Putnam's Word Book

e, vacuum, chasm, gap; leis

nhabited, untenanted; leisure, unempl

te, resign, abdicate; an

n, abdication; invalidation, abroga

e, v. in

inoculation (w

uate, waver, veer,

te, changeable, wavering

ecision, changeableness, oscilla

mp, mendicant, beggar; ra

ant, wandering, n

vagrancy, vagabo

aprice, fancy, fre

, n. vag

vagabond, rascal.--a. wan

uous, obscure, uncertain, g

iteness, ambiguity, o

, fruitless, ineffectual, frustrate, unavailing, bootless, futile, abortive, i

pretentious, assuming, arro

vanity, boasti

l, valley, d

, a. Se

tifiable, efficacious, well-gr

cogency, soundness, for

tmanteau, satc

bottom, dale, ravine, d

n. See

s, rare, expensive; esteemed

e, n. t

. appraiseme

worth, e

ise; prize, est

ng) decamp, dep

extortioner,

estroyer, ic

v. See d

isappearing, transient.--n.

y, inanity, delusiveness, emptiness, s

defeat, subjugate, su

feat, subjugation,

ritless; insipid, stale

s; insipidity, tasteless

on, reek, emanation, rack. Associated words: atmolo

e, v. e

halituous,

eness, mutability, inco

able. See changeable. Antony

ion; dissension, disagreemen

nge; deviation, diversity,

s, diversified, d

sified, motley, divers-colore

n, multiplicity, variousness; assortm

, diverse, sundry, n

n, enamel, glaze; gloss o

er; gloss, pallia

modify; deviate, depart, swer

, beneficiary, subje

nse, monstrous, huge, e

t, tomb, catac

ver, spring, bou

a. arched

v. Se

sociated wo

vacillation, tergiversation

, n. plan

e oyster

ow, germinate, pullulat

y, impetuosity, inten

t, impetuous, arden

e, carriage; medium,

loak, disguise, sh

, pretense, cloak

dden, disguis

ed word: venous.

n. sea

hasable, merce

v. See

verence, revere

, n. rever

se. gonorrhea,

hancre, chancroi

s, amativeness; sexua

gement, revenge; Nemesis, retal

nable. Antonyms:

thole; touchhole; spiracle blow

t, utter, sa

hole, vent, bung,

n. ventriloqu

n. gastriloquis

nce, risk, haza

. dare, ha

g, bold, intrepid, un

Morning Star, Lucifer Phosphor;

us, a.

sociated words: compurgation,

n. porc

l, a.

, verbosity, perissolo

, a. Se

. finding,

on, corroboration, authenti

te, confirm, attest,

anthelmintic,

versification; stanza, s

ted, skilled, prof

tion, n.

rendition,

x, top, summit

endicular, plumb. Antonyms

eal, actual, unquestionable

ghly, greatly, extremely,

il, receptacle; boat,

n. wai

v. i

hall, antech

. trace, s

pontificals; cassock, cotta (choir vestments). Ass

vestry-room

ary surgeon, horse docto

ry art.

geon. veterina

ment, tantalize, hector, annoy, ir

e, irritation, chagrin,

arking, irritating, provoking, aggrava

swing; oscillate, librate; qui

ation, swinging, vac

illatory, swinging, fluctuat

uty, lieutena

tiousness, immorality; defect

od, vicinage; nearness,

imperfect; refractory, unruly, unmanageable;

.) gull, dupe, gud

nqueror, cham

phant, conquering, s

astery. Antonyms: See defeat. As

ler, n.

tend, compe

; seeing, sight, survey, inspection, aspect, scrutiny, supervision, behold

iful, quixotic; spectacul

lness, circumspection

ful, attentive, ci

, lustiness, energy, endu

y, robust; energetic, cog

s, outrageous, shameless; worthless, mean, despicable, contemptib

revile, vituperate,

ough, thorpe, dorp, bur

n. See

ipled, knavish, arrant

kedness, turpitude, rascali

energy, spirit, life. Anto

te, v.

n. justificat

justifier, cham

geful, implacable, m

ndril, arbor, pergola, bower, bine, cordon, amp

c, acetification, acetify, mother,

acetous, so

bey, transgress, contra

, infraction, contravention, profanation, desecra

ser, infringer, tran

intensity, severity, wildness, fury; injur

s, fierce, impotent, ungovernable, outrage

t, n.

