English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; English literature; Readers; Recitations
VI'GOROUS, _a._ full of strength and life
VI'GOROUSLY, _ad._ energetically; forcibly; with force; without weakness
VI'LLAGE, _s._ a small collection of houses
VI'NDICATE, _v.a._ justify; clear; assert; revenge
VI'NTAGE, _s._ the produce of the vine for the year; the time in which
grapes are gathered
VI'OLATION, _s._ infringement of a law
VI'OLENT, _a._ forcible; unseasonably vehement
VI'PER, _s._ a serpent; anything mischievous
VI'PERINE, _a._ belonging to a viper
VI'RULENT, _a._ poisonous; venomous; poisoned in the mind; malignant
VI'SIBLE, _a._ perceptible by the eye; apparent
VI'SION, _s._ sight; the faculty of seeing; the act of seeing; a
supernatural appearance; a spectre; a phantom; a dream; something
shown in a dream
VI'SUAL, _a._ using the power of sight
VI'TIATE, _v.a._ deprave; spoil; make less pure
VOLCA'NO, _s._ a burning mountain
VO'TARY, _s._ one devoted, as by a vow, to any particular service,
worship, study, or state of life
VU'LTURE, _s._ a large bird of prey
WA'NTONLY, _ad._ sportively; carelessly
WEA'PON, _s._ an instrument of offence; something with which one is
armed to hurt another
WI'LDERNESS, _s._ a desert
WI'STFUL, _a._ attentive; earnest; full of thought
WO'NDERFUL, _a._ admirable; strange; astonishing
WO'RSHIP, _v.a._ adore; honour; venerate
ZEST, _s._ relish
ZOOLO'GICAL, _a._ that which relates to animals
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