| unworldly | (adjective) not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations | - |
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| (adjective) not wise in the ways of the world | Synonyms: unsophisticated |
| unyielding | (adjective) resistant to physical force or pressure | - |
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| (adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious |
| unyieldingness | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, obduracy |
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| upfield | (adjective) away from the defending teams' end of the playing field | - |
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| uphold | (verb) stand up for; stick up for; of causes, principles, or ideals | - |
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| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: maintain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve |
| upholder | (noun) someone who upholds or maintains | Synonyms: maintainer, sustainer |
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| valdecoxib | (noun) a Cox-2 inhibitor (trade name Bextra) that relieves pain and inflammation without harming the digestive tract | Synonyms: Bextra |
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| veld | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veldt |
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| veldt | (noun) elevated open grassland in southern Africa | Synonyms: veld |
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| waldmeister | (noun) fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine | Synonyms: sweet woodruff |
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| (noun) Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula | Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, woodruff |
| weald | (noun) an area of open or forested country | - |
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| weld | (noun) a metal joint formed by softening with heat and fusing or hammering together | - |
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| (noun) European mignonette cultivated as a source of yellow dye; naturalized in North America | Synonyms: dyer's mignonette, dyer's rocket, Reseda luteola |
| (verb) unite closely or intimately | - |
| (verb) join together by heating | - |
| welder | (noun) joins pieces of metal by welding them together | - |
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| welding | (noun) fastening two pieces of metal together by softening with heat and applying pressure | - |
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| weldment | (noun) an assembly of parts welded together | - |
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| wheatfield | (noun) a field planted with wheat | Synonyms: wheat field |
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| wield | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, manage |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, maintain |
| wieldy | (adjective) easy to handle or use or manage | - |
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| wild | (adjective) in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated | Synonyms: untamed |
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| (adjective) marked by extreme lack of restraint or control | - |
| (adjective) involving risk or danger | Synonyms: hazardous, risky |
| (adjective) intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with | Synonyms: crazy, dotty, gaga |
| (adjective) located in a dismal or remote area; desolate | Synonyms: godforsaken, waste |
| (adjective) talking or behaving irrationally | Synonyms: raving, raving mad |
| (adjective) (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud | Synonyms: violent |
| (adjective) without civilizing influences | Synonyms: barbarian, barbaric, savage, uncivilised, uncivilized |
| (adjective) in a state of extreme emotion | - |
| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, raging, tempestuous |
| (adjective) fanciful and unrealistic; foolish | Synonyms: fantastic |
| (adjective) without a basis in reason or fact | Synonyms: baseless, groundless, idle, unfounded, unwarranted |
| (adjective) deviating widely from an intended course | - |
| (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wilderness |
| (noun) a wild primitive state untouched by civilization | Synonyms: natural state, state of nature |
| (adverb) in a wild or undomesticated manner | - |
| (adverb) in an uncontrolled and rampant manner | Synonyms: rampantly |
| wildcat | (adjective) (of a mine or oil well) drilled speculatively in an area not known to be productive | - |
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| (adjective) without official authorization | Synonyms: unauthorised, unauthorized |
| (adjective) outside the bounds of legitimate or ethical business practices | - |
| (noun) any small or medium-sized cat resembling the domestic cat and living in the wild | - |
| (noun) an exploratory oil well drilled in land not known to be an oil field | Synonyms: wildcat well |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wolf |
| wildcatter | (noun) an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field | - |
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| wildebeest | (noun) large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail | Synonyms: gnu |
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| wilderness | (noun) a bewildering profusion | - |
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| (noun) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition | Synonyms: wild |
| (noun) (politics) a state of disfavor | - |
| wildfire | (noun) a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration | - |
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| wildflower | (noun) wild or uncultivated flowering plant | Synonyms: wild flower |
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| wildfowl | (noun) flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food | - |
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| wilding | (noun) an outrageous rampage usually involving sexual attacks by men on women | - |
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| (noun) a wild uncultivated plant (especially a wild apple or crabapple tree) | - |
| wildlife | (noun) all living things (except people) that are undomesticated | - |
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| wildly | (adverb) to an extreme or greatly exaggerated degree | - |
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| (adverb) with violent and uncontrollable passion | - |
| (adverb) in an uncontrolled or unrestrained manner | - |
| wildness | (noun) an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature | - |
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| (noun) an unruly disposition to do as one pleases | - |
| (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence |
| (noun) a feeling of extreme emotional intensity | Synonyms: abandon |
| windshield | (noun) transparent screen (as of glass) to protect occupants of a vehicle | Synonyms: windscreen |
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| withhold | (verb) hold back; refuse to hand over or share | Synonyms: keep back |
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| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, recoup |
| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| withholding | (noun) the act of deducting from an employee's salary | - |
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| (noun) the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control | - |
| (noun) income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer | Synonyms: withholding tax |
| wold | (noun) a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) | - |
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| world | (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, worldwide |
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| (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind |
| (noun) all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you | Synonyms: reality |
| (noun) the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife | Synonyms: earth, earthly concern, worldly concern |
| (noun) people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest | Synonyms: domain |
| (noun) people in general considered as a whole | Synonyms: populace, public |
| (noun) the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on | Synonyms: Earth, earth, globe |
| (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe |
| (noun) a part of the earth that can be considered separately | - |
| worldliness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication |
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| (noun) concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs | - |
| worldling | (noun) a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world | - |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, tellurian |
| worldly | (adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: secular, temporal |
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| (adjective) very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world | Synonyms: blase |
| worldwide | (adjective) of worldwide scope or applicability | Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, oecumenical, universal, world-wide |
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| (adjective) spanning or extending throughout the entire world | Synonyms: world-wide |
| (adjective) involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | Synonyms: global, planetary, world-wide, world |
| yield | (noun) production of a certain amount | Synonyms: output |
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| (noun) an amount of a product | Synonyms: fruit |
| (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings |
| (noun) the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time) | Synonyms: output, production |
| (verb) end resistance, as under pressure or force | Synonyms: give way |
| (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, succumb |
| (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: concede, grant |
| (verb) cease opposition; stop fighting | - |
| (verb) be flexible under stress of physical force | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, render, return |
| (verb) cause to happen or be responsible for | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) move in order to make room for someone for something | Synonyms: ease up, give, give way, move over |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: bear, pay |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, concede, grant |
| (verb) be the cause or source of | Synonyms: afford, give |
| (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: relent, soften |
| (verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: succumb |
| yielder | (noun) a person who yields or surrenders | Synonyms: surrenderer |
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| yielding | (adjective) tending to give in or surrender or agree | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to yield to argument or influence or control | - |
| (adjective) lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure | - |
| (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, concession |
| (noun) a verbal act of admitting defeat | Synonyms: giving up, surrender |
| yieldingly | (adverb) in an obedient manner | Synonyms: obediently |
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| zinnwaldite | (noun) a mica containing iron and lithium | - |
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