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Question 1

daunt

Answer 1

frightening; intimidating. Mere words cannot daunt me

Question 2

Default

Answer 2

Failure to act. john defaulted on his loan

Question 3

Deference

Answer 3

Courteous regard for anothers wish

Question 4

Delineate

Answer 4

Portray; depict; sketch. Using a few descriptive words, the author delineates the character well.

Question 5

Deride

Answer 5

ridicule; make fun of. The critics derided his pretentious dialogue and refused to take his play seriously.

Question 6

Derivative

Answer 6

unoriginal; arrived from another source. Although early poetry was derivative in nature, critics thought she would find her own voice.

Question 7

Desicate

Answer 7

Dry up. She enjoyed eating desiccated coconut.

Question 8

Desultory

Answer 8

aimless; haphazard; digressing at random. Studying for the GRE is not desultory.

Question 9

Diatribe

Answer 9

Bitter; scolding; insulting. She went on a long diatribe against the Jews.

Question 10

Diffidence

Answer 10

Shyness. You must overcome your diffidence if you want to overcome your shyness.

Question 11

Diffuse

Answer 11

Wordy; rambling; spread out (like gas). If you pay authors by the word, you may tempt them to produce defuse manuscripts.

Question 12

Disabuse

Answer 12

Correct a false impression; undeceive. After starting her new job, Donna was disabused of any romantic notions of her role.

Question 13

Discerning

Answer 13

Mentally quick and observant; having insight. She was discerning enough to know her friends from countless phony’s

Question 14

Discordant

Answer 14

Not harmonious; conflicting. Nothing is quite discordant than Alex singing.

Question 15

Discrete

Answer 15

Separate; unconnected; consisting of discrete parts.

Question 16

Disinterested

Answer 16

Unprejudiced. (sentence as I would ordinarily guess)

Question 17

Disparage

Answer 17

Belittle. She was more likely to encourage his attempts at art rather than disparage them

Question 18

Disparate

Answer 18

Basically different; unrelated. unfortunately Jon and Tina have disparate ideas of marriage.

Question 19

Dissemble

Answer 19

Disguise; pretend. Even though Jon and bill tried to dissemble the reason for the taking modern dance, we knew they were there to meet girls.

Question 20

Disseminate

Answer 20

Distribute; scatter (like seeds); spread. By using the internet, propagandists have been able to disseminate their doctrines to new audiences around the globe.

Question 21

Dissolution

Answer 21

disintegration; looseness in morals. The dissolution of life in Caligula’s Rome appalled some historians.

Question 22

Distend

Answer 22

Expand; swell out. I can tell he is under stress by the way his veins are distended.

Question 23

Distill

Answer 23

Purify; refine; concentrate. A moonshiner distills mash into whiskey.

Question 24

Diverge

Answer 24

Vary; go in different directions from the same point. The spokes on a wheel diverge from the hub.

Question 25

Divest

Answer 25

Strip; deprive. The queen was divested of her royal status.

Question 26

Dogmatic

Answer 26

Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal. We need to convince Bob to stop being so dogmatic.