n. fid

, n. v

rginal; chaste, pure,

eration. par

n. maidenho

eol.). Associated words: mariolatry

, strong; potent. Antonyms: in

vigor. Antonyms: invirilit

ial, energizing; p

ically, really, subst

ess, purity, morality, integrity. A

xemplary, moral, pur

s, venomous; malignan

discernible, apparent, evident, manife

dream, phantasm, specter, ph

ative, romantic, fanciful, i

tle-builder, drea

guest. Ant

rupt, demoralize, conta

orruption, demoralization,

, shrew, termagant, Tar

d words: phonology, phonetics, phonation, phonography, oral, vocal, non-

destitute, devoid, lacking; ine

discharge, egest, pass;

acuation, disch

a. See c

ater, lapilli, lava, scoria, obs

o; outpouring,

ib, fluent, oi

e; dimensions, compa

nal, unforced, spontaneous.

n. Antonym:

, epicure, sybarite, bon

urean, sybaritic. Antonyms:

pew, emit, belch,

pew. Associated words: emetic, antemetic

ravenous, insatiable, fie

acity, voracious

. devotee

s: enfranchise, enfranchisement, disenfranchise, disenfranchisement, suffr

(Colloq.)

elector, s

n. pl. e

place

est, corrobor

, n. at

Associated words

ted words: macron

orn, coarse, inelegant, ribald, risque, broad,

. unrefineme

ooking,

tagger, vaci

v. toddl

, v.

s. Grallato

place

stake, be

take, pledge, ha

ation, pay, earni

ousness, pleasantry, drol

facetious, roguish, ar

hicle, wain;

ainwright, wagonw

stray, str

dice; blouse, basque;

, n. vest

await, abide; (Colloq.) delay,

delay, halt, stop;

servitor, lackey, gar?

ngering, delay; abeyance

om, n. sta

inquish, fore

waken; arouse,

ess, insomnolent;

ess, insomnia, insomnolenc

awake, awa

ambria (Anc

mbulatory. Associated words: ambulant, ambulatory, ambulatorial, peripatetic pedome

enade, shamble, stalk, strut, step, bundle, toddle, daddle, waddle, shuffle, gad

strian, ambulat

n, pedestrianism, str

papers.

parapet, fortification. Associated words: mural, murage dado, buttress, coping, int

pocket-bo

elter, floun

n. morse

, rod; baton,

ray, straggle, itinerate, saunter, gad, peregrin

er, stroller, peregrinator, vagabond, iti

ation, pilgrimage; digression, expatiation, departure, deviation, diver

ant, vagabond, landloping, wayfaring, errant, uns

ish, fade.--n. decrease,

ness, inadequacy, paucity, insufficiency, scarceness; desideratum, require

require; desi

ng, missing, deficient, d

uxuriant, rampant, exuberant, excessive, rank; dissolute, licentious, immora

ds: Bellona, Mars, belligerent, bellicose, tactics, casus belli, strategy, cartel,

fight, combat, mi

trill, ca

trill, ca

. slogan,

ard, tutelage; protégé. A

fend off, avert, pa

rden; keeper, custod

guard, warden; mace

parry, evas

pillage, pupill

se, depot, magazine, r

merchandise,

lities; crusade, strug

n. charger;

ry, martial, belli

eager, enthusiastic; temperate, genial; irascible, choleric, irritable, peppery, fiery

, v.

. homothermous,

over. r

Roman baths

, earnestness, fervency, cordiality, ve

notify, premonish, apprise

er, monitor, sentin

ry, mentorial, monitorial, omi

arning; caution, admonition, m

end, bulge; perve

bent, bulging, pro

hread.

ure, insure; justify, defe

authority; guaranty, sur

a. justifiabl

anty, guarantee,

verruca; condyloma (venereal wa

scent, verrucos

autious, circumspec

he, absterge, fome

n. l

lavatory, was

man, n.

se, n.

g, lavement; abstersion, detersion

y. detergen

da. sodium

nd, n.

ords: vespid, vespifo

e, irritable, snappi

est. v

awdle; desolate, devastate, despoil, sack, pillage, rava

narable, worthless; desolate, devastated, stripped, ravaged,

wild, desert; remnants, offal, recrement, garbage, refuse, rubbish; desolation,

digal, unthrifty, improvident

dthrift, prodig

sipation, prodigality, impro

r, patrol, watchman, sentry, perdue, picket

n. ho

gil, be on the lo

dful, attentive, alert, ci

ance, circumspection,

, vigilance; espio

n. horologer

n. horology

el, guard, Argus, C

ocket,

er, n. ob

tersign, password,

v. ir

ation, irrigation, diluvian, douche, glairin, baregin, hydragogue, hydrant, hydrate, hydration, hydrated, hydraulicon, hydrodynamics, hydroextractor, hydrogen, oxygen, hydrognosy, hydrographer, hydrography, hydrologist, reservoir, hydrolysis, hydromania, hydroma

n. lymp

arer, n.

ottle.

