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vainglory.noun,.plural.vainglories
boastful,
unwarranted
pride in one's accomplishments
or qualities
vain, ostentatious
display
vain,
vainer,
vainest.adjectives
good for nothing; for no good purpose; to no helpful
purposes; useless toward any good
purpose due to lack of a sincere.depth.of.interest;
not interested in that which is away from selfishness; lacking.value.or.substance;
not
mattering one way or the
other; having no concern for or
against
something; having no
particular
interest in or concern for; apathetic;
indifferent;
not producing, not yielding a desired outcome beneficial to all; a vain
attempt or action is one that fails to achieve what was intended; fruitless
(a vain attempt);
lacking worth (vain talk;
things of vanity that ultimately come to nothing, such as the physical
material life); excessively proud of one's appearance or accomplishments;
if you describe someone as vain, you are critical of their pride
in their own beauty, intelligence or other good qualities (some in the
office think that she is shallow,
vain and untrustworthy)
conceited
in vain.idiom
to no avail;
in an irreverent
or disrespectful.manner.(took
the name of the Lord in vain:.Leviticus
19:12; Jeremiah 8:8); futile;
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; a vain attempt or
action is one that fails to achieve what was intended;
marked
by futility or ineffectualness,
useless;
also, having or showing undue or
excessive
pride in one's appearance or achievements, conceited
vainness.noun.(many
words ending in 'ess'
are
usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
can make the word be clumsy)
vainly.adverb
(he vainly hoped that he wouldn't be as busy as
he did become in retirement)
vanity.noun,.plural.vanities
ways
of the world mostly lack.ultimate.usefulness,
that is, are empty
and worthless regarding the substance
of helping others and/or toward eternal
life; vanity is
lack of usefulness, worth
or good effect and a doing mostly of temporary
things, many of them selfish,
to
fill one's daily time, attract attention and by impressing
others in order to puff up one's own ego;
worthlessness;
something that is vain, empty or overall, valueless;
being vain; having inflated
pride in oneself, one's appearance and/or in how acquired
possessions add to one's opinion of himself and of what others may think
towards him or her; vanity is a form
of pride over something one can gloat
over (world controllers show vanity when they have subjugated others; conversely,
moms and dads being deeply thankful for their children's ways and accomplishments
are showing healthy satisfaction over a far better kind of pride that remains
good as long as they don't feel others are inferior in regards to what
they have:.Philipians
2:3); conceit; a dressing table
is also called a vanity
vacillate, vacillated,
vacillating,
vacillates.intransitive
verbs
to sway
through lack of equilibrium;
fluctuate;
oscillate;
to waver in mind, will or feeling;
to be in a mental state
of cognitive dissonance;
to hesitate in choice of opinions
or courses of life to adhere to;
double minded; cannot make up one's mind as to what to do or which way
to follow (James 1:8); changes often
from one state of mind to another
vacillation.noun,.plural.vacillations
vacillator.noun,.plural.vacillators
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
violence.noun,.plural.violences
physical.force.exerted
for the purpose
of violating, damaging
or abusing
(crimes
of violence; gratuitous
violence); cruelty; the act
or an instance
of violent action or behavior
(spanking a child for other than
correction can be because of a frustrated
or angry parent);
intensity
or severity,
as in natural.phenomena;
untamed force (the violence of a hurricane); abusive or unjust
exercise of power; abuse or injury
to meaning,
content
or intent
(the teacher in a rage
tore up the student's paper disproving
evolution); vehemence
of feeling or expression; fervor
volition.noun,.plural.volitions
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 time, region
or country rather
than a literary,
cultured
or foreign
language
vice versa.adverb
the order or relation being reversed;
conversely
(example, righteousness
is truth and truth is righteousness)
verso.noun,.plural.versos
a left-hand page of a book or the reverse side
of a leaf, as opposed to the recto;
the back of a coin or medal
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;
malicious;
spiteful
(vicious gossip); worsened by internal
causes that reciprocally.augment
each other (a vicious wage price spiral)
viciously.adverb
viciousness.noun,.plural.viciousnesses
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;
disrespectful
(vile language; vile acts of cruelty
and deceit
to gain selfish advantage or punishment on others); repulsive;
foul (a vile slum); of little worth or account (a vile individual regards
others with contempt:.Isaiah
32:5,6); worthless (she felt like she was no good for anything, even
vile:.Lamentations
1:21); 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,.plural.vilenesses
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,.plural.vicariousnesses
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.noun,.plural.
vivifier.noun,.plural.
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,.plural.
