GRE_3000_List7 Flashcards
desultory
1 lacking plan [E] a desultory search of something of interest on TV [S] digressive; excursive; meandering; 2 disappointing [E] a desultory fifth place finish
detritus
debris
[E] the detritus of war
[S] residue
[A] valuable product
diabolic
devil
[E] The police quickly mobilized to track down the diabolic serial killer
[S] demoniac; demonian;
[A] angelic; seraphic;
diaphanous
1 vague [E] only a diaphanous hope of success [S] obscure [A] substantial; 2 transparent; [E] The bride wore a diaphanous veil. [S] gossamer; transpicuous; translucent; [A] opaque
dilapidate
to bring into a condition of decay
[E] The house has been dilapidated by neglect.
[S] ruin, wreck
[A] be in use; restore;
dilatory
cause delay
[E] The homeowner is claiming that the local firefighters were dilatory in responding to the call.
[S] dragging;
[A] precipitate;
din
1 a loud continued noise [E] The din of the engine was deafening. [S] cacophony; 2 to say or state again. [E] Safety lessons dinned into us over and over. [S] iterate; rehearse
diocesan
of or relating to a diocese
[E] national or diocesan authority
[A] ecumenical
dire
1 being or showing a sign of evil
[E] a dire forecast of a plunge inn stock market
[S] inauspicious; minatory; portentous;
[A] propitious;
2 causing fear
[E] a series of dire tremors that hinted at a volcanic eruption
[S] formidable; intimating;
3 urgent
[E] There is a dire need for food and medicine in the famine country.
[S] exigent; imperative;
[A] nonurgent;
4 lacking in cheer
[E] With stock prices steadily falling, these are dire days on the trading floor.
[S] disconsolate; lugubrious;
[A] bright; cheerful;
dirge
a solemn piece of music
[E] This funeral dirge is for a dead friend
[S] elegy; requiem
disabuse
to free from error
[E] I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur
[S] disenchant
[A] mislead
disaffected
rebellious [E] The soldiers were disaffected toward the government. [S] contumacious; [A] contend; [P] disaffect; [S] agitate; [A] mollify;
discombobulate
upset, confuse
[E] invent cool new ways to discombobulate the old rules
[S] fuddle; vex
[A] soothe
discommode
trouble
[E] The breakdown of her car didn’t discommode her too much.
[S] incommode;
[A] accommodate; oblige;
discompose
1 to disturb the composure of
[E] GRE doesn’t seem to discompose him; in the contrary, he looks rather relaxed.
[S] agitate; bother;
[A] tranquilize; settle;
2 to undo the proper order or arrangement of
[E] The wind ruffled her hair and discomposed her carefully arranged papers.
[S] disorganize;
[A] range
disconcert
to disturb the composure of
[E] We were disconcerted by the unexpected changes to the program.
[S] abash; discomfit; mortify;
[A] tranquilize
discretionary
left to discretion
[E] In many restaurant, discretionary tipping is being replaced by a standard service charge.
[S] elective;
[A] mandatory; compulsory;
discursive
moving from topic without order
[E] The speaker’s discursive style made it difficult to understand his point.
[S] desultory; disgressional;
[A] concerted;
disgorge
1 vomit
[E] He can’t disgorge a fish bone without the doctor’s assistant.
[S] belch;expel;
[A] ingest;
2 to give up
[E] The corrupt official refused to disgorge his gains.
disgruntle
1 to make ill-humored or discontented [E] be disgruntled with sb [S] displease [A] content 2 to cause to change from friendly or loving to unfriendly or uncaring [S] alien; alienate; [A] reconcile;
disjointed
1 being thrown out of orderly function [E] a disjointed society [S] chaotic; disorderly [A] regular; systematic; 2 not clearly connected [E] a disjointed speech about a hodgepodge of things [S] disconnected; [A] coherent;
disinter
to take out of the grave or tomb
[E] The Egyptian mummy was carefully disinterred in hopes that it would yield secrets about the Old Kingdom.
[S] unbury
[A] bury; tomb;
dispatch
1 promptness [E] do sth with dispatch [S] alacrity; haste [A] procrastination 2 be taken from one place to another [E] to dispatch a messenger with urgent news [S] transfer [A] accept; 3 to deprive of life [E] The man dispatches the termites with professional efficiency. [A] animate; 4 to achieve a victory over [E] The dispatched the other team with breaking a sweat. [S] conquer; subdue; [A] lose to
dissemble
to put on a false appearance
[E] He dissembled happiness at the news that his ex-girlfriend was getting married to someone else.
[S] dissimulate; affect;
[A] behave honestly;
disseminate
promulgate
[E] The internet allows us to disseminate inforation faster.
[S] propagate;
[A] amass; gather
dissension
difference; disagreement;
[E] Although we have dissension, we are friend all the same.
[S] dissonance; disunity;
[A] harmony;
dissent
1 to differ in opinion
[E] I dissent from what you said.
[S] differ; nonconcur;
[A] assent;
2 departure from a generally accepted theory
[E] The church reacted to any form of dissent by promptly excommunicating its proponents.
[S] heterodoxy;
[A] orthodoxy;
3 a lack of agreement
[S] dissesion; dissidence; dissonance; disunion;
[A] consensus; concordance; concord;
despotic
arbitrary, autocratic, tyrannical;
[E] a despotic tyrant
[S] dictatorial; peremptory;
dissolute
lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or voices
[E] lead a dissolute life
[S] dissipated; libertine; rakish; reprobate;
[A] abstinent; abstemious; temperate;
distal
situated away from the point of attachment or origin or a central point
[E] the distal end of nerve
[A] proximal
distend
to swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure
[E] The stomachs of starving people often distend.
[S] dilate; inflate;
[A] constrict;
distraught
deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict;
[E] Her distraught mother had spent all night waiting by the phone.
[S] agitated; delirious; distracted;
[A] collected; composed;
divestiture
the act of taking away from a person
[E] Melodramas were popular because they offered the audience a divestiture of neutrality.
[S] deprivation; dispossession;
[A] acquisition; endowment;
