Getting near the end now. Feel free to add your own choices in this letter. No abbreviations please, but American spellings are allowed, and foreign language words (with translation) welcomed.
Vindictive.
I tend not to be, but it well describes those who are.
Voluble.
Guilty as charged!
Volumionous.
I love the way this conjures up such things as enormous dresses, large marquees etc.
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VARECH (m), which is French for wrack (especially kelp), often appears in the seafaring adventures I read. I also like the English word VANILLA, which is a wonderful (and underrated) flavor. And finally, with apologies to any inhabitants from Beetley who might suffer from it, VERTIGO.
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Thanks, David. I left out Vertigo, for obvious reasons!
Best wishes, Pete.
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My Afrikaans V word is my favourite Afrikaans word of all “verkleurmannetjie”, which is the word for chameleon and translates literally as “little colour changing man.”
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I have to agree, that’s a corker of a word.
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Pete, here are a few:
Vitriol – cruel and bitter criticism
Vacillate – fluctuate in opinion or resolution
verbigeration – morbid and purposeless repetition of certain words – OK, you all know I looked that one up, never heard of it but thought it was fun fun fun fun fun fun ….oops, I did it!
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Thanks, John. Vitriol is a good choice. There’s a lot of that around!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Volunteer – offer
Valor – courage
Victory – success
To Volunteer is to show Valor when others just sit back and hope for Victory.
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Nice military connections, GP. Well done.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Stay dry!!
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Some from Geordieland
Varnigh: Very nearly.
Varry: Very.
Vennel: A narrow alley in Durham.
a nice phrase is Varnigh axed hor oot : Very nearly asked a girl out on a date but I didn’t. 🙂
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Good phrase and words, FR.
Thanks as always.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Venemous – always sounds to me exactly what it means.
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It does indeed, Mary. Thanks for that one.
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validity-vinicity-both fun to say-and I must say violinist-for that is my job!
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Well done to you for mastering the violin, Michele. I salute your musical talent. I’m a Joe Venuti fan myself.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I’m going with Virtue, Versatility, and Vagarian (Whimsical person).😊
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Nice choices, Kim. Vagarian is most unusual.
(Hope you are feeling better? x)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Thanks Pete! I should have included vexed, as in I’m vexed that this flippin’ migraine won’t go away!😖
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Virtual soothing hugs for that migraine, Kim. (( )) x.
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Thank you my friend.
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Thanks, Pete, I gave my old college vocab list a real workout.
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I like “vainglorious” — it’s self-defining, and a hybrid that packs a lot into a relatively small space. Perfect for people who are vain, boastful, self-glorifying, egotistical, and too cocky for their own good. “Even without his vacuous vulgarity, his vituperative tweets and vapid, vainglorious verbiage vitiated any vestige of respect we might still feel for his office”.
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That’s worth its own post, Robert. A Comment among Comments indeed. You should tweet that to the man concerned. This could be one of the best comments of the whole challenge!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Vain: one person comes to mind
verruca: horrible things, bring back memories of going to the swimming baths as a kid and having to go through that freezing cold foot bath en route to the pool. Smell of chlorine and being cold!!
virtual: the world in which a lot of us live these days
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Luckily, I have never had a Verruca. I have known vain people though, and spend much of my life in that Virtual world.
Thanks, Jude.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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voice, verisimilitude and volunteer, ( we couldn’t do without them!)
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Thanks, Julie. I have done my share of volunteering in the past.
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Vanquished, varnished, vociferous velocipede!
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Ah, Velocipede. What a great word!
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Vibrant. Victory. Vivacious.
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Whenever I see the word Vivacious, I always think of Rita Hayworth.
Best wishes, Pete.
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That’s so funny. I always think of Lucille Ball, or children. Best to you, Pete.
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Good Morning Pete:
Sometimes economic terms do not make sense. For example, VOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT, which includes some are looking for jobs presumably because their last job evaporated into thin air. People who use this term willy-nilly and think they have said something are clearly voluble and charlatans. Another is VERTICLE EQUITY which is only a poor person’s vindictive response to paying taxes. “They have more, they should pay more.” While it is in the right direction, power to the people,, it is still a term that does not make sense. Finally, VOLATILITY, or the measure of ‘risk’ in a financial market. Give me a break, volatility is uncertainty. Uncertainty is not measurable, risk is. Just another of the voluminous terms used to beguile and throw off the average bloke and make economics sound, well, erudite.
Warmest regards, Theo
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Thanks, Theo. I try to avoid volatility in all areas, especially in temperament.
Best wishes, Pete.
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“Vindicate”….free from allegation…..”varietal”…..relating to a variety…”vomitorium”…..according to Romans…..a place to visit after eating before the nap……chuq
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Thanks, chuq. I think I might give that vomitorium a miss though! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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On the food march, I’ll say vindaloo! Yummo! Location-wise, I’ll add Vietnam where a daughter now lives for the next three years.
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Must be a fascinating place to live, Peggy. Vindaloo is far too hot for me!
Best wishes, Pete.
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Venal – corrupt, dishonest, unprincipled
Vacuous – blank, empty-headed (a word I am wont to use)
Veracity – accuracy, authenticity (I definitely use this)
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Vacuous is a favourite of mine too, Sue. Thanks for those.
Best wishes, Pete.
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We can find plenty of examples of those around!!!
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Vindictive and vicious go well together. Video was one of my favourite words as a kid.
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Nice modern choice with Video, mate. I wouldn’t have thought of that one.
Cheers, Pete.
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It immediately sprung to my mind.
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Vernacular is a word I use a lot in my writing. Sounds well read.
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It’s a useful word, though it really only means ‘the language of that region’.
Cheers, Pete.
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Yes, but it sounds a lot more eloquent than just saying the language of that region.
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True!
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And I quite like sounding eloquent.
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