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Question 1

Diametrically

Answer 1

Directly

Question 2

Dissemination

Answer 2

The activity/action of spreading something, especially information, widely.

Question 3

Dimensions

Answer 3

Perspectives through which you can see the world

Question 4

Disposition

Answer 4

a person’s inherent qualities of mind and character.

an inclination or tendency.

the way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things.

the action of arranging or ordering people or things in a particular way

the power to deal with something as one pleases.

Question 5

Dictatorship

Answer 5

The exercise of power by one person or small group of people.

Question 6

Democracy

Answer 6

When the people have supreme authority

Question 7

Discrete

Answer 7

individually separate and distinct.

Question 8

Discreet

Answer 8

careful and circumspect in one’s speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage

intentionally unobtrusive

Question 9

Dwell

Answer 9

live in or at a specified place.

Dwell on

Question 10

Dignify

Answer 10

make (something) seem worthy and impressive.

give an impressive name to (someone or something that one considers worthless).

Question 11

Diagnosis

Answer 11

the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.

Question 12

Deictic

Answer 12

Relating to pointers in a text that allow you to identify its time and place

Question 13

Dictate

Answer 13

Authoritative control

Authoritatively control

say or read aloud (words to be typed, written down, or recorded on tape).

an order or principle that must be obeyed

Question 14

Delegate

Answer 14

Representative

Entrust

Question 15

Definitional rules

Answer 15

Rules that establish meanings or categories

Question 16

Denounce

Answer 16

Publicly declare to be wrong or evil.

inform against.

Question 17

Dashes

Answer 17

to signal interruptions in a sentence (basically like parentheses), and to connect independent clauses.

Question 18

Definition

Answer 18

Specification

Question 19

Deliberately

Answer 19

consciously and intentionally

in a careful and unhurried way.

Question 20

Delegated powers

Answer 20

Those specifically granted to the federal government in the constitution, by the people

Question 21

Delegated

Answer 21

Granted

Question 22

Demise

Answer 22

a person’s death.

the end or failure of an enterprise or institution.

Question 23

Daze

Answer 23

make (someone) unable to think or react properly; stupefy; bewilder.

a state of stunned confusion or bewilderment

Question 24

Dissolution

Answer 24

the closing down or dismissal of an assembly, partnership, or official body.

the action or process of dissolving or being dissolved

disintegration; decomposition

debauched living; dissipation

Question 25

Describe

Answer 25

Specify

Question 26

Denotation

Answer 26

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests

the action or process of indicating or referring to something by means of a word, symbol, etc.

Question 27

Demean

Answer 27

cause a severe loss in the dignity of and respect for (someone or something).

Question 28

Dimwitted

Answer 28

stupid or silly.

you are saying in quite an unkind way that you do not think they are very clever

Question 29

What did one fish in a tank say to the other fish in the tank?

Answer 29

“Do you know how to drive this thing?”

Question 30

Derision

Answer 30

Contemptuous ridicule or mockery.

Question 31

Dramatize

Answer 31

adapt (a novel) or present (a particular incident) as a play or movie

exaggerate the seriousness or importance of (an incident or situation).

Question 32

Disembody

Answer 32

separate or free (something) from its concrete form

Question 33

Decipher

Answer 33

convert (a text written in code, or a coded signal) into normal language

succeed in understanding, interpreting, or identifying (something).

Question 34

Disclosure

Answer 34

the action of making new or secret information known.

a fact, especially a secret, that is made known.

Question 35

Dividend

Answer 35

a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves).

a payment divided among a number of people, e.g., members of a cooperative or creditors of an insolvent estate.

an individual’s share of a dividend.

a benefit from an action or policy.

a number to be divided by another number.

Question 36

Defer

Answer 36

put off (an action or event) to a later time; postpone.

Question 37

Dismemberment

Answer 37

the action of cutting off a person’s or animal’s limbs

the action of partitioning or dividing up a territory or organization.