ventriloquist, n. gastriloquist, polyphonist.

venture, n. [chance], [risk], [hazard], contingency.

venture, v. [dare], [hazard], [risk].

venturesome, a. daring, [bold], intrepid, undaunted, temerarious.

Venus, n. Aphrodite, Cytherea; Morning Star, Lucifer Phosphor; Evening Star, Hesper, Hesperus.

veracious, a. [truthful].

veracity, n. truthfulness. Associated words: compurgation, compurgator, compurgatorial.

veranda, n. [porch], [piazza].

verbal, a. [oral].

verbiage, n. [wordiness], verbosity, perissology, prolixity, pleonasm.