WS 9
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mypupsrulz12 on October 22, 2009
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38 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Derogatory | disapproving; degrading |
| Desiccate | to dry out |
| Despondent | extremely depressed; full of despair |
| Despot | an absolute ruler; an autocrat |
| Destitute | extremely poor; utterly lacking |
| Desultory | without a plan or purpose; disconnected; random |
| Dextrous | skillful; adroit |
| Dialectical | relating to discussions; relating to the rules and methods of reasoning; approaching truth in the middle of opposing extremes |
| Dictum | an authoritative saying; an adage; a maxim; a proverb |
| Didactic | intended to teach; morally instructive; pedantic |
| Diffident | timid; lacking in self-confidence |
| Digress | to stray from the main subject |
| Dilettante | someone with superficial knowledge of the arts; an amateur; a dabbler |
| Discern | to have insight; to see things clearly; to discriminate; to differentiate |
| Discreet | prudent; judiciously reserved |
| Discrete | unconnected; separate; distinct |
| Discriminate | to notice or point out the difference between two or more things; to discern; to differentiate |
| Disdain | arrogant scorn; contempt |
| Disinterested | not taking sides; unbiased |
| Disparage | to belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about, usually in a somewhat indirect way |
| Disparate | different; incompatible; unequal |
| Disseminate | to spread the seeds of something; to scatter; to make widely known |
| Dissipate | to thin out, drift away, or dissolve; to cause to thing out, drift away, or dissolve; to waste or squander |
| Dissolution | the breaking up or dissolving of something into parts; disintegration |
| Distinguish | to tell apart; to cause to stand out |
| Docile | easily taught; obedient; easy to handle |
| Doctrinaire | inflexibly committed to a doctrine or theory without regard to its practicality; dogmatic |
| Dogmatic | arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas; stubbornly claiming that something is beyond dispute (usu belief system) |
| Domestic | having to do with the household or family; not foreign |
| Dormant | inactive; as though asleep; asleep |
| Dubious | full of doubt; uncertain |
| Duplicity | the act of being two-faced; double-dealing; deception |
| -di/dia | apart, through |
| -dic/dict/dit | to say, to tell, to use words |
| -dign | worth |
| -dis/dif | away from, apart, reversal, not |
| -dog/dox | opinion |
| -dub | doubt |
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