vindicate - vocabulary verb
To clear from accusation or suspicion; to provide justification for; to justify through argument; to get revenge. Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps underm... |
vindictive - vocabulary adjective
Inclined toward revenge, vengeful; showing a revengeful spirit. “That’s why you were so much struck when I mentioned to Zossimov that Porfiry was inquiring for every one who had pledges!” Razu... |
violence - correct spelling noun
Example: The increase in violence in the streets disturbed the voters.... |
virtue - correct spelling noun
Example: Patience is a virtue.... |
virulent - vocabulary adjective
Intensely poisonous; in medicine, highly infective, as in a virulent disease; also, spitefully hostile. Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most... |
Virus vs. Bacteria In the world of biology, the terms "virus" and "bacteria" are often used interchangeably by the general public; however, they refer to two fundamentally different entities with distinct characteristics, structures, and roles in nature. Understand... |
visage - vocabulary noun
The face, countenance, or look of a person; appearance, aspect, as in the bleak visage of February. He was small in stature, with a furrowed visage, which, as yet, could hardly... |
visible - correct spelling adjective
Example: The planet is visible to the naked eye.... |
vision - correct spelling noun
Example: He had the vision of an entrepreneur.... |
visitor - correct spelling noun
Example: The unexpected visitor wore out his welcome.... |
vitiate - vocabulary verb
To impair the quality of, spoil; to debase, corrupt. In law, to make defective, as in to vitiate a claim. We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history. On the contrary, without care i... |
vituperation - vocabulary noun
Censure or violent condemnation; verbal abuse, castigation. And as I grew into manhood, the newspapers rang on every side with disrespect for those in authority. Under the special dispensation of the li... |
Vocabulary Usage By reading a wide variety of authors and various types of writing you can build up your vocabulary and acquire the necessary skill in the proper use of words, phrases and idioms. Consciously or subconsciously, while reading, you develop an ear for... |
vociferous - vocabulary adjective
The quality of making a noisy and vehement outcry. In 2000 Mr. [Norman] Finkelstein, a vehement critic of Israel and the son of Holocaust survivors, published “The Holocaust Industry: Reflecti... |
Vodka vs. Whiskey Introduction Vodka and whiskey are two of the most popular distilled spirits globally. While they may both serve similar functions in social settings and culinary uses, their fundamental differences stem from their ingredients, productio... |
voice - correct spelling noun and verb
Example: After teaching all day, he lost his voice. noun
Example: We want to ... |
volition - vocabulary noun
An act or exercise of will; the act of choosing, willing, or resolving. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed ... |
volume - correct spelling noun
Example: He opened the volume dealing with writing style.Example: The volume o... |
voracious - vocabulary adjective
Eating with greediness or in very large quantities; very eager or avid, as in a voracious reader. The fish in neighboring streams and lakes are so voracious, it is sa... |
vowel Letters are either vowels or consonants
. In grade school, you learned that vowels are a, e, i, o, and u, and sometimes y. The word consonant refers to the sound produced by occluding with o... |
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