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vetch [vech]

noun

1. any of several mostly climbing plants belonging to the genus Vicia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves ending in tendrils and bearing pealike flowers, especially V. sativa spring vetch, cultivated for forage and soil improvement.

2. any of various allied plants, as Lathyrus sativus, of Europe, cultivated for their edible seeds and for forage.

3. the beanlike seed or fruit of any such plant.

examples

1. On the one hand, leguminous cover crops such as cowpeas and vetch add nitrogen to the soil, which microbes can transform into nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas. "Can farmers fight climate change? New U.S. law gives them billions to try" 16 Aug 2022. Science Magazine.

2. The crown vetch and the curly dock / are almost eliminated as I survey the neatness / of my work. "The Burying Beetle" by Ada Limón

origin
Middle English fecche, veche, from Middle French dialect (Norman & Picard) veche, from Latin vicia; perhaps akin to Latin vincire to bind

vetch

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vorticist [ˈvɔːtɪsɪst]

noun

a member of a British artistic movement of 1914–15 influenced by cubism and futurism and favouring harsh, angular, machine-like forms

examples
1. The Kansas cyclone that whisks Dorothy into a dreamworld is evoked through vorticist projections the work of Jon Driscoll that betoken chaos in the cosmos. The Wizard of Oz - review 2011
2. The winter sales posters brilliantly harness the dynamic movement of vorticist and futurist art - one image is a blizzard of angled and curved raincoats, sheets of rain and upturned umbrellas. Evening Standard - Home Ben Luke 2011

origin
Latin vortic-, vortex; first known use in 1914

Wyndam Lewis, The Dancers, 1912

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viridescent [vir-i-des-uhnt]

adjective:
slightly green; greenish

Examples:
It would be very short, there would be no video and Mr Valenzuela was not to reveal the location of the ranch, near land covered in viridescent avocado orchards. (Eduardo Medina, A Mexican Grandmother Finds the Right Recipe for Culinary Stardom, New York Times, March 2023)

The nuts arrive direct from the Mediterranean, and are then roasted and churned into a viridescent paste before becoming gelato housed in a silver tin. (Callum McDermott, The Best Things We Ate in Sydney in 2024, Broadsheet, December 2024)

Taking to Instagram, she shared a carousel of trees and waxed lyrical about mother nature's viridescent gift. (Mahira Khan finds solace among the trees, Express Tribune, December 2024)

Kalimpong offers a serene escape from the summer heat with its breathtaking vistas, viridescent scenery, and cascading waterfalls. (Krishna Priya Pallavi, August long weekends 2024: The complete list; where to travel near Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, Hindustan Times, August 2024)

Mighty mountain walls descending sheer along the whole face of the island into a sea unusually deep; the front of the mountain ivied and furred with clinging forest, one viridescent cliff: about half-way from east to west, the low, bare, stony promontory edged in between the cliff and the ocean; the two little towns (Kalawao and Kalaupapa) seated on either side of it, as bare almost as bathing machines upon a beach; and the population - gorgons and chimaeras dire. (Sidney Colvin (ed), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson)

But as he was about to back through the narrow crevice between the stones, he heard a voice floating above his head in the air, a girl’s voice, as liquid and as sweetly murmurous as the voice should have been of the nymph that should have haunted this viridescent pool. (Rupert Hughes, Within These Walls)

Origin:
shade of green, 1882, from the paint color name (1862), coined from Latin virid-, stem of viridis 'green, blooming, vigorous' + ian. English earlier had viridity (early 15c) 'greenery, greenishness, verdure'; virid 'green, blooming' (c1600). Viridescent 'greenish' is attested from 1788 in mineralogy; viridescence by 1830 in botany. (Online Etymology Dictionary)

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Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Verboten (adjective)
verboten [ver-boht-n, fer-boht-n]

adjective
1. forbidden, as by law; prohibited.

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Origin: First recorded in 1910–15; from German: past participle of verbieten “to prohibit, forbid”; forbid

Example Sentences
All three universities have sparked controversy over their handling of pro-Palestinian encampments last year and how leaders navigated thorny questions about the line between verboten antisemitism and free speech.
From Los Angeles Times

To boldly confront the latter is almost verboten among the American mainstream news media and others who maintain the limits of the approved public discourse and “the consensus.”
From Salon

Technically, abortion is legal for up to 12 weeks in Georgia, but in this conservative, patriarchal society, it’s nonetheless practically verboten.
From Los Angeles Times

“DEI” may be a verboten term in the current presidential administration, but at Santa Monica’s second Bergamot Comedy Festival, it’s a mandate.
From Los Angeles Times

