No. 4

Question 1

discrete

Answer 1

adj. constituting a separate thing; distinct. separate; distinct; individual; detached.

Question 2

discretion

Answer 2

n. quality of showing self restraint in speech or actions; freedom to act on one’s own. circumspection.

Question 3

disingenuous

Answer 3

adj. not candid or sincere; crafty. dishonest.
when a person starts a sentence, i dont mean to appear disingenuous, one might be tempted to suspect that the person is being just that.

Question 4

disinterested

Answer 4

adj. objective; unprejudiced; unbiased.
the newspaper reporter looked for disinterested witnesses to the events so that she could get an objective account for what had happened.

Question 5

disjointed

Answer 5

adj. lacking order or coherence; dislocated.

Question 6

dismiss

Answer 6

v. put away from consideration; reject.

Question 7

disparage

Answer 7

v. to belittle.

Question 8

disparate

Answer 8

adj. dissimilar.

disparity is a noun meaning the condition of being unequal or unlike.

Question 9

dissemble

Answer 9

v. to pretend; disguise one’s motives.

i believe you are dissembling. i want you to tell me the whole truth about what happened that night.

Question 10

disseminate

Answer 10

v. to spread; scatter; disperse.

Question 11

dissident

Answer 11

n. person who disagrees about beliefs, etc.
some of the most notorious concentration camps in history were the gulag camps used by the soviet union to control dissidents.

Question 12

dissolution

Answer 12

n. disintegration; debauchery.

some philosophers maintain that the dissolution of the body does not mean the destruction of the mind.

Question 13

dissonance

Answer 13

n. discord; lack of harmony.
in psychology, the term cognitive dissonance refers to a conflict resulting from inconsistency between one’s beliefs and ones actions. e.g. a soldier who believes that all killing is immoral but is forced to kill by his superiors might experience cognitive dissonance.

Question 14

distend

Answer 14

v. to expand; swell out.

people in an advanced stage of starvation often have distended bellies.

Question 15

distill

Answer 15

v. extract the essential elements. take out; express; squeeze out.

Question 16

distrait

Answer 16

adj. distracted; preoccupied; inattentive.

the chairperson became distrait because his secretary was not sitting in her usual position on his right.

Question 17

diverge

Answer 17

v. to vary; go in different directions from the same point.

Question 18

divest

Answer 18

v. trick or cheat out of; rid; to strip; deprive.

Question 19

divulge

Answer 19

v. to make known something that is secret.

under the geneva conventions, prisoners of war cannot be tortured and forced to divulge information.

Question 20

doctrinaire

Answer 20

adj. relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding.

Question 21

document

Answer 21

v. to provide with written evidence to support.

Question 22

doggerel

Answer 22

n. poor verse. verse or words that are badly written or expressed.

Question 23

dogmatic

Answer 23

adj. stating opinions without proof. assertive. imperative. adamant.

Question 24

dormant

Answer 24

adj. inactive. sleeping; resting.

Question 25

dross

Answer 25

n. waste; worthless matter; trivial matter.

Question 26

dupe

Answer 26

v. to deceive; trick.

in friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often duped by the heart.

Question 27

ebullient

Answer 27

adj. exhilarated; enthusiastic. exuberant; joyful; cheerful.

Question 28

eclectic

Answer 28

adj. selecting from various sources.

they played an eclectic mix of party music.

Question 29

effervescence

Answer 29

n. state of high spirits or liveliness; the process of bubbling as gas escapes.

Question 30

effete

Answer 30

depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent.