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SAT WORDS 2
New SAT Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Decry | to criticize openly ( the video rental clerk decried the policy of charging customers late fees) |
| Defile | to make impure,unclean (she defiles the calm of the religious building by playing her banjo) |
| Deleterious | harmful(she experienced the deleterious effects of running a marathon without stretching her muscles enough before hand) |
| Demure | quiet, modest, reserved (though everyone else at the party was dancing and going crazy, she remained demure) |
| Deprecate | to belittle, depreciate ( always over-modest, he deprecates his contribution to the local charity) |
| Deride | to laugh at mockingly, scorn (the bullies derided the foreign student's accent) |
| Desecrate | to violate the sacredness of a place or thing (a construction of a golf course would desecrate the preserved wildness) |
| Dessicated | dried up, dehydrated ( the skin of the dessicated mummy looked like old paper) |
| Diaphanous | light, airy, transparent (sunlight poured in through the diaphanous curtains) |
| Diffident | shy, quiet, modest (while eating dinner with the adults, the diffident youth did not speak for fear of seeming presumptuous) |
| Discursive | rambling, lacking order (the professor's discursive lectures seemed to be about every subject except the one initially described) |
| Dissemble | to conceal, fake (not wanting to appear heartlessly greedy, she dissembled and hid her intentions to sell her father's stamp collection) |
| Dither | to be indecisive (not wanting to offend either friend, he dithered about which of the two birthday parties to attend) |
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