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wear away.abrade,fray, erode,corrode,fret,chafe.wearied,a.tired, fatigued,exhausted,weary, fagged, jaded.weariness,n.fatigue,lassitude,languor,exhaustion,ennui.wearing away.abrasion, attrition, detrition,corrosion,erosion.weary,a.tired, fatigued, worn,exhausted,wearied,spent, fagged,ennuyé.weary,v.tire,fatigue,exhaust,jade, fag,bore.weather,n.Associated words: meteorology, meteorologist, barometer.weather-cock,n.weather-vane.weave,v.entwine, interlace,mat,plait,braid,plat, fabricate.weaving,n.Associated words: loom, textile, textorial, textrine, spindle.web,n.texture,tissue.web-footed,a.palmiped, palmated, fin-toed, lobate.wedding,n.nuptials,marriage, espousals.wedge,n.embolus, chock, quoin, scotch.wedge-shaped,a.cuneiform, sphenoid.weed,v.uproot, extirpate.weeding,n.sarculation; extirpation, rootingout.weeding machine.aberuncator.week day.Associated word: ferial.weekly,a.hebdomadary, hebdomadal.weep,v.sob,cry.weeping,n.sobbing,crying.weevil,n.curculio.weighable,a.ponderable.weight,n.heaviness, ponderousness, gravity, ponderosity,poise, heft; encumbrance, pressure, incubus,clog,burden;importance,consequence,moment,significance.weighty,a.heavy,ponderous,massive,onerous; momentous,important, pregnant,serious.welcome,n.greeting, salutation.welfare,n.prosperity,happiness,weal,success, well-being.well,a.good, desirable,fortunate, expedient,favorable,beneficial, advantageous;healthy,sound, undiseased, hale,hearty.Welsh,a.Cymric, Cambrian.--n.Cymry.Welshman,n.Cambrian.welter,v.wallow, flounder,roll.west,n.Associated words: Occident, Hesperian, Hesperus, Hesperides.western,a.occidental.west wind.Associated word: favonian.wet,a.damp,moist, humid,soaked.wet,v.moisten,dampen,soak, imbrue, saturate.wet blanket.check,damper,discouragement.whalebone,n.baleen.whale oil.trainoil.wharf,n.pier,quay,dock; jetty.whatnot,a.étagère, cabinet.wheat,n.Associated word: mattamore. Seegrain.wheedle,v.cajole,blandish,inveigle.wheedling,n.cajolery,blandishment,inveiglement.wheel,n.cycle;truckle, caster, roulette, rowel;gear, cogwheel, miterwheel; pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley).Associated words:spoke, felly,hub, strake,tire,straddle,cog, sprocket, linchpin,arbor,axle, axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, trochilic, ratchet, flange,skid, rotiform.whetstone,n.oilstone.Associated word: coticular.whey cure.serumtherapy, serotherapy.whim,n.vagary,caprice,fancy,crotchet,freak,humor, maggot,notion,quirk.whimsey,n.whim.whimsical,a.capricious, vagarious,notional,crotchety,fantastic.whine,n.whimper, puling,complaint.--v.whimper, pule,complain.whiningly,a.plaintively, querulously.whinny,n.andv.neigh.whip,v.lash,beat,thrash,flog, drub,punish,chastise,trounce, flagellate,castigate,scourge,switch, spank,maul, fustigate; (Slang)conquer,defeat;jerk,snatch, whisk.whip,n.horsewhip,crop,scourge,lash,switch, rattan, thong, knout, cat-o-nine-tails, quirt (rawhide); koorbash (Africa).whipping,n.chastisement,castigation,punishment, scourging, trouncing, flagellation,beating,lashing, fustigation, flogging,mauling;defeat.whippletree,n.whiffletree, swingletree, singletree.whirl,v.spin,revolve, twirl,rotate, gyrate,wheel, pirouette.whirl,n.circumvolution,rotation, gyration, swirl.whirling,a.spinning, rotating, vertiginous, gyratory.whirling,n.spinning,rotation, gyration, turbination, pirouette.whirlpool,n.maelstrom, vortex,eddy; Charybdis.whirlwind,n.cyclone, typhoon.whiskers,n. pl.beard; (of a cat) vibrissa.whiskey,n.spiritus frumenti.Associated words: faints,distill, distiller, distillery, poteen,moonshine, moonshiner.whisper,n.susurrus, susurration, whispering, sibilation; innuendo,suggestion, intimation.whistling,n.rhonchus, râle (Med.).whit,n.particle,atom,iota,jot, tittle,bit,mite,mote, ace,scintilla,scrap.white,a.blanched, bleached, etiolate,pale; hoary.white heat.incandescence.white hot.incandescent.white lead.ceruse, carbonate oflead.white livered,a.cowardly,pusillanimous, dastardly.whiten,v.bleach, blanch,pale, etiolate, decolorize.whitening,n.bleaching, blanching, etiolation.white