Word List 13 Flashcards
Décolleté
Having a low necked dress
Decimate
Kill, usually 1 out of 10
Decorum
Propriety, orderliness and good taste in manners.
Deducible
Derived by reasoning
Default
Failure to act
Defection
Desertion
Defer
Delay till later, exempt temporarily, give in respectfully, submit.
Deference
Courteous regard for another wish.
Defray
Pay the cost of.
Defuse
Remove the fuse of a bomb, reduce or eliminate threat.
Dehydrate
Remove water from
Deign
Condescend, stoop
Delectable
Delightful, delicious
Deleterious
Harmful
Delineate
Portray, depict
Delude
Deceive
Deluge
Flood, rush
Demagogue
False leader of people.
Demoniac
Fiendish
Demur
Verb
Object
Demure
Grave, serious
Denigrate
Blacken
Denizen
Inhabitant, resident
Denotation
Meaning
Denouement
Outcome
Deplore
Regret
Deploy
Spread out troops in an extended though shallow battle line.
Depose
Dethrone
Deposition
Testimony under oath
Depravity
Extreme corruption.