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Sunday, 15 January 2023

English Vocabulary - Words Start from Letter 'D'

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English Vocabulary
Words Start from Letter 'D'

  1. DEARTH: Scarcity
    Sentence:
    * A dearth of news brought about by censorship.
    Antonyms: plethora abundance.

  2. DEFERENCE: Submitting to the wishes or judgment of another
    Sentence:
    * Yielded out of deference to the old man.
    Synonyms: respect, complaisance, veneration
    Antonym: recalcitrance

  3. DEITY: A god
    Sentence:
    * The sun was a deity to ancient peoples.
    Synonym: divinity

  4. DELECTABLE: Very pleasing
    Sentence:
    * A delectable meal, tastefully prepared.

  5. DELETE: To erase or cancel, take out or remove
    Sentence:
    * Delete the offensive phrase.
    Synonyms: expunge, censor, efface, eradicate

  6. DELINEATE: To sketch or portray
    Sentence:
    * Striking features, delineated by a master artist.

  7. DELINQUENT:
    (1) (Noun): An offender
    Sentence:
    * Found to be a delinquent by the court.
    (2) (Adj.): Failing to fulfill an obligation
    Sentence:
    * Too many people who are delinquent in meeting their civic duties.
    Synonym: derelict.

  8. DELUGE: A great flood; downpour
    Sentence:
    * A spring deluge which caused the river to overflow.

  9. DEMAGOGUE: A leader who tries to stir the passions of people for his own purposes
    Sentence:
    * The mob roused by an unprincipled demagogue.

  10. DEMEANOR: Behavior; bearing
    Sentence:
    * Carrying himself with a proud demeanor.
    Synonyms: deportment, mien

  11. DEMURE: Affectedly or falsely modest or prim;
    Sentence:
    * Serious demure as a Victorian maiden.
    Synonyms: sedate, staid, decorous, prudish, coy
    Antonyms: immodest, frivolous

  12. DENOUNCE (Noun: DENUNCIATION): To speak against
    Sentence:
    * Denounced by the press as a traitor.
    Synonyms: stigmatize, censure, reprehend, castigate
    Antonyms: laud, eulogize

  13. DEPLETE: To empty or to use up
    Sentence:
    * Depleted the public treasury by vast building programs.
    Synonyms: exhaust, drain
    Antonyms: replenish; (adj.) replete

  14. DEPLORE: To express sorrow or grief over
    Sentence:
    * A lamentable situation deplored by all parties.
    Synonyms: lament, decry, grieve

  15. DEPRAVED: Of low morals, corrupt
    Sentence:
    * A depraved mind devising evil.
    Synonyms: debased. wicked. vicious, perverted.

  16. DEPRECATE: To plead or argue against a certain course of action.
    Sentence:
    * Deprecated the proposal severely
    Synonyms: remonstrate, protest. decry expostulate
    Antonym: sanction.

  17. DEPRECIATE: To belittle or speak slightingly of
    Sentence:
    * Depreciated John's acting ability
    Synonyms: disparage. derogate (ad) derogatory).
    Antonyms: enhance. magnify, extol, laud, eulogize

  18. DEVASTATION: Widespread ruin
    Sentence:
    * The city left in utter devastation by war.
    Synonyms: destruction, desolation

  19. DEVIOUS:
    (1) Winding; indirect
    Sentence:
    * Took a devious, rather than the direct way home.
    Synonym: circuitous
    (2) Straying from the right course
    Sentence:
    * Used devious means to attain his wicked ends.
    Synonyms: crooked, erring

  20. DEVOID: Lacking in: not possessing
    Sentence:
    * A speech devoid of even a trace of
    Synonym: destitute
    Antonyms: abounding, prevalent

  21. DEVOUT: Devoted to religious observances
    Sentence:
    * Devout in his regularity of attendance at worship.
    Synonyms: pious, religious.
    Antonym: impious

  22. DICTUM: Art authoritative statement;
    Sentence:
    * A saying-an imperial dictum demanding instant compliance.

  23. DIDACTIC: Designed to teach, imparting a lesson
    Sentence:
    * A poem with a didactic purpose.
    Synonym: pedagogical