race.Caucasianrace.whites,n.leucorrhea, fluor albus.Whitsunday,n.Pentecost, Whitsuntide.whiz,v.hum,buzz, whirr.whole,a.all, total,entire; intact,complete, inviolate, integral,unbroken, unscathed, unabridged.whole,n.sum, total, totality,all,aggregate,gross, integral.Antonyms:part,portion, fraction, disintegration.wholeness,n.entirety, completeness, integrity.Associated words: integral, integrate, integration, integrant.wholesome,a.healthy, salubrious, salutary,nutritious,beneficial.Antonyms: Seeunhealthy.whoop,n.halloo,hoot,shout,yell.whooping-cough,n.chincough, pertussis.whore,n.harlot,prostitute, strumpet,courtesan, wench, Cyprian, bawd, drab, punk, woman of illfame, demirep.whoredom,n.prostitution, fornication,lewdness,harlotry, bawdry.whorehouse,n.brothel,bawdy-house.whoremaster,n.lecher, fornicator,whoremonger;pimp, procurer,pander.whoremonger,n.whoremaster,debauchee,rake, wencher.whorish,a.lewd, incontinent,licentious, meretricious, libidinous.wicked,a.sinful, iniquitous,evil,immoral, depraved,vicious,pernicious,abandoned,unrighteous,heinous, flagitious.wickedness,n.iniquity, depravity,immorality,sinfulness,vice,infamy,atrocity,evil,offense, flagrancy, unrighteousness.wide,a.broad: extensive,vast; comprehensive.wide-awake,a.alert,keen,vigilant,watchful,wary,attentive.wideness,n.breadth,width.widespread,a.prevalent, extended, extensive.widow,n.relict.Associated words: viduage, dower weeds, widowhood.width,n.breadth.wife,n.spouse, consort, helpmate,partner.Associated words: uxoricide, uxorious, uxoriousness, coverture, dowry, polygamy, polygamist, monogamy, dower,dot, uxorial.wig,n.peruke, toupee, periwig, toupet, jasey, scratchwig, bagwig.wiggle,v.squirm, wriggle.wigmaker,n.perruquier.wigwam,n.tepee.wild,a.untamed, undomesticated, feral, ferine;desert,waste,uncultivated, uninhabited;savage,ferocious,barbarous,uncivilized,cannibal;unrestrained,violent, turbulent,tempestuous,riotous,wanton, uncontrolled;visionary,bizarre,grotesque,impracticable; agrarian, agrestial.wile,n.artifice,deception,guile,trick,ruse,craft.will,n.volition, preference,choice;command, wish behest,order.will,n.testament,devise.Associated words: intestate, intestacy, testate, testacy, testamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate, bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment,bequest, codicil, devisee, devisor, intestable,legacy, legatee, legator, testable, nuncupative.will,v.bequeath,devise,leave;decree, ordain,direct,order;wish,desire,want.willful,a.refractory,headstrong,perverse,disobedient,inflexible.willing,a.disposed,voluntary, desirous.willingness,n.readiness,disposition, alacrity.will-o'-the-wisp,n.ignis fatuus, Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-with-a-lantern.willow,n.osier.Associated words: osiery, osiered, salicaceous, salicin, withe, wicker.willowy,a.lithe,graceful, pliant; osier, osiered.wily,a.crafty,artful,intriguing,designing,tricky, insidious,politic.win,v.achieve,attain.wince,v.shrink,flinch,recoil.wind,n.breeze, zephyr; draught;gale, squall;hurricane,tornado,cyclone,tempest,whirlwind,flurry;simoon, sirocco, monsoon, chinook, tradewind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano.Associated words: anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, Æolus, gust, æolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous,fan,blast, æolic, sough, soughing, lee, leeward, windward, anemogram, anemograph.wind,n.flatulence.Associated words:belch,belching, eructation, crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitis.wind,v.coil,twine,twist, wreathe;crook,meander,curve,deviate, sinuate,bend.windfall,n.godsend,boon.windflower,n.anemone.wind gauge.anemometer.winding,n.convolution,labyrinth, detour,meander,meandering,crook,bend,curve,angle, sinuation, contortion.winding,a.circuitous, labyrinthian,meandering,spiral,serpentine, tortuous, deviating.winding-up,n.conclusion,settlement,dénouement, finale,end.windlass,n.winch.window,n.casement, ventilator, transom, fenestella, oriel, dormerwindow, baywindow, luthern, rosewindow,moucharaby,œil-de-bœuf, lunettewindow.Associated