| Term | Definition |
|---|
| tacit | understood without being openly expressed; implied;silent; saying nothing;unvoiced or unspoken |
| tautology | needless repetition of an idea, esp. in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in "widow woman."an instance of such repetition |
| temper | to moderate or mitigate; to soften or tone down;to bring to a proper, suitable, or desirable state by or as by blending or admixture;to moisten, mix, and work up into proper consistency, as clay or mortar |
| tempestuous | characterized by or subject to high winds;tumultuous; turbulent |
| tenebrous | dark; gloomy; obscure |
| termagant | a violent, turbulent, or brawling woman;violent; turbulent; brawling; shrewish |
| trenchant | incisive or keen, as language or a person; caustic; cutting;vigorous; effective; energetic;clearly or sharply defined; clear-cut; distinct |
| turgid | swollen; distended; tumid;inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic |
| turpitude | vile, shameful, or base character; depravity;a vile or depraved act |
| ubiquitous | existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent |
| ullage | the amount by which the contents fall short of filling a container, as a cask or bottle;the quantity of wine, liquor, or the like, remaining in a container that has lost part of its contents by evaporation, leakage, or use |
| unctuous | characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, esp. in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug;of the nature of or characteristic of an unguent or ointment; oily; greasy;having an oily or soapy feel, as certain minerals |
| usurp | to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right;to use without authority or right; employ wrongfully;to commit forcible or illegal seizure of an office, power, etc.; encroach |
| vacuous | without contents; empty;lacking in ideas or intelligence;expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid;purposeless; idle |
| vicissitude | a change or variation occurring in the course of something;interchange or alternation, as of states or things;regular change or succession of one state or thing to another;change; mutation; mutability |
| virago | a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew;a woman of strength or spirit |
| vortex | a whirling mass of water or air, esp. one in which a force of suction operates;a whirling mass of fire, flame;a state of affairs likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force, etc.;something regarded as drawing into its powerful current everything that surrounds it. |
| visceral | of or pertaining to the abdominal cavity; of the nature of or resembling abdominal cavity/intestines/bowels;characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions |
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