veracious | (adjective) precisely accurate | Synonyms: right |
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(adjective) habitually speaking the truth | - |
veracity | (noun) unwillingness to tell lies | - |
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veranda | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, verandah |
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verandah | (noun) a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed) | Synonyms: gallery, veranda |
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verapamil | (noun) a drug (trade names Calan and Isoptin) used as an oral or parenteral calcium blocker in cases of hypertension or congestive heart failure or angina or migraine | Synonyms: Calan, Isoptin |
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verb | (noun) a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence | - |
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(noun) the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence | - |
verbal | (adjective) relating to or having facility in the use of words | - |
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(adjective) tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length | Synonyms: prolix |
(adjective) of or relating to or formed from a verb | - |
(adjective) of or relating to or formed from words in general | - |
(adjective) communicated in the form of words | - |
(adjective) expressed in spoken words | - |
verbalisation | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalization |
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(noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalization |
verbalise | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalize |
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(verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalize |
(verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalize |
(verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalize |
verbalised | (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: expressed, uttered, verbalized, voiced |
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verbaliser | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer |
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verbalism | (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: expression, verbal expression |
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(noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbiage |
verbalization | (noun) the activity of expressing something in words | Synonyms: verbalisation |
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(noun) the words that are spoken in the activity of verbalization | Synonyms: verbalisation |
verbalize | (verb) convert into a verb | Synonyms: verbalise |
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(verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise |
(verb) be verbose | Synonyms: verbalise |
(verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise |
verbalized | (adjective) communicated in words | Synonyms: expressed, uttered, verbalised, voiced |
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verbalizer | (noun) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) | Synonyms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbaliser |
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verbally | (adverb) as a verb | - |
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(adverb) by means of language | - |
verbatim | (adjective) in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker | Synonyms: direct |
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(adverb) using exactly the same words | Synonyms: word for word |
verbena | (noun) any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers | Synonyms: vervain |
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verbiage | (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, phrasing, wording |
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(noun) overabundance of words | Synonyms: verbalism |
verbify | (verb) make into a verb | - |
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verbolatry | (noun) the worship of words | Synonyms: grammatolatry, word-worship |
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verbose | (adjective) using or containing too many words | Synonyms: long-winded, tedious, windy, wordy |
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verbosely | (adverb) in a verbose manner | Synonyms: long-windedly, windily, wordily |
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verboseness | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verbosity |
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verbosity | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verboseness |
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verboten | (adjective) excluded from use or mention | Synonyms: forbidden, out, prohibited, proscribed, taboo, tabu |
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verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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verdant | (adjective) characterized by abundance of verdure | - |
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verdict | (noun) (law) the findings of a jury on issues of fact submitted to it for decision; can be used in formulating a judgment | Synonyms: finding of fact |
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verdigris | (noun) a green patina that forms on copper or brass or bronze that has been exposed to the air or water for long periods of time | - |
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(noun) a blue or green powder used as a paint pigment | Synonyms: cupric acetate |
(verb) color verdigris | - |
verdin | (noun) very small yellow-headed titmouse of western North America | Synonyms: Auriparus flaviceps |
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verdolagas | (noun) weedy trailing mat-forming herb with bright yellow flowers cultivated for its edible mildly acid leaves eaten raw or cooked especially in Indian and Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine; cosmopolitan | Synonyms: common purslane, Portulaca oleracea, pussley, pussly |
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verdure | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdancy |
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(noun) green foliage | Synonyms: greenery |
verge | (noun) a grass border along a road | - |
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(noun) the limit beyond which something happens or changes | Synonyms: brink |
(noun) a ceremonial or emblematic staff | Synonyms: scepter, sceptre, wand |
(noun) a region marking a boundary | Synonyms: brink, threshold |
(verb) border on; come close to | - |
verger | (noun) a church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies | - |
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veridical | (adjective) coinciding with reality | Synonyms: real |
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verifiability | (noun) The state or property of being capable of being verified; confirmability. | - |
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verifiable | (adjective) capable of being tested (verified or falsified) by experiment or observation | Synonyms: confirmable, falsifiable |
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(adjective) capable of being verified | - |
verification | (noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, substantiation |
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(noun) (law) an affidavit attached to a statement confirming the truth of that statement | - |
verificatory | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verifying |
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verified | (adjective) proved to be true | - |
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verifier | (noun) someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement | Synonyms: voucher |
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verify | (verb) confirm the truth of | - |
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(verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, assert, aver, avow, swan, swear |
(verb) attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition) | - |
(verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: control |
verifying | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory |
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verily | (adverb) in truth; certainly | - |
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verisimilar | (adjective) appearing to be true or real | - |
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verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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veritable | (adjective) not counterfeit or copied | Synonyms: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable |
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(adjective) often used as intensifiers | Synonyms: regular |
verity | (noun) an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth | - |
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(noun) conformity to reality or actuality | Synonyms: the true, trueness, truth |
vermicelli | (noun) pasta in strings thinner than spaghetti | - |
