List Of Word V

Question 0

Vapid ( VAP id)

Answer 0

Adjective
Without liveliness; dull; spiritless
The novelist’s prose was so vapid that Mary could not get beyond the first page

Question 1

Vacillate (VAS uh LAYT)

Answer 1

Verb
To be indecisive; to waver
Tyler vacillated about buying a new car. He could not decide whether to get one.

Question 2

Vehement ( VEE uh munt)

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Adjective
Intense; forceful; violent
Shaking his fist and stomping his foot, Gerry was vehement in his denial

Question 3

Venal ( VEEN ul)

Answer 3

Adjective
Capable of being bribed; willing to do anything for money; corrupt
The venal judge reserved his favorable ruling when the defendant refused to make good on his promised bribe

Question 4

Venerate (VEN uh rayt)

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Verb
To revere ; to treat as something holy, especially because of great age
Lester venerated his grandfather; he worshiped the ground the old man limped on

Question 5

Veracity (vuh RAS uh tee)

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Noun
Truthfulness
The veracity of young George Washington is apocryphal

Question 6

Verbose (vur BOHS)

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Adjective

Using too many words; not succinct; circumlocutory

Question 7

Verisimilitude ( ver uh si MIL uh tood)

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Noun
Similarity to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the real thing
They used pine cones and old truck tires to make statues of Holloywood celebrities that were remarkable for their verisimilitude

Question 8

Vernacular (vur NAK yuh lur)

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Noun
Everyday speech; slang; idiom
Our teacher said that we should save our vernacular for the street; in the classroom we should use proper grammar

Question 9

Vestige (VES tij)

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Noun
A remaining bit of something; a last trace
The unhappy young man found vestiges of his fiancée in the ruble, but the explosion had effectively ended their romance

Question 10

Vex (veks)

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Verb
To annoy; to pester ; to confuse
Margaret vexed me by poking me with a long, sharp stick

Question 11

Viable ( VYE uh bull)

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Adjective
Capable of living; workable
When a doctor says that a patient is no longer viable, it’s time to begin planning a funeral

Question 12

Vicarious ( vye KAR ee us)

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Adjective
Experienced, performed, or suffered through someone else, living through the experience of another as though they were one’s own experience
To take vicarious pleasure in someone else’s success is to enjoy that person’s success a though it were your own

Question 13

Vicissitude (vi SIS uh tood)

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Noun
Upheaval ; natural change; change in fortune
The vicissitudes of the stock market were too much for Karen; she decided to look for a job that would stay the same from one day to the next

Question 14

Vilify (VIL uh fye)

Answer 14

Verb
To say vile thing about; to defame
The teacher was reprimanded for vilifying the slow strident in front of the rest of the class

Question 15

Vindicate (VIN duh kayt)

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Verb
To clear from all blame or suspicion; to justify
George, having been accused of stealing money from the cash register, was vindicated when the store manager counted the money again and found that none was missing after all

Question 16

Vindictive

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Adjective
Seeking revenge
Samantha’s vindictive ex drove all the way across the country just to put a stink bomb in her car

Question 17

Virtuoso ( vur choo WOH soh)

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Noun
A masterful musician ; a masterful practitioner in some other field
As an artist, he was a virtuoso; as a husband he was a chump

Question 18

Virulent (VIR uh lunt)

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Adjective
Extremely poisonous; malignant; full of hate
The snake was a member of a particularly virulent breed; its bite could kill an elephant

Question 19

Visionary

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Noun

A dreamer; someone with impractical goals or ideas about the future

Question 20

Vitiate (VISH ee ayt)

Answer 20

Verb
To make impure; to pollute
Smoke vitiates the surroundings.

Question 21

Vitriolic (vi tree AHL ik)

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Adjective
Caustic; full of bitterness
To be vitriolic is to say or do something so nasty that your words or actions burn like acid

Question 22

Vocation

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Noun
An occupation; a job
The accountant’s vocation bored her, but her avocation of mountain climbing did not

Question 23

Vociferous (voh SIF ur us)

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Adjective
Loud and noisy
Randy often becomes vociferous during arguments. He doesn’t know what he believes, but he states it loudly nevertheless

Question 24

Volatile ( VAHL uh tul)

Answer 24

Adjective

Quick to evaporate; highly unstable, explosive

Question 25

Volition (vol LISH un)

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Noun
Will; conscious choice
Insects, lacking volition, simply aren’t an interesting as humans are