entryway, external ear, foyer, galilee, gangplank, gangway, hall, hammer, in, incus, ingress, inlet, inner ear, intake, lobby, lobe, lobule, lug, malleus, mastoid process, means of access, middle ear, narthex, opening, organ of Corti, outer ear, oval window, passage, passageway, perilymph, pinna, portal, portico, propylaeum, round window, secondary eardrum, semicircular canals, shell, stapes, stirrup, stoa, threshold, tympanic cavity, tympanic membrane, tympanum, way, way in

vestige

• vestige, account, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, annals, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, balance, boss, bump, butt, butt end, candle ends, catalog, catchword, cave painting, chaff, chronicle, clue, colophon, concavity, convexity, correspondence, cue, cue word, dactylogram, dactylograph, dash, debris, dent, detritus, dint, documentation, embossment, end, eolith, evidence, excrescence, fag end, filings, fingerprint, footmark, footprint, footstep, fossil, fossil footprint, fragment, glimmer, hint, history, holdover, hot lead, husks, ichnite, ichnolite, impress, impression, imprint, indent, indentation, indention, infusion, inkling, intimation, inventory, key, key word, lead, leavings, leftovers, letters, list, lump, mark, memento, memorial, mezzolith, microlith, neolith, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, pad, paleolith, parings, path, paw print, pawmark, petrification, petrified forest, petrified wood, petroglyph, pimple, pipe roll, plateaulith, print, pug, pugmark, rag, rags, record, recording, refuse, register, registry, relic, relics, reliquiae, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, roll, rolls, roster, rota, rubbish, ruin, ruins, rump, sauce, sawdust, scent, scourings, scrap, scraps, scroll, seal, seasoning, shade, shadow, shavings, sigil, sign, signet, smack, soupcon, spice, spoor, sprinkling, stamp, step, straw, stubble, stud, stump, suggestion, survival, suspicion, sweepings, table, tag, taint, taste, telltale, tempering, thought, thumbmark, thumbprint, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, tip-off, token, touch, trace, track, tract, trail, waste, whiff

vestment

• vestment, apparel, array, attire, bedizenment, blanket, canonicals, ceremonial attire, clericals, cloak, cloth, clothes, clothing, coat, costume, cover, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, curtain, drape, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, episcopal vestments, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, frock, garb, garment, garments, gear, gown, guise, habiliment, habit, hanging, hood, housing, investiture, investment, linen, liturgical garments, mantle, mask, pall, pontificalia, pontificals, rag, rags, raiment, robe, robes, screen, shelter, shield, shroud, sportswear, style, threads, togs, toilette, trim, veil, vestments, vesture, wear, wearing apparel

vestry

• vestry, Council of Nicaea, Council of Trent, Easter sepulcher, Lateran Council, Vatican Council, ambry, apse, baptistery, blindstory, chancel, chapter, choir, classis, cloisters, conciliarism, conclave, conference, confessional, confessionary, congregation, consistory, convention, convocation, crypt, diaconicon, diaconicum, diocesan conference, ecclesiastical council, ecumenical council, nave, parochial church council, parochial council, plenary council, porch, presbytery, rood loft, rood stair, rood tower, sacrarium, sacristy, session, synod, transept, triforium

vet

• vet, bone, campaigner, canvass, check over, check up, con, contemplate, dig, drill, elucubrate, examine, examine thoroughly, eye, give the eye, give the once-over, go deep into, go over, grind, hard look, horse doctor, inspect, leer, leer at, look closely at, look over, lucubrate, new, ogle, ogle at, old, old campaigner, old hand, old pro, old salt, old sea dog, old soldier, old-time, old-timer, perlustrate, perscrutate, peruse, plunge into, pore, pore over, practical, practice, practiced, read, regard studiously, restudy, review, salt, scrutinize, seasoned, seasoned veteran, shellback, size up, skilled, study, survey, swot, take a long, take stock of, versed, veteran, veterinarian, veterinary,