  24. DIFFIDENT: Lacking in self-confidence.
    Sentence:
    * Too diffident to lead a group.
    Synonyms: shy, timid, reserved, reticent, retiring
    Antonyms: forward, aggressive

  25. DILEMMA: A situation calling for a choice between two equally difficult alternatives; hence, a difficult or perplexing situation
    Sentence:
    * Faced with a dilemma defying solution.
    Synonyms: predicament, quandary, plight

  26. DILETTANTE: One who dabbles in the fine arts for amusement only and without concentrated study
    Sentence:
    * A doctor by profession, a dilettante in art.
    Synonyms: amateur, connoisseur

  27. DISCONCERT: To confuse; to embarrass
    Sentence:
    * Disconcerted by his suspicious stare.
    Synonyms: perturb, discomfit, discompose, abash, disquiet, fluster.

  28. DISCONSOLATE: Depressed; without hope or possibility of consolation
    Sentence:
    * Made disconsolate by abject poverty.
    Synonyms: inconsolable, dejected
    Antonyms: blithesome, carefree

  29. DISCOURSE: To converse or talk; to discuss
    Sentence:
    * Discoursed at length on the rise of political parties.

  30. DISCRETE: Separate
    Sentence:
    * Two discrete issues, totally unrelated.

  31. DISCURSIVE: Rambling from one subject to another
    Sentence:
    * A discursive letter, covering many topics.
    Synonyms: desultory, digressive

  32. DISPARITY (adj: DISPARATE): Inequality; difference in image, quantity, character, or rank.
    Sentence:
    * Great disparity between promise and performance.

  33. DISPASSIONATE: Free from feeling or partiality
    Sentence:
    * Coldly dispassionate as the chairman of the meeting
    Synonyms: palm, impartial
    Antonym: partial

  34. DISPATCH:
    (1) (Verb) : To do speedily; to send off.
    Sentence:
    * Dispatched with remarkable promptness.
    Synonym: expedite.
    (2) (Noun): A speedy performance; the sending off of something
    Sentence:
    * Done with all possible dispatch.
    Synonyms: celerity, alacrity.

  35. DISPEL: To drive away; to scatter
    Sentence:
    * Dispelled a doubt that had lingered.
    Synonyms: dissipate, disperse, diffuse.

  36. DISSENT (Noun: DISSENSION): To disagree; to differ in opinion.
    Sentence:
    * He dissented violently, rejecting compromise.

  37. DISSOLUTE: Living loosely; unrestrained in conduct or morals.
    Sentence:
    * His life wasted by dissolute conduct.
    Synonyms: debauched, dissipated, profligate.

  38. DISTRAUGHT: Mentally distressed; distracted
    Sentence:
    * Distraught by trials and tribulations.
    Synonym: harassed.

  39. DIVERSE: (Verb: DIVERSIFY; Noun: DIVISIBILITY): Varied; different.
    Sentence:
    * Two diverse characters; one candid, the other insincere.
    Synonym: multifarious

  40. DIVERTING: Entertaining
    Sentence:
    * A diverting one of the most amusing I've ever seen.

  41. DIVULGE: To make public or reveal
    Sentence:
    * Refused to divulge his source of information.
    Synonyms: disclose, impart.

  42. DOGMATIC: Positive in expressing an opinion; asserting an opinion as though it were an undisputed fact
    Sentence:
    * Spoken dogmatically, as if the speaker considered himself infallible.
    Synonyms: overbearing, opinionated, peremptory, dictatorial

  43. DOLOROUS: Sorrowful; mournful
    Sentence:
    * A dolorous song full of sorrow for past joys.
    Synonyms: doleful, lugubrious, grievous
    Antonyms: jocund, blithe, mirthful

  44. DYNAMIC: Forceful
    Sentence:
    * Possessed dynamic energy, tireless and powerful.
    Synonym: energetic
    Antonyms: static, inert, dormant, torpid, sluggish, quiescent



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