words: fenestral, fenestrated, fenestration, squilgee, cancelli, tracery, mullion, mullioned,sash,sill,reveal, jamb, foliation, lintel, rabbet, splay, louver boarding, interfenestration,lattice, shutter.windpipe,n.trachea, weasand, throttle.Associated words: tracheal, tracheary, tracheitis, tracheotomy, tracheocele, tracheoscopy, bronchus.windy,a.squally, gusty,tempestuous; flatulent.wine,n.Associated words: vinous, vintage, viniculture, vintner, vinometer,mull, stum, œnology, œnophilist, vinaceous, flagon, lees, œnolin.wine-bibber,n.tippler.wing,n.pinion.Associated words: alary, alate, alation, elytra, neuration, shard.wing,n.annex, ell; flank.wink,v.nictate, nictitate;overlook,ignore, connive at.winking,n.nictation, nictitation.winning,n.achievement, gaining.winning,a.charming,captivating, winsome, engaging.winter,n.Associated words: hibernation, hibernal, hibernacle, hyemation, hibernaculum, hyemal, brumal.winter,v.hibernate.wipe,v.swab; expunge,efface,obliterate,erase.wipe,n.gibe,taunt,jeer, sarcasm.wireless telegraphy.Associated word: marconigram.wire-pulling,n.intrigue.wisdom,n.lore,learning, sapience,erudition,knowledge, enlightenment.wise,a.erudite, sapient,learned, philosophical, enlightened, sage;sagacious, expedient.wiseacre,n.pretender, sciolist,ignoramus.wisely,adv.prudently, judiciously, sapiently, sagaciously.wise man.Solon, sage, oracle, luminary,authority, philosopher, Nestor, savant, philomath,scholar.wise men(of the East).Magi.wish,v.desire, aspire; invoke, imprecate;congratulate, felicitate (wish happiness to).wish,n.desire,longing, aspiration,hankering.wishbone,n.merrythought, furculum; fourchette.wishing,n.longing, aspiration.wit,n.sense,understanding;repartee,drollery, facetiousness,jocularity, waggishness; wag,humorist.witch,n.sorceress,enchantress;hag;siren; warlock (male witch).witchcraft,n.sorcery, enchantments,necromancy, blackart,conjuration, incantation;fascination,witchery.witchery,n.witchcraft,sorcery;fascination,spell,charm, entrancement.witch-hazel,n.hamamelis.witching,a.bewitching,fascinating,charming.withdraw,v.retire,retreat,quit;recall,retract,recant, disavow.withdrawal,n.retirement,retreat;retraction,recantation, disavowal.withering,a.blighting,blasting, marcescent.with foal.pregnant.withhold,v.refrain,abstain;refuse,deny.withholding,n.restraint,repression,abstinence;refusal,denial.witness,v.testify, bearwitness,confirm, corroborate,attest.witness,n.attestation,testimony, evidence; eye-witness, deponent, attestor.witty,a.facetious,droll,sharp.witty sayings.witticisms, conceits, facetiæ,bons mots.wizard,n.wonder-worker,magician,conjurer,sorcerer, enchanter,necromancer.wizardry,n.wonder-working,sorcery,necromancy.wolf,n.coyote; werewolf, lycanthrope.wolfish,a.lupine,ravenous.woman,n.dame,matron; mulier; adult.Associated words: gynecology, gynecologist, gyniatrics, gyneocracy, gynecocracy, gynocracy, gynecian, gynarchy, gyneolatry, gyneolater, gynephobia, gynecopathy, philogynist, philogyny, misogyny, femicide, matriarchy, gynæceum.woman-hater,n.misogynist.womanhood,n.womanliness, femininity, feminality.womanish,a.effeminate, feminine.womb,n.uterus, venter, matrix, matrice.Associated words: uterine, metritis.wonder,n.surprise,astonishment,amazement,awe; phenomenon, miracle, prodigy,marvel, rarity.wonder,v.marvel.wonderful,a.marvelous, wondrous, phenomenal,miraculous,portentous.wonder-worker,n.wizard,magician, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist,necromancer.wonder-working,n.wizardry,magic,sorcery, thaumaturgy,necromancy.wonder-working,a.magical, thaumaturgic,miraculous, necromantic,wizard.wont,n.habit,custom,practice.wonted,a.accustomed,customary,usual,habitual.wood,n.timber; duramen,heartwood; alburnum,sapwood;kindling,fuel.Associated words: kyanize, fissile, fissility, lignification, lignify, ligniferous, lignescent, lignite, lignivorous, xylopyrography, pyrography, veneer,cord.

