Day 4 Flashcards
(39 cards)
DAUNT
Synonyms: intimidate, cow, scare, discourage, frighten
To abate the courage of; discourage
Example: I began to feel rather daunted at the prospect of traveling alone through remote, non-english speaking areas.
DECORUM
Synonyms: decency, propriety, etiquette
Propriety in manners and conduct
Example: There’s too much decorum in the world, too little fun
DEFERENCE
Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, obligingness, reverence, obeisance
Courteous regard for people’s feelings
Example: It is the lord that you must give deference to.
DELINEATE
Synonyms:describe, depict, sketch, outline
To outline and define something in detail or with an actual marking of lines and boundaries.
Example: Delineate the exact boundary of my property
DENIGRATE
Synonyms: blacken, slander, defame, vilify, asperse, malign, disparage
Charge falsely or with malicious intent; Attack the good name and reputation of someone
Example: I do not denigrate the good intentions of those who gave birth to these abject social policy failures.
DERIDE
Synonyms: mock, ridicule, scoff, jeer, taunt, sneer, gibe
Treat or speak of with contempt
Example: He derided his student’s attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics”
DERIVATIVE
Imitative of the work of another person, and usually disapproved of for that reason.
Example: A highly derivative prose style
DESICCATE
Synonyms: dry, exsiccate, drain, parch, withe
Lacking interest, passion, or energy
Example: A desiccate romance
DESULTORY
Synonyms: incoherent, disconnected, disjointed, rambling
Marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; Jumping from one thing to another
Example: If you lack a definite plan or purpose and flit from one thing to another, your actions are desultory
DETERRENT
Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, impediment
A thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from some act.
A reward encourages you to do the right thing, while a deterrent discourages you from doing the wrong thing.
Example: The death penalty is supposed to be a *deterrent *
DIATRIBE
A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something.
Example: Repeated diatribes against the senator.
DICHOTOMY
Synonyms: duality
Split; Branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
Example: The dichotomy between eastern and western culture
DIFFIDENCE
Synonyms: self-distrust, self-doubt
Shyness; Lack of confidence
Example: They asked him to be the team leader, but he expressed diffidence, saying that he didn’t think he had enough time to do the job justice.
DIFFUSE
Synonyms: spread, disseminate, propagate, disperse
Spread out over a large area; Lacking conciseness (prolix)
Example: Diffuse tensions and can be used as a tool to bring peace.
DIGRESSION
wandering away from the subject
Example: A digression into irrelevant details
DIRGE
a song of mourning
Example: The only appropriate songs for many years have been funeral dirges.
DISABUSE
Synonyms: undeceive, disillusion
Correct a false impression; Undeceive
Example: He quickly disabused me of my belief
DISCERNING
Synonyms: critical
Having or showing good judgment.
Example: Some students have difficulty discerning what is important from detail.
DISCORDANT
Synonyms: dissonant, inconsistent
Not harmonious; Conflicting
Example: If you believe that movies should entertain, but your friend insists that movies should inspire, then the two of you hold discordant views.
DISCREDIT
Synonyms: disrepute, distrust, shame, disgrace
defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve
Example: Your actions will bring discredit to your name
DISCREPANCY
Synonyms: variance, difference, disagreement, contradiction
Lack on consistency; Difference
Example: Discrepancy between theory and observation.
DISCRETE
Synonyms: separate, detached, distinct, abstract
separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
Example: A government with three discrete divisions
DISINGENUOUS
Synonyms: artful, distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted
insincere, deceptive or misleading; giving a false appearance of frankness
Example: This, i know, sounds disingenuous, but it’s true, this was a book not written to be published.
DISINTERESTED
Synonyms: indifferent, uninterested, unconcerned, unselfish
unaffected by self-interest
Example: If you can’t decide whether to purchase the shirt or not, you might seek input from a disinterested, or unbiased party.
