| wastrel | (noun) someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently | Synonyms: waster |
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| watch | (noun) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | Synonyms: vigil |
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| (noun) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | Synonyms: vigil |
| (noun) a small portable timepiece | Synonyms: ticker |
| (noun) a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event | Synonyms: lookout, lookout man, picket, scout, sentinel, sentry, spotter |
| (noun) a period of time (4 or 2 hours) during which some of a ship's crew are on duty | - |
| (noun) the period during which someone (especially a guard) is on duty | - |
| watchband | (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchstrap, wristband |
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| watchdog | (noun) a dog trained to guard property | Synonyms: guard dog |
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| (noun) a guardian or defender against theft or illegal practices or waste | - |
| watcher | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watchman |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, witness |
| (noun) a person who keeps a devotional vigil by a sick bed or by a dead body | - |
| watchfulness | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: vigilance, weather eye |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, vigilance, wakefulness |
| watching | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observance, observation |
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| watchmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs watches | Synonyms: horologer, horologist |
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| watchman | (noun) a guard who keeps watch | Synonyms: security guard, watcher |
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| watchstrap | (noun) a band of cloth or leather or metal links attached to a wristwatch and wrapped around the wrist | Synonyms: bracelet, watch bracelet, watchband, wristband |
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| watchtower | (noun) an observation tower for a lookout to watch over prisoners or watch for fires or enemies | - |
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| watchword | (noun) a secret word or phrase known only to a restricted group | Synonyms: countersign, parole, password, word |
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| (noun) a slogan used to rally support for a cause | Synonyms: battle cry, cry, rallying cry, war cry |
| water | (noun) a facility that provides a source of water | Synonyms: water supply, water system |
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| (noun) a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants | - |
| (noun) the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) | Synonyms: body of water |
| (noun) binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent | Synonyms: H2O |
| (noun) liquid excretory product | Synonyms: pee, piddle, piss, urine, weewee |
| (noun) once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles), associated with the humour phlegm | - |
| waterbird | (noun) freshwater aquatic bird | Synonyms: water bird, waterfowl |
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| waterboarding | (noun) torture where water is poured over the face of a captive simulating drowning | - |
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| waterbuck | (noun) any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers | - |
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| watercannon | (noun) a hose (carried on a truck) that fires water under high pressure to disperse crowds (especially crowds of rioters) | Synonyms: water cannon |
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| watercolor | (noun) the art or technique of painting with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
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| (noun) a painting produced with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| (noun) a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| (noun) water-soluble pigment | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolour |
| watercolorist | (noun) a painter who paints with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolourist |
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| watercolour | (noun) the art or technique of painting with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
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| (noun) a painting produced with watercolors | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| (noun) a water-base paint (with water-soluble pigments); used by artists | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| (noun) water-soluble pigment | Synonyms: water-color, water-colour, watercolor |
| watercolourist | (noun) a painter who paints with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolorist |
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| watercourse | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: waterway |
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| (noun) a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) natural or artificial channel through which water flows | - |
| watercraft | (noun) a craft designed for water transportation | Synonyms: vessel |
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| (noun) skill in the management of boats | - |
| watercress | (noun) cresses that grow in clear ponds and streams | - |
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| (noun) any of several water-loving cresses | - |
| waterdog | (noun) any of several large aquatic salamanders | - |
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| waterer | (noun) an assistant who supplies drinking water | Synonyms: water boy |
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| (noun) someone who waters plants or crops | - |
| waterfall | (noun) a steep descent of the water of a river | Synonyms: falls |
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| waterfinder | (noun) forked stick that is said to dip down to indicate underground water or oil | Synonyms: divining rod, dowser, dowsing rod, water finder |
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| waterfowl | (noun) freshwater aquatic bird | Synonyms: water bird, waterbird |
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| waterfront | (noun) the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside a body of water | - |
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| wateriness | (noun) the property of resembling the viscosity of water | - |
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| (noun) meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food) | - |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: muddiness, sloppiness |
| watering | (noun) wetting with water | - |
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| (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lachrymation, lacrimation, tearing |
| waterleaf | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Hydrophyllum | - |
