401. unruly, ungovernable, intractable, refractory, recalcitrant, willful, headstrong, wayward. These adjectives all mean resistant or marked by resistance to control.
402. urge, press, exhort, prod, prick. These verbs mean to constrain or impel to action.
403. use, employ, utilize. These verbs mean to avail oneself of someone or something in order to make him, her, or it useful, functional, or beneficial.
404. valid, sound, cogent, convincing, telling. These adjectives describe assertions, arguments, conclusions, reasons, or intellectual processes that are persuasive because they are well founded, as in fact, logic, or rationality.
405. vent, express, utter, voice, air. These verbs mean to give outlet to thoughts or emotions.
406. vertical, upright, perpendicular, plumb. These adjectives are compared as they mean being at or approximately at right angles to the horizon or to level ground.
407. vindictive, vengeful, revengeful. These adjectives mean desiring or proceeding from a desire for revenge.
408. vociferous, blatant, boisterous, strident, clamorous. These adjectives all mean conspicuously and usually offensively loud.
409. voluntary, intentional, deliberate, willful, willing. These adjectives mean being or resulting from one's own free will.
410. wander, ramble, roam, rove, range, meander, stray, gallivant, gad. These verbs mean to move about at random or without destination or purpose.
411. warn, caution, forewarn. These verbs mean to give someone notice of and put the person on guard against actual or possible danger or risk.
412. way, route, course, passage, pass, artery. These nouns refer to paths leading from one place or point to another.

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