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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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