So for our purposes, such tax rises are clearly verboten.
From BBC

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velleity [vəˈlēədē, veˈlēədē]

noun

1. a wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action

examples

1. We may well say: I would desire to be young; but we do not say: I desire to be young; seeing that this is not possible; and this motion is called a wishing, or as the Scholastics term it a velleity, which is nothing else but a commencement of willing, not followed out, because the will, by reason of impossibility or extreme difficulty, stops her motion, and ends it in this simple affection of a wish. Treatise on the Love of God, Saint Francis de Sales, 1567-1622
2. Ms. Marcus also errantly dismissed the Constitution’s separation of powers, which entrusts “all legislative powers” to Congress, as a mere velleity that should yield to executive legislation when Congress is divided. "The Separations of Powers is not a Suggestion." The Washington Post, Letters to the Editor, 14 Jan 2022.

origins

early 17th century: from medieval Latin velleitas, from Latin velle ‘to wish’.

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Viral rhinitis

Your Wednesday Wordsmith has been down since the beginning of the new year with a cold, so it's fitting my first word of 2025 is viral rhinitis, the "actual" name for the common cold.

No one should be surprised that rhinitis is derived from the Greek word for rhino, but did you know there are many different kinds of rhinitis? Stuffy and runny noses, sneezes and even post-nasal drip can be caused by allergens, infections or anything else that inflames your nasal mucous membranes.

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Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024

Voluble (adjective)
vol·u·ble [vol-yuh-buhl]

adjective
1. characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; glib; talkative: a voluble spokesman for the cause.

Other Words From
vol·u·bil·i·ty [vol-y, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], vol·u·ble·ness noun
vol·u·bly adverb
non·vol·u·ble adjective
non·vol·u·bly adverb
un·vol·u·ble adjective
un·vol·u·bly adverb

Related Words
chatty, loquacious

See synonyms for Voluble on Thesaurus.com
Synonyms
articulate, garrulous, loquacious. See fluent.

Antonyms
taciturn.

Origin: First recorded in 1565–75; from Latin volubilis “that turns easily, flowing,” equivalent to volu-, base of volvere “to turn” + -bilis -ble; revolve ( def )

Example Sentences
In late 2007, the voluble Texas hedge-funder threw down $110 million against the subprime-mortgage market and made a killing.
From The Daily Beast

Joe Scarborough Another wild card would be Joe Scarborough, the voluble morning-talk-show host on MSNBC.
From The Daily Beast

In his voluble, guns-blazing manner, Adrover made the hollowness of New York Fashion Week, which ends Thursday, apparent.
From The Daily Beast

The likeliest person to defeat the voluble Georgian is Gingrich himself.
From The Daily Beast

He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
From Project Gutenberg

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Vorfreude - noun.

Vorfreude is a highly specific German word describing the joy one feels anticipating an event, such as Christmas or meeting up with a good friend. It's a compound word made of vor (before) and freude (joy).

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verisimilitude [ ver-uh-si-mil-i-tood, -tyood]

noun:
1 the appearance or semblance of truth
2 something, as an assertion, having merely the appearance of truth

Examples:

He opens the novel with a preface about its source material and adds little details of verisimilitude — footnotes, sketches - throughout. (Loren M Hansen, William Boyd: 40 years on from my first novel, my imagination is cranking up better than ever, The Irish Times, October 2022)

In the past, Pelevin’s diagnoses have read as farcical send-ups of this cultural stance: as a diagnostician, he was never as dedicated to verisimilitude as he was to puns. (Maya Vinokour, Conspiratorial Realism: On Vladimir Sorokin, Victor Pelevin, and Russia's Post-Postmodern Turn, Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2017)

The author uses regional language to lend verisimilitude to the narrative, but readers not fluent in French or Hindi find it hard to follow certain conversations as there are no translations. (Deepti, Passing through cruel theatre of life, Tribune India, October 2012)

Is realism, 'lifeness' or verisimilitude a necessary quality of good literature? (Nigel Beale, The ancient art of keeping it real, The Guardian, October 2008)

This was verisimilitude - the holding of the true mirror to actual society. (George Saintsbury, The English Novel)

Origin:

'appearance of truth or reality, likelihood,' c. 1600, from French verisimilitude (1540s), from Latin verisimilitudo 'likeness to truth,' from veri, genitive of verum, neuter of verus 'true' (from PIE root were-o- 'true, trustworthy') + similis 'like, resembling, of the same kind,' (Online Etymology Dictionary)

