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INTRODUCTION
​[A - C] - [D - F] - [G - I] - [J - L]
[M - O] - [P - R] - [S - U] - [V - Z]

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PART 8 - FROM V to Z


​VADE MECUM - literally translated as ‘go with me.’ Used in reference to a book that – like a friend – is a wise, helpful and constant guide through life. To be a vade mecum is the ideal to which all literature aspires. Marcus Aurelius’s wise and consoling Meditations, written c. 180 AD, are an ideal vade mecum. (Latin)

VERBAGE - verbosity, excessive wordiness. From 1787

VERBALITY - the quality of being verbal; that which consists of mere words or verbiage. From 1645

VERBALISM - undue attention to words alone

VERBARIAN - an inventor or coiner of words. From 1873 (see NEOLOGISM)

VERBATICAL - pertaining to words. (1612)

VERBATE - to reproduce word for word. From 1512

VERBATIMLY - word for word. From 1597

VERBICIDE - coined by C. S. Lewis to denote the killing of a word or the distortion of its original meaning.

VERBIGERATION - the habit of frequently repeating favorite words or expressions.

VERBILE: - one whose mental processes are stimulated by words

VERBIVORE - created by Richard Lederer to describe someone who devours and feasts on words.

VERBOCINATION - expression of ideas by means of words. From 1653

VERBOMANIA - craze for words

VERBOSE - using too many words to convey a thought.

VERISIMILITUDE - When a work of fiction closely mimics reality; authenticity.

VERISM - The artistic preference to depict everyday life instead of legends or tales of heroism.

VERSEMONGER - maker of verses; a rimer; a poetaster. A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.

VERSO - the left-hand side of the page. The right hand side is RECTO.

VERSUTILOQUENT - a crafty talker; one using words craftily. From 1656

VOCABLE - a word. From 1787

VOCABULARIAN - one who gives excessive attention to words. From 1899

VOCABULARY - defined as a word within a particular language which is known to the person

VOCABULARY TYPES - there are four kinds of vocabularies.
  • READING (words understood when read)
  • WRITING (words used while writing)
  • LISTENING (words a person recognizes from speech)
  • ​SPEAKING (words a person uses to communicate.

VOCABULATION - the use or choice of words. From 1891

VOCABULIZE - to utter, speak, say; to put into words. From 1873

VOCULATION - The type of speaking where you give proper pronunciation and enunciation; to give every word its proper accent.

WAFF WORDS - words that are cheap, vulgar. From 1866

WEASEL WORD - a word that is used in a deliberately misleading way. From 1900

WITZELSUCHT - a mental disorder characterized by the making of poor jokes and puns and the telling of pointless stories and usually caused by lesions on the frontal lobe.

WORD CRAFT - Old English wordcræft meaning poetic art, eloquence

WORDAGE - the number or quantity of words

WORD GRUBBER -18th-century slang for someone who used unnecessarily long and complicated words in conversation.

WORD HOARD - big supply of words. Translation of the Old English wordhord

WORDIE - slang for logophile or lover of word

WORD MONGERING - the use of empty or bombastic words

WORD SALAD - 1: unintelligible, extremely disorganized speech or writing manifested as a symptom of a mental disorder (such as schizophrenia). 2: a string of empty, incoherent, unintelligible, or nonsensical words or comments

WORDSMITH - a person who works with words, especially a skillful writer

WORD SQUARE - series of words of equal length arranged in a square pattern to read the same horizontally and vertically

WORD WORD - a word or name that's repeated to distinguish it from a seemingly identical word or name ("Oh, you're talking about grass grass")

WORDPLAY is rearranging a word in a creative way to change, emphasize, or mock its meaning.

WRITRIX - a milestone in sexism was the rare word writrix, which can be found in an astounding 1772 sentence written by José Francisco de Isla and recorded by the Oxford English dictionary: “Why should it not be said, she was not a common woman, but a geniusess, and an elegant writrix?”

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[M - O] - [P - R] - [S - U] - [V - Z]
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