Vag

 vag (væɡ)*

noun

1. dried turf or peat used as fuel; a piece of this.

When we run out out of firewood, we can always throw some vag in the wood stove.

Synonyms: peat, sod.

2. colloquial abbreviation of vagrant; phrased "on the vag."

Vladimir and Estragon are on the vag, waiting endlessly in vain for someone named Godot.

Synonyms: beggar, bum, drifter, floater, hobo, homeless person, itinerant, rolling stone, street kid, street person, tramp, transient, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer.

verb/slang

1. to charge with vagrancy.

If you have no visible means of support you can be vagged.

Synonyms: charged with vagrancy.**

*Note the hard G pronunciation in this word, as opposed to the soft G from the slang term, which is an abbreviation for vagina. This actually makes the two words heteronyms because they are spelled the same, but sound different and have different meanings; very different meanings!

**Sorry. I got stumped there.

Vibist

vib-ist (vbst)

noun
1. A person who plays the vibraphone.
The marimba vibists are one of the things I will definitely miss about Victoria. I can't think of them without remembering how happy it made me to watch Terry dancing to them on the sidewalk downtown. However, I seem to remember some pretty amazing South African drummers who played on the street where I'm going. I hope to find them again and bring some of the joys of Island marimba music with me.

Synonyms: crazy hippie, percussionist, vibraphone player.

Viridian

vir-id-i-an (v-rd-n)

adjective/noun
1. A bluish-green pigment.
Get me some viridian paint!
That is blue; that is green, THAT is viridian!
2. What happens when you try to have a blue St. Patrick's Day?
Viridian!

Vulnerable

vul-ner-a-ble (vul′nərəbəl)

adjective
1. In a state of being easily wounded.
After telling him how she felt about him and spending the night trekking through the icy weather, she felt both vulnerable to heartache and vulnerable to catching a cold.
2. Easily and, possibly, very dramatically swayed, emotionally or psychologically.
Having spent so much time alone, in his cabin in the woods, pondering the various turns his life had taken, our hero was vulnerable to suggestion. His mother, a strange man on the street or anyone could tell him anything and he would internalize it, think about it long and hard, then change the course of his life accordingly.
3. Difficult to defend.
A castle in a valley would be as vulnerable to attack as the perceived masculinity of a man who readily shows his own vulnerability. Yet, some castles should be easier to attack. The confidence that a castle built in a valley must have in making itself so vulnerable to attack would have to come from something that can't be beaten out by force. And so, I will concede to praise Alanis Morissette's vulnerable man.

Synonyms:* accessible, assailable, chancy, defenseless, delicate, exposed, humble, insecure, liable, loaded, menaced, naked, precarious, ready,rosky, sensitive, shaky, speculative, sucker, susceptible, tender, thin-skinned, touchy, unguarded, unprotected, unsafe, unstable, weak, wide-open.

* Because being vulnerable is the topic of so much poetry I think the synonyms are basically interchangeable with the definitions. For instance, imagine the castle in the valley as naked and shaky.