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| waterlessness | (noun) the condition of not containing or being covered by a liquid (especially water) | Synonyms: dryness, xerotes |
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| waterline | (noun) a line corresponding to the surface of the water when the vessel is afloat on an even keel; often painted on the hull of a ship | Synonyms: water level, water line |
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| waterloo | (noun) a final crushing defeat | - |
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| waterman | (noun) someone who drives or rides in a boat | Synonyms: boater, boatman |
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| watermark | (noun) a distinguishing mark impressed on paper during manufacture; visible when paper is held up to the light | - |
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| (noun) a line marking the level reached by a body of water | Synonyms: water line |
| watermeal | (noun) any of various aquatic plants of the genus Wolffia; throughout warmer regions of the world | - |
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| watermelon | (noun) large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp | - |
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| (noun) an African melon | Synonyms: Citrullus vulgaris, watermelon vine |
| waterpower | (noun) the power to do work that is latent in a head of water | - |
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| waterproof | (noun) a water-resistant coat | Synonyms: raincoat |
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| (noun) any fabric impervious to water | - |
| waterproofing | (noun) the act of treating something to make it repel water | Synonyms: sealing |
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| (noun) a coating capable of making a surface waterproof | - |
| waterproofness | (noun) The condition of being so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. | Synonyms: watertightness |
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| waters | (noun) the serous fluid in which the embryo is suspended inside the amnion | Synonyms: amnionic fluid, amniotic fluid |
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| waterscape | (noun) a painting of the sea (as distinguished from a landscape) | Synonyms: seascape |
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| watershed | (noun) an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend | Synonyms: landmark, turning point |
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| (noun) a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems | Synonyms: divide, water parting |
| (noun) the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries; an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet | Synonyms: basin, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, drainage basin, river basin |
| waterside | (noun) land bordering a body of water | - |
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| waterskin | (noun) a container of skin for holding water | Synonyms: water skin |
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| waterspout | (noun) a channel through which water is discharged (especially one used for drainage from the gutters of a roof) | - |
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| (noun) a tornado passing over water and picking up a column of water and mist | - |
| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, pelter, soaker, torrent |
| watertightness | (noun) The condition of being so tightly made that water cannot enter or escape. | Synonyms: waterproofness |
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| watertube | (noun) a boiler tube through which the water flows. | Synonyms: water tube |
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| waterway | (noun) a conduit through which water flows | Synonyms: watercourse |
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| (noun) a navigable body of water | - |
| waterweed | (noun) a weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea | - |
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| waterwheel | (noun) a wheel that rotates by direct action of water; a simple turbine | Synonyms: water wheel |
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| (noun) a wheel with buckets attached to its rim; raises water from a stream or pond | Synonyms: water wheel |
| waterworks | (noun) workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community | - |
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| (noun) a public utility that provides water | Synonyms: water company |
| watt | (noun) a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm | Synonyms: W |
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| wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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| wattle | (noun) framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence | - |
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| (noun) a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards | Synonyms: lappet |
| (noun) any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle | - |
| wattmeter | (noun) an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit | - |
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| wave | (noun) a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon | - |
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| (noun) a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair | - |
| (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wafture, waving |
| (noun) (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth | Synonyms: undulation |
| (noun) one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water) | Synonyms: moving ridge |
| (noun) something that rises rapidly | - |
| (noun) a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures) | - |
| (noun) an undulating curve | Synonyms: undulation |
| waveband | (noun) a band of adjacent radio frequencies (e.g., assigned for transmitting radio or television signals) | Synonyms: frequency band |
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| waveform | (noun) the shape of a wave illustrated graphically by plotting the values of the period quantity against time | Synonyms: wave form, wave shape |
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| wavefront | (noun) (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium | Synonyms: wave front |
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| waveguide | (noun) a hollow metal conductor that provides a path to guide microwaves; used in radar | Synonyms: wave guide |
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| wavelength | (noun) the distance (measured in the direction of propagation) between two points in the same phase in consecutive cycles of a wave | - |
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| (noun) a shared orientation leading to mutual understanding | - |
| wavelet | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, rippling |
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| waver | (noun) the act of moving back and forth | Synonyms: flicker, flutter |
