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Y. Associated words: ypsiloid, ypsiliform.

yank, n. (Colloq.) [pull], [jerk], [twitch].--v. [pull], [jerk], [twitch], [snatch].

yap, n. [bark], [yelp].

yard, n. three feet; enclosure, [court], area, garth, [courtyard], quadrangle, curtilage (Law).

yarn, n. worsted, [warp], abb, spinel. Associated word: skein.

yawn, v. [gape], oscitate.

yawn, n. [gape], [gaping], [yawning], oscitation, oscitancy.

yawning, a. [gaping], oscitant.

yearbook, n. annual.

yearly, a. annual, anniversary.--adv. annually.

yearn, v. [long], [desire], hanker [after], [pine].

yearning, n. [longing], [hankering], [pining].

yeast, n. [harm], leaven, [ferment].

yeasty, a. barmy.

yell, n. outcry, [scream], [shriek], [howl], yowl, vociferation.

yell, v. [scream], [shriek], [screech], bawl, [howl], yowl, vociferate, [hoot].

yellow, a. golden, sallow, tawny, ecru, amber, [fallow], fulvous, croconic, [jaundiced], fulvid, buff, luteous, saffron, ocherous, lurid.

yellowbird, n. goldfinch.

yellow race. Mongols, Mongolians.

yellows, n. [jaundice]; jeterus.

yelp, n. [bark], [yap], yaup.

yes, adv. yea, aye, ay.--n. [affirmative], [consent].

yield, v. produce, [pay], [return]; [submit], [surrender], succumb, [give up], capitulate; [resign], [relinquish], [cede], [forego], [waive]; concede, [admit], [grant], [allow]. Antonyms: [resist], [retain], [withhold], [refuse], withstand.

yield, n. product, [crop], [harvest].

yielding, n. production, [bearing], [surrender], [relinquishment], [submission], [compliance], acquiescence, succumbing.

yielding, a. [compliant], tractable, [submissive], [amenable], [unresisting], [docile], [indulgent], [irresolute], facile; [plastic], fictile, pliant, [flexible]. Antonyms: See unyielding.

yoke, n. oxbow and [bar], crosspiece; [team], [span], [pair], [couple]; [bond], [link], [chain], coupling.

yoke, v. [couple], [join], [unite], [link], hitch [together]; [subject], [enslave].

yokel, n. [bumpkin], [boor], [rustic].

yolk, n. yelk, vitellus, oviplasma.

young, a. [juvenile], [youthful], [immature], adolescent.

young, n. [offspring]. Associated words: [beget], prolific, fecundity, procreation, fetus, [brood], [generation], fetiferous, pregnant, pregnancy.

younger, a. junior.

youngest born. Associated word: postremogeniture.

youth, n. [juvenility], youthfulness; [adolescence], teens, [minority], nonage, juniority; young [man], lad, [boy], stipling, cadet, [minor], [juvenile], adolescent. Associated words: rejuvenescence, rejuvenation, rejuvenate, rejuvenescent, rejuvenating, juvenescence, juvenescent.

youthful, a. [immature], [juvenile], adolescent, [boyish]. Antonyms: adult, [manly], [mature].