From its roots, verisimilitude means basically 'similarity to the truth'. Most fiction writers and filmmakers aim at some kind of verisimilitude to give their stories an air of reality. They need not show something actually true, or even very common, but simply something believable. A mass of good details in a play, novel, painting, or film may add verisimilitude. A spy novel without some verisimilitude won't interest many readers, but a fantastical novel may not even attempt to seem true to life. (Merriam-Webster)

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incarnadine [in-kahr-nuh-dahyn, -din, -deen]

adjective:
1 blood-red; crimson
2 flesh-colored; pale pink
verb:
to make incarnadine, redden

Examples:

Inspired by the dreamlike, incarnadine color schemes of the series' covers, this piece exudes a fresh and fearsome attitude befitting an unapologetic battler of demons and fantastic beasts. (Rich Johnston, Level 52 and Vault Comics Create Statue For Natasha Alterici's Heathen, Bleeding Cool News, April 2020)

That outpouring of flowers from an upper window, washing down like a sea incarnadine around the white walls of the medieval fortress. (Chris Upton, 'Has sense of grief been hit by poppy spectacle?', The Birmingham Post, December 2014)

No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red. (William Shakespeare, Macbeth)

Oh no. He was emberant. Incarnadine. He was bright with better bright beneath, like copper-gilded gold. (Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things )

On the lips incarnadine of my own beloved Joy there is honey most divine. (Giuseppe Calvino, Sicilian Erotica)

She ran quick with a little cry, and coming again, sat crowned, incarnadine in the blushing depths of the gold. (M P Shiel, The Purple Cloud)

Origin:

1590s (adj.) 'flesh-colored, carnation-colored, pale red, pink,' from French incarnadin (16c), from dialectal Italian incarnadino 'flesh-color,' from Late Latin incarnatio. The adjective now is archaic or obsolete. Its direct root might be the noun incarnadine 'blood-red; flesh-color,' though this is not attested until 1620s.(Online Etymology Dictionary)

Carn- is the Latin root for 'flesh,' and 'incarnates' is Latin for flesh-colored. English speakers picked up the 'pinkish' sense of 'incarnadine' back in the late 1500s. Since then, the adjective has come to refer to the dark red color of freshly cut, fleshy meat as well as to the pinkish color of the outer skin of some humans. The word can be used as a verb, too, meaning 'to redden.' Shakespeare used it that way in Macbeth: 'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.' (Merriam-Webster)

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Tuesday, Jul. 2, 2024

Veteran (noun, adjective)
vet·er·an [vet-er-uhn, ve-truhn]

noun
1. a person who has had long service or experience in an occupation, office, or the like: a veteran of the police force; a veteran of many sports competitions.
2. a person who has served in a military force, especially one who has fought in a war: a Vietnam veteran.

adjective
3. (of soldiers) having had service or experience in warfare: veteran troops.
4. experienced through long service or practice; having served for a long period: a veteran member of Congress.
5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of veterans.

Other Words From
non·vet er·an noun

Related Words
expert, pro, vet

See synonyms for Veteran on Thesaurus.com

Origin: First recorded in 1495–1505; from Latin veteranus “mature, experienced,” from veter- (stem of vetus ) “old” + -anus -an

Example Sentences
Jones is a veteran of another beloved-yet-controversial animated series on Adult Swim, The Boondocks.
From The Daily Beast

The veteran, said he met Stone at support group Vets for Veterans.
From The Daily Beast

Among the scores of bystanders watching their small town turn into war zone was a Marine veteran who was close with Stone.
From The Daily Beast

Veteran player Wiig continued without skipping a beat, but the damage was done.
From The Daily Beast

His death was particularly difficult for the veteran firefighters who had spent years working alongside him.
From The Daily Beast

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Vitiation - noun.

To vitiate means to nullify, destroy or cause damage, such as vitiating a contract or prevent the vitiation of a building.

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vilipend [vil-uh-pend]

verb:
(Archaic)
1 to regard or treat as of little value or account.
2 to vilify; depreciate.