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.noun,.plural.vitalizations
vitalizer.noun,.plural.vitalizers
Veda.noun,.plural.Vedas
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; the word Vedic refers to the wholeness of knowledge
Vedic.noun,.plural.Vedics
Vedic is the early Sanskrit in which the
Vedas are written
vagary.noun,.plural.vagaries
an erratic
notion or action; caprice
vigil.noun,.plural.vigils
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
vertical.adjective
being
or situated
at right
angles to the horizon; upright;
situated at the vertex
or highest point; directly overhead; in economics, relating to or involving
all stages from production to sale (vertical integration)
vertical.noun,.plural.verticals
something
vertical, as a line, plane
or circle; a vertical position
vertically.adverb
verticality..noun,.plural.verticalities
verticalness.noun,.plural.verticalnesses
visionary.adjective
if you refer to someone as a visionary, you mean
that they have strong, original ideas about how things might be different
in the future, especially about how things might be improved; characterized
by vision or foresight; existing
in the imagination; a visionary
has clairvoyant abilities
(Tesla was one of the great visionaries
of our time, working out his many inventions using his mind, before bringing
them into physical reality; Tesla
has now passed, but today we have the likes of Grigori
Grabovoi doing similarly)
visionary.noun,.plural.visionaries
an inventor is a visionary; a seer;
a dreamer; one who imagines the future as he or she would like it to be
visionariness.noun
vision.noun,.plural.visions
competence
in discernment or perception;
unusual intelligent foresight;
using the imagination in applying
wisdom;
the faculty of sight; eyesight;
something that is or has been seen (he saw a vision when in a trance);
the manner
in which one sees or conceives
of something
vision, visioned,
visioning,
visions.transitive
verbs
to see in or as if in a vision; envision
visional, visionally.adjectives
visual.adjective
of.or.relating.tothe
sense
of sight (a visual organ; visual receptors
on the retina);
seen or able to be seen by the eye; visible (a visual presentation such
as a movie); having
the nature
of or producing an image in the mind (a visual memory of early years in
life)
visual.noun,.plural.visuals
pictures, charts
or other materials
that appealto
the sense
of sight
visually.adverb
visualness.noun,.plural.
visuality.noun,.plural.
visible.adjective
possible to see; perceptible
to the eye (the moon is a visible object);
obvious
to the eye (a visible change of expression such as going to a smile from
a frown);
being often in the public view; conspicuous;
manifest;
apparent
(no visible solution to the problem)
visibly.adverb
visibleness.noun.(many
words ending in 'ess'
are
usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
can make the word be clumsy)
visibility.noun,.plural.visibilities
the fact,
state.or.degree
of being visible; the greatest distance under given
weather conditions to which it is possible to see without instrumental
assistance; the capability of being easily observed (we had great visibility
after the fog was gone); the capability
of providing a clear, unobstructed view (a windshield with good visibility)
visualize, visualized,
visualizing,
visualizes.verbs
transitive verb use.to
form
a mental image of;
envisage
(tried to visualize the scene as it was described); to make visible
intransitive verb use.to
form a mental image
visualization.noun,.plural.visualizations
view.noun,.plural.views
a view is a way of looking at what is known
or seen, that is, each
man, woman and child has a somewhat.different.opinion
of what is seen, although what
is known about or seen is the same (their view of holidaying
in the winter was different than their neighbors who preferred
the warm summers on the beach; our neighbors ideal
color for their new vehicle was white and ours was silver tan); an examination
or inspection (used binoculars
to get a better view; used a magnifyiong glass to get a better view of
the tiny print list of ingredients); coverage (a view of Romantic.poetry);
an individual and personal perception,
judgment
or interpretation; an opinion
(in his view, humanity is on a spiritual pathway); field
of vision (the deer outside the window have now disappeared from view);
a scene or
vista (the view from the
high hills); a picture of a landscape (a view of Paris, done using water
colors); a way of showing or seeing something, as from a particular
position or angle (a side view of the house); something
kept in sight as an aim or intention (keep in view the present because
out of it comes the future) expectation; chance (this endeavor
of building the garage will soon be completed)
view, viewed,
viewing,
views.transitive
verbs
to look at; watch (view an exhibit of etchings);
to examine or inspect (viewed the house they were thinking of buying);
to survey or study mentally; consider; to think of in a particular way;
regard (viewed herself as a success; viewed their efforts as important);
see
in view of.idiom
taking into account; taking
into consideration; to allow for (in view of the distance we had to
travel we allowed for an extra night to sleep); in
consideration of (in view of the fine weather we went ahead with the
holiday)
on view.idiom
placed so as to be seen; exhibited
viewable.adjective
point of view.noun,.plural.points
of view
a manner
of viewing things; an attitude;
a position
from which something is observed or considered; a standpoint;
you refer
to the opinions
or attitudes that you have about something as your point of view (good
to get the points of view of others before
making decisions; try to look at this situation
or concept
from another point of view); if you consider
something from a particular
point of view, you are using one aspect
of a situation in
order to.judge
that situation (do you think that, from the point of view of results, this
exercise
was worth the effort?); a position or perspective
from which something is considered or evaluated
vie, vied,
vying,
vies.verbs
intransitive verb use.to
strive
for victory or superiority;
contend;
rival
transitive verb use.to
offer in competition; match;
to measure oneself against others (*)
ventral.adjective
relating to or situated on or close to the abdomen;
abdominal; relating to or situated on or close to the anterior.aspect
of the human body or the lower surface of the body of an animal
Botany:.of
or on the lower or inner surface of an organ that faces the axis;
adaxial
ventral.noun,.plural.ventrals
a ventral fin; the abdominal segment
of an insect
ventrally.adverb
ventricle.noun,.plural.ventricles
a small cavity
or chamber within a body or an
organ,
especially
the chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial
blood from the left atrium and
contracts
to force it into the aorta; the
chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous
blood from the right atrium and forces it into the pulmonary
artery; any of the interconnecting cavities of the brain
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