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| (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, hesitation |
| (noun) someone who communicates by waving | - |
| waverer | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, vacillator |
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| wavering | (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
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| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |
| waviness | (noun) (of hair) a tendency to curl | Synonyms: curliness |
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| (noun) unevenness produced by waves or wrinkles | - |
| waving | (noun) the act of signaling by a movement of the hand | Synonyms: wafture, wave |
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| waw | (noun) the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
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| wax | (noun) any of various substances of either mineral origin or plant or animal origin; they are solid at normal temperatures and insoluble in water | - |
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| waxberry | (noun) deciduous aromatic shrub of eastern North America with grey-green wax-coated berries | Synonyms: bayberry, candleberry, Myrica pensylvanica, swamp candleberry |
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| (noun) deciduous shrub of western North America having spikes of pink flowers followed by round white berries | Synonyms: common snowberry, snowberry, Symphoricarpos alba |
| waxflower | (noun) small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age | Synonyms: Indian pipe, Monotropa uniflora |
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| (noun) epiphytic clusia of British Guiana | Synonyms: Clusia insignis |
| (noun) twining woody vine of Madagascar having thick dark waxy evergreen leaves and clusters of large fragrant waxy white flowers along the stems; widely cultivated in warm regions | Synonyms: Madagascar jasmine, Stephanotis floribunda |
| waxiness | (noun) the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax | - |
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| waxing | (noun) the application of wax to a surface | - |
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| (noun) a gradual increase in magnitude or extent | - |
| waxmallow | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Malvaviscus having brilliant bell-shaped drooping flowers like incompletely opened hibiscus flowers | Synonyms: sleeping hibiscus, wax mallow |
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| waxwing | (noun) brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips | - |
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| waxwork | (noun) an effigy (usually of a famous person) made of wax | Synonyms: wax figure |
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| (noun) twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds | Synonyms: American bittersweet, bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, shrubby bittersweet, staff vine |
| waxycap | (noun) any fungus of the family Hygrophoraceae having gills that are more or less waxy in appearance | - |
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| way | (noun) a course of conduct | Synonyms: path, way of life |
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| (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: agency, means |
| (noun) a journey or passage | - |
| (noun) any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another | - |
| (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, mode, style |
| (noun) the property of distance in general | - |
| (noun) doing as one pleases or chooses | - |
| (noun) a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of' | - |
| (noun) a line leading to a place or point | Synonyms: direction |
| (noun) a portion of something divided into shares | - |
| (noun) space for movement | Synonyms: elbow room, room |
| (noun) the condition of things generally | - |
| waybill | (noun) a receipt given by the carrier to the shipper acknowledging receipt of the goods being shipped and specifying the terms of delivery | Synonyms: bill of lading |
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| wayfarer | (noun) a traveler going on a trip | Synonyms: journeyer |
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| (noun) a pedestrian who walks from place to place | - |
| wayfaring | (noun) traveling (especially on foot) | - |
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| ways | (noun) structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired | Synonyms: shipway, slipway |
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| wayside | (noun) edge of a way or road or path | Synonyms: roadside |
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| weakener | (noun) that which weakens or causes a loss of strength | - |
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| weakening | (noun) the act of reducing the strength of something | - |
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| (noun) becoming weaker | - |
| weakfish | (noun) food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out | Synonyms: Cynoscion regalis |
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| (noun) lean flesh of food and game fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| weakling | (noun) a person who is physically weak and ineffectual | Synonyms: doormat, wuss |
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| weakness | (noun) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain | - |
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| (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, impuissance |
| (noun) a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you | - |
| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: failing |
| (noun) the condition of being financially weak | - |
| weal | (noun) a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions | Synonyms: wale, welt, wheal |
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| weald | (noun) an area of open or forested country | - |
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| wealth | (noun) the quality of profuse abundance | - |
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| (noun) property that has economic utility: a monetary value or an exchange value | - |
| (noun) an abundance of material possessions and resources | Synonyms: riches |
| (noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money | Synonyms: wealthiness |
| wealthiness | (noun) the state of being rich and affluent; having a plentiful supply of material goods and money | Synonyms: wealth |
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| weaning | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: ablactation |
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| weapon | (noun) any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting | Synonyms: arm, weapon system |
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| (noun) a means of persuading or arguing | Synonyms: artillery |
| weaponry | (noun) weapons considered collectively | Synonyms: arms, implements of war, munition, weapons system |
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