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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'D'
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DEARTH: Scarcity
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* A dearth of news brought about by censorship.
Antonyms: plethora abundance. - DEFERENCE: Submitting to the wishes or judgment of another
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* Yielded out of deference to the old man.
Synonyms: respect, complaisance, veneration
Antonym: recalcitrance - DEITY: A god
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* The sun was a deity to ancient peoples.
Synonym: divinity - DELECTABLE: Very pleasing
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* A delectable meal, tastefully prepared. - DELETE: To erase or cancel,
take out or remove
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* Delete the offensive phrase.
Synonyms: expunge, censor, efface, eradicate - DELINEATE: To sketch or
portray
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* Striking features, delineated by a master artist. - DELINQUENT:
(1) (Noun): An offender
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* Found to be a delinquent by the court.
(2) (Adj.): Failing to fulfill an obligation
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* Too many people who are delinquent in meeting their civic duties.
Synonym: derelict. - DELUGE: A great flood; downpour
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* A spring deluge which caused the river to overflow. - DEMAGOGUE:
A leader who tries to stir the passions of people for his own purposes
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* The mob roused by an unprincipled demagogue. - DEMEANOR: Behavior; bearing
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* Carrying himself with a proud demeanor.
Synonyms: deportment, mien - DEMURE:
Affectedly or falsely modest or prim;
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* Serious demure as a Victorian maiden.
Synonyms: sedate, staid, decorous, prudish, coy
Antonyms: immodest, frivolous - DENOUNCE (Noun: DENUNCIATION): To speak against
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* Denounced by the press as a traitor.
Synonyms: stigmatize, censure, reprehend, castigate
Antonyms: laud, eulogize - DEPLETE: To empty or to use up
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* Depleted the public treasury by vast building programs.
Synonyms: exhaust, drain
Antonyms: replenish; (adj.) replete - DEPLORE: To express sorrow or grief over
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* A lamentable situation deplored by all parties.
Synonyms: lament, decry, grieve - DEPRAVED: Of low morals, corrupt
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* A depraved mind devising evil.
Synonyms: debased. wicked. vicious, perverted. - DEPRECATE: To plead or argue against a certain course of action.
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* Deprecated the proposal severely
Synonyms: remonstrate, protest. decry expostulate
Antonym: sanction. - DEPRECIATE: To belittle or speak slightingly of
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* Depreciated John's acting ability
Synonyms: disparage. derogate (ad) derogatory).
Antonyms: enhance. magnify, extol, laud, eulogize - DEVASTATION: Widespread ruin
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* The city left in utter devastation by war.
Synonyms: destruction, desolation - DEVIOUS:
(1) Winding; indirect
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* Took a devious, rather than the direct way home.
Synonym: circuitous
(2) Straying from the right course
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* Used devious means to attain his wicked ends.
Synonyms: crooked, erring - DEVOID: Lacking in: not possessing
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* A speech devoid of even a trace of
Synonym: destitute
Antonyms: abounding, prevalent - DEVOUT: Devoted to religious
observances
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* Devout in his regularity of attendance at worship.
Synonyms: pious, religious.
Antonym: impious - DICTUM:
Art authoritative statement;
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* A saying-an imperial dictum demanding instant compliance. - DIDACTIC: Designed to teach,
imparting a lesson
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* A poem with a didactic purpose.
Synonym: pedagogical - DIFFIDENT: Lacking in self-confidence.
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* Too diffident to lead a group.
Synonyms: shy, timid, reserved, reticent, retiring
Antonyms: forward, aggressive - DILEMMA: A situation calling for a choice between two equally difficult alternatives; hence, a difficult or perplexing
situation
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* Faced with a dilemma defying solution.
Synonyms: predicament, quandary, plight - DILETTANTE: One who dabbles in the fine arts for amusement only and without concentrated study
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* A doctor by profession, a dilettante in art.
Synonyms: amateur, connoisseur - DISCONCERT: To confuse; to embarrass
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* Disconcerted by his suspicious stare.
Synonyms: perturb, discomfit, discompose, abash, disquiet, fluster. - DISCONSOLATE: Depressed; without hope or
possibility of consolation
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* Made disconsolate by abject poverty.
Synonyms: inconsolable, dejected
Antonyms: blithesome, carefree - DISCOURSE: To converse or talk; to discuss
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* Discoursed at length on the rise of political parties. - DISCRETE:
Separate
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* Two discrete issues, totally unrelated. - DISCURSIVE: Rambling from one subject to another
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* A discursive letter, covering many topics.
Synonyms: desultory, digressive - DISPARITY (adj: DISPARATE): Inequality; difference in
image, quantity, character, or rank.
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* Great disparity between promise and performance. - DISPASSIONATE: Free from
feeling or partiality
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* Coldly dispassionate as the chairman of the meeting
Synonyms: palm, impartial
Antonym: partial - DISPATCH:
(1) (Verb) : To do speedily; to send off.
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* Dispatched with remarkable promptness.
Synonym: expedite.
(2) (Noun): A speedy performance; the sending off of something
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* Done with all possible dispatch.
Synonyms: celerity, alacrity. - DISPEL: To drive away; to scatter
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* Dispelled a doubt that had lingered.
Synonyms: dissipate, disperse, diffuse. - DISSENT (Noun: DISSENSION): To disagree; to differ in opinion.
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* He dissented violently, rejecting compromise. - DISSOLUTE: Living loosely; unrestrained in conduct or morals.
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* His life wasted by dissolute conduct.
Synonyms: debauched, dissipated, profligate. - DISTRAUGHT: Mentally distressed; distracted
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* Distraught by trials and tribulations.
Synonym: harassed. - DIVERSE: (Verb: DIVERSIFY; Noun: DIVISIBILITY): Varied;
different.
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* Two diverse characters; one candid, the other insincere.
Synonym: multifarious - DIVERTING: Entertaining
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* A diverting one of the most amusing I've ever seen. - DIVULGE: To make public or reveal
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* Refused to divulge his source of information.
Synonyms: disclose, impart. - DOGMATIC: Positive in expressing an opinion; asserting an opinion as though it
were an undisputed fact
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* Spoken dogmatically, as if the speaker considered himself infallible.
Synonyms: overbearing, opinionated, peremptory, dictatorial - DOLOROUS: Sorrowful; mournful
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* A dolorous song full of sorrow for past joys.
Synonyms: doleful, lugubrious, grievous
Antonyms: jocund, blithe, mirthful - DYNAMIC: Forceful
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* Possessed dynamic energy, tireless and powerful.
Synonym: energetic
Antonyms: static, inert, dormant, torpid, sluggish, quiescent
Adj = Adjective
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