VACCINE, n. A cure for what doesn’t ail you.

VACANCY, n.  An elective position.

VACANT, adj.  Discretely chosen.

VACATE, v.t.  To leave in search of a vacancy.

VACATION, n.  A bridge of regret between two spans of resentment.

VACILLATE, v.i.  To inspect two follies for flaws.

VACUOUS, adj.  Confident.

VACUUM, n.  A hope chest.

VAIN, adj.  Insufficiently deferential to the disregard of one’s betters

VAGABOND, n.  A local migrant.

VAGRANCY, n.  Management without employees.

VAGRANT, n.  A sole improprietor.

VAGUE, adj.  Imprecise, uncertain or unanswerable like calculus to a painter or a come-on to a mathematician.

VAINLY, adv.  Without regard to my interests.

VALET, n.  A car thief on commission.

VALEDICTORY, n.  A parting call for continuity.

VALOR, n.  The fortitude of the resigned and the heroism of the dead.

VANITY, n.  The love that doth purge.

VAUNT, v.t.  To improve by name ashes, sand or clay.

VENAL, n.  Shrewd.

VICARIOUSLY, adv.  In the manner of a populist celebrating success.

VICEROY, n.  A bureaucrat.

VICTIM, n.  Anyone two bits shy of comfortable.

VICTORY, n. The evidence of irrelevance.

VICTORY, n.  A Goddess winged for quick retreat.

VICTORIOUSLY, adv.  Having turned a train bound for disaster onto a track to catastrophe.

VIOLATION, n.  Any potential cause of death, dismemberment, disability, dysthymia, dyspepsia, disillusionment or discomfort.

VISCERAL, adj.  The certainty that our diets are healthy, our investments wise and our friends listening to our advice.

VIRTUE, n.  A progressive disease of the plan.

VIRTUES, THE, n.pl.  Sobriety in the morning, gravity at noon and diligence in the dark of night.  The qualities distinguishing a successful thief or a fallen priest.

VITUPERATION, n.  The howling, scolding and prophesy of divine wrath  the good yeoman hurls upon payment of taxes or receipt of new law at a nearby squirrel.

VOLUME, n.  The magnitude of a vacancy.