. water-qua

n. clepsydr

loset,

olor. a

h, canal, moat, sewer, drain,

re, n. h

or, n. hyd

cascade, catar

ss, n. a

s, a. an

ily, n.

n. ferryma

h, n. Naia

e brain. hy

he chest.

hydrophyte. Associated

n. varicell

n. water br

ed, n.

ports.

l. tympanu

ous; ichorous,

scharge.

n. gill,

reaker; ripple; whitecap; signal, flourish; swelling, exc

t, flutter; flourish, b

, fluctuate, veer,

uctuating, oscillating, unst

ctuation, indecision, irresol

atory, undulat

ds: cerography, ceroplastics, ceroplasty, cerograph, cerographist, cerotic, ceromancy, cer

rease, grow, deve

ceral; facile, pliable, fic

ractice; distance, interval, space; passage, transit, progression, advance; me

eler, pilgrim, pa

a. travelin

n. en

, v. a

. exit,

perverse, froward, willfu

ometer, pedomet

ender; peccable, fallible, errable, erring, indiscreet; impotent, ineffectual, inefficacious, ineffective; illogical, unsustained, inconclusive, lame, unsatisfactory; vaci

ate, incapacitate, sap, undermine, unman, exhaust, deplete;

ebilitant; dilu

ding, irresolute, p

ble-minded, foolish

validism; vulnerability, accessibility, exposedness; foible, defect, deficiency; peccability, errability, f

sociated words: economics, Pluto, plutocracy, plutology, chryso

affluent, rich, capit

ccustom, alie

ablactation;

, fray, erode, co

atigued, exhausted,

e, lassitude, languo

n, attrition, detriti

, worn, exhausted, wearie

fatigue, exhaust

words: meteorology, m

ck, n. wea

terlace, mat, plait,

ords: loom, textile, tex

texture,

lmiped, palmated,

ptials, marria

olus, chock,

, a. cuneifo

uproot, e

ulation; extirpa

achine. a

ssociated w

hebdomadary

v. sob

n. sobbin

, n. c

e, a. po

ity, poise, heft; encumbrance, pressure, incubus, clog

massive, onerous; momentous,

greeting,

ty, happiness, weal,

ient, favorable, beneficial, advantageous;

mric, Cambri

n, n. C

wallow, flo

ds: Occident, Hesperian

, a. oc

ssociated wo

p, moist, h

dampen, soak, i

heck, damper,

ne, n.

il. tra

ier, quay,

a. étagèr

ated word: matta

ajole, blandi

olery, blandishme

el of a pulley). Associated words: spoke, felly, hub, strake, tire, straddle, cog, sprocket, linchp

stone. Associated

erumtherapy,

fancy, crotchet, freak, hu

ey, n

us, vagarious, notiona

ing, complaint.--v. wh

plaintively,

n. and v

trounce, flagellate, castigate, scourge, switch, spank, mau

switch, rattan, thong, knout, cat-o-nine-

nt, scourging, trouncing, flagellation, beating,

hiffletree, swing

ve, twirl, rotate, gy

olution, rotation

ing, rotating, ver

rotation, gyration, t

elstrom, vortex,

n. cyclon

l. beard; (of

ed words: faints, distill, distiller, d

ion, whispering, sibilation; i

. rhonchus,

ta, jot, tittle, bit, mite,

d, bleached, etio

at. inca

t. incan

ceruse, carb

cowardly, pusill

blanch, pale, eti

leaching, blanc

e. Caucas

leucorrhea,

n. Pentecost

hum, bu

act, complete, inviolate, integra

ggregate, gross, integral. Antonyms: p

integrity. Associated words: integra

us, salutary, nutritious, benef

lloo, hoot,

h, n. chin co

t, courtesan, wench, Cyprian, bawd, d

ion, fornication, lewd

n. brothel,

fornicator, whoremonger;

oremaster, debauch

ntinent, licentious, m

oral, depraved, vicious, pernicious, aba

lity, sinfulness, vice, infamy, atrocity,

extensive, vas

keen, vigilant, watc

n. bread

prevalent, exte

ciated words: viduage,

n. br

words: uxoricide, uxorious, uxoriousness, coverture, dow

, periwig, toupet, jas

. squirm,

, n. per

m, n.

e, ferocious, barbarous, uncivilized, cannibal; unrestrained, violent, turbulent, tempestuous, r

deception, guile,

ference, choice; comma

tamentary, testator, testatrix, surrogate, bequeathable, bequeather, bequeathment, beques

eave; decree, ordain, direct

headstrong, perverse,

sposed, volunt

readiness, dispo

is fatuus, Jack-o'-lante

words: osiery, osiered, salic

, graceful, plian

intriguing, designing, tr

achieve,

hrink, flin

chinook, trade wind, levanter, typhoon, harmattan, solano. Associated words: anemology, anemography, anemometry, Typhon, ?olus, g

, belching, eructation, crepitus, ructation,

wreathe; crook, meander, cu

n. godse

wer, n.

