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Question 1

dissimulate

Answer 1

D. to dissemble; to pretend

E. as an actress she had been trained to dissimulate, so she had no trouble hiding her true feelings offstage as well

Question 2

dissipate

Answer 2

D. to scatter or disperse

E. dissipated the family fortune in reckless business ventures / The morning sun dissipated the fog.

Question 3

dissolute

\ˈdi-sə-ˌlüt\

Answer 3

D. loose in morals

E. the dissolute and degrading aspects of human nature

Question 4

dissonance

\ˈdi-sə-nən(t)s\

Answer 4

D. discord

E. the dissonance between what we are told and what we see with our own eyes

Question 5

dissuade

\di-ˈswād\

Answer 5

D. to advise against; to divert by persuasion

E. tried to dissuade her from her intention to drop out of college

Question 6

distend

Answer 6

D. to expand

E. an abdomen distended by disease

Question 7

distrait

\di-ˈstrā\

Answer 7

D. absent-minded; preoccupied

E. he grew more and more distrait as hours passed without confirmation that there were survivors of the plane crash

Question 8

distraught

\di-ˈstrȯt\

Answer 8

D. troubled; confused; harassed

E. Distraught relatives are waiting for news of the missing children.

Question 9

diurnal

\dī-ˈər-nəl\

Answer 9

D. daily

E. a love as constant and certain as the diurnal tides

Question 10

diverge

Answer 10

D. to extend from one point in separate directions

E. They were close friends in college, but after graduation, their lives diverged.

Question 11

diverse

Answer 11

D. differening

Question 12

divest

\dī-ˈvest\

Answer 12

D. to strip or deprive

E. The company is divesting 8 of its 20 stores.

Question 13

divination

\ˌdi-və-ˈnā-shən\

Answer 13

D. the act of foreseeing or foretelling

E. if her powers of divination are so great, why doesn’t she know what the stock market will do?

Question 14

divulge

\də-ˈvəlj\

Answer 14

D. to reveal

E. we tried to make him divulge the name of the winner, but he wouldn’t budge

Question 15

docile

Answer 15

D. easy to teach or discipline

E. His students were docile and eager to learn.

Question 16

doff

\ˈdäf\

Answer 16

D. to take off

E. They doffed their coats when they came inside.

Question 17

doggerel

\ˈdä-gə-rəl\

Answer 17

D. poorly or ridiculously written verse, sometimes because the writer has not intended it to be serious

E. a few lines of doggerel

Question 18

dogma

Answer 18

D. a doctrine; a positive statement or opinion

E. These new findings challenge the current dogma in the field.

Question 19

dogmatic

Answer 19

D. strongly positive in manner or in what one says

E. She’s become so dogmatic lately that arguing with her is pointless.

Question 20

doldrums

\ˈdōl-drəmz\

Answer 20

D. low spirits

E. the team had been in the doldrums ever since losing the championship

Question 21

dolorous

\ˈdō-lə-rəs\

Answer 21

D. sorrowful

E. dolorous ballads of death and regret

Question 22

dolt

\ˈdōlt\

Answer 22

D. a stupid fellow

E. What a dolt I’ve been!

Question 23

domicile

\ˈdä-mə-ˌsī(-ə)l\

Answer 23

D. a home

E. Students must establish a domicile in the state to be eligible for reduced tuition.

Question 24

dormant

Answer 24

D. inactive

Question 25

dorsal

\ˈdȯr-səl\

Answer 25

D. pertaining to the back

E. a shark’s dorsal fin

Question 26

dossier

\ˈdä-sē-ˌā\

Answer 26

D. collected documents on a person

E. We have a dossier on him.

Question 27

dotage

\ˈdō-tij\

Answer 27

D. senility

E. he’s now in that stage of his dotage where he has trouble remembering the simplest things

Question 28

doughty

/ˈdau̇-tē/

Answer 28

D. valiant; fearless

E. a doughty warrior

Question 29

dissident

Answer 29

D. not agreeing

E. dissident elements within the Catholic Church

Question 30

dour

\ˈdu̇r\

Answer 30

D. stern; sullen

E. She had a dour expression on her face.

Question 31

dreg

Answer 31

D. sediment, the last drops of a liquid, mixed with little pieces of solid material that are left in the bottom of a container; the most worthless part of sth; the last parts of something

E. coffee dregs / the dregs of society / the last dregs of daylight

Question 32

drivel

\ˈdri-vəl\

Answer 32

D. silly talk; to let saliva dribble from the mouth

E. What is he driveling about now? / the panting dog driveled on my hand

Question 33

droll

Answer 33

D. amusing and strange

E. a droll little man with a peculiar sense of humor

Question 34

dross

\ˈdräs\

Answer 34

D. something that is base, trivial, or inferior

E. There is quite a lot of dross on TV these days. / His editor has a talent for turning literary dross into gold.

Question 35

drudgery

Answer 35

D. tiresome work

E. He hated the drudgery of his job.

Question 36

dubious

Answer 36

D. doubtful

E. a dubious plan

Question 37

ductile

\ˈdäk-təl\

Answer 37

D. able to be drawn or hammered thin without breaking

E. gold is ductile

Question 38

dulcet

\ˈdol-sət\

Answer 38

D. sweet-sounding

E. although she flashed a dulcet smile, she was secretly seething with resentment

Question 39

duplicity

Answer 39

D. deception

E. He exposed the spy’s duplicity. / He exposed the spy’s duplicity.

Question 40

*double

\ˈdə-bəl\

Answer 40

D. dealing

Question 41

durance

Answer 41

D. imprisonment

E. If you continue on your present course, my reckless and rowdy friend, you will find yourself in durance vile. (a long prison sentence)

Question 42

duress

\du̇-ˈres\

Answer 42

D. imprisonment; compulsion

E. He gave the information under duress.

Question 43

ebullient

\ē-bȯ-yənt\

Answer 43

D. enthusiastic

E. ebullient performers

Question 44

eccentricity

\ˌek-(ˌ)sen-ˈtri-sə-tē\

Answer 44

D. oddity

E. Talking to her plants is one of her many eccentricities.

Question 45

éclat

\ā-ˈklä\

Answer 45

D. brilliant success; acclaim

E. a performance of great éclat.

Question 46

eclectic

\e-ˈklek-tik\

Answer 46

D. made up of material from many sources

E. The collection includes an eclectic mix of historical artifacts.