wear away.abrade,fray, erode,corrode,fret,chafe.

wearied,a.tired, fatigued,exhausted,weary, fagged, jaded.

weariness,n.fatigue,lassitude,languor,exhaustion,ennui.

wearing away.abrasion, attrition, detrition,corrosion,erosion.

weary,a.tired, fatigued, worn,exhausted,wearied,spent, fagged,ennuyé.

weary,v.tire,fatigue,exhaust,jade, fag,bore.

weather,n.Associated words: meteorology, meteorologist, barometer.

weather-cock,n.weather-vane.

weave,v.entwine, interlace,mat,plait,braid,plat, fabricate.

weaving,n.Associated words: loom, textile, textorial, textrine, spindle.

web,n.texture,tissue.

web-footed,a.palmiped, palmated, fin-toed, lobate.

wedding,n.nuptials,marriage, espousals.

wedge,n.embolus, chock, quoin, scotch.

wedge-shaped,a.cuneiform, sphenoid.

weed,v.uproot, extirpate.

weeding,n.sarculation; extirpation, rootingout.

weeding machine.aberuncator.

week day.Associated word: ferial.

weekly,a.hebdomadary, hebdomadal.

weep,v.sob,cry.

weeping,n.sobbing,crying.

weevil,n.curculio.

weighable,a.ponderable.

weight,n.heaviness, ponderousness, gravity, ponderosity,poise, heft; encumbrance, pressure, incubus,clog,burden;importance,consequence,moment,significance.

weighty,a.heavy,ponderous,massive,onerous; momentous,important, pregnant,serious.

welcome,n.greeting, salutation.

welfare,n.prosperity,happiness,weal,success, well-being.

well,a.good, desirable,fortunate, expedient,favorable,beneficial, advantageous;healthy,sound, undiseased, hale,hearty.

Welsh,a.Cymric, Cambrian.--n.Cymry.

