Difficult Words -D Flashcards
Daunt
To make fearful ,intimidate
The steepness of the mountain daunted the team of amateur climbers .
Dearth
Lack ,scarcity
Debacle
Violent breakdown ,sudden overthrow
A political debate would become a debacle of the candidates began screaming and throwing dinner rolls .
Debauchery
excessiveindulgencein sex, alcohol, or drugs
Debilitate
To weaken ,cripple
to make somebody’s body or mind weaker
Decadent
Morally decaying or decayed
Decimate
To kill or destroy a large part of it
To decimate an army,is to come close to wiping it off.
Decorous
Proper ,in good taste ,orderly
To behave decorously is to behave with decorum .
Deduce
To conclude from the evidence,to infer
Defame
To ruin good name of
Deference
Submission to another’s will,respect ,courtesy.
Out of deference to him, I lowered my head as he prayed.
Joe was being deferential,when he let her go first .
Definitive
in a form that cannot be changed or that cannot be improved
This is the definitive version.
Degenerate
to become worse, lower in quality, etc.
The calm discussion degenerated into a nasty argument
Deleterious
Harmful
Delineate
To describe accurately,to draw in outline
Delude
To deceive
If he thinks he’s going to get rich quickly, he’s deluding himself.
Deluge
Flood,inundation
Deluged by phone calls
Denizen
Inhabitant
Depravity
the state of being morally bad