D and E

Question 1

daunt

Answer 1

to make someone feel intimidated or apprehensive

Question 2

debacle

Answer 2

a sudden collapse into disaster

Question 3

debase

Answer 3

to reduce in value, quality, esteem, or character

Question 4

debunk

Answer 4

to expose or ridicule the falseness or exaggerations of a theory

Question 5

defamatory

Answer 5

causing or tending to cause injury to another’s reputation

libelous or slanderous

Question 6

deferential

Answer 6

respectfully submissive to the desires or judgments of others

Question 7

deft

Answer 7

capable, quick and clever in action

Question 8

defy

Answer 8

to resist or challenge openly

Question 9

deleterious

Answer 9

harmful or injurious, as to health

Question 10

delineate

Answer 10

to describe or portray in precise or vivid detail

Question 11

demur

Answer 11

to raise doubts or objections or show reluctance

Question 12

denigrate

Answer 12

criticize unfairly, disparage

Question 13

derivative

Answer 13

copies, modeled on, or extracted from something else

not original

Question 14

devious

Answer 14

not the straightest or most direct wahy

winding

Question 15

devolve

Answer 15

to pass duties to a person person at a lower level

Question 16

didactic

Answer 16

in the manner of a teacher, treating someone in a patronizing way

Question 17

diffident

Answer 17

modest or shy because of a lack of self confidence

opposite of confident

Question 18

diffuse

Answer 18

spread out over a large area

Question 19

disaffection

Answer 19

a feeling of being dissatisfied with the people in authority and no longer willing to support them

Question 20

disapprobation

Answer 20

strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds

Question 21

discern

Answer 21

to perceive, make out or detect

Question 22

discomfit

Answer 22

to make someone feel uneasy or embarrassed

Question 23

discredit

Answer 23

to harm the reputation of

Question 24

discrepancy

Answer 24

lack of agreement, difference, inconsistency

Question 25

disgruntle

Answer 25

to make irritably dissatisfied or discontent

Question 26

disentangle

Answer 26

to free from entanglement

extricate

Question 27

dislocation

Answer 27

disturbance from a proper, original, or usual place or state

Question 28

disparate

Answer 28

essentially different and distinct

Question 29

dispassionate

Answer 29

without strong feeling or bias; calm; impartial

Question 30

dissemble

Answer 30

to disguise or hide behind a false semblance; conceal the true nature or state of

Question 31

disseminate

Answer 31

to spread widely as though scattering seed

Question 32

dissolution

Answer 32

debauched living; dissipation

Question 33

distill

Answer 33

extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of

Question 34

divergent

Answer 34

deviating, different

Question 35

doctrinaire

Answer 35

dogmatically adhering to a theory or a school of though, regardless of its practicality

Question 36

dogmatic

Answer 36

asserting beliefs and opinions as though they were proven facts

Question 37

dubious

Answer 37

having or showing doubt

Question 38

duplicity

Answer 38

deceitful speech or action

Question 39

dynamism

Answer 39

being characterized by vigorous activity and progress

Question 40

ecelectic

Answer 40

deriving ideas, style or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources

Question 41

eclipse

Answer 41

overshadow overshadow or outshine

Question 42

efficacy

Answer 42

the ability to produce desired results

Question 43

egoism

Answer 43

evaluating everything in relation to one

s own interests

Question 44

emulate

Answer 44

to try to be the same as or better than, especially by imitating

Question 45

endorse

Answer 45

to approve or give support to

Question 46

enfeeble

Answer 46

to take away the strength of, make feeble

Question 47

entreaty

Answer 47

an earnest or humble request

Question 48

entrench

Answer 48

establish an attitude so firmly that change is difficult or unlikely

Question 49

equitable

Answer 49

characterized by fairness, just

Question 50

ephemeral

Answer 50

lasting for only a short period

Question 51

equivocal

Answer 51

open to more than one interpretation, ambiguous

Question 52

erstwhile

Answer 52

of an earlier time, former

Question 53

evanescent

Answer 53

tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing, fleeting, like ephemeral

Question 54

exacerbate

Answer 54

making a problem worse

Question 55

exacting

Answer 55

making great demands on one’s skill, attention or other resources

Question 56

exigent

Answer 56

requiring immediate attention, urgent or critical

Question 57

expedient

Answer 57

a means of attaining an end, especially one that is convenient by considered improper or immoral

Question 58

exposition

Answer 58

a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory

Question 59

extant

Answer 59

still in existence, current, not extinct

Question 60

extraneous

Answer 60

coming from outside, foreign