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ZEALOUS
MEANING :- enthusiastically devoted to something; fervent
1) The zealous young policeman made so many arrests that the city jail
soon became overcrowded.
2) The dictator's followers were so zealous that if he had asked them all
to jump off a cliff, most of them would have done so.
3) To be zealous is to be full of zeal, or fervent enthusiasm. An overly

zealous person is a zealot.
WILLFUL
Meaning:- deliberate; obstinate; insistent on having one's way
1) The mother insisted that the killing committed by her son had not
been willful, but the jury apparently believed that he had known what
he was doing.
2) When her mother told her she couldn't have a cookie, the willful little
simply snatched the cookie jar and ran out of the room with it. She
stolen the cookies willfully.

WISTFUL
Meaning:- yearning; sadly longing
1) I felt wistful when I saw Herb's fancy new car. I wished that I had
enough money to buy one for myself.
2) The boys who had been cut from the football team watched wistfully
as put together an undefeated season and won the state
championship.

WANTON
Meaning:- malicious; unjustifiable; unprovoked; egregious
1) Terrorists commit wanton acts on a helpless populace to make their

point.
2) Wanton also means intemperate.
3) A hedonist lives a wanton life in the relentless, unremitting pursuit of

pleasure; an ascetic does not.
VOLITION
Meaning:- conscious choice, will
1) Insects, lacking volition, simply aren't as interesting as humans are.
2) The question the jury had to decide was whether the killing had been
an accident or an act of volition.

VOLATILE
Meaning:- quick to evaporate ; highly unstable; explosive
1) A volatile liquid is one that evaporates readily. Gasoline is a volatile

liquid. It evaporates very readily, and then the vapour poses a great
danger of explosion.
2) A volatile crowd is one that seems to be in imminent danger of getting out

of control, or exploding.
3) The situation in the Middle East was highly volatile; the smallest incident
could have set off a war.
VOCIFEROUS
Meaning:- loud, noisy
1) Randy often becomes vociferous during arguments. He doesn't know

what he believes but he states it loudly nevertheless.

VOCATION
Meaning:- an occupation, a job
1) Your vocation is what you do for a living.
2) If Stan could figure out how to make a vocation out of watching television and
eating potato chips, he would be one of the most successful people in the world.
3) Vocational training is job training.
4) Since your vocation is your job, your avocation is your hobby. The accountant's
vocation bored her, but her avocation of mountain climbing did not.
VITRIOLIC
Meaning:- caustic; full of bitterness
1) Vitriol is another name for sulphuric acid. To be vitriolic is to say or

do something so nasty that your words or actions burn like acid.
2) The review of the new book was so vitriolic that we all wondered
whether the reviewer had some personal grudge against the author.

VITIATE
Meaning:- to make impure; to pollute
1) For years a zealous group of individuals has campaigned against the

use of fluoride in water, claiming that it has vitiated our bodies as
well as our morals.

VISIONARY
Meaning:- a dreamer; someone with impractical goals or ideas about the future
1) My uncle was a visionary, not a businessman; he spent too much time

tinkering with his antigravity generator and not enough time working in his
plumbing business.
2) The candidate was a visionary; he had a lot of big ideas but no realistic
plan for putting them into practice.
3) Visionary can also be an adjective. A visionary proposal is an idealistic

and usually impractical proposal.

VIRULENT
Meaning:- extremely poisonous; malignant; full of hate
1. The virulent disease quickly swept through the community, leaving many people dead
and many more people extremely ill.
2. The snake was a member of a particularly virulent breed; its bite could kill an elephant.
3. Jonathan is a virulent antifeminist; he says that all women should sit down and shut up
and do what he tells them to.
4. To be virulent is to be characterized by virulence. Virulent is related to virus, not to

virile, which means manly.

VIRTUOSO
Meaning:- a masterful musician; a masterful practitioner in some other
field
1. The concert audience fell silent when the virtuoso stepped forward to
play the sonata on his electric banjo
2. As an artist, he was a virtuoso; as a husband, he was a chump.
3. Virtuoso can also be an adjective. A virtuoso performance is a

performance worthy of a virtuoso
VINDICTIVE
Meaning:- seeking revenge
1) Jeremy apologized for denting the fender of my car, but I was feeling
vindictive so I filed a $30 million lawsuit against him.
2) Samantha's vindictive ex-husband drove all the way across the

country just to punch her in the nose.

VINDICATE
Meaning:- to clear from all blame or suspicion; to justify
1) Tony, 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.
2) Inez's claim of innocence appeared to be vindicated when several

dozen inmates at the state mental hospital confessed to the crime of
which she had been accused.

VESTIGE
Meaning :- na remaining bit of something: a last trace
1) The unhappy young man found vestiges of his fiancée in the rubble,
but the explosion had effectively ended their romance.
2) An old uniform and a tattered scrapbook were the only vestiges of

the old man's career as a professional athlete.
3) Your appendix is a vestige: It used to have a function, but now this

organ does nothing.

VEX
Meaning:- to annoy, to pester; to confuse
1) Margaret vexed me by poking me with a long, sharp stick.
2) Stuck at the bottom of a deep well, I found my situation extremely

vexing.

VIABLE
Meaning:- capable of living; workable
1. When a doctor says that a patient is no longer viable, it's time to

begin planning a funeral.
2. A fetus is said to be viable when it has developed to the point where

it is capable of surviving outside the womb.
3. Harry's plan for storing marshmallows in the dome of the Capitol just
wasn't viable.
VICARIOUS
Meaning:- experienced, performed, or suffered through someone else;
living through the experiences of another as though they were one's
own experiences
1. To take vicarious pleasure in someone else's success is to enjoy that

person's success as though were your own.
2. We all felt a vicarious thrill when the mayor's daughter won fourth
prize in the regional kick-boxing competition.

