light,
gauzy, sleazy, flimsy, brittle, fragile; unsound, unsubstantial,
defective, unsafe, rickety.

weaken, v. debilitate, enfeeble, enervate, unnerve, emasculate,
incapacitate, sap, undermine, unman, exhaust, deplete; dilute, thin;
invalidate; impair, diminish, lower, decline.

weakening, a. debilitant; diluent, attenuant.

weak-kneed, a. yielding, irresolute, pliant, vacillating.

weak-minded, a. feeble-minded, foolish, shallow, witless.

weakness, n. debility, feebleness, infirmity, enervation,
debilitation, frailness, fragility, impotence, invalidism; vulnerability,
accessibility, exposedness; foible, defect, deficiency; peccability,
errability, fallibility; inefficacy, ineffectiveness; vacillation,
indecision, instability, irresolution; atony, asthenia.

wealth, n. opulence, affluence, riches, fortune, competence.
Associated Words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chrysology,
chrematistics, plutomania, plutocrat, plutocratic, magnate.

wealthy, a. opulent, affluent, rich, capitalistic, independent.

wean, v. disaccustom, alienate, detach.

weaning, n. ablactation; alienation.

wear away. abrade, fray, erode, corrode, fret, chafe.

wearied, a. tired, fatigued, exhausted, weary, fagged, jaded.

weariness, n. fatigue, lassitude, languor, exhaustion, _ennui_.

wearing away. abrasion, attrition, detrition, corrosion, erosion.

weary, a. tired, fatigued, worn, exhausted, wearied, spent, fagged,
_ennuye_.

weary, v. tire, fatigue, exhaust, jade, fag, bore.

weather, n. Associated Words: meteorology, meteorologist,
barometer.

weather-cock, n. weather-vane.

weave, v. entwine, interlace, mat, plait, braid, plat, fabricate.

weaving, n. Associated Words: loom, textile, textorial, textrine,
spindle.

web, n. texture, tissue.

web-footed, a. palmiped, palmated, fin-toed, lobate.

wedding, n. nuptials, marriage, espousals.

wedge, n. embolus, chock, quoin, scotch.

wedge-shaped, a. cuneiform, sphenoid.

weed, v. uproot, extirpate.

weeding, n. sarculation; extirpation, rooting out.

weeding machine. aberuncator.

week day. Associated Word: ferial.

weekly, a. hebdomadary, hebdomadal.

weep, v. sob, cry.

weeping, n. sobbing, crying.

weevil, n. curculio.

weighable, a. ponderable.

weight, n. heaviness, ponderousness, gravity, ponderosity, poise,
heft; encumbrance, pressure, incubus, clog, burden; importance,
consequence, moment, significance.

weighty, a. heavy, pondero