Putnam's Word Book
Chapter 253 : vision, n. sight; apparition, dream, phantasm, specter, phantom, hallucination, illusi

vision, n. sight; apparition, dream, phantasm, specter, phantom, hallucination, illusion.

visionary, a. dreamy, imaginative, romantic, fanciful, illusory, chimerical, Utopian.

visionary, n. castle-builder, dreamer, illusionist.

visitor, n. guest. Antonym: host.

vitiate, v. debase, corrupt, demoralize, contaminate, deprave, spoil.

vitiation, n. debas.e.m.e.nt, corruption, demoralization, depravation, contamination.

vixen, n. virago, scold, shrew, termagant, Tartar, Xantippe, spitfire.

voice, n. utterance, speech; vote, choice, election, suffrage.

a.s.sociated Words: phonology, phonetics, phonation, phonography, oral, vocal, non-vocal, aphonic, arsis, ictus, vocalize, modulate, modulation, inflection.

void, a. vacant, empty, vacuous; dest.i.tute, devoid, lacking; ineffectual, invalid, nugatory, vain.

void, v. evacuate, eject, discharge, egest, pa.s.s; nullify, abrogate, annul.

voidance, n. evacuation, discharge, egestion.

volatile, a. See changeable.

volcano, n. a.s.sociated Words: crater, lapilli, lava, scoria, obsidian, volcanic, eruption, belch.

volley, n. salvo; outpouring, storm, discharge.

voluble, a. glib, fluent, oily, talkative.

volume, n. book, tome; dimensions, compa.s.s, size, bulk, ma.s.s.

voluntary, a. free, volitional, unforced, spontaneous. Antonyms: See involuntary.

volunteer, n. Antonym: conscript.

voluptuary, n. sensualist, epicure, sybarite, _bon vivant_.

Antonym: ascetic.

voluptuous, a. sensual, epicurean, sybaritic. Antonyms: ascetic, abstemious, austere.

vomit, v. puke; spew, emit, belch, disgorge, eject.

vomiting, n. emesis, vomition, puking, spew. a.s.sociated Words: emetic, antemetic, qualmish, gag, retch, nausea, nauseate.

voracious, a. rapacious, ravenous, insatiable, fierce, gluttonous, cormorant.

voracity, n. rapacity, voraciousness, greediness.

votary, n. devotee, votarist.

vote, n. suffrage; ballot, ticket; referendum, plebiscite.

a.s.sociated Words: enfranchise, enfranchis.e.m.e.nt, disenfranchise, disenfranchis.e.m.e.nt, suffragist, elect, election electoral, electorate, acclamation, franchise, poll.

vote, v. (Colloq.) declare.

voter, n. elector, suffragist.

voters, n. pl. electorate.

voting place. poll.

vouch, v. attest, corroborate, warrant.

voucher, n. attestator.

vow, n. pledge. a.s.sociated Words: votary, votive.

vowel, n. a.s.sociated Words: macron, breve, diaeresis.

vulgar, a. unrefined, plebeian, ign.o.ble, low-born, coa.r.s.e, inelegant, ribald, risque, broad, gross. Antonyms: refined, dainty, pure, chaste.

vulgarity, n. unrefinement, dowdiness.

vulgar-looking, a. dowdy.

W

Wabble, v. stagger, vacillate, reel.

waddle, v. toddle, totter.

wade, v. ford.

wading birds. Grallatores, Grallae.

wading place. ford.

wage, v. stake, bet, wager.

wager, v. bet, stake, pledge, hazard, speculate.

wages, n. compensation, pay, earnings, hire, salary.