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WWabble,v.stagger,vacillate,reel.waddle,v.toddle, totter.wade,v.ford.wading birds.Grallatores, Grallæ.wading place.ford.wage,v.stake,bet,wager.wager,v.bet,stake,pledge,hazard,speculate.wages,n.compensation,pay, earnings,hire, salary.waggery,n.humor, facetiousness,pleasantry,drollery,jesting,jocularity.waggish,a.frolicsome, facetious,roguish,arch,sportive,prankish.wagon,n.vehicle, wain; caravan, van.wagon-maker,n.wainwright, wagonwright, wheelwright.waif,n.estray,stray, wastrel.waist,n.corsage, bodice; blouse, basque; girth (waist measure).waistcoat,n.vest, doublet.wait,v.tarry,stay,linger, await,abide; (Colloq.)delay,postpone, defer, procrastinate.wait,n.waiting,delay, halt,stop; ambush, ambuscade.waiter,n.attendant, servitor,lackey,garçon(Fr.); salver,tray.waiting,n.tarrying,lingering,delay;abeyance,suspension, quiescence.waiting-room,n.station,depot.waive,v.relinquish,forego,surrender.wake,v.awake,waken;arouse,rouse,revive.wakeful,a.sleepless, insomnolent;vigilant,watchful.wakefulness,n.sleeplessness, insomnia, insomnolence;vigilance,watchfulness.waken,v.awake,awaken,wake.Wales,n.Cambria (Ancient name).walk,n.stroll, promenade,constitutional; gait,step,carriage; sidewalk, mall; ambulatory.Associated words: ambulant, ambulatory, ambulatorial, peripatetic pedometer, odograph, gradient, gravigrade, stilts, shambling, shuffling, locomotion, alure.walk,v.stroll,tramp, stride,plod, trudge, tread, ambulate,pace, march, promenade, shamble,stalk, strut,step,bundle, toddle, daddle,waddle,shuffle,gad, galavant, hike,saunter, foot it, slouch; perambulate (walk through or about).walker,n.pedestrian, ambulator, perambulator.walking,n.ambulation, pedestrianism,strolling, perambulation.walking papers.dismissal.wall,n.foundation;partition;defense, breastwork,rampart, battlement,bulwark, parapet,fortification.Associated words: mural, murage dado,buttress, coping, intramural, wainscot, alcove,niche, abutment,pointing, fresco, studding, underpinning.wallet,n.pocket-book, purse.wallow,v.welter, flounder;grovel.walrus,n.morse, sea-cow.wand,n.verge,rod;baton, mace, truncheon.wander,v.ramble,range,rove,stroll,roam,stray, straggle, itinerate,saunter,gad, peregrinate,digress,expatiate; depart,deviate,swerve.wanderer,n.nomad,vagrant,rover,rambler, stroller, peregrinator,vagabond, itinerant,pilgrim,waif,wayfarer, landloper.wandering,n.rambling, ranging, roving,strolling, itineracy, peregrination,pilgrimage;digression, expatiation,departure,deviation,divergence, errantry;aberration, delirium,raving, irrationality; divagation.wandering,a.nomadic,migratory, itinerant,vagrant,vagabond, landloping,wayfaring, errant,unsettled,devious, excursive, digressive, deviating.wane,v.decrease,diminish,fade.--n.decrease,diminution, decrescence.want,n.deficiency,lack,dearth,scarcity,need, default,absence,shortness, inadequacy, paucity,insufficiency, scarceness; desideratum,requirement;destitution,distress, straits,privation, indigence,penury,poverty.want,v.need,require;desire,wish,crave.wanting,a.absent,lacking,missing,deficient, defective,needy,destitute.wanton,a.unrestrained, uncontrolled,unchecked, unbridled undisciplined;luxuriant,rampant,exuberant,excessive,rank;dissolute,licentious,immoral,unchaste;frolicsome,playful,sportive;reckless, heedless,inconsiderate.war,n.hostilities,warfare,strife,battle, crusade, belligerence.Associated words: Bellona,Mars,belligerent,bellicose, tactics,casus belli, strategy, cartel, campaign, mobilize, mobilization, demobilize, demobilization, munitions, disarmament.war,v.contend,fight,combat, militate, wagewar.warble,v.trill, carol, yodel.warble,n.trill, carol, yodel.warcry,n.slogan, war-whoop.ward,n.guardianship,guard, tutelage; protégé.Associated word: pupillary.ward,v.ward off, fend off, avert,parry,repel, forefend.warden,n.churchwarden;keeper,custodian,curator,warder.warder,n.keeper,guard,warden; mace, truncheon;turnkey.warding