| vicegerent | (noun) someone appointed by a ruler as an administrative deputy | - |
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| vicenary | (adjective) of or relating to or based on 20 | - |
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| vicennial | (adjective) occurring once every 20 years | - |
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| viceregal | (adjective) of or relating to a viceroy | - |
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| vicereine | (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: viceroy |
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| (noun) wife of a viceroy | - |
| viceroy | (noun) showy American butterfly resembling the monarch but smaller | Synonyms: Limenitis archippus |
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| (noun) governor of a country or province who rules as the representative of his or her king or sovereign | Synonyms: vicereine |
| viceroyalty | (noun) a district or province governed by a viceroy | - |
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| viceroyship | (noun) the position of viceroy | - |
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| vichyssoise | (noun) a creamy potato soup flavored with leeks and onions; usually served cold | - |
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| vicinal | (adjective) belonging to or limited to a vicinity | - |
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| vicinity | (noun) a surrounding or nearby region | Synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood |
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| vicious | (adjective) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering | Synonyms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage |
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| (adjective) marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful | Synonyms: poisonous, venomous |
| (adjective) having the nature of vice | Synonyms: evil |
| (adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible |
| viciously | (adverb) in a vicious manner | Synonyms: brutally, savagely |
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| viciousness | (noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: brutality, ferociousness, savagery |
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| vicissitude | (noun) mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another) | - |
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| (noun) a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something | - |
| victim | (noun) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance | - |
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| (noun) a person who is tricked or swindled | Synonyms: dupe |
| victimisation | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimization |
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| victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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| (verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |
| victimised | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized |
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| victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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| victimization | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, using, victimisation |
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| (noun) adversity resulting from being made a victim | - |
| victimize | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimise |
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| (verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimise |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle |
| victimized | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimised |
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| victimizer | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimiser |
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| victor | (noun) the contestant who wins the contest | Synonyms: winner |
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| (noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: master, superior |
| victorian | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced |
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| victorious | (adjective) having won | Synonyms: winning |
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| (adjective) experiencing triumph | Synonyms: triumphant |
| victoriously | (adverb) in a victorious manner | - |
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| victory | (noun) a successful ending of a struggle or contest | Synonyms: triumph |
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| victual | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victuals |
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| (verb) take in nourishment | - |
| (verb) lay in provisions | - |
| (verb) supply with food | - |
| victualer | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualler |
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| (noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualler |
| victualler | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: provisioner, sutler, victualer |
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| (noun) an innkeeper (especially British) | Synonyms: victualer |
| victuals | (noun) any substance that can be used as food | Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, pabulum, victual |
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| (noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance |
| (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, provisions, viands |
| vicuna | (noun) small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat | Synonyms: Vicugna vicugna |
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| (noun) a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna | - |
| (noun) the wool of the vicuna | - |
| videlicet | (adverb) as follows | Synonyms: namely, that is to say, to wit, viz. |
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| video | (noun) a recording of both the visual and audible components (especially one containing a recording of a movie or television program) | Synonyms: video recording |
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| (noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: picture |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, television, TV |
| (noun) (computer science) the appearance of text and graphics on a video display | - |
| videocassette | (noun) a cassette for videotape | - |
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| videodisc | (noun) a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | Synonyms: DVD, videodisk |
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| videodisk | (noun) a digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set | Synonyms: DVD, videodisc |
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| videotape | (noun) a relatively wide magnetic tape for use in recording visual images and associated sound | - |
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| (noun) a video recording made on magnetic tape | - |
| (verb) record on videotape | Synonyms: tape |
| vie | (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, contend |
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| view | (noun) the act of looking or seeing or observing | Synonyms: sight, survey |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated | Synonyms: horizon, purview |
| (noun) outward appearance | - |
| (noun) purpose; the phrase `with a view to' means `with the intention of' or `for the purpose of' | - |
| (noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, scene, vista |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, position |
| (noun) a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty | Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, sentiment, thought |
| (noun) a message expressing a belief about something; the expression of a belief that is held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof | Synonyms: opinion |
| (noun) the range of the eye | Synonyms: eyeshot |
| (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, see |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: consider, look at |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, watch |
| viewable | (adjective) capable of being viewed | - |
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| viewer | (noun) an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies | - |
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| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, watcher, witness |
| viewers | (noun) the audience reached by television | Synonyms: TV audience, viewing audience |
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| viewfinder | (noun) optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest | Synonyms: finder, view finder |
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| viewgraph | (noun) a transparency for use with an overhead projector | Synonyms: overhead |
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| viewing | (noun) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial | Synonyms: wake |
