| aver | (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, avow, swan, swear, verify |
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| (verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, say |
| average | (adjective) lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered | Synonyms: ordinary |
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| (adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: intermediate, medium |
| (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: fair, mediocre, middling |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values) | Synonyms: median |
| (adjective) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | Synonyms: mean |
| (adjective) relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution | Synonyms: modal |
| (noun) a statistic describing the location of a distribution | Synonyms: norm |
| (noun) an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual | - |
| (noun) (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities | - |
| (verb) compute the average of | Synonyms: average out |
| (verb) achieve or reach on average | - |
| (verb) amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain | Synonyms: average out |
| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| averment | (noun) a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | Synonyms: assertion, asseveration |
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| averse | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed | Synonyms: antipathetic, antipathetical, indisposed, loath, loth |
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| aversion | (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: averting |
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| (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, distaste |
| aversive | (adjective) tending to repel or dissuade | - |
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| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| avertable | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertible, avoidable, evitable |
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| avertible | (adjective) capable of being avoided or warded off | Synonyms: avertable, avoidable, evitable |
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| averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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| (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
| basketweaver | (noun) someone skilled in weaving baskets | Synonyms: basketmaker |
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| beaver | (noun) large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | - |
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| (noun) a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material) | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face | - |
| (noun) a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur | Synonyms: dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper |
| (noun) a full beard | - |
| (noun) the soft brown fur of the beaver | Synonyms: beaver fur |
| (verb) work hard on something | Synonyms: beaver away |
| bravery | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: braveness, courage, courageousness |
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| (noun) feeling no fear | Synonyms: fearlessness |
| cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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| cadaveric | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaverous |
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| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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| cadaverous | (adjective) of or relating to a cadaver or corpse | Synonyms: cadaveric |
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| (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
| cavern | (noun) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave | - |
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| (noun) any large dark enclosed space | - |
| (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
| cavernous | (adjective) filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood | Synonyms: erectile |
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| (adjective) being or suggesting a cavern | - |
| claver | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| cleaver | (noun) a butcher's knife having a large square blade | Synonyms: chopper, meat cleaver |
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| cleavers | (noun) annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia | Synonyms: catchweed, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers |
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| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| engraver | (noun) a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate | - |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching | - |
| extraversion | (noun) (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self | Synonyms: extroversion |
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| extraversive | (adjective) directed outward; marked by interest in others or concerned with external reality | Synonyms: extroversive |
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| extravert | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extraverted, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| (noun) (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: extrovert |
| extraverted | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extravertive, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| extravertive | (adjective) being concerned with the social and physical environment | Synonyms: extravert, extraverted, extrovert, extroverted, extrovertive |
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| graver | (noun) a tool used by an engraver | Synonyms: graving tool, pointel, pointrel |
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| graverobber | (noun) someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection | Synonyms: body snatcher, ghoul |
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| (noun) someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts | - |
| haversack | (noun) a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder | Synonyms: back pack, backpack, knapsack, packsack, rucksack |
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| heaver | (noun) a bar used as a lever (as in twisting rope) | - |
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| (noun) a workman who heaves freight or bulk goods (especially at a dockyard) | - |
| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| klavern | (noun) a local unit of the Ku Klux Klan | - |
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| knavery | (noun) lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing | Synonyms: dishonesty |
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| laver | (noun) (Old Testament) large basin used by a priest in an ancient Jewish temple to perform ritual ablutions | - |
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| (noun) seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds | Synonyms: sea lettuce |
| (noun) edible red seaweeds | Synonyms: red laver |
| leaver | (noun) someone who leaves | Synonyms: departer, goer |
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| lifesaver | (noun) a life preserver in the form of a ring of buoyant material | Synonyms: life belt, life buoy, life ring |
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| (noun) an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents | Synonyms: lifeguard |
| maverick | (adjective) independent in behavior or thought | Synonyms: irregular, unorthodox |
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| (noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it | - |
| (noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action | Synonyms: rebel |
| palaver | (noun) loud and confused and empty talk | Synonyms: empty talk, empty words, hot air, rhetoric |
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| (noun) flattery intended to persuade | Synonyms: blandishment, cajolery |
| (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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| quaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note | Synonyms: eighth note |
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| (noun) a tremulous sound | - |
| (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
| quavering | (adjective) (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear | Synonyms: tremulous |
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| quaveringly | (adverb) in an unsteady quavering manner | - |
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| raver | (noun) someone who rants and raves; speaks in a violent or loud manner | Synonyms: ranter |
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| (noun) a participant in a rave dancing party | - |
| saver | (noun) someone who saves (especially money) | - |
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| (noun) someone who saves something from danger or violence | Synonyms: recoverer, rescuer |
| semiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixteenth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixteenth note |
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| shaver | (noun) a razor powered by an electric motor | Synonyms: electric razor, electric shaver |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| (noun) an adult male who shaves | - |
| slaver | (noun) a person engaged in slave trade | Synonyms: slave dealer, slave trader |
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| (noun) someone who holds slaves | Synonyms: slave owner, slaveholder |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: dribble, drivel, drool, slabber, slobber |
| slavery | (noun) work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay | - |
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| (noun) the practice of owning slaves | Synonyms: slaveholding |
| (noun) the state of being under the control of another person | Synonyms: bondage, thraldom, thrall, thralldom |
| tavern | (noun) a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: tap house |
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| traversable | (adjective) capable of being traversed | Synonyms: travelable |
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| traversal | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traverse |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traverse |
| traverse | (noun) taking a zigzag path on skis | Synonyms: traversal |
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| (noun) travel across | Synonyms: traversal |
| (noun) a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it | Synonyms: transom |
| (noun) a horizontal beam that extends across something | Synonyms: crossbeam, crosspiece, trave |
| (verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: deny |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, sweep |
| traverser | (noun) someone who moves or passes across | - |
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| untraversable | (adjective) incapable of being traversed | - |
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| untraversed | (adjective) not traveled over or through | - |
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| unwavering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable |
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| (adjective) not showing abrupt variations | Synonyms: level |
| unwaveringly | (adverb) with resolute determination | Synonyms: firm, firmly, steadfastly |
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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 | - |
| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: quaver |
| (verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: weave |
| (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: falter |
| (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waffle |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: falter |
| waverer | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, hesitator, vacillator |
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| wavering | (adjective) uncertain in purpose or action | Synonyms: vacillant, vacillating |
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| (noun) the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes | Synonyms: fluctuation |
| (noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: hesitation, vacillation |
| weaver | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver finch, weaverbird |
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| (noun) a craftsman who weaves cloth | - |
| weaverbird | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | Synonyms: weaver, weaver finch |
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