off.parry,evasion, averting.wardship,n.pupillage, pupillarity,minority.warehouse,n.storehouse,depot,magazine,repository,depository.wares,n. pl.merchandise, commodities.warfare,n.war, hostilities; crusade,struggle,strife, militancy.war-horse,n.charger; Bucephalus.warlike,a.military,martial,belligerent,bellicose.warm,a.lukewarm, tepid, thermal;zealous,ardent,fervent, sanguine,fervid,glowing, eager,enthusiastic;temperate,genial; irascible,choleric,irritable,peppery,fiery;vehement,violent, heated,passionate,animated,spirited; sultry, muggy; incalescent.warm,v.heat.warm-blooded,a.homothermous, homoiothermal.warmed over.réchauffé.warm room of Roman baths.tepidarium.warmth,n.heat;ardor,fervor,passion,earnestness,fervency,cordiality,vehemence,enthusiasm,zeal, empressement.warn,v.admonish,caution,notify, premonish, apprise,advise, forewarn,signal.warner,n.admonisher,monitor,sentinel, sentry,mentor.warning,a.cautioning, monitory,mentorial, monitorial,ominous, admonitory, admonishing.warning,n.premonition,forewarning;caution, admonition, monition; portent,omen,beacon.warp,v.twist,bend, bulge;pervert,distort,bias.warped,a.twisted,bent,bulging, protuberant, distorted.warp thread.stamen.warrant,v.guarantee, assure,insure;justify,defend;affirm,attest,vouch.warrant,n.commission,authority; guaranty,surety;voucher,attestation.warrantable,a.justifiable, defensible.warranty,n.guaranty,guarantee,security,warrant.wart,n.excrescence, ecphyma, verruca; condyloma (venereal wart).Associated word: catheretic.warty,a.excrescent, verrucose, verruciform.wary,a.guarded,cautious, circumspect,careful,vigilant.wash,v.lave,bathe, absterge,foment, rinse; launder.wash,n.lotion.washbowl,n.lavatory, washbasin, laver.washerwoman,n.laundress.washhouse,n.laundry.washing,n.ablution,bath,bathing, lavement; abstersion, detersion, fomentation; laundering, laundry.washing away.detergent, abluent.washing soda.sodium carbonate.washstand,n.commode.wasp,n.Associated words: vespid, vespiform, vespine, vespoid.waspish,a.irascible,irritable,snappish,touchy,petulant.wasp nest.vespiary.waste,v.squander, misspend, fritteraway, dissipate, dawdle;desolate,devastate, despoil,sack,pillage,ravage,strip;decline,decay,pine, wither,dwindle, molder.waste,a.refuse, rejected,unused,unproductive, untilled, inarable,worthless;desolate, devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged;superfluous,exuberant,unnecessary; excrementitious.waste,n.wasting, squandering,dissipation, decrement, prodigality; wilderness,wild,desert; remnants,offal, recrement,garbage,refuse,rubbish; desolation, devastationrapine,ravage,havoc,destruction, sacking,pillage, despoliation.wasteful,a.extravagant,prodigal, unthrifty, improvident infrugal,lavish,thriftless.waster,n.spendthrift,prodigal, squanderer.wasting,n.squandering,dissipation, prodigality, improvidence; emaciation,decline.watch,n.vigil,outlook,attention; watcher, patrol,watchman, sentry, perdue,picket,guard,sentinel, vedette, guardsman, Argus.watch,n.horologe.watch,v.keep vigil, be on thelookout, keepguard.watchful,a.vigilant,heedful,attentive,alert, circumspectwary, Argus-eyed.watchfulness,n.vigilance, circumspection, wariness, heedfulness.watching,n.vigil,vigilance; espionage, surveillance.watchmaker,n.horologer, horologist.watchmaking,n.horology, horography.watchman,n.sentinel,guard, Argus, Cerberus. Seewatch.watch-pocket,n.fob.watch-tower,n.observatory.watchword,n.countersign,password,shibboleth, parole.water,v.irrigate.Water,n.Associated words: aquatic, aquarium, aqueduct, alluvial, alluvion, affusion, aquapuncture, alluvium, diluvium, anhydrous, enhydrous, amphibious, amphibian, aquiferous, aquiform, aquiparous, buoy, coffer, cofferdam, debacle, cataclysm, dehydrate, dehydration, irrigation, diluvian, douche, glairin, baregin, hydragogue, hydrant, hydrate, hydration, hydrated, hydraulicon, hydrodynamics, hydroextractor, hydrogen, oxygen, hydrognosy, hydrographer, hydrography, hydrologist, reservoir, hydrolysis, hydromania, hydromaniac, hydraulic, hydromancy, hydromechanics, hydrometry, hydrophanous, hygrophilous, hydrorrhea, hydroscope, hydrostatic, hydrofuge, hydrostatics, hydrotic, hydrotherapeutics, hydrous, siphon, seepage, philhydrous, sluice, turbine, hydraulics,current, undertow.water,n.lymph; serum.water-bearer,n.Aquarius.water