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| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, showing |
| viewless | (adjective) not having or expressing opinions or views | - |
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| viewpoint | (noun) a mental position from which things are viewed | Synonyms: point of view, stand, standpoint |
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| (noun) a place from which something can be viewed | Synonyms: vantage point |
| vigesimal | (adjective) relating to or based on the number twenty | - |
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| vigil | (noun) a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe | Synonyms: watch |
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| (noun) the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival) | Synonyms: watch |
| (noun) a period of sleeplessness | - |
| vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |
| vigilant | (adjective) carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger | Synonyms: argus-eyed, open-eyed, wakeful, watchful |
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| vigilante | (noun) member of a vigilance committee | Synonyms: vigilance man |
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| vigilantism | (noun) the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws | - |
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| vigilantly | (adverb) in a watchful manner | Synonyms: watchfully |
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| vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
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| (noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
| (noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
| vigor | (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigour |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigour, vim |
| (noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigour, zip |
| vigorish | (noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: usury |
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| (noun) a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster | Synonyms: rake-off |
| vigorous | (adjective) characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity | - |
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| (adjective) strong and active physically or mentally | - |
| vigorously | (adverb) with vigor; in a vigorous manner | Synonyms: smartly |
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| vigour | (noun) active strength of body or mind | Synonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigor |
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| (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vim |
| (noun) forceful exertion | Synonyms: energy, vigor, zip |
| vii | (adjective) being one more than six | Synonyms: 7, seven |
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| viii | (adjective) being one more than seven | Synonyms: 8, eight |
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| vile | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, worthless, wretched |
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| (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening |
| vilely | (adverb) in a vile manner | - |
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| vileness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, lousiness, repulsiveness, sliminess, wickedness |
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| (noun) the quality of being wicked | Synonyms: nefariousness, ugliness, wickedness |
| vilification | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: malignment, smear |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement |
| vilifier | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, maligner, slanderer, traducer |
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| vilify | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, revile, vituperate |
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| vilipend | (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, depreciate |
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| villa | (noun) pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds | - |
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| (noun) country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard | - |
| (noun) detached or semidetached suburban house | - |
| village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
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| (noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
| villager | (noun) one who has lived in a village most of their life | - |
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| villain | (noun) a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately | Synonyms: scoundrel |
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| (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: baddie |
| villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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| villainess | (noun) a woman villain | - |
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| villainous | (adjective) extremely wicked | Synonyms: nefarious |
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| villainousness | (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainy |
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| villainy | (noun) a criminal or vicious act | - |
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| (noun) the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior | Synonyms: villainousness |
| villein | (noun) (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | Synonyms: helot, serf |
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| villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
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| (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |
| villoma | (noun) a benign epithelial tumor forming a rounded mass | Synonyms: papillary tumor, papillary tumour, papilloma |
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| villus | (noun) a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane | - |
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| vim | (noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) | Synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour |
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| (noun) a healthy capacity for vigorous activity | Synonyms: energy, vitality |
| vinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to wine | Synonyms: vinous |
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| (adjective) of the color of wine | - |
| vinaigrette | (noun) oil and vinegar with mustard and garlic | Synonyms: French dressing, sauce vinaigrette |
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| vinblastine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division | Synonyms: Velban |
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| vincible | (adjective) susceptible to being defeated | Synonyms: beatable, vanquishable |
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| vincristine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system | Synonyms: Oncovin |
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| vindicate | (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: justify |
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| (verb) clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | - |
| (verb) maintain, uphold, or defend | - |
| vindicated | (adjective) freed from any question of guilt | Synonyms: absolved, clear, cleared, exculpated, exonerated |
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| vindication | (noun) the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc. | Synonyms: exoneration |
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| (noun) the justification for some act or belief | Synonyms: defence, defense |
| vindicator | (noun) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | Synonyms: apologist, justifier |
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| vindicatory | (adjective) providing justification | Synonyms: justificative, justificatory |
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| (adjective) given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts | Synonyms: retributive, retributory |
| (adjective) of or relating to or having the nature of retribution | Synonyms: retaliative, retaliatory, retributive, retributory |
| vindictive | (adjective) showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite | Synonyms: despiteful, spiteful |
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| (adjective) disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge | Synonyms: revengeful, vengeful |
| vindictively | (adverb) in a vindictive, revengeful manner | Synonyms: revengefully, vengefully |
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| vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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| vine | (noun) a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface | - |
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