W and P (Part 6)

Question 1

Definite/definitive

Answer 1

certain/conclusive or unamendable

Question 2

defuse/diffuse

Answer 2

as in bomb/ to spread something out

Question 3

depreciate/deprecate

Answer 3

to actually make it worse/to speak or think of something that demonstrates your low opinion of it.

Question 4

dessert/desert

Answer 4

sweet food/dry land

Question 5

device/devise

Answer 5

a mechanism/to arrange

Question 6

different from/different than

Answer 6

both are common American usages, but the preferred idiom is different form

Question 7

dillemma/difficulty

Answer 7

difficult choice/problem

Question 8

disburse/disperse

Answer 8

distribute/to scatter

Question 9

discreet/discrete

Answer 9

respectful or prudent/separate or detached

Question 10

disinterested/uninterested

Answer 10

impartial/ bored

Question 11

don’t have to/musn’t

Answer 11

to say that there is no obligation or necessity to do something/something is not allowed

Question 12

downside/underside

Answer 12

the disadvantage of a situation/the side of something that is usually nearest the ground

Question 13

draft/draught

Answer 13

refers to the first story or novel (or any other document)/ air movement , a drink

Question 14

dredge/drudge/trudge

Answer 14

machinery to scoop stuff up from under waterway/it refers to do hard work or annoying work/when you slog laboriously up a hill, you trudge up it.

Question 15

dribble/drivel

Answer 15

to drool/to criticize someone else’s speech as stupid or pointless, the word you want is drivel

Question 16

dual/duel

Answer 16

having two parts/fight between two people

Question 17

dye/die

Answer 17

color/perish

Question 18

ecology/enviornment

Answer 18

study of living things in relationship to their environment

Question 19

elicit/illicit

Answer 19

draw forth/improper

Question 20

emigrant/immigrant

Answer 20

is a person who moves out of a country/ is one who moves into a country