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vindicate
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free from blame, exonerate, justify or support. (I am vindicated, I am selfish I am wrong...) Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional.
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vindicate
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out for revenge, malicious.
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vintner
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winemarker, seller of wine
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viper
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poisonous snake.
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virile
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manly. (John) I do not accept the premise that a man is virile only when he is belligerent.
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virtual
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in essence, for practical purposes. She is a virtual financial wizard when it comes to money mattters
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virtue
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goodness, moral excellence, good quality. A virtue carried to extremes can turn into something resembling vice; humility, for example, can degernate into sevility and spinelessness.
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virtuoso
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highly skilled artist. The child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin grew into a virtuoso whose virtuosity on the violin thrilled millions.
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verbatim
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word for word. He repeated the message verbatim
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verbiage
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pompous array of words, nonsense. After we had waded through all the verbiage, we discovered that the writer had said very little.
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verbose
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wordy. We had to make some major cuts in Senator Foghorn'sspeech because it was far too verbose.
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verdant
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green; lush in vegetation. Monet's paintings of the verdant meadows were symphonies in green
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verdigris
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green coating on copper that has been exposed to the weather.
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verge
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border, edge. Madame curie knew that she was on the verge of discovering the secres of radioactive elements.
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versimilar
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probably or liekly; having the appearance of trueth. Something verisimilar is very similar to the truth, or at least seems to be.
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verisimilitude
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appearance of truth; likelihood. Critics praised her for the verisimilitude of her performance as Lady Macbeth. She was completely believeable.
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veritable
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actual; being truly so; not false or imaginary. At his computer, Pavel is a veritable wizeard, creating graphic effects that seem magical to progammers less skilled than he.
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verity
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quality of being true; lasting truth or principle. Do you question the verity of Kato Kaelin's testimony about what he heard the night NIcole Brown Simpson was slain? The the skeptic, everything was relative: there were no eternal verities in which one could believe.
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vernacular
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living language; natural style. Cut out the old-fashioned "thee's' and 'thou's' and write in the vernacular.
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vernal
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pertaining to spring. We may expect showers all during the month of April.
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versatile
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having many talents; capable of working many fields. She was a versatile athelete, earning vasity letters in basketball, hockey, and track. (eg. Versatile Squad)
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vertex
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summit. Let us drop a perpendicular line from the vertex of the triangle to the base.
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vertigo
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severe dizziness. When you test potential plane pilots for susceptibility to spells of vertigo, be sure to hand out airsick bags.
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verve
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enthusiasm; liveliness. She approached her studies with such verve that it was impossible for her to do poorly.
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vestige
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trace, remains. We discovered vestiges of early Indian life in the cave.
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vex
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annoy; distress. Please try not to vex your mother; she is doing the best she can.
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velocity
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speed
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venal
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capable of being bribed. The venal policeman accepted the bribe offered him by the speeding motorist whom he had stopped.
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vendetta
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blood feud. the rival mobs engaged in a bitter vendetta.
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vendor
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seller. The fruit vendor sold her wares from a stall on the sidewalk
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veneer
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thin layer; cover. Casual acquaintances were deceived by his veneer of sophistication and failed to revognize his fundamental shallowness.
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venerable
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deserving high respect. We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our venerable leader.
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venerate
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revere, respect. In Tibet today, the common people still venerate their traditional spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama
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venial
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forgivable, trail. When Jean Valjean stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister, he committed a venial offense.
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vension
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the meat of a deer. The hunters dined on vension.
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venom
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poison; hatred. (Harry potter's Snape, black magic). Bitten by his ankle by a venomous snake, the cowboy contortionist curled up like a pretzel and sucked the venom out of the wound.
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vent
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small opening; outlet. The wine didnot flow because the air vent in the barrel was clogged.
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vent
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express; utter. He vented his wrath on his class
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ventral
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abdominal. We shall now examine the ventral plates of this serpent, not the dorsal side.
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ventriloquist
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someone who can make his or her voice seem to come from another person or thing. This ventriloquist does an act in which she has a conversation with a wooden dummy.
