Words Starting with "T - Z"

1.  sTangential – going off topic; digressing; diverging; tangential writing
2. Tawdry - showy but without taste or elegance; flashy; gaudy; garish; meretricious
3. Tensile (A) – capable of extension
4. Torpor – apathy; profound lack of energy or activity; lethargy
5. Treacly (A) – overly sweet; saccharine; schmaltzy
6. Trenchant (A) - Having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; trenchant criticism
7. Tribunals (N) – an assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; courts
8. Turgid – swollen; bloated; inflated; esoteric writing
9. Unction (N) - the act of pouring oil on somebody’s head or another part of their body as part of an important religious ceremony; behavior or speech that is not sincere and that expresses too much praise or admiration of somebody
10. Unfettered – not bound by shackles and chains
11. Unperturbed (A) – not perturbed; not anxious or worried
12. Vacuous – empty, inane, lacking in ideas, stupid; vacuous lectures of Prof. Sharma made the class monotonous.
13. Vagary – whim, caprice
14. Vagrant – homeless wanderer
15. Vainglorious – boastful, excessively conceited, narcissist, bigheaded, feeling self-importance
16. Valor – bravery
17. Vanguard – forerunners, advance forces; front group; leading edge; the front part of an army
18. Vapid (A) – lacking taste or flavor or tang; insipid; bland
19. Vehement - marked by extreme intensity, inclined to react violently
20. Veil – to obscure, conceal
21. Veneer – coating consisting of a thin layer of wood; “veneer blackboard”
22. Vicissitude (N) – a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something; fluctuations; immutabilities
23. Voyeur (N) – tom peeper
24. Waffle (V) – to write or speak in a vague manner; to be unable to decide between things
25. Waggish (adj) – funny, clever and not serious; mischievous in sports; frolicsome; “waggish remarks
26. Wan (A) – having a pale or sickly color; pallid; the wan face of my mother revealed that father was sick
27. Wangle (V) - to get something that you or another person wants by persuading somebody or by a clever plan: She had wangled an invitation to the opening night. I’ll try to wangle some money out of my parents. We should be able to wangle it so that you can start tomorrow. He managed to wangle his way onto the course. He had wangled her a seat on the plane; wiggle out; fake
28. Warble (V) – sing; babble; I woke up with the bird that was warbling at my window
29. Wastrel (N) – profligate; a lazy person who spends their time and/or money in a careless and stupid way
30. Waylay (V) - to stop somebody who is going somewhere, especially in order to talk to them or attack them; I got waylaid on my way here.
31. Wean (V) – accustom a baby not to nurse; give up a cherished activity; He decided he would wean himself away from eating junk food and stick to fruits and vegetables
32. Welter (V) – wallow; “When Hector killed thousands of troops in the battle field the Greeks weltered to get help from Achilles”; - N – turmoil
33. Wheedle (V) – cajole; coax; deceive by flattery
34. Whelp (N) – a young wolf or lion
35. Whet (V) – sharpen; stimulate; “The odors from the kitchen are whetting my appetite, I will be ravenous (extremely hungry) by the time the meal is served”
36. Whiff (N) – puff or gust of air, scent, etc.
37. Whinny (V) – neigh like a horse
38. Wily (A) – cunning; artful
39. Wince (V) – shrink back; flinch; cringe
40. Wispy (A) – thin and weak; a wispy little fellow with thin hands and legs; lacking clarity; barely discernible
41. Wistful (A) – vaguely longing; sadly pensive
42. Zany – comical in foolish or slapstick way