lose.

woody, a. wooden, ligneous; sylvan, bosky.

wooing, n. courtship.

wool, n. fleece; worsted, merino, pelotage; mortling, Associated
words: laniferous, lanifical, lanigerous, lanolin, depilate, depilation,
depilatory.

woolly, a. downy, fleecy, nappy, lanate.

word, n. term, vocable; etymon, root; derivative; signal, order,
command; promise, affirmation, parole.

wordbook, n. dictionary, lexicon, thesaurus, glossary.

word for word. _verbatim_, literally.

wordiness, n. verbosity, prolixity, verbiage, pleonasm, redundancy.

wording, n. phrasing.

words, n. pl. phraseology; vocabulary. Associated Words: glossary,
glossarist, glossography, glossology, glossologist, lexicology,
lexicologist, etymology, etymologist, etymologize, neology, lexicography,
terminology, paronomasia, pun, punning, onomatopoeoea, syncope,
syncopation, literal, literally, literalism, transliteration, verbal,
verbalist, verbalism, battology, logomachy, logomachist, verbarium,
apocope, kyriology, metonomy, autonomasia, multiloquence, perissology,
purism, purist, elision, polysynthesis, coin, coinage, apheresis, aphetic,
aphetism, aphesis, onomatopoiesis, metaphrase, acrostic, rebus,
synecdoche, verbicide, verbomaniac, locution.

words of an opera. libretto. Associated Word: librettist.

wordy, a. diffuse, prolix, verbose, redundant, pleonastic.
Antonyms: terse, succinct, laconic.

work, v. toil, labor, strive; drudge, slave; operate, manipulate,
perform; ferment, effervesce. Antonyms: shirk, idle, dabble, loaf,
soldier (Colloq.).

work, n. industry, toil, labor, employment, occupation; effort,
exertion, striving; drudgery; diligence, assiduity; business, duty, job,
task; _magnum opus_. Antonyms: idleness, dalliance, trifling, sloth,
sluggardy, truancy, dabbling, dilettanteism, relaxation, leisure,
vacation.

work-bag, n. reticule.

worker, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, handicraftsman,
journeyman, mechanic, workman, laborer, operative, industrial. Antonyms:
idler, drone, dabbler, sluggard, truant, dilettante, loafer, shirker.

working, a. industrious.

working man. worker, laborer.

working together., cooeperation; collusion; concurrence;
collaboration.

workman, n. artisan, artificer, craftsman, journeyman. See
worker.

work together. cooeperate; collude; concur; collaborate.

world, n. earth, creation, universe, cosmos; globe; planet;
macrocosm, microcosm. Associated Words: cosmology, cosmologist,
cosmography