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venture
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risk; dare; undertake a risk. Fearing to ditress the actors, the timorous reviewer never ventured to criticise a performance in harsh terms
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venturesome
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bold. A group of venturesome women were the first to scale Mt. Annapurna.
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venue
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location
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veracious
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truthful. I can recommend him for this position because I have always found him veracious and reliable
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veracity
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truthfulness. Trying to prove HIll a liar, Senator Spector repeatedly questioned her veracity. Veracious
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verbalize
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put into words. I know you don't like to talk about these things. but please try to verbalize your feelings.
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vapid
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dull and unimaginative; insipid and flavorless. 'Boring' said Cher, as she suffered through yet another vapid lecture about Dead White Male Poets.
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vaporize
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turn into vapor (steam, gas, fog, etc_ "zap!" went Super Mario's atomic ray gun as he vaporized another deadly foe.
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variegated
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many-colored. Without her glasses. Gretchen saw the fields of tulips as a variegated blur
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vassal
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in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord. The lord demanded that his vassals contributed more to his miliatry campaign.
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vaunted
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boasted; bragged; highly publizied. This much vaunted project proved a disappointment when it collaped.
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veer
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change in direction. After what seemed an enternity, the wind veered to the east and the storm abated.
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vegetate
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live in a monotonous way. I do not undertand how you can vegetate in this quiet village after the advefnturous life you have led.
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vehement
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forceful; intensity emotional; with marked vigor. Alred became so vehement in describing what was wrong with the Internal Revenue Service thta he began jumping up and down and gesticulating wildly. vehemence.
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vantage
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position giving an advantage. The fired upon the enemy from behind trees, walls and any other point of vantage they could find.
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vagary
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caprice, whim. She followed every vagary of fashion.
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vagabond
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wanderer; tamp. In summer, college students wander the roads of Europe like carefree vagabonds.
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vacuous
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empty, lacking in ideas; stupid. The cadidate's vacuous remarks annoyed the audience, who had hoped to hear more than empty platitudes.
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vacillate
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waver; fluctuate. Uncertain which suitor she ought to marry, the princess vacillated, saying now one, now the other.
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uxorious
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excessively devoted to one's wife. His friends laughed at him because he was so uxorious and submissive to his wife's desires.
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untrammeled
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without limits or restrictions, unrestrained. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
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untoward
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unfortunately or unlucky; adverse; unexpected. Trying to sneak ou of the house, Huck had a most untoward encounter with Miss Watson, who thwarted his escape.
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untenable
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indefensible; not able to be maintained. Wayne is so contrary that, the more untenable a position is, the harder he'll try to defend it.
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unsullied
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untarnished, clean, pure. I am happy that my reputation is unsullied.
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unsightly
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ugly. Although James was an experienced emergency room nurse, he coccasionally became queasy when faced with a parcticularly unsightly injury.
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unseemly
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unbecoming; indecent; in poor taste. When Seymour put whoopee cushions on all the seats in the funeral parlor, his conduct was most unseemly.
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unscathed
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unharmed. They prayed he would come back from the war unscathed.
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unsavory
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distasteful; morally offensive. People with unsavory reputations should ont be allowed to work with young children
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unruly
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disobedient; lawless. The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
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unrequited
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not reciprocated. Suffering the pangs of unrequited love, Olivia rebukes Cesario for his hardheartedness
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unravel
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disentangel; solve. With equal ease Miss Marple unravelled tangle balls of yarn and baffling murder mysteries.
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unprepossessing
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unattractive. During adolescence many attractive young people somehow acquire the false notion that their appearance is unprepossessing.
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unprecedented
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novel; unparalled. For a first novel, Margaret Mitchell's book Gone with the Wind was an unprecedented success
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unpalatable
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distasteful; disagreeable. "I refuse to swallow your conclusion,' she said, finding his logic unpalatable.
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unobtrusive
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inconspicuous; not blatant. Reluctant to attract notice, the governess took a chair in a far corner of the room and tried to be as unobtrusive as possible.
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