Initial W

• wade: paddle; walk through relatively shallow water
• wag: move one way and the other with quick turns; shake to and fro; move in vibrating; cause to vibrate
• wage: hazard on the event of a contest; stake; engage in, as a contest; adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; hire; employ
• wagon: any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by a horse or tractor
• waist: narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips
• waive: give up temporarily; yield; give up voluntarily; defer
• wake: trail of ship or other object through water; path of something that has gone before
• walnut: tree with 10 – 40 meters tall; hard, dark brown wood of any of these trees
• wander: move about without a definite destination or purpose; range about; stroll; go away; depart ward: guard; defender; protector; state under guard; division of a county; division of a hospital wardrobe: tall cabinet, closet, or small room built to hold clothes
• ware: articles of merchandise; style or class of manufactures; especially, in the plural, goods; commodities; merchandise
• warehouse: depot; storehouse for goods and merchandise
• warfare: military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies
• warrant: guarantee; assurance by seller; authorization or certification
• warrior: fighter; combatant; one who is engaged in or experienced in battle
• waterproof: tight; unaffected by water; made of or covered with material that doesn’t allow water in
• waver: play or move to and fro; move one way and the other; swing; be unsettled in opinion
• wax: increase gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity; show a progressively larger illuminated area
• weapon: arms
• weary: tired; exhausted; physically or mentally fatigued
• weather: endure the effects of weather or other forces; come through safely; survive
• weave: pattern or structure by weaving ; knit; interlace
• weaver: craftsman who weaves cloth
• web: textile fabric; complex, interconnected structure or arrangement; the World Wide Web; radio or television network
• wedding: marriage ceremony; act of marrying; anniversary of a marriage
• wedge: a piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks
• weed: undesirable or troublesome plant, especially growing where it is not wanted as in a garden.
• weld: unite closely or intimately; join together by heating
• welfare: benefit; something that aids health or happiness
• whereas: considering that; it being the case that; since
• whereby: by which; by what; how
• whilst: while
• whip: overlay with other cords going round and round it; take or move by a sudden motion; clean completely
• whirl: act of rotating or revolving rapidly; state of confusion; tumult
• whisper: speaking in a quiet voice; soft speech produced without full voice; secretly expressed belief, rumor, or hint
• whistle: make a kind of musical sound by lips; emit a similar sound from mouth as birds
• wholesale: selling or related to selling goods in large quantities; large-scale; on a large scale without careful discrimination
• wholesaler: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants
• wholesome: conducive to sound health or well-being; beneficial
• wicked: evil in principle or practice; contrary to moral or divine law; addicted to vice or sin widespread: spread or scattered over a considerable extent; occurring or accepted widely
• width: extent of something from side to side
• wield: handle (a weapon or tool, for example) with skill and ease. exercise effectively; handle; have power over; rule; manage
• wilderness: a tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; wild or desert
• willow: trees having usually narrow leaves
• winding: twisting or turning; spiral
• wisdom: quality of being wise; knowledge ; results of wise judgments
• wit: intellect; mental ability; natural ability to perceive and understand
• withdraw: remove from; pull back; break from gathering; retreat; depart
• withdrawal: secession; retreat or retirement
• wither: shrivel; decay; lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; loss of moisture
• withhold: refuse to give; refrain from giving, granting, or permitting; deduct from employee’s salary
• withstand: stand up against; successfully resist; oppose with force or resolution
• witness: someone who sees an event and reports what happened; observe; watch
• woe: deep, inconsolable grief; affliction; suffering; deep distress or misery, as from grief
• woods: small forest; woodland; dense collection of trees covering a relatively small area
• wool: dense, soft, often curly hair forming the coat of sheep and certain other mammals
• wording: act or style of expressing in words; expression, or power of expression
• worldwide: global; universal; throughout the world
• worst: be better than; defeat; gain the advantage over
• worthwhile: sufficiently valuable
• wrap: enclose; arrange or fold as a cover or protection
• wrath: forceful, often vindictive anger; fury; just punishment of an offense or crime
• wreck: destruction; destroy; smash or break forcefully
• wrench: twist or turn suddenly and forcibly; move, extract, or force free by pulling violently
• wrestle: contend by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down an opponent; struggle or strive earnestly
• wretched: very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by deep affliction or distress; calamitous; woeful; worthless
• wring: twist; squeeze; compress, especially so as to extract liquid
• wrinkle: a minor difficulty; a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface
• wrist: joint between the hand and the forearm