bottle.carafe.water brash.water-qualm, pyrosis.water-clock,n.clepsydra; hydroscope.water-closet,n.privy.water color.aquarelle.water-course,n.channel,ditch,canal,moat,sewer,drain, aqueduct,gutter,trench, wady.water-cure,n.hydropathy.water-doctor,n.hydropathist.waterfall,n.cascade,cataract,fall, linn.wateriness,n.aquosity.waterless,a.anhydrous.water-lily,n.Nymphæ.waterman,n.ferryman, boatman.water-nymph,n.Naiad, hydriad.water on the brain.hydrocephalus.water on the chest.hydrothorax.water plant.aquatic, hydrophyte.Associated word: hydrophytology.water-pox,n.varicella, swine-pox.water-qualm,n.waterbrash, pyrosis.watershed,n.divide.water sports.aquatics.water wheel.tympanum, turbine.watery,a.aqueous; ichorous, serous, sanious.watery discharge.hydrorrhea.wattle,n.gill, caruncle.wave,n.undulation, surge, eagre,bore,swell, billow, breaker;ripple; whitecap;signal,flourish;swelling,excitement,tide.Associated words: rote, trough,rut,crest.wave,v.undulate,float,flutter;flourish, brandish; beckon,signal.waver,v.vacillate,fluctuate, veer,oscillate,hesitate.wavering,a.vacillating, fluctuating, oscillating,unstable,irresolute,uncertain.wavering,n.vacillation,fluctuation,indecision,irresolution, oscillation,hesitancy.wavy,a.undulatory, undulating, undulated.wax,n.beeswax; spermaceti; adipocere (grave wax); ozocerite, mineralwax.Associated-words: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma, inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin.wax,v.cere;increase,grow,develop, become larger.waxy,a.waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile,pliable, fictile, impressible,plastic.way,n.manner, method,mode,fashion,style,guise,custom, habitude,wont,practice;distance,interval,space;passage, transit, progression,advance;means,device, expedient,contrivance;direction;road,track,path, thoroughfare.wayfarer,n.traveler,pilgrim, passenger,wanderer.wayfaring,a.traveling,passing.way in.entrance.waylay,v.ambush.way out.exit, egress.wayward,a.disobedient,perverse,froward,willful, intractable,headstrong.waywiser,n.odometer, pedometer, perambulator.weak,a.feeble, infirm, debilitated, weakly,fragile,delicate,invalid, emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable,unguarded, unprotected, exposed;frail, pliant,tender; peccable,fallible, errable,erring,indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious,ineffective;illogical, unsustained, inconclusive,lame,unsatisfactory;vacillating,irresolute,wavering,unstable; diluted,thin, insipid,vapid;slight, gauzy,sleazy,flimsy,brittle,fragile;unsound, unsubstantial, defective,unsafe,rickety.weaken,v.debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate, incapacitate,sap, undermine,unman,exhaust, deplete;dilute,thin;invalidate; impair,diminish,lower,decline.weakening,a.debilitant; diluent, attenuant.weak-kneed,a.yielding,irresolute, pliant,vacillating.weak-minded,a.feeble-minded,foolish,shallow, witless.weakness,n.debility, feebleness,infirmity, enervation, debilitation, frailness,fragility, impotence,invalidism; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible,defect,deficiency; peccability, errability,fallibility; inefficacy, ineffectiveness;vacillation,indecision, instability,irresolution; atony, asthenia.wealth,n.opulence, affluence,riches, fortune, competence.Associated words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chrysology, chrematistics, plutomania, plutocrat, plutocratic, magnate.wealthy,a.opulent, affluent,rich, capitalistic,independent.wean,v.disaccustom,alienate,detach.weaning,n.ablactation;alienation.