Examples:

The fact that to the eighteenth century belong the subjects of more than half of these thirty volumes, is a proof of the fascination of the period for an author who has never ceased to vilipend it. (John Morley, Critical Miscellanies, Volume 1)

What discontent thus change in the doth move?
What wrong, (alas !), or what offence in me,
Thus maks the loath and vilipend my love ? (Sir William Mure, Dido and Aeneas)

He became a gay visitor, and such a reveller, that in process of time he was observed to vilipend the modest fare which had at first been esteemed a banquet by his hungry appetite, and thereby highly displeased my wife. (Sir Walter Scott, Waverley)

I would not willingly vilipend any Christian, if, peradventure, he deserveth that epithet. (Tobias Smollett, Humphry Clinker)

Origin:

Etymologically speaking, to define vilipend using vilify is to commit a tautology, since both derive from Latin vilis, vile or worthless, which is also obviously enough the source of English vile. Vilipend also includes the verb pendere, to weigh or estimate. To vilipend is to weigh somebody in the balance and find them not worth considering. It appeared in English in the fifteenth century and was a popular term right down into the nineteenth, though it has since dropped out of sight. (World Wide Words)

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Velleity - noun.

Still a little stuck in vacation mode, I have the perfect word for the new year--velleity. We all feel velleity, those desires that never quite become reality.

Some examples may be wanting to travel by train through Europe, but never calling the travel agent. Or a desire to learn a new language, but never installing Duolingo :-D

What gives you feelings of velleity? Can you make those feelings come true this year?

med_cat

ver·nis·sage ˌver-ni-ˈsäzh

: a private showing or preview of an art exhibition

Vernissage has its roots in the old practice of setting aside a day before an exhibition's opening for artists to varnish and put finishing touches to their paintings-a tradition that reportedly dates to at least 1809, when it was instituted by England's Royal Academy of Arts. (One famous member of the Academy, Joseph Mallord William Turner, was notorious for making major changes to his paintings on this day.) English speakers originally referred to this day of finishing touches simply as "varnishing day," but sometime around 1912 we also began using the French term vernissage (literally, "varnishing"). Today, however, you are more likely to encounter vino than varnish at a vernissage, which is often a gala event marking the opening of an exhibition.
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It's the same word in Russian btw, this famous song from the 1980s is called "Vernissage".

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Tuesday, Sep. 12, 2023

Verbiage (noun)
ver·bi·age [vur-bee-ij]

noun
1. overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity.
2. manner or style of expressing something in words; wording: a manual of official verbiage.

WORDS RELATED TO VERBIAGE
circumlocution, expansiveness, floridity, long-windedness, loquacity, periphrasis, pleonasm, prolixity, redundancy, tautology, verbosity

See synonyms for verbiage on Thesaurus.com

ORIGIN: 1715–25; < French, equivalent to Middle French verbi(er) to gabble + -age-age

HOW TO USE VERBIAGE IN A SENTENCE
See how others who are passionate about a topic are talking about it and see how you can incorporate that verbiage into your posts.
WHY BRANDS SHOULD CARE ABOUT INCLUSION IN MARKETING; FRIDAY’S DAILY BRIEF | CAROLYN LYDEN | JULY 9, 2021 | SEARCH ENGINE LAND

In this verbiage, this denotes anything shy of a commercial vehicle.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ALL-TERRAIN TIRES | WES SILER | APRIL 6, 2021 | OUTSIDE ONLINE

He had played quarterback at Stanford and knew the verbiage of the West Coast offense.
NEW GM MARTIN MAYHEW AGAIN RETURNS TO WASHINGTON WITH UNFINISHED BUSINESS | SAM FORTIER | MARCH 11, 2021 | WASHINGTON POST

Going through the verbiage you will find that they place authority on the authors of content being mentioned in news articles and publications.
MAKING THE ARGUMENT FOR NOFOLLOW LINKS IN SEO | ROB DELORY | JANUARY 12, 2021 | SEARCH ENGINE WATCH

That has explanations back to the verbiage in the United States in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s actually.
DOES ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHAT SOCIALISM IS? (EP. 408 REBROADCAST) | STEPHEN J. DUBNER | SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 | FREAKONOMICS

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Virago - noun.

IF someone calls you a virago, you may take offense or take it as a compliment!

At times archaic, it can mean to call a woman nasty or shrewish, or can also be used to describe a strong, spirited woman, like an Amazon.

Virago is quite interesting and I'll let Professor Wikipedia do the explaining:

A virago is a woman who demonstrates abundant masculine virtues. The word comes from the Latin word virāgō (genitive virāginis) meaning vigorous'[1] from vir meaning "man" or "man-like" (cf. virile and virtue) to which the suffix -āgō is added, a suffix that creates a new noun of the third declension with feminine grammatical gender. Historically, this was often positive and reflected heroism and exemplary qualities of masculinity. However, it could also be pejorative, indicating a woman who is masculine to the exclusion of traditional feminine virtues.