Welshman,n.Cambrian.

welter,v.wallow, flounder,roll.

west,n.Associated words: Occident, Hesperian, Hesperus, Hesperides.

western,a.occidental.

west wind.Associated word: favonian.

wet,a.damp,moist, humid,soaked.

wet,v.moisten,dampen,soak, imbrue, saturate.

wet blanket.check,damper,discouragement.

whalebone,n.baleen.

whale oil.trainoil.

wharf,n.pier,quay,dock; jetty.

whatnot,a.étagère, cabinet.

wheat,n.Associated word: mattamore. Seegrain.

wheedle,v.cajole,blandish,inveigle.

wheedling,n.cajolery,blandishment,inveiglement.

wheel,n.cycle;truckle, caster, roulette, rowel;gear, cogwheel, miterwheel; pulley, sheave (wheel of a pulley).Associated words:spoke, felly,hub, strake,tire,straddle,cog, sprocket, linchpin,arbor,axle, axletree, sprag, traction, trochilics, trochilic, ratchet, flange,skid, rotiform.

whetstone,n.oilstone.Associated word: coticular.

whey cure.serumtherapy, serotherapy.

whim,n.vagary,caprice,fancy,crotchet,freak,humor, maggot,notion,quirk.

whimsey,n.whim.

whimsical,a.capricious, vagarious,notional,crotchety,fantastic.

whine,n.whimper, puling,complaint.--v.whimper, pule,complain.

whiningly,a.plaintively, querulously.

whinny,n.andv.neigh.

whip,v.lash,beat,thrash,flog, drub,punish,chastise,trounce, flagellate,castigate,scourge,switch, spank,maul, fustigate; (Slang)conquer,defeat;jerk,snatch, whisk.

whip,n.horsewhip,crop,scourge,lash,switch, rattan, thong, knout, cat-o-nine-tails, quirt (rawhide); koorbash (Africa).

whipping,n.chastisement,castigation,punishment, scourging, trouncing, flagellation,beating,lashing, fustigation, flogging,mauling;defeat.

whippletree,n.whiffletree, swingletree, singletree.

whirl,v.spin,revolve, twirl,rotate, gyrate,wheel, pirouette.

whirl,n.circumvolution,rotation, gyration, swirl.

whirling,a.spinning, rotating, vertiginous, gyratory.

whirling,n.spinning,rotation, gyration, turbination, pirouette.

whirlpool,n.maelstrom, vortex,eddy; Charybdis.

whirlwind,n.cyclone, typhoon.

whiskers,n. pl.beard; (of a cat) vibrissa.

whiskey,n.spiritus frumenti.Associated words: faints,distill, distiller, distillery, poteen,moonshine, moonshiner.

whisper,n.susurrus, susurration, whispering, sibilation; innuendo,suggestion, intimation.

whistling,n.rhonchus, râle (Med.).

whit,n.particle,atom,iota,jot, tittle,bit,mite,mote, ace,scintilla,scrap.

white,a.blanched, bleached, etiolate,pale; hoary.

white heat.incandescence.

white hot.incandescent.

white lead.ceruse, carbonate oflead.

white livered,a.cowardly,pusillanimous, dastardly.

whiten,v.bleach, blanch,pale, etiolate, decolorize.

whitening,n.bleaching, blanching, etiolation.

white race.Caucasianrace.

whites,n.leucorrhea, fluor albus.

Whitsunday,n.Pentecost, Whitsuntide.

whiz,v.hum,buzz, whirr.

whole,a.all, total,entire; intact,complete, inviolate, integral,unbroken, unscathed, unabridged.

whole,n.sum, total, totality,all,aggregate,gross, integral.Antonyms:part,portion, fraction, disintegration.

wholeness,n.entirety, completeness, integrity.Associated words: integral, integrate, integration, integrant.

wholesome,a.healthy, salubrious, salutary,nutritious,beneficial.Antonyms: Seeunhealthy.

whoop,n.halloo,hoot,shout,yell.

whooping-cough,n.chincough, pertussis.

whore,n.harlot,prostitute, strumpet,courtesan, wench, Cyprian, bawd, drab, punk, woman of illfame, demirep.

whoredom,n.prostitution, fornication,lewdness,harlotry, bawdry.

whorehouse,n.brothel,bawdy-house.

whoremaster,n.lecher, fornicator,whoremonger;pimp, procurer,pander.

whoremonger,n.whoremaster,debauchee,rake, wencher.

whorish,a.lewd, incontinent,licentious, meretricious, libidinous.

wicked,a.sinful, iniquitous,evil,immoral, depraved,vicious,pernicious,abandoned,unrighteous,heinous, flagitious.

