wish — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
Two-syllable rhymes
nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
skirmish — Military. a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
starfish — any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.
whirling — to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
