Initial V

vacancy: absence; emptiness vacant: void of thought or knowledge; without an occupant or incumbent vacation: leisure time away from work; act of making something legally void vaccinate: perform or produce immunity vacuum: empty area or space; electrical home appliance that cleans by suction vague: imprecise; indistinct; not clearly expressed; inexplicit vain: having no real substance, […]

Initial U

ugly: offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; disagreeable aspect; unsightly ultimate: final; being the last or concluding; fundamental; elemental; extreme ultimately: as final consequence; at last; in the end ultrasonic: supersonic; higher in frequency than the range of sound perceptible to the human ear ultraviolet: wave lengths shorter than light but longer than X […]

Initial T

table: set resolution or proposal for future consideration; hold back to a later time tablet: a small flat compressed cake of some substance; a dose of medicine tack: small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head tackle: apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; act of […]

Initial S

sack: bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer’s purchases; enclosed space sacred: concerned with religion; worthy of respect or dedication sacrifice: offering of something to god; victim offered to god; surrender or loss of profit for higher object saddle: load or burden; put harness onto animal’s back to ride sag: sink, in the […]

Initial R

rack: framework for holding objects racket: thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched; broad wooden shoe or pattern for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground radar: measuring instrument to detect distant objects […]

Initial Q

qualification: an attribute that must be met qualified: restricted; having the appropriate qualifications for an office, position, or task qualify: make such as is required; give added or requisite qualities to; make legally capable qualitative: relating to quality; having the character of quality quantitative: expressed or expressible as a quantity; relating to measurement of quantity […]

Initial P

pace: single movement from one foot to the other in walking; slow gait; step pack: pact or bundle made up and prepared to be carried; a number of similar things; a full set of playing cards packaging: putting something into boxes pad: soft or small cushion; a kind of cushion for writing upon, or for […]

Initial O

oak: any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus; durable wood of any of these trees or shrubs oar: long, thin, usually wooden pole with a blade at one end, used to row or steer a boat oath: solemn promise; commitment to tell the truth obedient: subject in will or act to authority; willing to […]

Initial N

naked: bare and pure; completely unclothed namely: by name; by particular mention; expressly; that is to say nap: a period of time spent sleeping narrator: someone who tells a story nasty: very dirty, foul; disgusting; nauseous native: being as origin; as found in nature in the elemental form nausea: feeling of sickness in stomach by […]

Initial M

mackintosh: waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth magic: any art that invokes supernatural powers magician: one who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience; sorcerer; wizard magistrate: civil officer with power to administer and enforce law magnetic: having the properties of attracting iron or steel; captivating; attractive; being to draw or pull magnetism: attraction […]