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Difficult Words -D Flashcards

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Daunt

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To make fearful ,intimidate
The steepness of the mountain daunted the team of amateur climbers .

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Dearth

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Lack ,scarcity

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Debacle

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Violent breakdown ,sudden overthrow
A political debate would become a debacle of the candidates began screaming and throwing dinner rolls .

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Debauchery

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excessiveindulgencein sex, alcohol, or drugs

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Debilitate

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To weaken ,cripple
to make somebody’s body or mind weaker

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Decadent

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Morally decaying or decayed

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Decimate

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To kill or destroy a large part of it
To decimate an army,is to come close to wiping it off.

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Decorous

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Proper ,in good taste ,orderly
To behave decorously is to behave with decorum .

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Deduce

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To conclude from the evidence,to infer

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Defame

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To ruin good name of

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Deference

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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 .

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Definitive

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in a form that cannot be changed or that cannot be improved
This is the definitive version.

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Degenerate

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to become worse, lower in quality, etc.
The calm discussion degenerated into a nasty argument

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Deleterious

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Harmful

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Delineate

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To describe accurately,to draw in outline

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Delude

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To deceive
If he thinks he’s going to get rich quickly, he’s deluding himself.

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Deluge

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Flood,inundation
Deluged by phone calls

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Denizen

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Inhabitant

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Depravity

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the state of being morally bad

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Deprecate

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Express disapproval of
disparageorbelittle(something)
“This stinks”,is a deprecating remark .

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Deride

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To ridicule,to laugh at
The boss derided his secretary ,so she poisoned him.

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Derogatory

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Degrading

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Desiccate

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To dry out
remove the moisture from (something); cause to become completely dry.

“both the older growth and the new vegetation were desiccated by months of relentless sun”

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Despondent

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Extremely depressed ,full of despair

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Despot

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An absolute ruler,autocrat

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Destitute

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Extremely poor

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Desulatory

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Without a plan or purpose ,random,
going from one subject to another in ahalf-heartedway.

“the desultory conversation faded”

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Dialectical

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a form of logical argumentation involving the progression of two opposing views, and a related philosophical concept of ideological evolution.

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Dictum

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An adage

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Didactic

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Intended to teach ,morally instructive
His seemingly amusing talk ad a didactic purpose .

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Diffident

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Timid ,lacking self confidence

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Digress

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To stray from the main subject .
After a lengthy digression , the professor returned to his speech .

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Dilettante

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a person whocultivatesan area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.

“a wealthy literary dilettante”

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Discern

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To have insight,to see things clearly

I can discern whether a film will be good or not from the first image.

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Discreet

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careful in what you say and do so as not to cause embarrassment or difficulty for somebody
I don’t want anyone to find out about our agreement, so please be discreet.

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Disdain

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the feeling that
somebody/something is not good enough to be respected

Monica felt that her boss always treated her ideas with disdain.

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Disinterested

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Unbiased, not taking sides

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Disparate

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Different ,incompatible,unequal
She had always seemed able to think along several lines at once, bringing oddly disparate facts together to make a pattern others missed.

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Disseminate

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To make widely known ,to scatter

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Dissipate

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to slowly become less until it disappears; to make something weaker until it disappears
The smoke dissipated

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Dissolution

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the official act of ending a marriage, a business agreement or a parliament

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Distend

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to swell or make something swell because of pressure from inside
A distended belly is one of the symptoms of malnutrition.

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Docile

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Easily taught,easy to handle ,obedient .

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Doctrinaire

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Inflexibly commited to a doctrine or theory without regard to its practicality.

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Dogmatic

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being certain that your beliefs are right and that others should accept them, without considering

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Dormant

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Inactive ,asleep

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Dubious

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Full of doubt ,uncertain

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Duplicity

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Act of being two faced ,deception .
They were accused of duplicity in their dealings with both sides.

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