blue book #11 Flashcards
(85 cards)
dispensation
1.
an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
2.
something that is distributed or given out.
3.
a certain order, system, or arrangement; administration or management.
4.
a dispensing with, doing away with, or doing without something.
- a special exemption.
dispense
1.
to deal out; distribute:
to dispense wisdom.
2.
to administer:
to dispense the law without bias.
3.
to dispense with:
a) to do without; forgo: to dispense with preliminaries.
b) to do away with; rid of.
c) to grant exemption from a law or promise.
disperse
1.
to drive or send off in various directions; scatter:
to disperse a crowd.
2.
to spread widely; disseminate:
to disperse knowledge.
3.
to dispel; cause to vanish:
The wind dispersed the fog.
4.
to separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered:
The crowd dispersed.
5.
to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish:
The smoke dispersed into the sky.
dispirit
to deprive of spirit, hope, enthusiasm, etc.; depress; discourage; dishearten.
disposed
having a certain inclination or disposition; inclined (usually followed by to or an infinitive):
a man disposed to like others.
disposition
1.
the predominant or prevailing tendency of one’s spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude:
a girl with a pleasant disposition.
2.
state of mind regarding something; inclination:
a disposition to gamble.
3.
physical inclination or tendency:
the disposition of ice to melt when heated.
4.
power to make decisions about or dispose of a thing; control:
funds at one’s disposition.
disrepute
bad repute; low regard or estimation in the view of others; disfavor:
Some literary theories have fallen into disrepute.
dissemble
1.
to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of:
to dissemble one’s incompetence in business.
2.
to put on the appearance of; feign:
to dissemble innocence.
3.
to conceal one’s true motives, thoughts, etc., by some pretense; speak or act hypocritically.
disseminate
to scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse:
to disseminate information about preventive medicine.
dissension
1.
strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
2.
difference in sentiment or opinion; disagreement.
dissent
1.
to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree (often followed by from):
Two of the justices dissented from the majority decision.
2.
to disagree with the methods, goals, etc., of a political party or government; take an opposing view.
3.
to disagree with or reject the doctrines or authority of an established church.
4.
difference of sentiment or opinion.
5.
dissenting opinion.
dissident
1.
a person who dissents.
2.
disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude:
a ban on dissident magazines.
dissipate
1.
to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
2.
to spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete:
to dissipate one’s talents; to dissipate a fortune on high living.
3.
to become scattered or dispersed; be dispelled; disintegrate:
The sun shone and the mist dissipated.
4.
to indulge in extravagant, intemperate, or dissolute pleasure.
dissociate
1.
to sever the association of oneself; separate:
He tried to dissociate himself from the bigotry in his past.
2.
to subject to dissociation.
3.
to withdraw from association.
dissolute
indifferent to moral restraints; given to immoral or improper conduct; licentious; dissipated.
dissonant
1.
disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant.
2.
out of harmony; incongruous; at variance.
dissuade
1.
to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from):
She dissuaded him from leaving home.
2.
to advise or urge against:
to dissuade an action.
distend
1.
to expand by stretching, as something hollow or elastic:
Habitual overeating had distended his stomach.
2.
to spread in all directions; expand; swell and stretch:
The sea distended about them.
distill
1.
to subject to a process of vaporization and subsequent condensation, as for purification or concentration.
2.
to concentrate, purify, or obtain by or as by distillation :
to distill whiskey from mash.
3.
to remove by distillation:
to distill out impurities.
5.
to extract the essential elements of; refine; abstract:
She managed to distill her ideas into one succinct article.
6.
to let fall in drops; give forth in or as in drops:
The cool of the night distills the dew.
distort
1.
to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed:
Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
2.
to give a false, perverted, or disproportionate meaning to; misrepresent:
to distort the facts.
distraught
1.
worried, distressed; deeply agitated.
2.
mentally deranged; crazed.
dither
1.
a trembling; vibration.
2.
a state of flustered excitement or fear.
3.
to act irresolutely; vacillate.
4.
to tremble with excitement or fear.
ditty
1.
a poem intended to be sung.
2.
a short, simple song.
diurnal
1.
of or relating to a day or each day; daily.
2.
of or belonging to the daytime (opposed to nocturnal).
3.
showing a periodic alteration of condition with day and night, as certain flowers that open by day and close by night.
4.
active by day, as certain birds and insects.
