Unit 24

Question 1

Dissident

Answer 1

(n) person who disagrees about beliefs, etc
e. g. Some of the most notorious concentration camps in history were the Gulag camps used by the Soviet Union to control dissidents.

Question 2

Dissolution

Answer 2

(n) disintegration; debauchery

e. g. Some philosophers maintain that the dissolution of the body does not mean the destruction of the mind.

Question 3

Dissonance

Answer 3

(n) discord; lack of harmony

e. g. An unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles.

Question 4

Distend

Answer 4

(v) to expand; swell out

e. g. People in an advanced stage of starvation often have distended bellies.

Question 5

Distill

Answer 5

(v) extract the essential elements

e. g. My travel notes were distilled into a book.

Question 6

Distrait

Answer 6

(adj) inattentive; preoccupied

e. g. The chairman became distrait because his secretary was not sitting in her usual position on his right.

Question 7

Diverge

Answer 7

(v) to vary; go in different directions from the same point
- Divergence (n)

e.g. The flight path diverged from the original flight plan.

Question 8

Divest

Answer 8

(v) to strip; deprive; rid
e. g. The candidate for secretary of defense pledged to divest himself of the shares he held in defense-related companies.

Question 9

Divulge

Answer 9

(v) to make known something that is secret

e. g. Under the Genoa Conventions, prisoners of war cannot be tortured and forced to divulge information.

Question 10

Doctrinaire

Answer 10

(adj) relating to a person who cannot compromise about points of a theory or doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding
e. g. The doctrinaire Marxists say that capitalism is merely a temporary phenomenon on the road to socialism.