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Word Smart - D
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Damp | to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling |
| Daunt | to intimidate or dismay |
| Dearth | smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack |
| Debacle | rout, fiasco, complete failure |
| Decorum | politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior |
| Deleterious | injurious; harmful |
| Demur | to question or oppose |
| Denigrate | blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage |
| Denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
| Deprecate | to disparage or belittle |
| Depredate | to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner |
| Derision | scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment |
| Derivative | unoriginal, obtained from another source |
| Desiccate | to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
| Desuetude | disuse |
| Desultory | random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
| Detraction | slandering, verbal attack, aspersion |
| Diaphanous | transparent, gauzy |
| Diatribe | a harsh denunciation |
| Didactic | intended to teach or instruct |
| Die | a tool used for shaping |
| Diffident | reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence |
| Digress | to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent |
| Dilate | to become wider or more open |
| Dilatory | causing delay, procrastinating |
| Dilettante | one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
| Din | loud sustained noise |
| Dirge | a mournful song or poem for the dead |
| Disabuse | to undeceive; to set right |
| Discomfit | to defeat, put down |
| Discordant | conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
| Discretion | cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
| Disinterested | free from self-interest; unbiased |
| Disparage | to slight or belittle |
| Disparate | fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
| Dissemble | to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
| Dissolution | disintegration, looseness in morals |
| Dissonance | lack of harmony; conflict |
| Distrait | distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety |
| Divulge | to disclose something secret |
| Doggerel | trivial, poorly constructed verse |
| Dogmatic | authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated |
| Dross | slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum |
| Dulcet | melodious, harmonious, mellifluous |
| Dupe | one who is deceived |
| Dynamo | generator; forceful, energetic person |
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