uge. an

tour, meander, meandering, crook, bend

nthian, meandering, spiral, se

sion, settlement, dén

ss, n.

il-de-b?uf, lunette window. Associated words: fenestral, fenestrated, fenestration, squilgee, cancelli, tracery, mullion, m

ated words: tracheal, tracheary, tracheitis, tr

y, gusty, tempes

iculture, vintner, vinometer, mull, stum, ?nolo

ber, n.

words: alary, alate, alati

annex, el

ictitate; overlook,

nictation,

achievemen

ing, captivating,

nation, hibernal, hibernacle, hyem

v. hib

xpunge, efface,

e, taunt, je

phy. Associated

ling, n.

g, sapience, erudition,

rned, philosophical, enlighten

retender, scio

ly, judiciously, sap

minary, authority, philosopher, N

(of the E

ke, imprecate; congratulate,

longing, aspira

ry thought, furc

. longing,

rtee, drollery, facetiousness, joc

nchantress; hag; siren

, necromancy, black art, conjuration

sorcery; fascination, s

zel, n.

witching, fasci

treat, quit; recall, re

nt, retreat; retraction

lighting, blast

oal. p

efrain, abstai

int, repression, absti

bear witness, confirm

estimony, evidence; eye-wi

acetious, d

ticisms, conceits,

magician, conjurer, sorcer

der-working, sor

te; werewolf,

a. lupine

trics, gyneocracy, gynecocracy, gynocracy, gynecian, gynarchy, gyneolatry, gyneolater, g

er, n. mi

manliness, femin

. effeminat

atrix, matrice. Associated

t, amazement, awe; phenomenon, m

, v. m

, wondrous, phenomenal,

magician, thaumaturge, t

rdry, magic, sorcery, t

al, thaumaturgic, miracu

bit, custom

tomed, customary

iated words: kyanize, fissile, fissility, lignification, lignify, ligniferous

ld, grove, woodland

kle, caprifole, eglan

harcoal; ligni

g, n. xylogra

hoe. sab

, n. fo

, n. dryad

n. pl.

gar, n.

en, ligneous;

n. cou

ing, Associated words: laniferous, lanifical, lan

wny, fleecy,

ot; derivative; signal, order, com

onary, lexicon, th

rd. verbati

y, prolixity, verbiage

, n. ph

ronomasia, pun, punning, onomatop?oea, syncope, syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, verbal, verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium, apocope, kyriology, metonomy, auto

libretto. Associate

ose, redundant, pleonastic. Ant

te, manipulate, perform; ferment, effervesce. Anto

diligence, assiduity; business, duty, job, task; magnum opus. Antonyms: idleness, dalliance,

g, n. r

an, mechanic, workman, laborer, operative, industrial. Antonyms: i

a. indu

an. worke

ration; collusion; conc

rtificer, craftsman, j

perate; collude; c

mography, cosmogony, cosmographer, cosmogonist, cosmometry, cosmoplastic, cosmic, cosmolatry, cosmopolite, cosmopolitan, catacl

n. secularit

, earthly, mundane, ter

a. irreligious,

wriggle,

ller. v

mifuge, anthelmint

t, vermifugal, verminivorous, vermin, vermiculate, vermiculated, vermiculation, t?nifug

vermiform, vermi

roded, abrad

se, fret, trouble, pester, badger, harry,

, apprehension, concern, so

nxious, distre

n, apotheosis. Associated words: liturgies, liturgy

vere; idolize, deify,

sh, conquer, overcome, o

cellence, virtue, merit,

-nothing, futile, trashy, unworth

lent, estimable, deserving, r

-styled, soi-disa

vulnerability, invulnerable, invulnerability, vulnerary, vulnific, sanies, sanious, ple

e, scath, hurt,

, dispute, squabble, br

te, dispute, squabb

r, n. d

the, bemuffle, envel

ee, kimono, peignoir; envelope,

n. Se

land, chaplet,

in, havoc, devastation,

roy, ruin, shatter, stra

xtort; distort, pervert, g

aitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rake,

unhappy; contemptible, a

e, pinch; distort, perve

umple, crinkle, ruck; (Colloq.) notion, fancy, whi

ker, corrugate, crease,

, rumpled, puckered, co

Associated words

erscribe (write on the top or o

tary, amanuensis, correspondent, essayist,

cate, charter, holograph; inscription, superscription, subscription. Associated words: graphology, agraphia, graph

n. secretary

oom, n. s

. superscript

r. subscript

nd, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy, reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, m

ance, detriment; error, falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt, misdoing, malpract

damnify, defraud,

quent, offender, malefactor, transgressor, misc

ction, iniquity, sin, immorality, wickedness, indiscretion, prevarication,

ll-timed, inoppor

orked, elabor

erturbed, distracted,

distorted, awry;

n. tort