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1
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Delimit

It’s up to the state to delimit the rules

A

Fix, mark, or define the boundaries of

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Delineate

The report clearly delineates the steps that must be taken.

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Mark the outline of; sketch; describe in detail

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Demagogue

He is a powerful demagogue and a high ranking political propagandist

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A leader who lies and gains power by
arousing the passions and especially
prejudices of the people

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Demur

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Show reluctance or object, especially for
moral reasons

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Denigrate

Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher

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Belittle, attack the reputation of

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Denote

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Be a name or symbol for

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Deride

He derided my singing as pathetic

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Mock, scoff at, laugh at contemptuously

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Derivative

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Derived from something else; not original

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Desiccate

Intensive farming has desiccated the land

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Thoroughly dried up, dehydrated

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Desultory

Guests were sitting in the lobby, engaged in desultory conversation

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Lacking consistency or order, disconnected,
sporadic; going off topic

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Detached

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Impartial, disinterested; unconcerned,
distant, aloof

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Deterrent

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Something that restrains or discourages

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Diaphanous

The gauzy fabric was soft and light, yet somehow not diaphanous

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Very sheer, fine, translucent

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Diatribe

I’d prefer a reasoned argument to the diatribes in the newspaper

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Bitter, abusive attack or criticism; rant

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Dichotomy

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Division into two parts or into two
contradictory groups

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Dictum

A doctor must follow the dictum of “First, do no harm

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Formal or authoritative pronouncement;
saying or proverb

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Didactic

he composed the works for didactic purposes

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Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a
moral lesson

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Diffident

his manner is far too diffident for a politician

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Lacking confidence, shy

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Diffuse

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Spread widely, disseminate (verb); dispersed,
widely spread out, or wordy and going off-topic (adj)

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Digress

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Go off-topic when speaking or writing

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Dilate

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To become wider or make wider, cause to
expand; to speak or write at length, elaborate
upon

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Dilatory

None of this was dilatory or out of the ordinary

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Slow, late; procrastinating or stalling for time

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Dilettante

None of them, however, thought him much more than a dilettante

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Person who takes up an art or activity for
amusement only or in a superficial way

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Din

The merry din of talk, laughter, and music spills outside

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Loud, confused noise, esp. for a long period of
time

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Dirge

The novel is a dirge that keens and lulls by turns

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A funeral or mourning song or poem

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Disabuse

Let me disabuse the world that our client started this confrontation

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Free someone from a mistake in thinking

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Discerning

she has a discerning eye for art

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Having good judgment or insight; able to
distinguish mentally

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Discomfiting

Driving in the city at night was a very discomfiting experience

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Disconcerting, confusing, frustrating

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Discordant

Bombs, guns, and engines mingled in discordant sound

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Harsh or inharmonious in sound;
disagreeing, incongruous

30
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Discredit

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Injure the reputation of, destroy credibility
of or confidence in

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Discrepancy

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Difference or inconsistency

32
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Discrete

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Separate, distinct, detached, existing as
individual parts

33
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Discriminating

How sweet of you to worry, but I do have a discriminating taste in men

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Judicious, discerning, having good
judgment or insight

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Disingenuous

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Insincere, not genuine

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Disinterested

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Unbiased, impartial; not interested

36
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Disjointed

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Disconnected, not coherent, jerky; having
the joints separated

37
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Dismiss

A

Allow to disperse or leave; fire from a job;
put aside or reject, especially after only a
brief consideration

38
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Disparage

he never missed an opportunity to disparage his competitors

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Belittle, put down; bring shame upon,
discredit

39
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Disparate

they inhabit disparate worlds of thought

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Distinct, different

40
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Dispassionate

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Unbiased, not having a selfish or personal
motivation; calm, lacking emotion

41
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Dispatch

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Speed, promptness; send off or deal with in
a speedy way

42
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Disperse

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Scatter, spread widely, cause to vanish

43
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Disposition

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A person’s general or natural mood;
tendency

44
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Disquieting

he found Jean’s gaze disquieting

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Disturbing, causing anxiety

45
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Dissemble

He was an honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble

A

Mislead, conceal the truth, put on a false
appearance of

46
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Disseminate

That’s our job, is to disseminate information to the public

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Scatter, spread about, broadcast

47
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Dissent

A

Disagree or take an opposing view, esp. in
relation to a formal body such as a
government, political party, or church;
such a view

there was no dissent from this view

48
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Dissolution

divorce or dissolution is the legal end to a marriage

A

Dissolving, the state of having been
dissolved; breaking bonds or breaking up
of a group of people; death, disintegration;
sinking into extreme hedonism, vice, and
degradation

49
Q

Dissonance

A

Harsh, inharmonious sound; cacophony;
disagreement

50
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Distaff

She is represented in art with a shepherd’s crook or with a distaff

A

Female, esp. relating to the maternal side
of the family; women or women’s work; a
staff that holds wool or flax for spinning

51
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Distend

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Swell, expand, stretch, bloat

52
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Distill

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Purify; extract the essential elements of

53
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Dither

It’s a very small-scale event, so please don’t dither, dally or delay

A

Act indecisively (verb); a state of fear or
trembling excitement

54
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Diurnal

Magnetism caused the Earth’s diurnal rotation

A

Occurring every day; happening in the daytime
(rather than at night)

55
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Diverge

A

Differ, deviate; branch off or turn aside, as from
a path

56
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Divest

the council will divest him of all his authority

A

Deprive or strip of a rank, title, etc., or of
clothing or gear; to sell off holdings (opposite
of invest)

57
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Divine

A

Discover through divination or supernatural
means; perceive by insight

58
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Doctrinaire

A

Person who applies doctrine in an impractical
or rigid and close-minded way (noun); merely
theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about
other people accepting one’s ideas (adj)

59
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Document

A

Support with evidence, cite sources in a detailed
way, create documentary evidence of

60
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Doff

They doffed their coats when they came inside

A

Take off (such as clothes), put aside; remove
one’s hat as a gesture

61
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Dogma

they follow the dogma of their religion

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A system of principles laid down by an
authority; established belief

62
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Dormant

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Asleep, inactive, on a break

63
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Dovetail

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Join or fit together

64
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Droll

he was a droll little man in a long pointed shoes

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Funny in an odd way

65
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Dubious

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Doubtful, questionable, suspect

66
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Dupe

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Person who is easily fooled or used (noun); to
fool or exploit (verb)

67
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Duplicity

The emotion she displayed seemed to defy duplicity

A

Deceit, double-dealing, acting in two different
ways for the purpose of deception

68
Q

Dyspeptic

he’s been beaten up by life, a frown is giving him a dyspeptic look

A

Grumpy, pessimistic, irritable; suffering from
dyspepsia (indigestion)

69
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e.g.

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For example, such as

70
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Ebullient

The mood is still ebullient when Gilman takes the stage the next morning

A

Very enthusiastic, lively, excited; bubbling as
though being boiled

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