Week 6 Flashcards
Diagonal, adj.
Running across from corner to corner.
Diagram, n.
A plan, sketch, drawing, or outline designed to demonstrate or explain how something works or to clarify the relationship between the parts of a whole.
Diary, n.
A daily record, usually private, especially of the writer’s own experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes.
Difficult, adj.
Hard to understand; puzzling.
Dilemma, n.
A situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
Dilute, v.
To make less concentrated; diminish the strength, activity, or flavor of.
Dimension, n.
A measurable aspect such as length or width.
Diploma, n.
A document issued by an educational institution, such as a university, testifying that the recipient has earned a degree or has successfully completed a particular course of study.
Discern, v.
To perceive with the eyes or intellect; detect.
Discredit, v.
To injure the credit or reputation of; defame.
Discrepancy, n.
Difference, variation, inconsistency.
Discretion, n.
Power of decision: individual judgement.
Disentangle, v.
To straighten out, unravel.
Disguise, v.
To change the customary dress or appearance of.
Dismal, adj.
Marked by gloom, dejection, somberness, or depression of spirits.
Documentary, n.
A presentation (as a film or novel) that has the objective quality, authority, or force of documentation in the representation of a scene, place, condition of life or of a social or political problem or cause.
Dolphin, n.
Any of various small toothed whales with the snout more or less elongated into a beak and the neck vertebrae partially fused.
Domestic, adj.
Relating to the household or the family.
Dreadful, adj.
Arousing feelings of disapproval or dissatisfaction.
Duet, n.
Performance of a musical composition or movement by two singers or two instrumentalists.
Durable, adj.
Able to exist for a long time; lasting.
Dwarf, n.
An abnormally small person.
Dwindling, adj.
Becoming smaller and smaller; shrinking; wasting away.
Dynamite, n.
Any of a class of powerful explosives composed of nitroglycerin or ammonium nitrate used in blasting and mining.
Dynasty, n.
A succession of rulers from the same family or line.
Eavesdrop, v.
To listen secretly to a private conversation.
Eccentric, adj.
Departing from a recognized, conventional, or established norm or pattern.
Eclectic, adj.
Selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles.
Eclipse, n.
The obscuration of one celestial body by another.
Ecologist, n.
A specialist in the branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environment.
Ecstasy, n.
Intense joy or delight.
