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- Wary – very cautious
- Waylay – to wait for and then stop someone, especially either to attack or talk to that person
- Welt – a strip as or leather or other material, stitched into a shoe between the sole and the upper
- Wily – cunning, crafty
- Wince – shrink back
- Windfall – sudden gain
- Winsome –appealing, charming, attractive
- Wither – diminish, fade, to become dry (of a plant)
- Wizened – wrinkled with age
- Woe – misery, sorrow, distress
- Wrangle –dispute, quarrel
- Wrath – anger, fury
- Wretched – in very unhappy and unfortunate state (of a person)
