good, exemplary, moral, pure, continent, upright.
virulent, a. poisonous, venomous; malignant, bitter, acrimonious.
visible, a. perceivable, perceptible, discernible, apparent, evident,
manifest. Antonyms: invisible, imperceptible.
vision, n. sight; apparition, dream, phantasm, specter, phantom,
hallucination, illusion.
visionary, a. dreamy, imaginative, romantic, fanciful, illusory,
chimerical, Utopian.
visionary, n. castle-builder, dreamer, illusionist.
visitor, n. guest. Antonym: host.
vitiate, v. debase, corrupt, demoralize, contaminate, deprave, spoil.
vitiation, n. debasement, corruption, demoralization, depravation,
contamination.
vixen, n. virago, scold, shrew, termagant, Tartar, Xantippe,
spitfire.
voice, n. utterance, speech; vote, choice, election, suffrage.
Associated Words: phonology, phonetics, phonation, phonography, oral,
vocal, non-vocal, aphonic, arsis, ictus, vocalize, modulate, modulation,
inflection.
void, a. vacant, empty, vacuous; destitute, devoid, lacking;
ineffectual, invalid, nugatory, vain.
void, v. evacuate, eject, discharge, egest, pass; nullify, abrogate,
annul.
voidance, n. evacuation, discharge, egestion.
volatile, a. See changeable.
volcano, n. Associated Words: crater, lapilli, lava, scoria,
obsidian, volcanic, eruption, belch.
volley, n. salvo; outpouring, storm, discharge.
voluble, a. glib, fluent, oily, talkative.
volume, n. book, tome; dimensions, compass, size, bulk, mass.
voluntary, a. free, volitional, unforced, spontaneous. Antonyms:
See involuntary.
volunteer, n. Antonym: conscript.
voluptuary, n. sensualist, epicure, sybarite, _bon vivant_.
Antonym: ascetic.
voluptuous, a. sensual, epicurean, sybaritic. Antonyms: ascetic,
abstemious, austere.
vomit, v. puke; spew, emit, belch, disgorge, eject.
vomiting, n. emesis, vomition, puking, spew. Associated Words:
emetic, antemetic, qualmish, gag, retch, nausea, nauseate.
voracious, a. rapacious, ravenous, insatiable, fierce, gluttonous,
cormorant.
voracity, n. rapacity, voraciousness, greediness.
votary, n. devotee, votarist.
vote, n. suffrage; ballot, ticket; referendum, plebiscite.
Associated Words: enfranchise, enfranchisement, disenfranchise,
disenfranchisement, suffragist, elect, election electoral, electorate,
acclamation, franchise, poll.
vote, v. (Colloq.) declare.
voter, n. elector, suffragist.
voters, n. pl. electorate.
voting place. poll.
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