wickedness,n.iniquity, depravity,immorality,sinfulness,vice,infamy,atrocity,evil,offense, flagrancy, unrighteousness.

wide,a.broad: extensive,vast; comprehensive.

wide-awake,a.alert,keen,vigilant,watchful,wary,attentive.

wideness,n.breadth,width.

widespread,a.prevalent, extended, extensive.

widow,n.relict.Associated words: viduage, dower weeds, widowhood.

width,n.breadth.

wife,n.spouse, consort, helpmate,partner.Associated words: uxoricide, uxorious, uxoriousness, coverture, dowry, polygamy, polygamist, monogamy, dower,dot, uxorial.

wig,n.peruke, toupee, periwig, toupet, jasey, scratchwig, bagwig.

wiggle,v.squirm, wriggle.

wigmaker,n.perruquier.

wigwam,n.tepee.

wild,a.untamed, undomesticated, feral, ferine;desert,waste,uncultivated, uninhabited;savage,ferocious,barbarous,uncivilized,cannibal;unrestrained,violent, turbulent,tempestuous,riotous,wanton, uncontrolled;visionary,bizarre,grotesque,impracticable; agrarian, agrestial.

wile,n.artifice,deception,guile,trick,ruse,craft.

will,n.volition, preference,choice;command, wish behest,order.

will,n.testament,devise.Associated words: intestate, intestacy, testate, testacy, testamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate, bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment,bequest, codicil, devisee, devisor, intestable,legacy, legatee, legator, testable, nuncupative.

will,v.bequeath,devise,leave;decree, ordain,direct,order;wish,desire,want.

willful,a.refractory,headstrong,perverse,disobedient,inflexible.

willing,a.disposed,voluntary, desirous.

willingness,n.readiness,disposition, alacrity.

will-o'-the-wisp,n.ignis fatuus, Jack-o'-lantern, Jack-with-a-lantern.

willow,n.osier.Associated words: osiery, osiered, salicaceous, salicin, withe, wicker.

willowy,a.lithe,graceful, pliant; osier, osiered.

wily,a.crafty,artful,intriguing,designing,tricky, insidious,politic.

win,v.achieve,attain.

wince,v.shrink,flinch,recoil.

wind,n.breeze, zephyr; draught;gale, squall;hurricane,tornado,cyclone,tempest,whirlwind,flurry;simoon, sirocco, monsoon, chinook, tradewind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano.Associated words: anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, Æolus, gust, æolian, bellows, cenemograph, anemophilous,fan,blast, æolic, sough, soughing, lee, leeward, windward, anemogram, anemograph.

wind,n.flatulence.Associated words:belch,belching, eructation, crepitus, ructation, tympany, carminative, flatulent, tympanitis.

wind,v.coil,twine,twist, wreathe;crook,meander,curve,deviate, sinuate,bend.

windfall,n.godsend,boon.

windflower,n.anemone.

wind gauge.anemometer.

winding,n.convolution,labyrinth, detour,meander,meandering,crook,bend,curve,angle, sinuation, contortion.

winding,a.circuitous, labyrinthian,meandering,spiral,serpentine, tortuous, deviating.

winding-up,n.conclusion,settlement,dénouement, finale,end.

windlass,n.winch.

window,n.casement, ventilator, transom, fenestella, oriel, dormerwindow, baywindow, luthern, rosewindow,moucharaby,œil-de-bœuf, lunettewindow.Associated words: fenestral, fenestrated, fenestration, squilgee, cancelli, tracery, mullion, mullioned,sash,sill,reveal, jamb, foliation, lintel, rabbet, splay, louver boarding, interfenestration,lattice, shutter.

windpipe,n.trachea, weasand, throttle.Associated words: tracheal, tracheary, tracheitis, tracheotomy, tracheocele, tracheoscopy, bronchus.

windy,a.squally, gusty,tempestuous; flatulent.

wine,n.Associated words: vinous, vintage, viniculture, vintner, vinometer,mull, stum, œnology, œnophilist, vinaceous, flagon, lees, œnolin.

