Vocab D

Question 0

Daunt

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V to intimidate or dismay

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Damp

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V to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling

Question 2

Dearth

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N smallness of quality or number; scarcity; lack

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Debacle

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N rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Decorum

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N politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior

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Deleterious

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Injurious; harmful

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Demur

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V to question or oppose

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Denigrate

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V blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage

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Denouement

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N an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Deprecate

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V to disparage or belittle

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Depredate

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V to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in predatory manner

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Derision

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N scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment

Deride- to express contempt

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Derivative

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Ask unoriginal, obtained from another source

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Desiccate

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V to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull

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Desuetude

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N disuse

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Desultory

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Adj random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Detraction

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N slandering, verbal attack, aspersion

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Diaphanous

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Adj transparent, gauzy

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Diatribe

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N harsh denunciation

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Didactic

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Adj intended to teach or instruct

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Die

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N a tool used for shaping

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Diffident

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Adj reserved, sky, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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Digress

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V to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent

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Dilatory

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Adj causing delay, procrastinating

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Dilettante

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N one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

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Din

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N loud sustained noise

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Dirge

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N a mournful song of poem for the dead

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Disabuse

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V to undeceive; to set right

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Discomfit

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V to defeat, put down; embarrass or make uncomfortable

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Discordant

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Adj conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

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Discretion

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N cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested

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Adj free form self-interest

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Disparage

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V to slight or belittle

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Disparate

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Adj fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Dissemble

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V to disguise or conceal; to mislead

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Dissolution

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N disintegration, looseness in morals

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Dissonance

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N lack of harmony; conflict

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Distrait

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V distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety

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Divulge

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V to disclose something secret

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Doggerel

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N trivial, poorly constructed verse

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Dogmatic

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Adj authority and it arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated

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Dross

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N slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum

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Dulcet

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Adj melodious, harmonious, mellifluous

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Dupe

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N one who is deceived

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Dynamo

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N generator; forceful, energetic person