Wabble,v.stagger,vacillate,reel.

waddle,v.toddle, totter.

wade,v.ford.

wading birds.Grallatores, Grallæ.

wading place.ford.

wage,v.stake,bet,wager.

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

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

waggery,n.humor, facetiousness,pleasantry,drollery,jesting,jocularity.

waggish,a.frolicsome, facetious,roguish,arch,sportive,prankish.

wagon,n.vehicle, wain; caravan, van.

wagon-maker,n.wainwright, wagonwright, wheelwright.

waif,n.estray,stray, wastrel.

waist,n.corsage, bodice; blouse, basque; girth (waist measure).

waistcoat,n.vest, doublet.

wait,v.tarry,stay,linger, await,abide; (Colloq.)delay,postpone, defer, procrastinate.

wait,n.waiting,delay, halt,stop; ambush, ambuscade.

waiter,n.attendant, servitor,lackey,garçon(Fr.); salver,tray.

waiting,n.tarrying,lingering,delay;abeyance,suspension, quiescence.

waiting-room,n.station,depot.

waive,v.relinquish,forego,surrender.

wake,v.awake,waken;arouse,rouse,revive.

wakeful,a.sleepless, insomnolent;vigilant,watchful.

wakefulness,n.sleeplessness, insomnia, insomnolence;vigilance,watchfulness.

waken,v.awake,awaken,wake.

Wales,n.Cambria (Ancient name).

walk,n.stroll, promenade,constitutional; gait,step,carriage; sidewalk, mall; ambulatory.Associated words: ambulant, ambulatory, ambulatorial, peripatetic pedometer, odograph, gradient, gravigrade, stilts, shambling, shuffling, locomotion, alure.

walk,v.stroll,tramp, stride,plod, trudge, tread, ambulate,pace, march, promenade, shamble,stalk, strut,step,bundle, toddle, daddle,waddle,shuffle,gad, galavant, hike,saunter, foot it, slouch; perambulate (walk through or about).

walker,n.pedestrian, ambulator, perambulator.

walking,n.ambulation, pedestrianism,strolling, perambulation.

walking papers.dismissal.

