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vain,
vainer,
vainest.adjectives
lacking value or substance; not yielding the desired
outcome; fruitless (a vain attempt); lacking substance or worth (vain talk;
things of vanity that ultimately come to nothing - the physical material
life); excessively proud of one's appearance or accomplishments;
conceited
in vain.idiom
to no avail;
without success (our labor was in vain); to no end; to no good purpose;
without merit, success or result;
worthless, idle; a waste of time; marked by futility
or ineffectualness, useless; also, having or showing undue
or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements, conceited;
in an irreverent or disrespectful manner (took the name of the Lord in
vain)
vainness.noun
vainly.adverb
synonym.futile
vanity.noun,.plural.vanities
something that is vain, empty,
or valueless; the quality or fact of being vain; inflated pride in oneself,
one's appearance and/or in how acquired
possessions add to one's opinion of himself;
conceit;
dressing table
vacillate, vacillated,
vacillating.intransitive
verbs
to sway through lack of equilibrium;
fluctuate;
oscillate;
to waver in mind, will, or feeling;
hesitate
in choice of opinions or courses; double minded; cannot make up one's mind
as to what to do or which way to follow
vacillator.noun
vacillatingly.adverb
synonym.hesitate,
waver, falter
verbatim.adverb
in the exact words; word for word
violent.adjective
extreme in emotion (angry); intense;
marked by extreme force or sudden intense activity; notably furious or
vehement;
emotionally agitated to the point
of loss of self control
violently.adverb
volition.noun
an act of making a choice or decision; also; a
choice or decision made; the power of choosing or determining; will
volitional.adjective
vernacular.adjective
using a language or dialect native to a region
or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language
vice versa.adverb
the order or relation being reversed;
conversely
vicious.adjective
having the nature or quality of vice or immorality;
depraved;
defective; faulty; impure; noxious;
dangerously aggressive; savage (a vicious dog); marked by violence or ferocity;
fierce (a vicious fight); malicious; spiteful (vicious gossip);
worsened by internal causes that reciprocally augment each other (a vicious
wage price spiral)
viciously.adverb
viciousness.noun
synonyms-villainous,
iniquitous, nefarious, corrupt, degenerate
vicious.–
may directly oppose virtuous in implying moral depravity, or may connote
malignancy, cruelty, or destructive violence (a vicious gangster)
villainous.–
applies to any evil, depraved, or vile conduct or characteristic (a villainous
assault)
iniquitous.–
implies absence of all signs of justice or fairness (an iniquitous system
of taxation)
nefarious.–
suggests flagrant breaching of time-honored laws and traditions of conduct
(the
nefarious rackets of organized crime)
corrupt.–
stresses a loss of moral integrity or probity (honesty) causing betrayal
of principle or sworn obligations (city hall was rife with corrupt politicians)
degenerate.–
means highly reprehensible or offensive in character, nature, or conduct:
suggests having sunk to an especially vicious or enervated
condition (a degenerate regime propped up by foreign powers)
vile, viler,
vilest.adjectives
morally.despicable
or abhorrent.(nothing
is so vile as intellectual dishonesty); loathsome;
disgusting (vile language; vile acts of deceit to gain selfish advantage
over others); repulsive; foul (a vile slum); of little worth or account;
common; mean; tending to degrade (vile employments); disgustingly or utterly
bad; obnoxious; contemptible (vile weather) (had a vile temper) unpleasant
or objectionable (vile weather); offensive; contemptibly low in worth or
account; morally depraved; ignoble or wicked (a vile conspiracy)
vilely.adverb
vileness.noun
synonym.base
vicarious.adjective
felt or undergone as if one were taking part in
the experience or feelings of another (read or watched TV about mountain
climbing and experienced vicarious thrills; was so involved in the video
game he imagined for awhile that he was the person he was playing); endured
or done by one person substituting for another (vicarious punishment);
acting or serving in place of someone or something else; substituted; committed
or entrusted to another, as powers or authority; delegated
vicariously.adverb
vicariousness.noun
vivify,
vivified,
vivifying,
vivifies.transitive
verbs
to make more lively, intense, or striking; enliven
(a smile may vivify a face; to give or bring life to; animate: vivify a
puppet; vivifying the brown grasslands
vivification, vivifier.nouns
vital.adjective
of, relating to, or characteristic of life; living;
necessary to the continuation of life; life-sustaining: a vital organ;
vital nutrients; full of life; animated; imparting life or animation; invigorating
(the sun's vital rays); necessary to continued existence or effectiveness;
essential (irrigation is vital to grow crops when the land is dry); concerned
with or recording data pertinent to lives (vital records); destructive
to life; fatal (a vital injury)
vitally.adverb
vitalness.noun
vitality.noun,.plural.vitalities
the capacity
to live, grow, or develop (plants that lost their vitality when badly pruned);
physical or intellectual vigor;
energy; the characteristic,
principle,
or force that distinguishes
living things from nonliving things; power to survive (the vitality of
an old tradition)
vitalize, vitalized,
vitalizing,
vitalizes.transitive
verbs
to endow
with life; animate; to make more
lively or vigorous; invigorate
vitalization, vitalizer.nouns
visualize, visualized,
visualizing,
visualizes.verbs
transitive verbs.to
form a mental image of; envisage (tried to visualize the scene as it was
described); to make visible
intransitive verbs.to
form a mental image
visualization.noun
Veda.noun
any of the oldest Hindu sacred texts, composed
in Sanskrit and gathered into
four collections
Vedic.adjective
of or relating to the Veda or Vedas,
the variety of Sanskrit in which
they are written, or the Hindu culture that produced them.
Vedic.noun
the early Sanskrit in which the Vedas are written
vagary.noun,.plural.vagaries
an erratic
notion or action; caprice
vigil.noun
a watch kept during normal sleeping hours (it
was a long vigil when firemen kept watch on the approaching lava); the
act or a period of observing
vertex.noun,.plural.vertexes.or.vertices
the highest point; the apex
or summit.(the
vertex of a mountain)
Mathematics.-.the
point at which the sides of an angle intersect; the point on a triangle
or pyramid opposite to and farthest away from its base; a point on a polyhedron
common to three or more sides
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