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Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library

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98 <strong>Vocabulary</strong> <strong>4000</strong><br />

vulnerable susceptible<br />

vulpine fox-like, cunning<br />

W<br />

wager bet<br />

waggish playful<br />

waive forego<br />

wallow indulge<br />

wan pale, pallid, listless<br />

wane dissipate, wither<br />

want need, poverty, lack of<br />

wanton lewd, abandoned, gratuitous<br />

warrant justification<br />

wary guarded, cautious<br />

wastrel spendthrift<br />

waylay ambush, accost<br />

wean remove from nursing, break a<br />

habit<br />

weir dam<br />

welter confusion, hodgepodge<br />

wheedle to coax with flattery<br />

whet stimulate<br />

whiffle vacillate<br />

whimsical capricious, playful<br />

wield exercise control<br />

willful deliberate, wanton<br />

wily shrewd, crafty<br />

wince cringe<br />

windfall bonus, boon<br />

winnow separate<br />

winsome charmingly innocent<br />

wistful sad yearning, melancholy<br />

wither shrivel<br />

wizened shriveled<br />

woe anguish, despair<br />

wont custom, habit<br />

woo court, seek favor<br />

wraith ghost<br />

wrath anger, fury<br />

wreak to inflict something violent<br />

wrest snatch<br />

wretched miserable<br />

writ summons, court order<br />

writhe contort, thrash about<br />

wry twisted, ironic sense of humor<br />

X<br />

xenophillic attraction to strangers<br />

xenophobia fear of foreigners<br />

xylophone musical percussion<br />

instrument<br />

Y<br />

yarn story, tale<br />

yearn desire strongly<br />

yen desire, yearning<br />

yore long ago<br />

Young Turks reformers

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