wall,n.foundation;partition;defense, breastwork,rampart, battlement,bulwark, parapet,fortification.Associated words: mural, murage dado,buttress, coping, intramural, wainscot, alcove,niche, abutment,pointing, fresco, studding, underpinning.

wallet,n.pocket-book, purse.

wallow,v.welter, flounder;grovel.

walrus,n.morse, sea-cow.

wand,n.verge,rod;baton, mace, truncheon.

wander,v.ramble,range,rove,stroll,roam,stray, straggle, itinerate,saunter,gad, peregrinate,digress,expatiate; depart,deviate,swerve.

wanderer,n.nomad,vagrant,rover,rambler, stroller, peregrinator,vagabond, itinerant,pilgrim,waif,wayfarer, landloper.

wandering,n.rambling, ranging, roving,strolling, itineracy, peregrination,pilgrimage;digression, expatiation,departure,deviation,divergence, errantry;aberration, delirium,raving, irrationality; divagation.

wandering,a.nomadic,migratory, itinerant,vagrant,vagabond, landloping,wayfaring, errant,unsettled,devious, excursive, digressive, deviating.

wane,v.decrease,diminish,fade.--n.decrease,diminution, decrescence.

want,n.deficiency,lack,dearth,scarcity,need, default,absence,shortness, inadequacy, paucity,insufficiency, scarceness; desideratum,requirement;destitution,distress, straits,privation, indigence,penury,poverty.

want,v.need,require;desire,wish,crave.

wanting,a.absent,lacking,missing,deficient, defective,needy,destitute.

wanton,a.unrestrained, uncontrolled,unchecked, unbridled undisciplined;luxuriant,rampant,exuberant,excessive,rank;dissolute,licentious,immoral,unchaste;frolicsome,playful,sportive;reckless, heedless,inconsiderate.

war,n.hostilities,warfare,strife,battle, crusade, belligerence.Associated words: Bellona,Mars,belligerent,bellicose, tactics,casus belli, strategy, cartel, campaign, mobilize, mobilization, demobilize, demobilization, munitions, disarmament.

war,v.contend,fight,combat, militate, wagewar.

warble,v.trill, carol, yodel.

warble,n.trill, carol, yodel.

warcry,n.slogan, war-whoop.

ward,n.guardianship,guard, tutelage; protégé.Associated word: pupillary.

ward,v.ward off, fend off, avert,parry,repel, forefend.

warden,n.churchwarden;keeper,custodian,curator,warder.

warder,n.keeper,guard,warden; mace, truncheon;turnkey.

warding off.parry,evasion, averting.

wardship,n.pupillage, pupillarity,minority.

warehouse,n.storehouse,depot,magazine,repository,depository.

wares,n. pl.merchandise, commodities.

warfare,n.war, hostilities; crusade,struggle,strife, militancy.

war-horse,n.charger; Bucephalus.

warlike,a.military,martial,belligerent,bellicose.

warm,a.lukewarm, tepid, thermal;zealous,ardent,fervent, sanguine,fervid,glowing, eager,enthusiastic;temperate,genial; irascible,choleric,irritable,peppery,fiery;vehement,violent, heated,passionate,animated,spirited; sultry, muggy; incalescent.

warm,v.heat.

warm-blooded,a.homothermous, homoiothermal.

warmed over.réchauffé.

warm room of Roman baths.tepidarium.

warmth,n.heat;ardor,fervor,passion,earnestness,fervency,cordiality,vehemence,enthusiasm,zeal, empressement.

warn,v.admonish,caution,notify, premonish, apprise,advise, forewarn,signal.

warner,n.admonisher,monitor,sentinel, sentry,mentor.

warning,a.cautioning, monitory,mentorial, monitorial,ominous, admonitory, admonishing.

warning,n.premonition,forewarning;caution, admonition, monition; portent,omen,beacon.

warp,v.twist,bend, bulge;pervert,distort,bias.

warped,a.twisted,bent,bulging, protuberant, distorted.

warp thread.stamen.

