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wayward.adjective
following one's own capricious, wanton, or depraved-inclinations; ungovernable; following no clear principle or law; unpredictable; opposite to what is desired or expected; untoward
waywardness.noun
waywardly.adverb
synonyms.contrary

wearisome.adjective
causing physical or mental fatigue; tedious or tiresome wearisomely.adverb
wearisomeness.noun

weary, wearier, weariest.adjectives
physically or mentally fatigued; exhausted in strength, endurance, vigor, or freshness; expressing or characteristic of weariness; causing fatigue; tiresome a weary wait); having one's patience, tolerance, or pleasure exhausted; wearisome
weariness.noun
wearily.adverb
weary, wearied, wearying, wearies.transitive & intransitive verbs  to make or become weary; tire
wearily.adverb
weariness.noun

wary.adjective
inflected form(s).warier, wariest
marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchful prudence especially in detecting and escaping danger; leery
wariness.noun 
warily.adverb
synonym.cautious

worst.adjective
inflected form-of 'bad'
plural.worst 
most corrupt, bad, evil; most unfavorable, difficult, unpleasant, or painful; most unsuitable, faulty, unattractive, or ill conceived; least skillful or efficient; most wanting in quality, value, or condition

wake.noun
the visible track of turbulence left by something moving through water (the wake of a ship); a track, course, or condition left behind something that has passed (the war left destruction and famine in its wake; idiom-– in the wake of: following directly on; in the aftermath of; as a consequence of
wake, woke or waked, waked or woken, waking, wakes.verbs
intransitive verb use-to cease to sleep; become awake
wake.noun
a watch; a vigil; a watch over the body of a deceased person before burial, sometimes accompanied by festivity

o rouse from sleep; awaken. 2. To stir, as from a dormant or inactive condition; rouse: wake old animosities. 3. To make aware of; alert: The shocking revelations finally woke me to the facts of the matter. 4.a. To keep a vigil over. b. To hold a wake over. --wake n. 1. A watch; a vigil. 2. A watch over the body of a deceased person before burial, sometimes accompanied by festivity. Also called Regional: viewing. 3. wakes. (used with a sing. or pl. verb). Chiefly British. a. A parish festival held annually, often in honor of a patron saint. b. An annual vacation. [Middle English wakien, waken, from Old English wacan, to wake up and wacian, to be awake, keep watch; see weg- below.] --wak“er n.


wince.noun
to shrink or draw back suddenly 

worthwhile.adjective
important or valuable enough to to repay time or effort spent; of true value, merit, or importance

worthy, worthier, worthiest.adjectives.
having worth, merit, or value; useful or valuable; honorable; admirable (a worthy fellow {valuable in relationships}); having sufficient worth; deserving (worthy to be revered; worthy of acclaim
worthy.noun, plural.worthies
an eminent or distinguished person
worthily.adverb
worthiness.noun

wrest, wrested, wresting, wrests.transitive verbs.pronunciation.rest
to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements (wrested the book out of his hands); to gain with difficulty by or as if by force, violence, or determined labor 
wrester.noun

weak force.noun
One of the so called four fundamental forces (so called because although it's called one of the four, gravity is still the 'odd man out', not being perfectly {as we presently understand it} mathematically integrated with the other 3) necessary for all existence throughout the universe; the others being gravity,-electromagnetism, the strong interaction-(or, the strong force). It's a fundamental physical force that governs interactions between hadrons and leptons-(as in the emission and absorption of neutrinos) and is responsible for particle decay processes (as beta decay) in radioactivity, that is 105 times weaker than the strong force, and that acts over distances smaller than those between nucleons in an atomic-nucleus – called also weak interaction, weak nuclear force; compare electromagnetism, gravity, strong force.

white dwarf
a tiny remnant star stripped of its outer atmosphere

W Boson
W boson is a massive 81GeV/c2 (c is the speed of light in a vacuum; 2 is for it squared – a number multiplied by itself) charged (either positively or negatively) elementary particle of the Weak Interaction

whence.adverb
from what place, source, cause, etc.
whence.conjunction
out of which place; from or out of which; by reason of which; from which (the dog was coal black from nose to tail, whence the name Shadow) 

whorl.noun
a single turn in a spiral shell (a snail's shell, etc.); one of the basic patterns of the human fingerprint, formed by several complete circular ridges one inside another

wanton.adjective
immoral or unchaste; lewd; gratuitously cruel; merciless; marked by unprovoked, gratuitous..maliciousness; capricious and unjust (wanton destruction); unrestrainedly excessive (wanton extravagance; wanton depletion of oil reserves); luxuriant; overabundant (wanton tresses)
wanton, wantoned, wantoning, wantons-intransitive and  transitive verbs
intransitive use-to act, grow, or move in a wanton manner; be wanton
transitive use-to waste or squander.extravagantly
wanton.noun
one who is immoral, lewd, or licentious; one that is undisciplined or spoiled
wantonly.adverb
wantonness.noun

whim.noun
arbitrary thought or impulse-(governed by whim); a sudden or capricious idea; a fancy

whimsical.adjective
determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice; arbitrary; erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability (a whimsical personality)
whimsically.adverb

willy-nilly.adverb
whether desired or not (after her boss fell sick, she willy-nilly found herself directing the project); without order or plan; haphazardly
willy-nilly.adjective
being or occurring whether desired or not (willy-nilly cooperation); disordered; haphazard (willy-nilly zoning laws)

whatever.pronominal
everything or anything that (do whatever you please, what amount that); the whole of what (whatever is left over is yours); no matter what (whatever happens, we'll meet here tonight)
what ever.pronominal
which thing or things; what (whatever does he mean?)
whatever.adjective
of any number or kind; any (whatever requests you make will be granted; all of; the whole of (she applied whatever strength she had left to the task)
waylay, waylaid, waylaying, waylays.transitive verbs
to lie in wait for and attack from ambush; ambush; to accost or intercept unexpectedly
waylayer.noun

Wilde, Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills). 1854-1900. Irish-born writer. Renowned as a wit in London literary circles, he achieved recognition with The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), a novel. He also wrote plays of lively dialogue, such as The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), and poetry, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898).

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