| 5000 Vocabulary List for Visiting Scholars in the USA - Page 644 | |||
| Word | Type | Used in a Sentence | Synonym |
| weak | adj. | She was an old, weak woman. | feeble |
| adj. | The chair was old and weak. | rickety | |
| weakness | noun | He mistook kindness for weakness. | feebleness |
| noun | She had a weakness for candy. | fondness | |
| wealth | noun | He had amassed great wealth. | riches |
| noun | This state has a wealth of farm crops. | abundance | |
| wealthy | adj. | She is a wealthy woman. | rich |
| weapon | noun | He had a gun for a weapon. | protection |
| wear | verb | What will you wear to the dance? | put on clothes |
| verb | The tires will wear badly on this road. | deteriorate | |
| verb | The drugs began to wear off. | diminish effect gradually | |
| weary | adj. | We were weary from our trip. | tired |
| adj. | They were weary of his long speech. | bored | |