warrant,v.guarantee, assure,insure;justify,defend;affirm,attest,vouch.

warrant,n.commission,authority; guaranty,surety;voucher,attestation.

warrantable,a.justifiable, defensible.

warranty,n.guaranty,guarantee,security,warrant.

wart,n.excrescence, ecphyma, verruca; condyloma (venereal wart).Associated word: catheretic.

warty,a.excrescent, verrucose, verruciform.

wary,a.guarded,cautious, circumspect,careful,vigilant.

wash,v.lave,bathe, absterge,foment, rinse; launder.

wash,n.lotion.

washbowl,n.lavatory, washbasin, laver.

washerwoman,n.laundress.

washhouse,n.laundry.

washing,n.ablution,bath,bathing, lavement; abstersion, detersion, fomentation; laundering, laundry.

washing away.detergent, abluent.

washing soda.sodium carbonate.

washstand,n.commode.

wasp,n.Associated words: vespid, vespiform, vespine, vespoid.

waspish,a.irascible,irritable,snappish,touchy,petulant.

wasp nest.vespiary.

waste,v.squander, misspend, fritteraway, dissipate, dawdle;desolate,devastate, despoil,sack,pillage,ravage,strip;decline,decay,pine, wither,dwindle, molder.

waste,a.refuse, rejected,unused,unproductive, untilled, inarable,worthless;desolate, devastated, stripped, ravaged, pillaged;superfluous,exuberant,unnecessary; excrementitious.

waste,n.wasting, squandering,dissipation, decrement, prodigality; wilderness,wild,desert; remnants,offal, recrement,garbage,refuse,rubbish; desolation, devastationrapine,ravage,havoc,destruction, sacking,pillage, despoliation.

wasteful,a.extravagant,prodigal, unthrifty, improvident infrugal,lavish,thriftless.

waster,n.spendthrift,prodigal, squanderer.

wasting,n.squandering,dissipation, prodigality, improvidence; emaciation,decline.

watch,n.vigil,outlook,attention; watcher, patrol,watchman, sentry, perdue,picket,guard,sentinel, vedette, guardsman, Argus.

watch,n.horologe.

watch,v.keep vigil, be on thelookout, keepguard.

watchful,a.vigilant,heedful,attentive,alert, circumspectwary, Argus-eyed.

watchfulness,n.vigilance, circumspection, wariness, heedfulness.

watching,n.vigil,vigilance; espionage, surveillance.

watchmaker,n.horologer, horologist.

watchmaking,n.horology, horography.

watchman,n.sentinel,guard, Argus, Cerberus. Seewatch.

watch-pocket,n.fob.

watch-tower,n.observatory.

watchword,n.countersign,password,shibboleth, parole.

water,v.irrigate.

Water,n.Associated words: aquatic, aquarium, aqueduct, alluvial, alluvion, affusion, aquapuncture, alluvium, diluvium, anhydrous, enhydrous, amphibious, amphibian, aquiferous, aquiform, aquiparous, buoy, coffer, cofferdam, debacle, cataclysm, dehydrate, dehydration, irrigation, diluvian, douche, glairin, baregin, hydragogue, hydrant, hydrate, hydration, hydrated, hydraulicon, hydrodynamics, hydroextractor, hydrogen, oxygen, hydrognosy, hydrographer, hydrography, hydrologist, reservoir, hydrolysis, hydromania, hydromaniac, hydraulic, hydromancy, hydromechanics, hydrometry, hydrophanous, hygrophilous, hydrorrhea, hydroscope, hydrostatic, hydrofuge, hydrostatics, hydrotic, hydrotherapeutics, hydrous, siphon, seepage, philhydrous, sluice, turbine, hydraulics,current, undertow.

water,n.lymph; serum.

water-bearer,n.Aquarius.

water bottle.carafe.

water brash.water-qualm, pyrosis.

water-clock,n.clepsydra; hydroscope.