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vermicide | (noun) an agent that kills worms (especially those in the intestines) | - |
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vermicular | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermiculate, vermiculated |
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vermiculate | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermicular, vermiculated |
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(adjective) infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms | Synonyms: worm-eaten, wormy |
(verb) decorate with wavy or winding lines | - |
vermiculated | (adjective) decorated with wormlike tracery or markings | Synonyms: vermicular, vermiculate |
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vermiculation | (noun) a decoration consisting of wormlike carvings | - |
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(noun) the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along | Synonyms: peristalsis |
vermiculite | (noun) any of a group of yellow or brown hydrous silicate minerals having a micaceous structure | - |
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vermiform | (adjective) resembling a worm; long and thin and cylindrical | Synonyms: worm-shaped |
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vermifuge | (noun) a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic |
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vermilion | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, cinnabar, vermillion |
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(noun) a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge | Synonyms: orange red, scarlet |
(verb) color vermilion | - |
vermillion | (adjective) of a vivid red to reddish-orange color | Synonyms: Chinese-red, cinnabar, vermilion |
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vermin | (noun) any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats | - |
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(noun) an irritating or obnoxious person | Synonyms: varmint |
verminous | (adjective) of the nature of vermin; very offensive or repulsive | - |
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vermis | (noun) the narrow central part of the cerebellum between the two hemispheres | Synonyms: vermis cerebelli |
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vermouth | (noun) any of several white wines flavored with aromatic herbs; used as aperitifs or in mixed drinks | - |
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vernacular | (adjective) being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language | Synonyms: common, vulgar |
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(noun) the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) | - |
(noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, lingo, patois, slang |
vernal | (adjective) of or characteristic of or occurring in spring | - |
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(adjective) suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh | Synonyms: young, youthful |
vernation | (noun) (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens | - |
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vernier | (noun) a small movable scale that slides along a main scale; the small scale is calibrated to indicate fractional divisions of the main scale | Synonyms: vernier scale |
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vernix | (noun) a white cheeselike protective material that covers the skin of a fetus | Synonyms: vernix caseosa |
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vernonia | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: ironweed |
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veronal | (noun) a barbiturate used as a hypnotic | Synonyms: barbital, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea |
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veronica | (noun) any plant of the genus Veronica | Synonyms: speedwell |
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verruca | (noun) (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus | Synonyms: wart |
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verrucose | (adjective) (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts | Synonyms: wartlike, warty |
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versant | (noun) the side or slope of a mountain | Synonyms: mountainside |
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versatile | (adjective) able to move freely in all directions | - |
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(adjective) competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another | - |
(adjective) changeable or inconstant | - |
(adjective) having great diversity or variety | Synonyms: various |
versatility | (noun) having a wide variety of skills | - |
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verse | (noun) a piece of poetry | Synonyms: rhyme |
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(noun) a line of metrical text | Synonyms: verse line |
(noun) literature in metrical form | Synonyms: poesy, poetry |
(verb) familiarize through thorough study or experience | - |
(verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, poetize, versify |
versed | (adjective) thoroughly acquainted through study or experience | Synonyms: intimate, knowledgeable |
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versicle | (noun) a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation | - |
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versification | (noun) the art or practice of writing verse | - |
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(noun) the form or metrical composition of a poem | - |
(noun) a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text) | - |
versifier | (noun) a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) | Synonyms: poetiser, poetizer, rhymer, rhymester |
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versify | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, poetize, verse |
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version | (noun) manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery) | - |
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(noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, reading |
(noun) something a little different from others of the same type | Synonyms: edition, variant, variation |
(noun) a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language | Synonyms: interlingual rendition, rendering, translation |
(noun) an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint | - |
(noun) a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form | Synonyms: adaptation |
verso | (noun) the side of a coin or medal that does not bear the principal design | Synonyms: reverse |
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(noun) left-hand page | - |
verst | (noun) a Russian unit of length (1.067 km) | - |
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vertebra | (noun) one of the bony segments of the spinal column | - |
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vertebral | (adjective) of or relating to or constituting vertebrae | - |
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vertebrate | (adjective) having a backbone or spinal column | - |
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(noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: craniate |
vertex | (noun) the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure | - |
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(noun) the highest point (of something) | Synonyms: acme, apex, peak |
vertical | (adjective) at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line | Synonyms: perpendicular |
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(adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: erect, upright |
(adjective) relating to or involving all stages of a business from production to distribution | - |
(adjective) of or relating to different levels in a hierarchy (as levels of social class or income group) | - |
(noun) a vertical structural member as a post or stake | Synonyms: upright |
(noun) something that is oriented vertically | - |
verticality | (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, uprightness, verticalness |
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vertically | (adverb) in a vertical direction | - |
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verticalness | (noun) position at right angles to the horizon | Synonyms: erectness, uprightness, verticality |
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verticil | (noun) a whorl of leaves growing around a stem | - |
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verticillate | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillated, whorled |
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verticillated | (adjective) forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem) | Synonyms: verticillate, whorled |
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verticilliosis | (noun) wilt caused by fungi of the genus Verticillium | - |
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verticillium | (noun) a fungus of the genus Verticillium | - |
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