By My own photograph of a work dated 1897 (or slightly earlier) by Francesco Porzio of Vercelli, (1855-1934). - Ian Spackman, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Verdant (adjective)
ver·dant [vur-dnt]

adjective
1. green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass: a verdant oasis.
2. of the color green: a verdant lawn.
3. inexperienced; unsophisticated: verdant college freshmen.

OTHER WORDS FROM VERDANT
ver·dan·cy, noun
ver·dant·ly, adverb
un·ver·dant, adjective
un·ver·dant·ly, adverb

WORDS RELATED TO VERDANT
flourishing, grassy, leafy, lush, fresh, verdurous

See synonyms for: verdant / verdancy on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR VERDANT
1. lush, grassy.

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1575–85; verd(ure) + -ant

HOW TO USE VERDANT IN A SENTENCE
Nestled in the verdant backwoods of the Chattahoochee National Forest, this drive really comes alive in October, when fall colors are at their peak.
THE BEST SCENIC DRIVE IN EVERY STATE|ERILEY|AUGUST 26, 2021|OUTSIDE ONLINE

Its verdant, mountain-ringed valleys, dotted with colorful huts and temples, are ideal for trekkers or anyone searching for a cure for screen-weary eyes.
THE MOST STUNNING PLACES ON THE GLOBE|JOSEFINA SALOMON|AUGUST 8, 2021|OZY

This twin-chamber design is able to hold 162 liters of organic material to give you verdant soil in just 10 to 12 weeks.
BEST COMPOST BINS: THESE ECO-FRIENDLY PRODUCTS HELP YOU TO DO YOUR PART FOR THE ENVIRONMENT|FLORIE KORANI|JULY 20, 2021|POPULAR-SCIENCE

Trees can often appear as little more than verdant wallpaper, a fuzzy green background for humans’ comings and goings.
TASKING TREES WITH AVERTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS A BIG ASK|NANCY SHUTE|JULY 3, 2021|SCIENCE NEWS

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Verboten - adjective.

Derived from the past participle of verbieten, verboten can also be used casually by other speakers and the meaning is the same--something prohibited or forbidden.

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volte-face [ivolt-fahs, vohlt-; French vawltuh-fas]

noun:
1 a reversal, as in opinion or policy
2 a change of position so as to look, lie, etc, in the opposite direction

Examples:

This eventually culminates in some of its absolute biggest emotional beats relying on a major plot hole, and a volte-face that’s clearly angling for a cheer but is simply too far a turn to be believed. (Huw Saunders, Everyone Else Burns: Season 1 Review - Sitcomageddon, Culture Vultures, January 2023)

The following two decades saw her performing a volte-face by repudiating organized religion and instead devoting herself to fighting social inequality or rallying against the Vietnam War. (Malcolm Forbes, 'Nothing Stays Put' Review: Amy Clampitt, Late Bloomer, The Wall Street Journal, February 2023)

Earlier, the Railways had agreed to elevate the track and survey work had also been started. However, in a volte-face, the department has permanently shelved the suggestion. ('Generous to core': Sidhu Moosewala's teachers, friends remember him, The Tribune, January 2022)

She and I had been extremely close for more than a year, and there had been no warning of this volte-face. I was bewildered. (Zoë Heller, What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal)

Origin:

a reversal of opinion, 1819, French (17c), from Italian volta faccia, literally 'turn face,' from volta, imperative of voltare 'to turn' (from Vulgar Latin volvita, from Latin volvere 'to roll,' from PIE root wel- 'to turn, revolve') + faccia (face). (Online Etymology Dictionary)

Volte-face came to English by way of French from Italian voltafaccia, a combination of voltare, meaning 'to turn,' and faccia, 'face.' It has existed as an English noun since at least 1819. The corresponding English phrase 'about face' saw use in a number of forms in the decades before that, including military commands such as 'right about face' (that is, to turn 180 degrees to the right so as to face in the opposite direction); nevertheless, the standalone noun about-face (as in 'After declining, he did an abrupt about-face and accepted the offer') is about as old as volte-face. Although foot soldiers have been stepping smartly to the command 'About face! Forward march!' for centuries, about-face didn't appear in print as a figurative noun meaning 'a reversal of attitude, behavior, or point of view' until the mid-1800s.(Merriam-Webster)

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Monday Word: vetch

Monday Word: Vorticist

Sunday Word: Viridescent

Tuesday word: Verboten

Word : Velleity

Wednesday Word: Viral Rhinitis

Tuesday word: Voluble

Wednesday Word: Vorfreude

Sunday Word: Verisimilitude

Sunday Word: Incarnadine

Tuesday word: Veteran

Wednesday Word: Vitiation

Sunday Word: Vilipend

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