vertiginous (en)

causing vertigo, especially by being extremely high or steep

via dolorosa (en)

the way of grief

vide (en)

(verb imperative) see, consult, refer to

vituperation (en)

(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating

zhdanovshchina (en)

literally the “era of Zhdanov,” is the name given to the post-1945 purge conducted in the soviet union against intellectuals, artists, and writers, condemned for their supposed “bourgeois” sympathies