VICISSITUDE
Meaning:- upheaval; natural change; change in fortune
1. The vicissitudes of the stock market were too much for Penny; she
decided to look for a job that would stay the same from one day to the
next.
2. The vicissitudes of the local political machine were such that one
could never quite be certain whom one was supposed to bribe.

VILIFY
Meaning:- to say vile things about; to defame
1. The teacher was reprimanded for vilifying the slow student in front of
the rest of the class.
2. Our taxi driver paused briefly on the way to, the airport in order to vilify
the driver of the car that had nearly forced him off the road.
3. The political debate was less a debate than a vilification contest. At

first the candidates took turns saying nasty things about each other;
then they stopped taking turns.
VERNACULAR
Meaning:- everyday speech; slang; idiom
1) Our teacher said that we should save our vernacular for the street: in
the classroom we should use proper grammar

VERISIMILITUDE
Meaning:- similarity to reality; the appearance of truth; looking like the
real thing
1. They used pinecones and old truck tires to make statues of

Hollywood celebrities that were remarkable for their verisimilitude.
2. The verisimilitude of counterfeit eleven-dollar bills did not fool the

eagle-eyed treasury officer, who recognized them immediately for
what they were.

VERBOSE
Meaning:- using too many words; not succinct; circumlocutory
1. . Someone who is verbose uses too many words when fewer words
would suffice.
2. Lee handed in a 178-word final assignment; no one ever accused him

of verbosity

VERACITY
Meaning:- truthfulness
1. The veracity of young George Washington is legendary, but it may be

apocryphal.

VENERATE
Meaning:-to revere; to treat as something holy. especially because of
great age
1. Lester venerated his grandfather; he worshipped the very ground the

old man limped on.
2. The members of the curious religion venerated Elvis Presley and

hoped that the Pope would declare him a saint.
3. A person who is worthy of being venerated is said to be venerable.

VENAL
Meaning:- capable of being bribed; willing to do anything for money; corrupt
1. The venal judge reversed his favourable ruling when the defendant refused
to make good on his promised bribe.
2. The young man's interest in helping the sick old woman was strictly venal; he
figured that if he was kind to her, she would leave him a lot of money in her
will.
3. A venal person is a person characterized by venality. Don't confuse this word

with venial, which means trivial or pardon- able. A peccadillo is a venial,
harmless sin.
VAPID
Meaning:- without liveliness; dull; spiritless
1. An apathetic person just doesn't care about anything, and everything

he does is vapid.
2. The novelist's prose was so vapid that Mary couldn't get beyond the
first page.

VEHEMENT
Meaning:- intense; forceful; violent
1. Shaking his fist and stomping his foot, Gerry was vehement in his
denial.

VACILLATE
Meaning:- to be indecisive; to waver
1. We invited James to spend Thanksgiving with us, but he vacillated

for so long about whether he would be able to come that we finally
became annoyed and disinvited him


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3) To be zealous is to be full of zeal, or fervent enthusiasm. An overly

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1) Terrorists commit wanton acts on a helpless populace to make their

2) Wanton also means intemperate.

3) A hedonist lives a wanton life in the relentless, unremitting pursuit of

1) Insects, lacking volition, simply aren't as interesting as humans are.

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1) A volatile liquid is one that evaporates readily. Gasoline is a volatile

2) A volatile crowd is one that seems to be in imminent danger of getting out

1) Randy often becomes vociferous during arguments. He doesn't know

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1) Your vocation is what you do for a living.

3) Vocational training is job training.

1) Vitriol is another name for sulphuric acid. To be vitriolic is to say or

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1) For years a zealous group of individuals has campaigned against the

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1) My uncle was a visionary, not a businessman; he spent too much time

3) Visionary can also be an adjective. A visionary proposal is an idealistic

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4. To be virulent is to be characterized by virulence. Virulent is related to virus, not to

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2. As an artist, he was a virtuoso; as a husband, he was a chump.

3. Virtuoso can also be an adjective. A virtuoso performance is a

2) Samantha's vindictive ex-husband drove all the way across the

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2) Inez's claim of innocence appeared to be vindicated when several

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2) An old uniform and a tattered scrapbook were the only vestiges of

3) Your appendix is a vestige: It used to have a function, but now this

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1) Margaret vexed me by poking me with a long, sharp stick.

2) Stuck at the bottom of a deep well, I found my situation extremely

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1. When a doctor says that a patient is no longer viable, it's time to

2. A fetus is said to be viable when it has developed to the point where

1. To take vicarious pleasure in someone else's success is to enjoy that

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3. The political debate was less a debate than a vilification contest. At

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1. They used pinecones and old truck tires to make statues of

2. The verisimilitude of counterfeit eleven-dollar bills did not fool the

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2. Lee handed in a 178-word final assignment; no one ever accused him

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1. The veracity of young George Washington is legendary, but it may be

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1. Lester venerated his grandfather; he worshipped the very ground the

2. The members of the curious religion venerated Elvis Presley and

3. A person who is worthy of being venerated is said to be venerable.

3. A venal person is a person characterized by venality. Don't confuse this word

1. An apathetic person just doesn't care about anything, and everything

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1. We invited James to spend Thanksgiving with us, but he vacillated

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