wine-bibber,n.tippler.

wing,n.pinion.Associated words: alary, alate, alation, elytra, neuration, shard.

wing,n.annex, ell; flank.

wink,v.nictate, nictitate;overlook,ignore, connive at.

winking,n.nictation, nictitation.

winning,n.achievement, gaining.

winning,a.charming,captivating, winsome, engaging.

winter,n.Associated words: hibernation, hibernal, hibernacle, hyemation, hibernaculum, hyemal, brumal.

winter,v.hibernate.

wipe,v.swab; expunge,efface,obliterate,erase.

wipe,n.gibe,taunt,jeer, sarcasm.

wireless telegraphy.Associated word: marconigram.

wire-pulling,n.intrigue.

wisdom,n.lore,learning, sapience,erudition,knowledge, enlightenment.

wise,a.erudite, sapient,learned, philosophical, enlightened, sage;sagacious, expedient.

wiseacre,n.pretender, sciolist,ignoramus.

wisely,adv.prudently, judiciously, sapiently, sagaciously.

wise man.Solon, sage, oracle, luminary,authority, philosopher, Nestor, savant, philomath,scholar.

wise men(of the East).Magi.

wish,v.desire, aspire; invoke, imprecate;congratulate, felicitate (wish happiness to).

wish,n.desire,longing, aspiration,hankering.

wishbone,n.merrythought, furculum; fourchette.

wishing,n.longing, aspiration.

wit,n.sense,understanding;repartee,drollery, facetiousness,jocularity, waggishness; wag,humorist.

witch,n.sorceress,enchantress;hag;siren; warlock (male witch).

witchcraft,n.sorcery, enchantments,necromancy, blackart,conjuration, incantation;fascination,witchery.

witchery,n.witchcraft,sorcery;fascination,spell,charm, entrancement.

witch-hazel,n.hamamelis.

witching,a.bewitching,fascinating,charming.

withdraw,v.retire,retreat,quit;recall,retract,recant, disavow.

withdrawal,n.retirement,retreat;retraction,recantation, disavowal.

withering,a.blighting,blasting, marcescent.

with foal.pregnant.

withhold,v.refrain,abstain;refuse,deny.

withholding,n.restraint,repression,abstinence;refusal,denial.

witness,v.testify, bearwitness,confirm, corroborate,attest.

witness,n.attestation,testimony, evidence; eye-witness, deponent, attestor.

witty,a.facetious,droll,sharp.

witty sayings.witticisms, conceits, facetiæ,bons mots.

wizard,n.wonder-worker,magician,conjurer,sorcerer, enchanter,necromancer.

wizardry,n.wonder-working,sorcery,necromancy.

wolf,n.coyote; werewolf, lycanthrope.

wolfish,a.lupine,ravenous.

woman,n.dame,matron; mulier; adult.Associated words: gynecology, gynecologist, gyniatrics, gyneocracy, gynecocracy, gynocracy, gynecian, gynarchy, gyneolatry, gyneolater, gynephobia, gynecopathy, philogynist, philogyny, misogyny, femicide, matriarchy, gynæceum.

woman-hater,n.misogynist.

womanhood,n.womanliness, femininity, feminality.

womanish,a.effeminate, feminine.

womb,n.uterus, venter, matrix, matrice.Associated words: uterine, metritis.

wonder,n.surprise,astonishment,amazement,awe; phenomenon, miracle, prodigy,marvel, rarity.

wonder,v.marvel.

wonderful,a.marvelous, wondrous, phenomenal,miraculous,portentous.

wonder-worker,n.wizard,magician, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist,necromancer.

wonder-working,n.wizardry,magic,sorcery, thaumaturgy,necromancy.

wonder-working,a.magical, thaumaturgic,miraculous, necromantic,wizard.

wont,n.habit,custom,practice.

wonted,a.accustomed,customary,usual,habitual.

wood,n.timber; duramen,heartwood; alburnum,sapwood;kindling,fuel.Associated words: kyanize, fissile, fissility, lignification, lignify, ligniferous, lignescent, lignite, lignivorous, xylopyrography, pyrography, veneer,cord.


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