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English Word Dictionary

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vagal

adjective · of or relating to the vagus nerve

vaguely

adverb · in a vague way

Example: he looked vaguely familiar

vain

adjective · unproductive of success

Example: a fruitless search

vainly

adverb · to no avail

Example: he looked for her in vain

valedictory speaker

noun · the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement

valeriana

noun · genus of widely distributed perennial herbs and some shrubs

valet de chambre

noun · a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer

Example: Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man

valiantly

adverb · with valor; in a valiant manner

Example: he fought valiantly until the end

validate

verb · make valid or confirm the validity of

Example: validate a ticket

validating

adjective · serving to support or corroborate

Example: collateral evidence

validly

adverb · with validity; in a valid manner

Example: this may not validly be done

vallecula

noun · (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

valorously

adverb · with valor; in a valiant manner

Example: he fought valiantly until the end

valuable

adjective · having great material or monetary value especially for use or exchange

Example: a valuable diamond

valuate

verb · evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

Example: I will have the family jewels appraised by a professional

value-added tax

noun · a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production

value-system

noun · the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group

Example: the Puritan ethic

vamoose

verb · leave suddenly

Example: She persuaded him to decamp

vamp up

verb · piece (something old) with a new part

Example: vamp up an old speech

vandalise

verb · destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism

Example: vandalize the park

vandalize

verb · destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism

Example: vandalize the park

vaned

adjective · (of an arrow) equipped with feathers

vangueria

noun · tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit

vanilla

adjective · plain and without any extras or adornments

Example: the most common type of bond is the straight or plain vanilla bond

vanish

verb · decrease rapidly and disappear

Example: the money vanished in las Vegas

vanishingly

adverb · so as to disappear or approach zero

Example: errors are vanishingly rare

vanquish

verb · come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Example: Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship

vapid

adjective · lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest

Example: a vapid conversation

vapidly

adverb · in a vapid manner

Example: a vapidly smiling salesman

vaporise

verb · lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue

Example: evaporate milk

vaporize

verb · decrease rapidly and disappear

Example: the money vanished in las Vegas

vaporized

adjective · converted into a gas or vapor

vaporous

adjective · filled with vapor

Example: miasmic jungles

vapourific

adjective · resembling or characteristic of vapor

Example: vaporous clouds

vapourous

adjective · filled with vapor

Example: miasmic jungles

variable

adjective · (used of a device) designed so that a property (as e.g. light) can be varied

Example: a variable capacitor

variably

adverb · with variation; in a variable manner or to a variable degree

Example: it will be variably cloudy

variant

adjective · differing from a norm or standard

Example: a variant spelling

varicolored

adjective · having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly

Example: a jester dressed in motley

varicose

adjective · abnormally swollen or knotty

Example: varicose veins

varied

adjective · broken away from sameness or identity or duplication

Example: her quickly varied answers indicated uncertainty

variegate

verb · make something more diverse and varied

Example: Vary the menu

variolar

adjective · relating to small pox

variorum

noun · an edition containing various versions of a text or notes by various scholars or editors

variously

adverb · in diverse ways

Example: the alternatives that are variously represented by the participants

varnish tree

noun · small Asiatic tree yielding a toxic exudate from which lacquer is obtained

varsity letter

noun · an award earned by participation in a school sport

Example: he won letters in three sports

vary

verb · become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence

Example: her mood changes in accordance with the weather

vascular

adjective · of or relating to or having vessels that conduct and circulate fluids

Example: vascular constriction

vascular ray

noun · a sheet of vascular tissue separating the vascular bundles

vascularise

verb · make vascular

Example: the yolk sac is gradually vascularized

vascularize

verb · make vascular

Example: the yolk sac is gradually vascularized

vase vine

noun · scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals

vasectomise

verb · remove the vas deferens

Example: many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control

vasectomize

verb · remove the vas deferens

Example: many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control

vast

adjective · unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope- W.R.Inge

Example: huge government spending