Word List D Flashcards
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Dais (n.)
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Raised platform for guests of honor. When she approached the dais, she was greeted by cheers from the people who had come to honor her.
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Dabble (v.)
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Work at a nonserious fashion; splash around. The amateur painter dabbled at art, but seldom produced a finished piece. The children dabbled their hands in bird bath, splashing one another gleefully.
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Dally (v.)
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Trifle with; procrastinate. Laertes told Ophelia that Hamlet would only dally with her affections.
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Dank (adj.)
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Damp. The walls of the dungeon were dank and slimy.
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Dapper (adj.)
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Neat and trim. In the odd couple, Tony Randall played Felix Unger, an excessively dapper soul who could not stand to have a hair out of place.