water-closet,n.privy.

water color.aquarelle.

water-course,n.channel,ditch,canal,moat,sewer,drain, aqueduct,gutter,trench, wady.

water-cure,n.hydropathy.

water-doctor,n.hydropathist.

waterfall,n.cascade,cataract,fall, linn.

wateriness,n.aquosity.

waterless,a.anhydrous.

water-lily,n.Nymphæ.

waterman,n.ferryman, boatman.

water-nymph,n.Naiad, hydriad.

water on the brain.hydrocephalus.

water on the chest.hydrothorax.

water plant.aquatic, hydrophyte.Associated word: hydrophytology.

water-pox,n.varicella, swine-pox.

water-qualm,n.waterbrash, pyrosis.

watershed,n.divide.

water sports.aquatics.

water wheel.tympanum, turbine.

watery,a.aqueous; ichorous, serous, sanious.

watery discharge.hydrorrhea.

wattle,n.gill, caruncle.

wave,n.undulation, surge, eagre,bore,swell, billow, breaker;ripple; whitecap;signal,flourish;swelling,excitement,tide.Associated words: rote, trough,rut,crest.

wave,v.undulate,float,flutter;flourish, brandish; beckon,signal.

waver,v.vacillate,fluctuate, veer,oscillate,hesitate.

wavering,a.vacillating, fluctuating, oscillating,unstable,irresolute,uncertain.

wavering,n.vacillation,fluctuation,indecision,irresolution, oscillation,hesitancy.

wavy,a.undulatory, undulating, undulated.

wax,n.beeswax; spermaceti; adipocere (grave wax); ozocerite, mineralwax.Associated-words: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cerate, encaustic, ceroma, inceration, cerotene, incerative, cerographic, ceroplastic, cetin.

wax,v.cere;increase,grow,develop, become larger.

waxy,a.waxen, ceraceous, ceral; facile,pliable, fictile, impressible,plastic.

way,n.manner, method,mode,fashion,style,guise,custom, habitude,wont,practice;distance,interval,space;passage, transit, progression,advance;means,device, expedient,contrivance;direction;road,track,path, thoroughfare.

wayfarer,n.traveler,pilgrim, passenger,wanderer.

wayfaring,a.traveling,passing.

way in.entrance.

waylay,v.ambush.

way out.exit, egress.

wayward,a.disobedient,perverse,froward,willful, intractable,headstrong.

waywiser,n.odometer, pedometer, perambulator.

weak,a.feeble, infirm, debilitated, weakly,fragile,delicate,invalid, emasculated, enervated; vulnerable, assailable,unguarded, unprotected, exposed;frail, pliant,tender; peccable,fallible, errable,erring,indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious,ineffective;illogical, unsustained, inconclusive,lame,unsatisfactory;vacillating,irresolute,wavering,unstable; diluted,thin, insipid,vapid;slight, gauzy,sleazy,flimsy,brittle,fragile;unsound, unsubstantial, defective,unsafe,rickety.

weaken,v.debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate, incapacitate,sap, undermine,unman,exhaust, deplete;dilute,thin;invalidate; impair,diminish,lower,decline.

weakening,a.debilitant; diluent, attenuant.

weak-kneed,a.yielding,irresolute, pliant,vacillating.

weak-minded,a.feeble-minded,foolish,shallow, witless.

weakness,n.debility, feebleness,infirmity, enervation, debilitation, frailness,fragility, impotence,invalidism; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible,defect,deficiency; peccability, errability,fallibility; inefficacy, ineffectiveness;vacillation,indecision, instability,irresolution; atony, asthenia.

wealth,n.opulence, affluence,riches, fortune, competence.Associated words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chrysology, chrematistics, plutomania, plutocrat, plutocratic, magnate.

wealthy,a.opulent, affluent,rich, capitalistic,independent.

wean,v.disaccustom,alienate,detach.

weaning,n.ablactation;alienation.


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