SAT W,X,Y, and Z part 2

He was a little dark man, with a very big forehead, thin, wispy hair, and sad, large eyes.

She watched the firelight dancing on Al's sombre face, softening its hardness, making it almost wistful when he gazed thoughtfully into the coals.

While deeply absorbed in sad reflection, Dorothy stole to his side and, looking up, wistfully, in his face, said: “Dear papa, isn’t mama here, either?”

So saying, the duke, as if charmed with his own wit, burst into a loud and long peal of laughter.

As most shops and businesses stayed closed in Cairo, people rushed to withdraw money from bank cash machines.

Starting in the early 20th century, another key factor in diagnosing addiction was the occurrence of physical withdrawal symptoms upon quitting the substance in question.

But they were worried that their son, whose sister was eight years younger, was too solitary and withdrawn.

While summer withered some crops, a hillside dip or rock outcropping might shelter just enough moisture for other plants to survive.

My old, withered, dry eyes are full of tears yet.

David A. Paterson, arguing that his decision to unilaterally withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in scheduled payments to school districts violated New York’s Constitution.

Winter is coming and the scramble is on to amass enough warm sleeping bags and clothing so that the occupiers could withstand below freezing temperatures.

Wah! they were like a flock of sheep, witless, huddling together, springing this way and that without any sense.

We laughed amazingly at your epigrammatic witticisms; your reputation is already established here.

"I accept the augury," cried Frederick, laughing heartily at the witty misapplication of the phrase, and resumed his seat once more.

When it came to word wizardry, he had Billy Sunday, master of slang and argot of one language, skinned by miles.

Old Harry grinned, crinkling up his wizened face in a mass of fine wrinkles.

Big businesses that have gone bankrupt: Facing scandal, shrinking profits or other woes, these big-name firms have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in recent months.

Looking at his work now, though, it strikes me that what he actually did, more often than not, was make the commonplace wondrous and beautiful.

In the queen’s time he was wont to go out of town every Saturday at ten o’clock, or on holiday eves.

Not far away were all their worldly possessions, a rusty stove, two cots, bedding and a box of cooking pans.

R. R. is dead, thank God, and her unhappy wraith will haunt your path no more.

Their women are quarrelsome, and wrangle over payment when selling their wares.

“Wrath” differs from “anger” in so far as it may be called anger boiling over.

Giant solar storms can wreak havoc on satellites and power grids.

The housewife watched him as he gave the nut a final twist with his wrench and stood up.

The crazed strikers fought without weapons, except such as they could wrest from the soldiers.

She says, “No.” “Do have pity—I am so wretched; it is only a little favour I ask of you.”

When it had been finished, everyone was, in spite of slickers and gas suits, so drenched that water could be wrung out of every garment.

The court publicly decided against the writs but secretly issued them.

His writhing, squirming twists would have made a circus contortionist gasp.

Forging and Welding.—The process of pressing or hammering wrought iron when at a red or white heat into any desired shape is called forging.

Matthew and Jonathan were trying to outwit each other, while Andrew, the oldest, looked on with a wry smile meant to trump all sarcasm.

Some fear a return of the xenophobia that led to violent attacks on foreigners two years ago.

What I wanted to bring to your distinguished notice is this—that you must not behave like a yahoo in my mathematical set.

Now and then there is an extreme individualist who yearns to go through life absolutely unmolested, single file.

Each generation of foxes grew more approachable, many showing doglike yearning for human contact.

While faintly heard from somewhere outside there was the yelping, barking, howling whine of a dog.

In the last decade, most major coinages have been faked, including British pounds, Russian rubles, Indian rupees, Japanese yen, and Canadian dollars.

On one extreme was the well-to-do yeoman farmer farming his own land.

Cotton and coffee are both indigenous, the former yielding two crops per year.

“Yonder,” said he, pointing to some distance down the river.

Yore, long ago; generally used in the expression "of yore," formerly, once upon a time.

While many states, particularly in the West, have nonrestrictive gun laws, Arizona’s zeal for weapons has often made headlines.

Zenith, the point in the celestial sphere directly overhead.

So I pursued my studies with zest and unabated enthusiasm.