Section 6-All D's (46 total)

Question 1

Damp (v)

Answer 1

to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling

Question 2

Daunt (v)

Answer 2

to intimidate or dismay; make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive

Question 3

Daunting

Answer 3

seeming difficult to deal with in anticipation; intimidating

Question 4

dauntless

Answer 4

fearless

Question 5

Dismay

Answer 5

cause (someone) to feel distress

Question 6

Dearth (n)

Answer 6

smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack of something

Question 7

Debacle (n)

Answer 7

rout, fiasco, complete failure

Question 8

Rout

Answer 8

a disorderly retreat of defeated troops

Question 9

Fiasco

Answer 9

a thing that is a complete failure, especially in a ludicrous or humiliating way

Question 10

Decorum (n)

Answer 10

politeness or appropiateness of conduct or behavior; etiquette

Question 11

de-

Answer 11

down, away

Question 12

decorous

Answer 12

something marked by decorum

Question 13

Deleterious (adj)

Answer 13

injurious; harmful; causing damage

Question 14

Demur (v)

Answer 14

to question or oppose; raise doubts or show reluctance

Question 15

Denigrate (v)

Answer 15

blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage, criticize unfairly

Question 16

niger (latin)

Answer 16

Black

Question 17

Denouement (n)

Answer 17

An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot; ending, close, conclusion, climax

Question 18

Deprecate (v)

Answer 18

to disparage or belittle; express disapproval of

Question 19

Self-deprecate

Answer 19

to belittle yourself or accomplishments

Question 20

Depredate (v)

Answer 20

to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner

Question 21

Depredations

Answer 21

attacks, or ravages

Question 22

Derision (n)

Answer 22

scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment, mockery

Question 23

Derivative (adj)

Answer 23

unoriginal, obtained from another source

Question 24

Desiccate (v)

Answer 24

to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull, lacking interest, passion, or energy

Question 25

Desuetude (n)

Answer 25

disuse

Question 26

Desultory (adj)

Answer 26

random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose, unenthusiastic

Question 27

Detraction (n)

Answer 27

slandering, verbal attack, aspersion; to take away; belittle

Question 28

Diaphanous (adj)

Answer 28

transparent, gauzy; light, delicate

Question 29

Dia-

Answer 29

through, across

Question 30

Gauzy

Answer 30

thin, resembling gauze

Question 31

Diatribe (n)

Answer 31

A harsh denunciation

Question 32

Didactic (adj)

Answer 32

intended to teach to teach or instruct

Question 33

Die (n)

Answer 33

a tool used for shaping, molding into a particular shape

Question 34

Diffident (adj)

Answer 34

reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

Question 35

Diffidence (n)

Answer 35

a lack of confidence

Question 36

Dilate (v)

Answer 36

to become wider or more open; to speak or write about something in length

Question 37

Dilatory (adj)

Answer 37

causing delay, procrastination

Question 38

Dilettante (n)

Answer 38

One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

Question 39

Dilettantish (effort or interest)

Answer 39

is one that is frivolous or superficial

Question 40

Din (n)

Answer 40

loud sustained noise; cacophony

Question 41

Dirge (n)

Answer 41

a mournful song or poem for the dead; describing something that sounds like a funeral lament

Question 42

Disabuse (v)

Answer 42

to undeceive; to set right; persuade someone that an idea or belief is mistaken

Question 43

Discomfit (v)

Answer 43

to defeat, put down, embarass

Question 44

Discordant (abj)

Answer 44

conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound, disagreeing

Question 45

Discretion (n)

Answer 45

caustious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

Question 46

Disinterested (adj)

Answer 46

free from self-interest; unbiased

Question 47

Uninterested

Answer 47

uncaring

Question 48

Disparage (v)

Answer 48

To slight or belittle

Question 49

Disparaging Remarks

Answer 49

comments that express a negative, usually dismissive, opinion of something, or someone

Question 50

Disparate (adj)

Answer 50

fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

Question 51

Dissemble (v)

Answer 51

to disguise or conceal; to mislead; conceal ones treu motives, feelings, or beliefs

Question 52

Dissolution (n)

Answer 52

disintegration, looseness in morals

Question 53

Disintegration

Answer 53

the process of losing cohesion or strength

Question 54

Dissolute

Answer 54

licentious, libertine; lax in morals

Question 55

Licentious

Answer 55

promiscous

Question 56

Libertine

Answer 56

a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or sense of responsibility. Especially in sexual matters

Question 57

Dissonance (n)

Answer 57

lack of harmony; conflict (mainly in music)

Question 58

Distrait (v)

Answer 58

distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety

Question 59

Distraught

Answer 59

extremely agitated with emotion

Question 60

Divulge (v)

Answer 60

to disclose something secret

Question 61

Doggerel (n)

Answer 61

trivial, poorly constructed verse or words

Question 62

Dogmatic (adj)

Answer 62

Authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated

Question 63

Dogma

Answer 63

a statement of ideas that is considered to be absolutely true

Question 64

Dross (n)

Answer 64

slag, waste or foreign matter, surface scum, worthless, rubbish

Question 65

Dross (n)

Answer 65

slag, waste or foreign matter, surface scum, worthless, rubish

Question 66

Dulcet (adj)

Answer 66

melodious, harmonious, mellifluous, sweet & soothing

Question 67

Dupe (n or v)

Answer 67

one who is deceived

Question 68

Dynamo (n)

Answer 68

generator; forceful, energetic person

Question 69

Dynamo (technical)

Answer 69

a generator of current

Question 70

Dunamis (Greek)

Answer 70

power